2-798-437 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Pipe tile machine, 1844. Exhibit at the Southampton meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of England: '...a compact and simple invention for the manufacture of pipe or D tiles. It consists of a pair of cast-iron cylinders, revolving on a column, which supports the machinery, and is itself secured at top and bottom. A plunger is worked by a rack and pinion, in one (while the other is being filled), which presses out the clay through dies (of brass, and of which there are several sizes) at the bottom. Price, with six sets of brass dies...and 4 inch pipe, and one for making common D tiles, £25'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V.