OVERHEAD LINE FOR MAKING BUILDING BLOCKS Russian patent published in 1994 - IPC

FIELD: production of building materials. SUBSTANCE: line has lift for accommodating multilevel platform, charging pusher, receiving table for carrying multiple-cavity mold, device for preparing mixture from ingredients, meter-feeders equal in number to the number of cavities in the mold, charging elevator for mounting multilevel platform, railway to move platforms, arrangement for charging finished facing plates, arrangement for packaging the plates, and crane for moving platforms along the line. Discharge arrangement has vibrator, discharge pusher, discharge elevator, and tilter secured to crane. Vibrator and discharge elevator are intended to accommodate overturned platforms, whereas discharge pusher can engage with finished facing plates at back sides of the multi-cavity molds. Packaging arrangement includes inclined troughs equal in number to the number of longitudinal rows of mold cavities, gates with turning mechanism, and trays for carrying packages with step-by-step travel mechanism. The gates are arranged in pairs at lower edge of inclined troughs. EFFECT: enhanced efficiency in operation. 4 cl, 4 dwg