160 GEOLOGY OF OHiO. 



A new side cut table has recently been devised which does away 

 with this trouble; the bar of clay is received on a greased metal plate as 

 before, but the cutting yoke is so arranged that the cut is made on, 

 both the forward and back motion. Instead of separating each cut off to 

 one side, the advancing bar is permitted to shove the block of cut bricks 

 ahead of it until they are each in turn caught on ' the surface of a be t 

 which moves at a slightly faster rate than the bar of clay moves. Hei.c- 

 each brick is moved off a little distance before the next one gets in 

 motion. This device is called a separating belt. From the surface of. 

 this belt each brick can be picked up separately and set on the carriage 

 to the dryer or on the feed table of the repress machines. 



This table, while still actuated by hand power, is a long step ahead 

 of the pallet delivery and it is said to be as easy to handle 40,000 per day 

 on this table as 30,000 on the old form. The cutting of a bar of clay 

 into side cut brick automatically has not yet been successfully accom- 

 plished. The problem is one which is causing general interest. Manx- 

 people believe in the advantages of a side cut brick over the end cut for 

 any purpose and to these people the production of side cut brick as 

 cheaply as end cut brick are produced is a vital matter. There are 

 three or more automatic side cutting tables under construction but none 

 in the market. The problem is certain to be solved in the near future. 



There are a large number of side cut brick machines on the market. 

 There are two of special merit. 



The E. M. Freese Company of Gabon, Ohio has probably the best 

 all-round side cut brick machine in use. There are more Freese machine- 

 in Ohio than any other kind of side cut machine. The cutting table is 

 the old style side cut, pallet delivery but of its class, it is the best made. 



The Frey Sheckler Co. of Bucyrus are the manufacturers of the 

 Wellsville side cut table, just described. It deserves the credit of bein,i: r 

 called the most successful modern device for handling side cut brick. 

 Their auger machines are also excellent in every way. 



The handling of the end cut bar has attained far greater perfection 

 than the side cut. In end cut machinery the problems of cutting and 

 removing the brick have been solved and there is no limit to the work 

 which may be done, except the limit of the machine itself." It become- 

 a question of size, speed, power and clay supply rather than ability to 

 handle the output. 



End cut bricks when made in double and triple stream dies on a 

 side cut machine, are cut off and handled by hand tables, something 

 similar to the side cut apparatus or by reel cutters also operated by hand. 

 But in all of the successful, steam, end cut machines, the cutting is 

 done automatically without the intervention of any labor. 



In all of the automatic cut off tables in use, the bar of clay, as it 

 issues from the machine, is received on a belt, and the friction of the 

 clay on the belt forms the motive power which actuates the cutter. By 



