Traditional Brick Factory

Tradition brick factoryis a factory for the manufacturing of bricks, from mud by labors and in this kind of traditional factory there is no modern equipments but all the works is don by workers.
Equipment
Most brickworks have some or all of the following:
*A kiln, for firing, or 'burning' the bricks.
*Drying yard or shed, for drying bricks before firing.
*A yard land for manufacturing the bricks.
*A quarry for clay.
*A pugmill or clay preparation plant
* a mud built furn or kiln.
Brick making
In a traditional brickworks, clay is taken from the quarry, and then carried by workers to the yard After the forming or cutting, the bricks must be dried, in the open air, in drying sheds, When the bricks have been dried, they must then be fired or 'burnt' in a kiln, to give them their final hardness and appearance.
Tradition brick factory in Iraq
Tradition brick factory in Iran
still there are around 300 traditional brick factory in the suburb of Tehran but most of them now is closed.
use of the Traditional brick-baking kiln or manually or pressure brick factory is very old in Persia. Persian's most famous ancient brick arch of Anushirvan or Al-Mada'in currently situated in Iraq .Bricks by hand (pressure) is seven thousand years old, Tehran capital of 220 years , with older homes and historic traditional identity both modern and traditional building are made of traditional bricks. beauty are indebted to their identity and bricks. now after thousands of years this traditional work takes its last breaths.and a few factory still are functioning. modern factory and modern style of bricks has substituted the hand bricks.
traditional Brick ovens are baking all over Iran, but the largest organizations manually brick kilns in the past two hundred years has always been around Tehran. other cities with this kind of factory are: Isfahan -yazd-ahvaz and gonabad .
History
The oldest discovered bricks, originally made from shaped mud and dating to before 7500 B.C. were found at Tell Aswad, and then later in the upper Tigris region and in southeast Anatolia close to Diyarbakir. Other more recent findings, dated between 7,000 and 6,395 B.C., come from Jericho and Catal Hüyük. In the ancient Indus Valley city of Mehrgarh, mud bricks have been found dating to 7000 BCE. (Kenoyer 2005) Ceramic bricks were used as early as 4500 BCE in early Indus Valley cities.
Methods of manufacture
"Bricks" for building may be made from mud.
Rail kilns
In modern brickworks, this is usually done in a continuously fired tunnel kiln, in which the bricks move slowly through the kiln on conveyors, rails, or kiln cars to achieve consistency for all bricks. The bricks often have added lime, ash, and organic matter to speed the burning.
Bull's Trench Kilns
In India, brick making is typically a manual process. The most common type of brick kiln in use there are Bull's Trench Kiln (BTK), based on a design developed by British engineer W. Bull in the late 19th century.
An oval or circular trench, 6-9 meters wide, 2-2.5 meters deep, and 100-150 meters in circumference, is dug. A tall exhaust chimney is constructed in the centre. Half or more of the trench is filled with "green" (unfired) bricks which are stacked in an open lattice pattern to allow airflow. The lattice is capped with a roofing layer of finished brick.
In operation, new green bricks, along with roofing bricks, are stacked at one end of the brick pile; cooled finished bricks are removed from the other end for transport. In the middle the brick workers create a firing zone by dropping fuel (coal, wood, oil, debris, and so on.) through access holes in the roof above the trench.
Gallery
Notable brickworks
*The London Brick Company
*Brickworks Limited - Australian brick manufacturer
*Evergreen Brickworks

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