US1248465A - Box-filling machine. - Google Patents

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1. C. DON'NELLY.

- BOX FILLING MACHINE- APPLICATION FIVLED OCT. 3. l9l6- mmw wm, mum 10%.. 4,1917:

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BOX FILLING MACHINE.

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2 $HEETSSHEET 2- MI I I TTNTTEU JOSEPH C. DONNELLY, OF BABBERTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE DIAMOND MATCH COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A, CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

BOX-EILLING MACHINE.

Application filed October 3, 1916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH (J. DONNELLY, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Barber-ton, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Box-Filling Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a machine for filling match-box trays with matches, and particularly to machines of the kind wherein a succession of temporary holders (from which the matches are subsequently transferred to the" box trays) is impelled in a path adjacent the discharging station of a match-making machine and thereby progressively supplied with matches. A box filling machine of the character mentioned is illustrated in Letters Patent of the United States No. 836,7 30, dated November 27 1906, to which reference may be had.

The object of my invention is to accomplish the orderly and compact disposition within the progressing temporary holders of a box filling machine of the matches discharged from the carrier of a match machine; and to this end the invention con1- prises, in a box filling machine, an endless succession of temporary holders having therein movable bottom members which are gradually lowered during the progress of the holders across the path of the falling matches from the match machine.

The invention also comprises means whereby a series of short rapid vertical vibrations are imparted to the successive bottoms of the temporary holders during their travel through and preferably some distance beyond the filling zone.

The invention also comprises various novel features of construction-and combinations of parts, all of which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the annexed drawings- Figure 1 is a plan of a chain of temporary match-holders, and its associated parts, embodying my invention, a part of the match making machine being illustrated.

Fig. 2 is an elevation, partly in section, of a portion of the chain of match holders and adjuncts; some of the spring actuated pins for the movable bottoms of the holders being broken off for clearness.

Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section through the chain and ad uncts, on a Plane Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec, 4, 191% Serial No. 123,432.

through one of the sprocket wheels, as on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a vertical section, on a larger scale, through several of the temporary holders, showing a portion of the jarring mechanism therefor.

Fig. 5 is a sectional perspective view of the guiding structure for the chain of temporary holders, showing a portion of the chain and adjuncts.

Fig. 6 is a transverse section on a plane through the match carrier and punch mechanlsm of the match machine and the adjacent part of the temporary holder mechanism, as on the line 66 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, 10 designates one of the perforated match carrier plates of a match machine; and 11 a reciprocating head carrying punches 12 for ejecting the matches row by row from the perforations of the carrier.

13 designates a horizontal bed supported on a plane below the path of discharge of the matches from the carrier; 14, 15 vertical shafts journaled in bearings at or near the respective ends of the bed; 16, 17 sprocket wheels on said shafts, and 18 an endless chain passing about the wheels so as to travel in a path adjacent the match carrier in the region of the discharge station. The chain is provided throughout its length with receptacles constituting temporary holders which areadapted to receive and assemble the matches as rapidly as they are discharged from the match machine. In another part of the travel of the chain the matches are tran ferred from the temporary holders into the boX trays as described in the Patent No. 836,730 above referred to. The bed is provided with spaced lip-standing walls 19 which afford a run-way within which the chain of holders is supported and guided; said Walls being suitably recessed or cutaway for the reception of the sprocket wheels and also to afford ample space for the endwise removal of the matches from the temporary holders.

The temporary holders, which form, in effect, links of the sprocket chain, comprise flat rectangular bottom plates 20 provided each with end walls 21 and an intermediate division wall 22, the two chambers or cornpartments thus formed being open at the r respective ends. Each of the chambers is equal to or slightly greater in length than the matches and is of a width and height to receive and hold an excess quantity of matches for a box tray. The adjoining end walls of the train or series of holders are in close proximity to each other, and their upper edges, including those of the central walls, are preferably beveled or tapered, as shown, to facilitate the entrance of the matches to the chambers.

The shaft 15 of the sprocket wheel 17 carries at its lower end a bevel gear wheel 23 in mesh with a similar wheel 24; on a horizontal shaft 25 that is driven in any suitable manner.

' The parts thus far described are or may be of the construction and operation illustrated and described in Patent No. 836,730 aforesaid.

Within each of the match chambers is a vertically-movable bottom member 26 from which spaced pins 27 depend through guide orifices in the bottom plate 20 of the holder structure; the lower ends of the pins being provided with heads 28. Springs 29 en circling the respective pins and bearing against the bottom plate 20 and the heads 28 tend to maintain the member 26 yieldingly down upon said plate. The upper surface of the bottom member is channeled to provide a shallow open end trough having upwardly and outwardly inclined sides 30 for a purpose which will presently apear.

p Aifixed to the member 26 is a plunger 31 which depends through a central guide bushing 32 on the bottom plate. The length of the pin is such that its lower or free end lies slightly above the bed 13 when the member 26 is in its lowermost position, such end being preferably shaped to provide an inclined contact portion 33.

Affixed to the bed, directly beneath and parallel with the stretch of the chain of temporary holders adjacent the match carrier, and in the path of the depending plungers from said holders, is a bar 34 having on its upper edge a series of toothed or serrated surfaces 35 which are arranged in step-like order descending from a point adjacent the outer or right hand edge of the match carrier to a point adjacent the inner or left-hand edge of said carrier. The length of each of the surfaces is substantially equal to the distance between the centers of the two chambers or compartments of a temporary holder, excepting the lower most surface which is preferably extended some distance along the bed, as indicated at 36. The outer or right-hand end of the upper step merges with a smooth surface 37 which gradually declines toward the bed, whereby the plungers of the traveling holders successively impinge against the surface 37 and are thereby gradually raised in a manner to elevate the succeeding bottom members to their highest position; thence passing from one step surface to another and permitting the lowering of the bottom members to their lowermost position within the temporary holders.

hen the successive bottom members are at their highest level they are positioned in proximity to the plane of discharge of the matches from the adjacent part of the match carrier, and hence the descent of the matches is slight, thus obviating liability of the dis arrangement of the falling matches. As each temporary holder progresses in front of the match carrier the bottom member of the holder is lowered a distance equal to the thickness of a match, or substantially so, thus providing for the reception of a superposed row of matches; and so on the bottom member is progressively lowered and the matches are delivered to the holder until it has passed beyond the match carrier, whereupon the holder is in its lowermost position and contains a complement of matches requisite for delivery to a match tray.

As the spring pressed plungers pass along the step surfaces'of the bar the plunger-s and therewith the attached bottom members are vertically vibrated by the action of the teeth or serrations, thereby jarring the matches and causing them to settle within the holders, and since the filled holders travel some distance beyond the carrier with the plungers in engagement with the serrated extension of the bar the agitation of the said members is continued in a manner to insure the orderly and compact arrangement of the matches within the holders preparatory to their passage to the discharge station.

Preferably each of the toothed or serrated steps is slightly inclined upwardly from the right to the left hand end thereof as shown, in order to enable an extended drop of each pin and a substantial jar to the matches in the associated temporary holder as the pin passes from one step to another. Thence the holder in its progress along the lower step is slightly raised and subjected to a series of slight vibrations, which in conjunction with the initial jar insure the cilioient settling of the matches within the box trays.

The quantity of matches delivered to each holder as it approaches and crosses the right-hand edge of the match carrier of the match machine is somewhat less than the quantity supplied to the holder when the latter is progressing in front of the body of the carrier, and hence the bottom member is recessed or channeled as above described. in order that the parallelism of the matches imposed upon said member may be main tained until the holder has advanced sufficiently for the delivery of matches thereto throughout its width.

The endless chain 18 travels upon a raised supporting track 38 therefor on the bed, which track constitutes the basal part of the inner wall of the runway.

The inner sides of the longitudinal walls of the run way adjacent the match machine are preferably provided with rails 39, having tongues 40 which register with longitudinal end grooves 41 in the succeeding bottom plates of the traveling temporary holders, and thus maintain the holders in a fixed horizontal plane during the vertical movements of the members 26. The rail on the outside wall is preferably continued about the curved ends of the runway and it is provided throughout its length with a flange 42 which affords a supporting track for the adjacent ends of the holders during their travel. A rail section 39, provided with a track flange 42 is secured to the inner side of the outer reduced wall of the run way so as to support the outer ends of the holders as they pass along, said outer wall; the flange 42 constituting, in effect, a continuation of the track flange 12.

As a simple and efficient means to avoid liability of vertical displacement of the bottom members of the filled holders, as they pass around the sprocket wheel 16, I preferably provide the inner basal track portion 38 of the outer curved wall of the runway with a curved section having an inwardly projecting semicircular rib 4L3 which registers with suitably-disposed slots or recesses 44. in the lower portions of the pins of thesuccessive holders, asithe latter approach and pass around the sprocket wheel.

I claim-- 1. In a box-filling machine having a succession of match holders arranged to travel adjacent the discharge station of a match machine, the combination with said holders, of vertically-movable bottom members therein, and means for successively raising said members as they approach the discharge station of the match machine and for grad ually lowering and vertically jarring said members in their continued travel adjacent said station.

2. In a box-filling machine having a succession of match holders arranged to travel adjacent the discharge station of a match machine, the combination with said holders, of vertically-movable bottom members there in, and means for successively raising said members as they approach the discharge station of the match machine, then gradually lowering and vertically jarring said members in their continued travel adjacent said station, and thereafter vertically-jarring said members in an interval of their travel.

3. In a box-filling machine having a suctopics of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Qommissioner Washington, D. E.

cession of match holders arranged to travel adjacent the discharge station of a match machine, the combination with said holders, of vertically-movable bottom members therein, depending plungers on said members, and an actuating element for said plungers adjacent the discharge station, said element having an upwardly inclined surface upon which the plungers are successively ralsed as they approach said station and having also a series of toothed or serrated step surfaces descending from the summit of the inclined surface toward the opposite side of the discharge station.

4:. In a box filling machine having a succession of match holders arranged to travel adjacent the discharge station of a match machine, the combination with said holders, of vertically-movable bottom members there in, depending plungers on said members, spring means to maintain said members normally depressed, and a bar arranged longitudinally of the path of the plungers as they approach and travel adjacent the said discharge station, said bar having an upwardly inclined approach for the plungers to the discharge station and having also a series of toothed or serrated step surfaces descending from the summit of the approach toward the opposite side of the discharge station.

5. In a box filling machine having a succession of match holders arranged to travel adjacent the discharge station of a match machine, the combination with said holders of guide means therefor adjacent the discharge station, vertically-movable bottom members in said holders, means for maintaining said members normally depressed. within the holders, and means for successively raising said members as they approach the discharge station of the match machine and for gradually lowering and vertically jarring said members in their continued travel adjacent said station.

6. In a box filling machine having a succession of match holders arranged to travel adjacent the discharge station of a match machine, the combination with said holders, of verticallymovable bottom members therein having laterally tapering channels, and means for successively raising said members as they approach the discharge station of the match machine and for gradually lowering and vertically jarring said members in their continued travel adjacent said discharge station.

Signed at New York in the county and State of New York this 2nd day of October A. D. 1916.

JOSEPH G. DONNELLY.

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