brick making machine

Welcome friend.

There are a few questions that I hope do not seem strange.

What type of bricks do you want to make?

:- Air dried adobe/mud bricks

:- Dry pressed and wood kiln fired

:- Wet pressed and gas/oil fired

The equipment required for each type is very different.

Local "eco-friendly" people hand make adobe and there is also a local dry pressed brick producer. (Obviously I'm in Australia) The dry pressed manufacturer would allow me to take pictures of his equiipment and get details to you, but that would not be suitable for adobe.

If you're after the "modern" bricks (with weight reducing core holes through them) then you need to follow the "wet" process. That is HUGE investment cost.

Whatever path you follow, the key is in the preparation work. Pulverising the ingredients and getting them uniformly mixed.

The first item that I would get would be equipment to prepare your ingredients mechanically and divert your people from mixing to casting. (That way everyone is still dealing with methods they understand.) I imagine something like a large cement mixer batching up to 5 cubic meters in a batch. (That's around enough for 2500 bricks)

:- Diesel powered truck with "agitator" mounted on the back.

or :- A small wet concrete batching plant. (Inverted "A" shaped bin with mixing augers in the bottom, just add the ingredients while the augers are running and it merrily mixes them until you turn it off.)

Semi automatic filling of moulds would then be the next step. (Put your mix into an overhead hopper with a fixed stroke vertical plunger "dosing" one brick volume into your current moulds. Operator uses foot pedal or other device to trigger the cylinder and it operates through a single cycle.

The move to "baked" bricks would be a significant change for all personnel involved. If you are wanting to take that step, then your local experts would need to attend another brickworks and "learn the ropes".

Book learning is great, but there's nothing like the practical aspects in that sort of industry.