US1165536A - Match-machine. - Google Patents

Description

Patented Dec. 28, 1915.

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M. PARIDON.

MATCH MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 1a. 1915.

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MICHAEL PARIDON, or oswneo, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE. DIAMOND Maren COMPANY, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION or ILLINOIS.

MATCH-MACHINE,

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL PARIDON, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the city and county of Oswego and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in lviatch Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of match machines in which is employed a conti. nous carrier chainby means-of which the splints, in separated rows, are transported through the match making path, including a dipping station or stations'provided with -a rotatable roller or rollers constructedand arranged to apply ignition composition to the traveling splints.

T he object of my invention is to provide a mechanism whereby all liability of dragging the splints upon and over the compost tionapplying device or devices, when the machine is stopping and starting, is ob viated; thus avoiding the formation at such times of ragged and irregular heads on the splints. I

In the present illustrative form of embodiment of my invention a rotary mixer is associated vwith a composition applying roller, and said elements are operatively connected with the chain actuating mechanism andwith an electric motor so as to be operable by either instrumentality, as desired. Means are provided for lowering and raising the part of the chain overlying the composition roller so as to move adjacent splints on such'part of the chain into and from the path of the roller, and means are provided whereby the motor. and the chain actuating mechanism may be rendered active and idle at predetermined intervals in respect to the chain raising and loweringoporation; that, is to say, 1n the downward.

movement of the chain the actuating mechanism therefor is rendered active and the motor is thrown out of action before the splints encounter the composition roller, and in the upward movement of the chain the actuating mechanism therefor is stopped immediately before the motor is actuated; all as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings-Fignre 1 is a side elevation of a composition applying structure and associated mechanisms of a match machine embodying a preferred form of my invention, only so much ofthe machine be- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 28, 1915. Serial No. 2 1,633.

ing shown as is necessary to illustrate the invention. In this view the portion of the chain crossing the composition roller is shown in down position with its splints depending into the dipping path. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section as on the line 29. of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the pawl and ratchet devices, gearing and adjuncts, for the composition mixer and roller. Fig. iis a section through the ratchet wheel and its shaft, as on the line 4% of Fig. 3. Fig; 5 is a transverse vertical section through the Fig. 6 is a similar section through the fourway valve device for controlling the influx and efliux of fluid to and from the cylinder. Fig; 'Z is an elevation of an automatic switch for making and breaking the electric circuit of an auxiliary motor for driving the mixer and the composition roller.

Referring to the drawings, 10 designates a part of the endless splint-carrying chain of a continuous match machine, which chain. in the form illustrated comprises a series of.

perforated plates linked together at their edges, and provided with marginal-gear racks 11 throughout the length of the chain,

This chain is supported in suitable guides throughout its circuit, and pairs of spaced power-driven gear, wheels are arranged at intervals in the circuit, so-as to mesh with the gear racks and impel the chain, as usual. A pair of these wheels, shown at 12, are

mounted on a transverse shaft 13 carrying 'at'one end a sprocket wheel 14 which is driven. from a sprocket wheel on a suitable drive shaft by means of achain 15. Splints,

as 16, are inserted into the successive rows of perforations of the carrying chain, and are thereby transported through the match making path, in which are included one or more structures by means of which the composition'for the ignitionbulbs or heads? is. applied to thefree ends of the traveling splints. One of these structures is illustrated'. It includes a suitable frame 17; a steam jacketed tank 18 supported thereby, and a composition-containing vat 19 slidingly supported within the tank, the ends of the latter being open to permit the removal therefrom or the lnsertiontherein of the vat. as occasion may require.

Mounted to rotate within and slightly above the upper portionof the vat is a composition-applying roller which is so pobearings in the end walls of the vat. These their inner faces with pawls 31, 32 respec shafts are squared or otherwise appro priately formed at one end of'the vat, so as to'couple readily with the correspondingly socketed hubs oi' intermeshing gear wheels 24, 25 respectively, when the vat is slid endwise into the tank. T he shafts 26, 27 of these .wheels are mounted to rotate in suitable hearings on the frame 17; the shaft 26 being prolonged and having a bearing for its outer end in a bracket 28 on the frame. When the vat is applied to the tank, motion properly imparted to the shaft 26 is trans mitted therefrom through the intermeshing gear wheels to the mixer and roller. Loosely'mounted on the shaft 26 are two spaced sprocket wheels 29, 30 equipped on tively, which engage with the teeth of a wide-faced ratchet wheel 33 fast on the shaft 26, in the space between the sprocket wheels, whereby when either wheel is rotated the shaft is actuated thereby, substantially as described in Patent No. 880,354, dated February 25, 1908. As in the structure of that patent the sprocket wheel 29 is connected with and driven from a sprocket wheel 34 on one end of the shaft 13 by means of a chain 35; the mixer and roller thus being driven at a normal speed during the progression of the match chain. In the patented construction the sprocket wheel 30 is connected through bevel gearing with a counter-shaft which is belted with a constantly rotating line shaft in such manner that thewheel30 is driven at a relatively slow speed ,when the match machine is thrown out of operation, such latter wheel thus accomplishing the rotation of the ratchet wheel and its shaft 26 with a correspondingly slow movement of the mixer and roller, so as to stir the composition and prevent its settling and thickening within thevat and upon the roller. In the present mechanism, however, the sprocket wheel 30.

,-is' 'ic;onnected by means of a chain 36 with a suitably mounted shaft 37 which is geared to..the power shaft 38 of an electric motor, asshpwn in Flg. 1, which motor, being in oper lQIl whenthe' match machine is idle, V

;eif,ects;f,through the transmission gearing, the-requisltehactlon of the mixer and roller.

The splint chain is supported and guided in, its travel v across the composition-apply- ;b y., Daiallel bridge rails 39 carried tria sap oaing aame, 4.0 which is hinged at one end'oii the'shaft 13, as usual. The

ings in brackets'on the frame 17 for the composition tank, wherebywhen the shaft 44 is properly actuated the hinged frame 40, with the portion of the splint chain thereon, may be raised or lowered tomove the splints from or into the path of the com- V positionroller, as desired.

On the sides of the Fast on the rock-shaft 44 is a lever 45 which is connected by means of a link 46 with the usual clutch devices of the main drive mechanism of the match machine, whereby when the rock-shaft is moved in one direction to lower the splint chain such devices are actuated to start the match machine, and when the rock-shaft is moved in the opposite direction to raise the splint chain such devices are shifted to stop the match machine.

On one end of the rock-shaft 44 is a sector gear 47 which meshes with the rack extension 48 of a piston rod 49, the piston 50 whereof works in a hydraulic cylinder 51 supported by a bracket 52 on a frame stand; aid 53. Communicating with the top and bottom portions of the interior of the cylin der are two pipes 54, 55,-respectively, which lead to the lower and upper ports 56, 57 of'a valve casing 58 in which rotates a fourway valve 59, having a suitable: operating handle 60. The remaining'ports 60, 61 of the valve casing are in communication with two pipes 62, 63 respectively, the former of which leads to a source of fluid pressure, and the other of which pipes leads to'the hydraulic cylinder of another compositionapplying unit of the-match machine. fTl1e valve ports are so arranged in relation to the ports of the casing, that when the valve occupies the position shown in ,Fig. 6 communication is established between the pipes 54 and 63 and also between'the pipes 62 and 55, and hence the pressure, entering the cylinderbelow the piston, raises the latter, and 1, the water above 'the piston 1s perforce ex pressed through the pipes 54 and'63. When the valve is shifted to establish communica tion between the pipes 62 and 54, and be 7 tween the pipes and 63, the pressure entering thecylinder above the piston forces the latter downward and the water below the piston is expressed through the pipes" 55 and 63.

, lifhenf the piston is forced downward the rack 48 turns down the sector 47, thereby correspondingly movin the rock-shaft 44 and the sector cams 43 thereon, which cams .in their movement raise the frame and the portion of the s lint-bearing chain carried thereby, thus lifting thesplints from theseparated contact plates 66 to path of the composition roller. In this movement of the rock-shaft through the operation of the value the lever 4:5 is shifted to eii'ect the stopping of the match machine.

When the splint chain is in down position, the match machine is in operation, and the mixer and roller arein consequence actuated through the med un of the gearing from the shaft 13. Atthis stage the motor is idle. and the machine is-thro-wn out of operation asabove mentioned the motor is in action, and in consequence the mixer and roller are slowly rota-ted through the gearing from the motor driven shaft 37. f r i As a simple and etlicient means tomake and break the motor circuit 6% at the proper intervals and for the proper periods of time when the chain is lowered and raised respectively, I include within said circuit a suit able switch influenced by the movement of the rock-shaft 44-. This switch iacludesa-v block of insulating material having thereon two which the terminals of the circuit wires are attached. This block is secured to a suitably-disposed bracket on the standard 53. On the rockshaft is a sector 67 of insulating material, the periphery of which in its movement brushes against and bridges the two contact plates. Such periphery is provided for a part of its length with a contact strip 68, which is so disposed that when the splint chain is raised the strip connects the two contacts 66 and thus completes the electric circuit. When the chain is lowered the strip escapes, the con-tact plates and in consequence the circuit is broken.

The insulated part of the contact sector is so disposed that it keeps the circuit broken and the motor stopped, until the chain is wholly raised, whereupon the contact. strip completes the electric circuit, and the motor, operating, rotates the mixer and composition roller, as above described.

The electric circuit is preferably provided with a suitably-disposed switch 69 by means of which the circuit may be interrupted at any time when it may be desired to stop the motor, as, for example, to permit the removal or the application of the composition vat from or to the machine.

In machines employing plural composition applying structures for the production of so-called double-clipped matches, I equip each of such structures with the chain lifting and electrically-controlled mixer and roller actuating mechanisms above described, the pipe 63 in that case leading from the'valve to the hydraulic cylinder of the second structure. As the force in the second cylinder is farther removed from the source of pressure than in the first cylinder and thereby relatively reduced, I make the piston heads adjustable longitudi- But when the'splint chain is raisec carrying sprocket nally of their respective cylinders in order to compensate for the varying pressures. To this end each of the piston heads comprises two members, spaced apart, and adjustably fitted on the screw threa ded inner end of the piston, as seen in Fig. 5.

In composition-applying mechanisms as previously constructed, a variation in the timely successive operations of the pawlwheels 29, 8O frequently occurred, and in consequence at the periods ofstopping and starting the match machine, one of the wheels would stop before the other started, and hence there would be a temporary halting of the mixer and composition shafts while the splints were in contact with the composition. This resulted in the dragging of the proximate splints over the idle composition roller with the consequent formation of ragged and irregular heads on the splints. By my invention, however, the objection just noted is overcome, for the reason that the timely operations of the pawl-bearing wheels inrelation to the stopping and starting and the raising and lowering of the match chain, is insured.

It will be seen that an attendant by properly manipulating the valve handle 60, can instantly start or stop the machine, as desired. In the former case the motor is thrown out of operationythe composition roller is driven from the chain actuating mechanism, and the progressing chain is at once lowered to movethe splints into the path of the composition on the roller, the sequence of the operations being such that the motor is thrown out of actionbefore the splints encounter the composition. In the case of stopping the machine the chain. is raised to remove the splints from the composition roller, the electric circuit is completed to energize the motor the instant the chain is raised, and the mixer and composition roller are timely driven from the motor; or in other words the chain is raised and the machine is stopped an instant before the motor is actuated. By the starting and stopping operations just described all liability of dragging the splints upon and over the composition roller when the machine is stopping and starting, is obviated.

I claim.

1. In a match machine, the combination of a splint carrier, actuating means therefor, a composition vat, acomposition applying device therein, operative connection between the carrier actuating means and said device, a motor, operative connection between the motor and the said device, a vertically-movable carrier-support above said vat, means for raising and lowering said support, and means whereby said motor and the carrier-actuating means may be rendered active and idle at predetermined intervals in respect to the vertical position of the said support.

2. In a match machine, the combination of asplint carrier, actuating means therefor, a composition vat, a composition applying roller therein, operative connection between the carrier-actuating means and the roller, an electric motor, operative connection between said motor and the roller, a vertically-movable carrier support above said vat, means for raising and lowering s'aidsupport, and means whereby said motor and the carrier actuating means may be rendered active and idle at predetermined intervals in respect to'the vertical position of the said support. I

3. In a match machine, the combination of a splint carrier, actuating means there- 'for, a composition vat, a COlllPOSltlOIhfiPPlY- ing roller therein, operative connection between the carrier actuating means and the roller, an electric motor, a switch included in' the motor circuit, operative connection between said motor and the roller, a vertically-movable carrier support above said vat, mechanism for raising and lowering said support, means actuated by the said mechanism for controlling the position of the switch to render the motor periodically idle or active, and means actuated by said mechanism for rendering the carrier-actuating means periodically idle or active.

4. In a match machine, the combination of a splint carrier, actuating means there for, a composition vat, a composition applying roller therein, operative connection between the carrier actuating means and the roller, an electric motor, a switch included in the motor circuit, operative connection between said motor and the roller, a vertically-movable carrier support above said Copies of this patent may be obtained for vat, mechanism, including a fluid-actuated piston, for raising and lowering said support, means actuated by said piston for controlling the position of the switch to render the motor periodically idle or active, and

means also actuated by said piston ,for'rendering the carrier actuating'mechanism pe riodically idle or active. c 7

5. In a match machine, the combinatlon of a splint carrier, actuating means there-' for, a composition vat, a compositionapplying roller therein,operativeconnection be tween the carrier actuating means and the roller, an electric motor, an oscillatory switch included in the motor c1rcu1t,operative connection between said motor and the roller, a vertically-movable carrier support above said vat, mechanism, including" a fiuid-actuatedpiston, for raisingrandlowering said support, a rock-shaft on; which the oscillatory switch is mounted, said shaft serving as'a machine stopping and starting agent, and operative connection between said shaft and the piston v r 6. In a matchmachine, the combination of a splint carrier, actuating means there for, a composition vat, a composition applying device therein, operative connection be tween the carrier actuating means and said device, a" motor, operative connection be tween the motor and said device, a fluidactuated carrier-hoisting mechanism above five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0.

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