Annual report of the Regents (1900) (14592290198)

Identifier: annualreportof5421900newy (find matches)

Title: Annual report of the Regents

Year: 1889 (1880s)

Authors: New York State Museum University of the State of New York. Board of Regents

Subjects: New York State Museum Science

Publisher: Albany : J.B. Lyon, State Printer

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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hers, and in-deed this is necessary. For instance a brick dried on pallets needsa much greater pressure applied to it, and has to be molded fromstifFer material than one dried in the sun in the yard. Four men are required to tend the machine. A ^^ molder whoscrapes off the top of the mold as it is delivered from the machineand watches the consistency of the tempered clay, to see that itkeeps uniform; a ^^ mold lander who takes the mold from thedelivery table and places it on the truck; a ^ sander who sandsthe molds before putting them in the machine, and a boy to watchthe machine and stop it when necessary. Beside this there arefour truckmen who wheel the bricks from the machine to theyard, where they are dumped on the drying floor by two moldsetters . In the afternoon these men are employed in hackingthe bricks and wheeling the dry ones to the kiln. Stiff mud or wire-cut machines. Their name indicates thenature of the process. The clay is tempered quite stiff, and (M OCO 0) a ci O CD

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