Canada Brick - Swindell Dressler

SWINDELL
555 DRESSLER
Faster firing and lower costs:
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Canada Brick gets fired up over
Swindell Dressler s Silver Cloud™ System
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Process starts
Swindell Dressler first analyzed Canada Brick's raw
material and prooucts then cre'dted a computer
model of the kilns that wou ld ach ieve th e company's
gmls.
Crushing, grinding, screening, conveying, storing the entire system was engineered by and under the
construction management o f Swindell Dressler.
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Once tile ware is set, automatic controls take over. AJ I
ciJying, flring and car movement, from the sener to
dehacker occur automatically.
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Kiln Golf emerging from the cltyer is p icked up by a
transfer car ( re'dI) and moved to kiln entrance. An
automatic tracker in the control room also shows
w here evely car is at any given time.
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A column of green clay exits from the e>..1:ruder.
SUlface tc>..1:ures are also created at this point.
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It takes only 19.8 hours to fire nine-inch brick in
these low profile (8 courses high) kilns. Fuel consumption: less than 750 gross B1Us per pound of
fired ware. Output: 97.280 brick per clay per kiln.
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A thin veil of colored sancl dusts the wet clay column
as it moves to the cuner.
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Dehacker unloads one-quarter of a kiln car with C'dch
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TIle unique car design of Swindell Dressler's Silver
Cloud system eliminates heavy refi-ac101Y material.
The results: faster firing, less fuel consumption, lower
operating costs,
An entire kiln car load is placed into position with
on ly eight lifts of the automatic setter.
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Ready for deliver,.
Bricks are atTanged into packages for easier handling.
Fork lift takes brick to storage prior to delivelY to
construction sites throughout Canada and the
United States,
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Increase productivity in less space
Canada Brick did both when Swindell Dressler went
to work on dle new Burlington. Ontario plant. Here's
what did it: a combination of our brand-new i1ver
Clo ud technology plus th e teanlwork of our
engineer/ constructors and Canada Brick
people. And here's what it meant:
• shorter firing time
• greater output
• less operating costs
• lower capital costs
• shorter design·to-completion time
The Silver Cloud System is a new technology
whose time has come. It takes its name from Swindell
Dressler's totally nev.' kiln car. Simply stated, me ilver
Cloud system i a new, integrated manufacturing
concept mat combines refraaory fiber insulation
materials wim me latest technologies in construaion,
process combustion and automated controls.
Faster production
Canada Brick now fires its brick in 19.8 hours w ith
the Silver Cloud System, down from as much as 36
hours in its older tunnel kilns. And
less time has created
immediate benefits.
Among them: Kilns
and dryers are
smal ler and
overall building
space is less.
All dlis lowers initial capital costs and construction
time. Faster firing also reduces levels of work-in·
progress. Improved heat fi ow around and dlroUgh
the ware produces a more uniform product and, at
the same time, more efficient firing.
TIlis results in lower fuel costs
and better products.
Better control
Computer controlled firing system and
kiln car movement through the plant lets
Canada Brick program changes in schedules, firing
temperatures and curves to minimize produaion
disruptions when there are produa changeovers.
TIle e automatic controls are also programmed to
make firing changes for differences in produa ize,
surface t x1:ure and color of ware. And once the ware
is set, fired and unloaded, empty cars Lan be kept
near working stations. Because there is very little
heat retention in Silver Cloud Lars, people can work
near them without discomfolt.