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Title: Pacific Gas and Electric magazine
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Public utilities
Publisher: (San Francisco, Calif.) : Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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and compart-ment. 1 he motors were placed on theirfoundation ahead of the Corliss engineswhile running, connection between motorsand compartment made underground, andwhen installation was completed, the beltswere shortened leaving the engines andboilers ready for removal. The 100 H. P. motor drives shaftingconnected to three dry pans, bucket beltelevator, belt conveyor, pug machine andminor auxiliary connections. The 150 H.P. motor is belted to an idler pulley on abrick machine and operation made by meansof a friction rim clutch. By means of twomotors and friction clutches repairs can bemade to any machine during operationwithout closing down the plant in its entirety. Brick making nowadays is almost auto-matic. The rock and clay are mixed andground in the dry pan by means of a per-forated rotating table, causing two heavycast steel wheels to revolve in the oppositedirection. A stationary blade spreads themixture over the pan to utilize all thecrushing weight of the moving solid steel
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How Lineman Fieste Gave His Lije wheels. The mixture is then conveyed toa moving screen over the storage bin fromwhich it drops into the pug machine. Thelatter is a mixing and kneading machme,effected by propeller blades on a shaft mix-ing and forcing the clay and water to theend of the machine. The hopper of thebrick machine receives the clay, forcing itthrough the brick shape die (by means ofclose fittmg knives on shaft of machine) onto a smooth steel table. As the brick-formed clay is forced forward, individualframes with the stretched cuttmg wire (ona revolving wheel) drop mto place betweenroller openmgs on a moving chain, cuttmgthe clay into the desired thickness of thebrick. Continually forced on the clay bricksare picked up by a conveyor belt, carriedto the second floor, and placed by hand ondryer cars. The bricks are air dried, theradiator heat from the kilns utilized to someextent, and after hours in the kiln thebricks are ready for the market. The planthas a daily capacity o

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