曾在砖厂工作过的吴子甦工程师,最近从美国探亲回来,向我们介绍了他对美国普通粘土砖的两点见闻,值得我们思考和借签。一、美国的花纹小砖美国的制砖工业很发达,产品品种也很多,其中有相当一部分是小块型的普通烧结粘土砖,在纽约和华盛顿等地都能见到采用这种制品的各种建筑。这种小块的普通粘土制品,外观好,标号高,色泽与我国的普通粘土砖差不多,只是规格略小些,短一些、薄一些,它的最大特点是条、顶面上有花纹、这些花纹布满砖的两个 Wu Zisu, an engineer who once worked in a brick factory, recently returned from a visit to the United States. He introduced us to two points of view about American ordinary clay bricks, which is worth thinking and borrowing. First, the United States pattern of small bricks The United States is very developed brick industry, product variety is also many, of which a considerable part is a small type of ordinary sintered clay brick, in New York and Washington and other places can see the use of such products Kind of building. This small piece of ordinary clay products has a good appearance and a high label. The color is similar to that of ordinary clay bricks in China, but the specifications are slightly smaller, shorter, and thinner. Its greatest feature is the pattern on the top and the top. Two bricks covered with patterns