Cinva Ram
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The Cinva Ram was develpoed by in 1952 by Raul Ramirez of the Inter-American housing center. It was very popular in neighboring developing countries, due to a low cost and effective design. http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n561/Throbulator/cinva%20ram/cinvapic2.jpg
With this machine, 2 workers, 1 loading the machine and the other working the press, can produce roughly 2 bricks per minute
http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n561/Throbulator/cinva%20ram/CINVAassembly-2.jpg
- note, these plans so far only on paper, the ram head might be to short, in a few days the prototype will be complete and will get to see if it actually works. If it doesn't,it will only need another layer of steel welded to the ram head to give it more compression (it almost might only work with sandier soil that doesn't compress as much). It should work fine as is.