Machine for mechanical production of brick masonry

Claim 1

A machine for the mechanical production of masonry of bricks arranged in courses and in an offset manner having a carrying and guide frame adapted to move on rails along the masonry to be produced, comprising a guide frame-like carriage, on supporting rails disposed at the inside of said masonry and containing all working devices and their drives, said frame-like carriage including individual driving means for step-wise movement of said frame-like carriage on said rails and having a brick laying device at its front side and a horizontal brick storage device for stacked bricks at its rear side, and between said two devices in the center of said frame-like carriage a vertical shaft-like brick magazine, above said brick storage device a brick stack gripping and transporting device for conveying brick stacks from said brick storage device to said vertical shaft-like brick magazine, the latter having a lower outlet for an individual brick and being open at its rearside, a supply device for an individual brick from said lower outlet of said brick magazine to said brick laying device, a turning device above said brick laying device and in cooperation therewith, a lateral movement means for said brick laying device and said turning device, and vertical guide rails and lifting means at the front side for said brick laying device, said turning device and said vertical shaft-like magazine, vertical guide rails and lifting means at the rear side for said brick storage device, said brick stack gripping and transporting device, each of all mechanical working, operating, transporting and lifting devices and means having individual drives and a common overall control device for all mechanical operating devices which is also disposed on said frame-like carriage.