Rudimentary Treatise on the Manufacture of Bricks and Tiles: Containing an Outline of the Principles of Brickmaking, and Detailed Accounts of the Various Processes Employed in the Making of Bricks and Tiles in Different Parts of England ... Illustrated with 36 Engravings on WoodWeale, 1850 - Brickmaking |
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Page 31 - ... bricks, cavities on the surfaces were desirable, but if the bricks were good and stronger than the cement, the cavities were not necessary. Mr. Farey exhibited specimens of tiles, &c., made by Mr. Prosser, of Birmingham, and described the process of manufacture. The clay was first dried upon a slip kiln, as if for making pottery, then ground to a fine powder, and in that dry state it was subjected to heavy pressure in strong metal moulds ; by this means it was reduced to about one-third of its...
Page 7 - For every thousand bricks which shall be made in Great Britain, not exceeding any of the following dimensions, that is to say, ten inches long, three inches thick and five inches wide 050 For every thousand of bricks which shall be made in Great Britain exceeding any of the foregoing dimensions . . 0 10 0 For every thousand of bricks which shall be made in Great Britain...
Page 17 - ... usually melts in a strong heat. With mixtures of lime, alumina, and silica, a fusible compound is usually obtained when the lime predominates. The only refractory proportions were, Lime, 2 3 Silica, 1 1 Alumina, 2 2 Excess of silica gives a glass or porcelain, but excess of alumina will not furnish a glass. When in mixtures of magnesia, silica, and alumina, the first is in excess, no fusion takes place at 150°; when the second exceeds, a porcelain may be formed, and 3 parts of silica, 2 magnesia,...
Page 83 - That the said duties and drawbacks shall be under the management of the Commissioners of Excise.
Page 5 - And that they do encourage and give directions to all builders, for ornament sake, that the ornaments and projections of the front buildings be of rubbed bricks ; and that all the naked parts of the walls may be done of rough bricks, neatly wrought, or all rubbed, at the direction of the builder, or that the builders may otherwise enrich their fronts as they please.
Page 87 - ... gone through the process of burning, and become fit for use : and if any person or persons making such tiles or bricks as aforesaid, or any other person or persons shall sell or deliver, use or employ, any such tiles or bricks so stamped or moulded as aforesaid for any other purpose than that of draining wet or marshy land...
Page 87 - ... in or near the centre of one of the surfaces of such tile or brick, in so plain and distinct a manner that the same may be easily and distinctly legible to any officer of excise or other person examining the same, both before and after such tiles or bricks shall have gone through the process of burning, and become fit for use: and if...
Page 83 - For all bricks made in Great Britain on which the duties imposed in respect thereof shall have been charged, and which shall be duly removed to Ireland or exported to foreign parts as merchandize, a drawback of the duties paid.
Page 8 - ... to any officer of excise or other person examining the same both before and after such bricks shall have gone through the process of burning and become fit for use : Provided always, that it shall not be lawful for any person to employ or make use of any such bricks for any other purpose than in draining wet and marshy lands, and in constructing the necessary drains, gouts, culverts, arches, and walls of the brickwork proper and necessarily required for effecting and maintaining the drainage...
Page 98 - ... man and three boys will turn out nearly 11,000 pipe tiles of one-inch bore in a day of ten hours, and so in proportion for pipes of a larger diameter ; but it has the great advantage of being movable, and those who work it draw it it along the shed in which the tiles are deposited for drying, previously to their being burnt: thus each tile is handled only once, for it is taken off the machine by the little...