This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...has to build and his capital is limited, a cheap wood building large enough to hold about four days' work, with a floor of fine sand, and windows so placed as to give a good light about the part of the building where the making of the blocks is done, will be sufficient in size to start with. As the blocks must be kept ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...has to build and his capital is limited, a cheap wood building large enough to hold about four days' work, with a floor of fine sand, and windows so placed as to give a good light about the part of the building where the making of the blocks is done, will be sufficient in size to start with. As the blocks must be kept from the sun and wind as mush as possib.e for about ten days, the yard can be so arranged as to keep off the wind by fencing, and on sunny days canvas can be spread over the blocks in the yard which have not been stacked out over six days, or, in other words, over those blocks that are being kept wet. For an output of about 1,000 blocks per week a room will be required approximately 30 ft. wide by about 80 ft. long for the machine, mixing-platform, and room for curing the blocks. By stacking and re-handling the blocks once, this room is large enough to double the capacity. A close-built mixing platform about 12 ft. x 14 ft. should be placed alongside the block machine, which must be in such a position as to make it handy to the materials, preferably close to one side of the building. The sand or gravel can then be shoveled directly onto the platform from the outside. Where a mixer is to be used, the plant can be so arranged that the materials may be placed in the mixer by machinery, or by gravity, thus doing away with practically all shoveling. When it comes to a factory the size of which it will pay to so arrange that all mixing, tamping, etc., is done by machinery, the party interested in installing it should take sufficient time and money to investigate the subject thoroughly, and know just what he is doing. My object in this article is to give any information I can that may be of use to the man who has to start in a small way at making blo...
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