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New brick-laying machine makes building roads
easier
Monday February 11, 2013 07:46:20 PM,
IANS
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London:
A Dutchman has designed a machine that takes the sweat out of
bricklaying and also does it in a jiffy, especially in road
building.
Named Tiger-Stone, the amazing machine can create an instant road
wherever it travels, laying out bricks in formation to create
perfect paving. Its secret lies in a smartly designed
gravity-based system.
All a worker has to do is load the bricks into the Tiger-Stone in
the desired pattern. From there, gravity causes them to slide
together in a sheet of paving on the ground.
Brick roads have long been sought after due to their
attractiveness and durability but have become less common because
of the labour-intensive work that goes into laying them, compared
to other road surfaces such as concrete or asphalt, the Daily Mail
reports.
However, with a Tiger-Stone, workers are able to lay out 400
square metres of new road every day, using paving stones or
bricks, compared to a single conventional paver on their hands and
knees who could only lay 75 to 100 square metres each day.
The machine is the brainchild of Henk van Kuijk, director of Dutch
industrial company Vanku, who came up with his ground-breaking
invention after deciding that squatting or kneeling down to place
the bricks on the ground by hand was hard work.
The device, which is as wide as a road and comes in four, five and
six-metre widths, is fed loose bricks and lays them out onto the
road as it slowly moves along. The tread-tracked machine is
electrically-powered and has few moving parts, so noise and
maintenance are minimum.
Once the bricks are in place, all a contractor has to do is go
over the new road surface with a tamper, and the new highway is
complete.
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