ounding Machines--Damping:
Damping Machines--Soaking, Shortening, Pugging: Horse and Steam
Pug-Mills, Rolling Cylinders--Particulars of the Above Machines. Chapter
III., Bricks: Sec. 1, Manufacture--(1) Hand and Machine Moulding,--I.
Machines Working by Compression: on Soft Clay, on Semi-Firm Clay, on
Firm Clay, on Dry Clay.--II. Expression Machines: with Cylindrical
Propellers, with Screw Propellers--Dies--Cutting-tables--Particulars of
the Above Machines--General Remarks on the Choice of Machines--Types of
Installations--Estimates--Plenishing, Hand and Steam Presses,
Particulars--(2) Drying, by Exposure to Air, Without Shelter, and Under
Sheds--Drying-rooms in Tiers, Closed Drying-rooms, in Tunnels, in
Galleries--Detailed Estimates of the Various Drying-rooms, Comparison of
Prices--Transport from the Machines to the Drying-rooms, Barrows,
Trucks, Plain or with Shelves, Lifts--(3) Firing--I. In Clamps--II. In
Intermittent Kilns. _A_, Open: _a_, using Wood; _b_ Coal; _b'_, in
Clamps; _b''_, Flame--_B_, Closed: _c_, Direct Flame; _c'_, Rectangular;
_c''_, Round; _d_, Reverberatory--III. Continuous Kilns: _C_, with Solid
Fuel: Round Kiln, Rectangular Kiln, Chimneys (Plans and Estimates)--_D_,
With Gas Fuel, Fillard Kiln (Plans and Estimates), Schneider Kiln (Plans
and Estimates), Water-gas Kiln--Heat Production of the Kilns; Sec. 2,
Dimensions, Shapes, Colours, Decoration, and Quality of Bricks--Hollow
Bricks, Dimensions and Prices of Bricks, Various Shapes,
Qualities--Various Hollow Bricks, Dimensions, Resistance, Qualities; Sec.
3, Applications --History--Asia, Africa, America, Europe: Greek, Roman,
Byzantine, Turkish, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance,
Architecture--Architecture of the Nineteenth Century: in Germany,
England, Belgium, Spain, Holland, France, America--Use of Bricks--Walls,
Arches, Pavements, Flues, Cornices--Facing with Coloured
Bricks--Balustrades. Chapter IV., Tiles: Sec. 1, History; Sec. 2,
Manufacture--(1) Moulding, by Hand, by Machinery: Preparation of the
Clay, Soft Paste, Firm Paste, Hard Paste--Preparation of the Slabs,
Transformation into Flat Tiles, into Jointed Tiles--Screw, Cam and
Revolver Presses--Particulars of Tile-presses--(2) Drying--Planchettes,
Shelves, Drying-barrows and Trucks--(3) Firing--Divided
Kilns--Installation of Mechanical Tileworks--Estimates; Sec. 3, Shapes,
Dimensions and Uses of the Principal Types of Tile--Ancient Tiles: Flat,
Round, Roman, Flemish--Modern Tiles--With Ver