US941792A - Block-tiling machine. - Google Patents

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w. P. MEEKER. BLOCK FILING MACHINE. APPLXCATXOH FILED JAN. 31 190B.

Patented Nov. 30. 1909. v I

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W. P. MEEKER.

BLOCK 11mm mcamn.

APPLIOATIOI FILED ELI. 31, 1908.

Patented Nov..3fi, 1909.

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UNITED STATES w'lnux rassuon or nnw nLocx-mnm um 941,793,, we Letters latent. Patented .QpplteafloafleQJaanaryflJm'SedaliaJmf j i To all flout it 5.4,, com-m." i in. muck Macs are Bitter Be it known that l. \VILIJAN PARS'SIOIE sides and tax, and-their npy'er Menux. a citizen of the l'uitt-tl State"v and provided wit pnqecttons f1, Sate of Sen- Jersey. residing in .lapletilt-'gugesas [will hereaft pttttttnotttz; M

Wood. Ewe: county. Sew Jew), have mvetttetl certain new and useful Int rowemettts in Blmalr'l'ilinglhehines, of wlttelt the fol lowing is a' gxetifieatiott.

My invention relates to a machine for ce-' (5 is a u'tnettt hopper by; supports. as G G anJ-pmvidet] mun vscrew feeder 5/ carried by:

:ltaft. y Thifi cement in eat 0!! II which slides 1o llltlllillg glass facing- "15 upon previmtslvthe. hopper. and ital jo eat-ties prqmre-l body blanks, and n=ttst ts in t u-tnent scrapers I l. wltieh'just el eat tbe :tt p pan iculats ben-inafter set forth and'ehimed. per edges of the block carrier's m cult to obtain as uniform a product as can '11 islaced on theop'posite smear 20 beprutlmee-i then macbiaet'y isased; a d 1 n Z v h fue mechanism where-ht am be adjusted vertically 25 which they receive gm facing tileslwbich frame .\I M,'wl1ieh is at are adjusted andpressed into'position by fnt'ne A by the bolts.

1 :7 I m- "1.. The A isjpt'ofidediiitka table-like In I bat e'shbpt'n a V top Beaml atl a suitaltletlrit ittg pulme ree ltelt K In the an of attat-lting glass faces to previotHy-pt-qut'e l body blot-kg it has been customary to perform, by hand, the -\ariotts operations in olved in cementing tiie'tile to the land l-loek. tlte operations tedious and expensive, and also Insists it difli-' the bud}- bloclts are fed undeta remettt- (ll; triltuting apparatus which plans the me-. quiretl amount of cement upon .them, after suitable madunery. after Biilllg which the tiles are mental from lite and the cement isallo'ttul to set in the usual manner. In tltedraufingsF -ure 1 is a' plan view of mji-hndlilte-witit ite cement-1n tewmt, on the lines l\ x of Fig. 2; t--.-2 is a view-of tltemaeltine en on iit'e iine Tioi Fig.7, Booking i0 tine left; FE. is a petslmtire detail oi apair' of the art-let's; Fig. 4 is: pusp'edit'e patr- -;tlie panis also 1 view of ttro bothblock; Fig. s is' l Mit en- 1 pipe ,5 n

\ie'tr and Fig. 6 is attend tier of a Fig.

and sticking the eement hopper in Fig. S-i a'detail or modified formof block carrier, and Fig. 9 is a t ietrof a secs tio'n j.

similar parts.

wltielt will ri-e to allow the or trough S nipples. (ha-tsp o fills I. tile adapted for use qt 't' is a sitleriew partially o my maehineetaken the line 2-2 of Fig. 1,

gagaitbt the beit I: in -.\ear the-front of tiltiflflthlllf "just the Mods in tuition in the v lpu-ill-afte'ftt'at'tiexph may pee. Ibex noteltes be' inced cred oli their outer i v lupaas belowthezm Attotltercettmttscraper slotted holes in the u rights of and agjustig enigg Lib; prmn or y t tr ;5 1 ts 1W 5m in h c lf' fb ztb 'm which they are by tlttttttl)"tttztsil.

.Below the bed of the :lyiS

tater titt'nugit a sup le tatotlte tearing q below the bed-of anal-matbe carried in :e R n p i... in 8 idt serve to;

I will dim in; who: hate a gravity he;

in; the tiles by :m unyielding cnntaet there with.

1 easelbedetahahlehohletsshowu in Fig. 8'

awaseltheholderswithth'ehlmrksinthm n -ma- ..1- p .1 A

lt- #:ll be itheervedthatrthe earrierhelt E or other suitable carrier 5. The operation of my machineis as follows:.\s the carrier belt revolves around the rullem D 1). body hluel's T T are placed, by hand, in the block holders F F. and pass in; between the R 1!, ate thereby atljusted, laterally, in the block holders. hefure they reach the cement hopper 6 under which they travel, receiving. in so doing alsuitahle layer of cement upon their upper faces. The give tile U U are then placed. by hand, on to of the cement. their tuulen-ttt lugs. a 5 balding in the eeti etit which fill the-eml 5 rahbets r rofthelmdyhloclnaud areth'en carried under the rollers K K. which press the-tiles finult' down into the'eement. and between the rolleb L L which true the tile-s, laterally, npnn the hotly blocks The prof I act a to pit-rent the glass tiles from being ptbltetl oil of the t I of the blocks. Both therollers K K and L are preferably rulnher covered. in order to ginthem asomewhat yielding heari upon the tiles and to prevent ftaeturing or h- After the tile faeed'hlocks have been arried beyond the adjtst' roller; they my be removedjrom the F FJ); ham'L'antl the to set: or in will he'earrietl ol' 1' suitable carrier and the tile faced blocks left in the holder: until the cement This last arrangeagent avoids any danger of tlisttlrhing the ionofthetilesutmnthehloehhyhaning thetacement has set. It will he Jfitfilf understood that if tletaehablehloelzhuliletgl-ffareteetl, fresh holdhe placed upon the ean-iet jhtjt to metre hotiy him-Es a the areput the i After tile fac'ed blocks have been its moved from the'hloel: holders 1- 1- the hold- Pam may he threw; up in jets tit-sprays mm the oo'se'astdnshtheeemeut-ol the bl holdels. the muddy waterlueittgdran na um um: huhlers' that I will rah-h am- =bloekholdersarecarned,

aheltan'iedthereht' a I hohlet:

- tullers Min-id! them} is .bloek ho min-u,

e m ;.;i u I claimand'deaire' ent'uf the Utiltetl i8": S-

1.!!! a bloch-tilipg-lnadti -the :m M nat ion with a traveling earner ei bloek'hohl'et's cach'hatgfi m and 7| top which remain unc tlu' lion or the f 1- ing arranged-,in pairshack tbjhaeli; 1

2. In a hlodi-tilingimafltinqthe .comhi- .nation with a tifjlrlock 7S hidden-having an ppettside tileguide f upon its a edges. v. V 3. In a -tiLingBadIiiie, nation with a frame ofhe'ltj '8! a belt. curried a series of block holders pumanentlg'; upuu their sida and tqsand set v haelLto hack, a it of which the open =itles ofsttchhlo ck N GI trithis apexin the direction ilt beltismo' ,seriesuft ertimllt' able n'nllers and menu; Y past which the open topsand slaesdf'said-at series oi" block I upon their sides aml toys and jeetittg points upon that u peli alga wt in pairs hack to hack, a P

whiehtheo ettinlesofsuehl bloekholtlctsal'e mah distrihtner with its apex in the 313d! tlildtis I f a ust: vmiller: a will! pant set ut-paimhaek to haelg'a sides gttitlti '4 Wm distribute! yith' its apex "Wa m -Y n M e

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