Binding-plates
Thin plates cast by the loam-moulder to strengthen weak walls in copes and cores built with bricks. They are bedded, at intervals, on soft loam and the building continued over them. A slot or opening on one side allows of their being set without removing the spindle. If, when the slot is made, they should be considered too weak, extending lugs at that point will serve to clamp or bolt them fast, after they have passed the spindle and are bedded in place. For cores, the lugs are internal; for copes, external. They are often called building-rings. See COURSE; BRICKING-UP; LOAM-MOULDING; HOOP-BINDER.