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- APILICATION FILED MAY 9. 1919.
- This invention relates to box filling machines; having reference more particularly to machines for filling and closing boxes of the so-called tray-and-shuck type commonly used for containing matches; such, for eX- ample, as disclosed in Letters Patent of the United States No. 1,300,762 dated April 15, 1919.
- the machine illustrated in said patent embodies a tray-and-shuck conveyer comprising an endless chain of links having lengthwise thereof two rows of spaced transverse walls; means arranged laterally of the horizontal path of the upper run of the conveyer for inserting box trays between the successive walls of one row; means arranged endwise of the conveyer for inserting box shucks between the successive walls of the other row; a trough-like hopper having a delivery throat for supplying matches to the progressing trays on the upper run of the conveyer, and traveling plunger mechanism for pushing the thus lilled trays into their coi'nplementary shucks on the conveyer.
- the object of my present invention is to improve the said patented machine in' va-v rious particulars with the view of materially increasing the capacity and consequently the output of the machine, and also of insuring with greater expedition and certainty the quantitative measurement .of the matches for delivery to the respective boi: trays.
- FIG. 1 is a side elevation of a box-filling machine embodying my invention.
- Fig.: 3 is a transverse vertical'se'ction of the machine, as on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.
- Fig. 4 is a similar section, as on the' line 1g- 4 of Fig. 2.
- Fig. 5 ⁇ isa ⁇ sectional plan of the right- ⁇ ha.d" or receiving end of the machine, certain parts, including the match supply hopper, the respective chutestructures for thetrays and shucks, and the tray-aiidshuc'k conveyeigbeing omitted for clearness.
- Fig. 6 is a partiall plan of the delivery end of the' match hopper a'noly a portion of the tray-and-shuck conveyer, showing the blades and adjuncts.
- Fig. 7 is a similar section through the yguide structurefor the measuring blades
- Fig. 8 is a longitudinal vertical section
- Fig. 9 is a similar section through the throated portion of the hopper, showing they lowerfmeasuring blades of the respective throats as retractedy and the matches delivered to the trays.
- Figs. 10 and 11y are transverse vertical sections through the match hopper and the adjacent portion ofthe tray-andshuck conveyer, as on the lines 101O and 11-11, respectively, of Fig.-8.
- Fig. 12 is a perspective view of a twin plunger device, and adjuncts, for feeding spaced-apart box trays to the' conveyer.
- Fig. 13 is a skeleton perspective view of the measuring blades and the slide bars therefor.
- Fig. 111 is a view of a fragment of the tray-r and-shuck conveyer.
- Fig. 15 is a plan of adjacent portionsof the tray-and-shuck conveyer and of the plunger conveyei' for nestingthe trays andA shucks, showing box-ejecting members in section and also an inclined track structure 'for receiving the filled boxes ejected from the said conveyer.
- Fig 16 is a vertical section through the box-ejecting mechanism, showing a part of the tray-and-shuck conveyer, and adjuncts.
- the main supporting irame of the Inachine illustrated in the drawings comprises a relatively long table 20; standards 21, and a bed 22.
- the main power-driven shaft 23 extends longitudinally oit' and beneath the table and has its bearings in suitable boxes on the standards.
- the tray-and-shuck conveyer 24 passes about sprocket-wheels 25 mounted on transverse shafts 26 having their bearings in brackets 27 beneath the table near its respective ends.
- the upper run of this conveyer travels upon the top of the table and the lower run is guided upon a longitudinal guide bar 28 supported by standards 29 rising from the bed 22.
- the shafts 26 bear pin wheels 30 which are engaged by adjacent cams 31 respectively on the main shaft 23, the peripheral grooves of said cams being of such contour as to iinpel the wheels 30 and perforce the conveyer intermittently for a purpose as hereinafter mentioned.
- the conveyer com prises a succession ot link members jointed together to form an endless chain, having lengthwise thereof two rows ont spaced transverse walls 32, designed respectively to embrace and support the complementary box trays and shucks in endwise relation to each other in such a manner that the trays can be slid. lengthwise into their respective shucks.
- Box trays and shucks therefore are delivered to the links of the conveyer at the receiving portion or' the latter, that is, at the right hand end of the machine as viewed in lfigs, 1 and 27 in order that the complementary trays and shucks, supported in endwise relation to each other as above mentioned, shall progress with the conveyer.
- the trays and shucks are respectively fed to the receiving spaces of the conveyer from opposite sides of the latter; the construction and operation being such that two traysand two shucks are simultaneously positioned on the conveyer, and that the two spaces thus supplied are separated by series of intervening spacca-tour in the present instance.
- Each step movement of the conveyer is equal in extent to two adjacent spaces, that is, the length of a link, and the tray and shuck supply stations are so located that each alternate space is supplied with a tray and shuck at the first station and each intervening empty space is supplied with a tray and shuck at the second station.
- the tray and shuck supply stations are so located that each alternate space is supplied with a tray and shuck at the first station and each intervening empty space is supplied with a tray and shuck at the second station.
- the tray and shuck feeding mechanism includes two pairs of guide channels 34, arranged en the table adjacent and at right angles to the respective sides or' the conveyer.
- the channels 34 designed to receive empty trays and the channels to receive the complementary shucks for said trays.
- Leading to each pair of channels is the lower end of an inclined chute structure 36 having two spaced apart parallel guide ways 37 down which the boxes, er shucks, arranged in endwise relation to each other, are progressively ⁇ fed to the channels.
- Mounted to reciprocate in each pair oic channels are two plungers 3S which are carried by slides reciprocable in parallel guides in a bracket meinl'eer 40 that is bolted to the table. (See Figs. d and 12).
- the plungers are guided in slotted basal extensions 41 of the chute structure, which extensions are snugly iitted in the respective gilde ways olI the bracket member.
- Each of the slides is provided with a lug which depends through a suit able slot 43 in the guide bracket and is connected by means of a link with an arm. 415 rising :from a. rock-shaft 1G which has its bearings in brackets i7 extending from the side oil the table.
- the outer ends of the two rock-shafts 46 are provided with inwardly extending arms 48 having at their free ends rolls 4-9 in engagement with appropriate tace cam grooves 50 formed in two corresponding gear-wheels 51, whereby during the concurrent rotation ot said wheels the respective rock-shafts are actuated and the plungers simultaneously reciprocated with in their respective channels 34, 35 in a direction toward and from the conveyer.
- One olf the gear-wheels is fast on the main shaft 23. and the other wheel is tast on a shorter shaft 52 having its bearings in the main frame: an idler gear 53 on a stud-shaft 54 being interposed between and in mesh with the wheels l.
- the gear-wheels 51 are concurrently driven t'rom the main shaft.
- each paiiI oit plungers 38 their inner portions lie directly below and extend inwardly -beyond the lower ends oi the guide ways 37 ot the adjacent chute structure, and hence a pair otl box elements (trays or shucks) are delivered upon such portions ot the plungers. lVhen the plungers are fully retracted they escape such superposed elements and the latter drop upon the floors ot the channels, (3d, whereupon, in the succeeding inward stroke of the plungers, the opposing box elements are pushed along the channels and into the adjacent receiving spaces of the conveyer.
- I preferably provide vertically movable pressure heads 527i which are adapted to bear upon and recede from such elements nnmediately before the latter are. pushed upon the conveyer.
- this plunger is pivoted, as at 60, to one, end of an arm Gl which is loosely hung on th l adjacent rock-shaft 46.
- this arm On one side olE this arm is a roll G2 which engages the groove x33 olf a face cam 64.
- face cams 64 There are two counterpart face cams 64, one for each set oi pressure membersa which cams are 'fast on the shatts 23, 52 respectively.
- the contour of the cams G4 is such that the arms 45 are corresl'iondingly oscillated to effect the periodical raising and lowering of the pressure members tor the purpose mentioned. (See Figs. l, 2 and il.)
- rlhe box trays srqiported on the conveyer are carried beneath a suitable match supply hopper by means of which quantities oi matches are measured and delivered in alter-4 nation to two spaced-apart trays during each dwell ot the conveyor while two trays and two shuclrs' are being positioned on spaced rearward linksoli ⁇ the conveyor.
- a trough-like hopper is employed comprising an elongated inclined bottom and sides @(3.4a the space between which latter is slightly greater in width than the length of a match, The bottom is provided adjacent.
- the hopper is longitudinally reciprocated in any usual or approved manner to citent the orderly descent of the matches from the upper or receiving end of the trough to its lower end, which latter end is constituted by a stationary end wall 88 supported by a bracket S8 rising from the table. This wall.
- each throat portion of the hopper ⁇ are slotted in different horizontal planes, as at 68, 69 respectively, for the reception of a set of slide blades which are reciprocable across the throat at predetermined intervals.
- the set or" blades comprises an upper pair 70 and a lower pair 7l, whichA pairs are so spaced apart vertically that when they are positioned within and across the throat, as seen most clearly in Fig. 8, they provide between them a chamber substantially equal in capacity to the interior ot a match tray.
- the slide blades :tor the respective throats are timely actu ated and controlled to cut off and measurel definite quantities of matches; th at is to say, the lower blades are retracted, as seen in Fig.
- each blade constituted by the right angular extension ot a plate 72 which is atlixed to a slide bar '75? mounted to reciprocate in a longitudinal guide structure 'Tel on the table 2l).
- the series ot bars are maintained in place by a suitable cap plate 75 on the guide structure.
- Each bar is provided on its outer edge with a pair of lugs '7G which project outwardly beyond the guide structure; the .lugs of the respective bars beingv arranged .in spaced relation to each other as shown. (See Figs.
- the grooves of one pair are adjacent to and parallel with each other in one hall of their circumference, and gradually diverge and then converge throughout the remainder of the circumternce; and the grooves ot theother pair are widely separated from and parallel to each other in one half of their circumference and gradually converge andthen diverge throughout reinainder of their circumference.
- the Lairallel iiiortions of one poirof grooves are in diaineti-ic: opposite relation to the parallel poi-ions of the other pair; and hence when one pair of arms are being oscillated by the working portions of one aair of ⁇ grooves the other pair of arms are being held at rest bf the parallel portions of the other pair of grooves; and the con verse.
- the hopper is provided With a suitably disposed guide portion 8?) which slidingly mounted on a guide post rising from a cover plate 85 overhanging the conveyer, and the delivery end of the hopper long tudinally extended, as at S0, and provioed with depending horizontal side ilffinges Si' which are prolonged laterally' of the discharge throats of the hopper.
- These flanges are offset to receive and embrace the tray receiving portion of and serve as a guard and guide for the conveyer and trays in the region of the match i'illing station.
- the filled trays with their complementary shocks are advanced beyond the hoppera such trays ⁇ successively pushed into the shucls, preferably by ineens of an endless series of liorinontally r ciprocative plungers S0 mounted in spaced relation to each other on an endless conveyor 01, the upper run of which is arranged to travel adjacent to, and in the saine direction as, and concurrently with the upper run of the tray-and-shnck conveyer.
- the shaft 941 is equipped With a pin Wheel 95 (similarly to the shafts 2(5) with the i pins of Which engages a cain 96 on the main shaft. hns the plunger conveyer is timely driven in respect to the tray-and-'shuck conveyer.
- the plungers which are slidingly fitted in transverse guide Ways in the links of the conveyor 91, are provided respectively with rip-standing studs 9T adapted in the travel of the plnngers, to enter an appropriate cam Way 9S of an overhanging plate structure 99 on the table, such studs thus being successively actuated to effect a gradual inward movement ancl then a corresponding return inoveinent of the plungers in respect to the tray-and-slnicl; conveyer.
- the forward or acting end of each plunger is provided with a thrust head 100 designed to act upon the opposing end of a illed tray in the conveyer 241;, and push such tray directly into its complementary shuck.
- the guide bar 28 is usually constructed with an appropriate bearing portion 101 which underlies and supports the lower run of the plui'iger conveyor 91 in its travel* fr suitable hold-doivn device for the shucls is arranged in the region of their travel Where the trays are successively entered into the shucks7 which device con1- prises a block carried by the free end of a vertically niovable arin 103 overhanging the path of the shucls. rl'his erin being pivoted its outer end to suitably disposed brackets ft ⁇ on the table, the blocli exerts sufficient holding pressure on the successive shucls passing thereunder at the time the trays are being entered into the proxiinate open ends of the shucls.
- the ejector comprises a. pair of spaced fingers 10T which are formed on a sleeve fast on the inner end of a shaft 108 overhanging the discharge end of the machine, said sleeve hav.- ing preferably a balance wheel or disk 101 formed thereon.
- rllhe shaft 108 which has :is bearing in a bracket 109 on the table, is
- the bracket 109 includes a suitable guard casing 113 for the rotating lingers.
- the shaft 10S is so timed and the fingers areso disposed in relation to the tray-and-shuclr cenveyer, that said lingers in a part of their rotation iripinge against the inner ends of two adj acent boxes during each dwell of the c0I1- veyer, and thus sweep them endwise from the latter and upon the inclined track structure 105. (See Figs. 1, 2, 3, 15 and 16).
- the off-bearing belt 106 is mounted to travel at right angles ⁇ to and slightly below the lower ends of the channels 115 so that the boxes as they glide from the latter pass to and upon the belt.
- rlhis belt is supported by a pair of spaced pulleys 116, (only one of which is shown) the shafts of which have their bearings in end projections of a table 117, one end of which is supported adjacent to the dischargeV end of the machine by columns 118.
- the table is preferably provided with a raised guide portion 119 which extends longitudinally of and supports the upper lead of the belt 106.
- the shaft of the pulley 116 adjacent the track structure is extended inward toward the main frame and is equipped with a. pin wheel 120 with which engages a cam 121 on the main shaft, and hence an intermittent motion is transmitted to the olf-bearing belt.
- the gearing just described is so timed that in each dwell of the off-bearing belt' two pairs of boxes are discharged from the track structure, one pair thus being superposed on the other, as indicated in Fig. 3.
- An upstanding plate 122 aiiixed to and longitudinally of the table 117, adjacent the outer edge of the belt serves as a guard rail for the boxes upon'the latter.
- I claim-4- l In a box-filling machine, the combina- 'tion of a conveyerlhaving a succession of members adapted to receive and hold complementary trays and shucks in endwise relation to eachother, means for intermittently advancing said conveyer, means leading to opposite sides of said conveyer for simultaneously supplying a plurality of trays and a like. plurality of shucks to spaced-apart members of the conveyer, means for simultaneously supplying matches to a like plurality of spaced-apart trays on the conveyer, and means for thereafter nesting the filled trays and their complementary shucks.
- a conveyer having a succession of members adapted to receive and hold complementary trays and shucks in endwise relation.' to each other, means for intermittently advancing said conveyer, a pair of tion of a conveyer having a succession of members adapted to receive and hold complementary trays and shucks in endwise relation to each other, means for intermittently advancing said conveyer, means for simultaneously supplying a plurality of complementary tra-ys and shucks to said members, a hopper having two delivery throats in spaced relation to each other for simultaneously supplying matches to two spacedapart trays on the conveyer, measuring de- Avices for said throats, and means for nesting the filled trays and their complementary shucks.
- a box-filling machine the combination of a 'conveyer having a succession of members adapted to receive and hold complementary trays andshucks in endwise relation to each other, means for intermittently advancing said conveyer, means for supplyying complementary trays and shucks to said members, a hopper having twoy delivery throats in spaced relation to each other for simultaneously supplying matches to two spaced-apart trays on theconveyer, upper and lower measuring blades for each of said throats, operative connections between the upper bladesof the respective throats, operative connections between the lower blades of said throats, and means for operating said upper and lower blade vconnectio'nslat predetermined. intervals; y 1- 5.
- a conveyer having a succession of members adapted to receive and hold complementary trays and shucks in endwiseV rela-- tion to each other, means for intermittently advancing said conveyer, means for supplying complementary trays and shucks to said members, a hopper having ⁇ two delivery throats in spaced relationto each other for simultaneously supplyingy matches to two spaced-apart trays
- a pair of upper measuring blades for each of said throats a pair of lower measuring blades for each kof said throats, a pair of slide bars to which the upper blades are connected, a pair of slide bars to which the lower blades are connected, a cam element, and operative connections between said element and the respective slide bars.
- a box-llling machine the combination with a conveyer having a succession of members for receiving and holding box trays, means for intermittently advancing said conveyer, means for simultaneously supplying a paii ⁇ of boxtrays to spaced-apart members, a hopper having two delivery throats in spaced relation to each other for simultaneously supplying matches to two spaced-apart trays on the conveyer, a pair of upper measuring blades for each of said throats, a pair of lower measuring blades for each oi? said throats, a pair of slide bars to which the upper blades are connected, a pair of slide bars to which the lower blades are connected, a cam element, and operative connections between said cam element and the respective slide bars.
- a conveyer having a succession of members for receiving and holding box elements, of a feed structure for said elements having its delivery end in spaced relation to one side of the conveyer, a horizontal plunger reciprocative beneath the delivery end of said structure and toward and from the conveyer, means for actuating said plunger, a pressure member vertically reciprocative in a plane intersecting the space between the said structure and the conveyer, and means for actuating said pressure member.
- a boX-iilling machine the combination with a conveyer having a succession of members for receiving and holding box elements, of two feed structures leading toward but spaced from the respective sides of the conveyer, one of said structures being for box trays and the other structure being for box shucks, plungers reciprocative beneath the delivery ends of the respective structures, means for simultaneously actuating said plungers, pressure members vertically reciprocative in planes intersecting the spaces between the respective structures and the conveyer, and means for simultaneously actuating said pressure members.
- a box-filling machine the combination with a conveyer having a succession of members for receiving and holding boX elements, means for intermittently moving said carrier, and means for simultaneously feed* ing succeeding pairs of spaced-apart box trays to said members, or' a hopper having two depending delivery throats overlying the path of the conveyer and spaced-apart correspondingly with each pair of trays.
- a conveyer having a succession of members adapted to receive and hold complementary trays and Shucks in endwise relation to each other, means for intermittently advancing said conveyer, means for simultaneously supplying a plurality of complementary trays and shucks to spaced-apart members oi' the conveyer, means for simultaneously supplying matches to a like plurality ol? spaced-apart trays on the conveyer, means for nesting the succeeding filled trays and ytheir complementary shucks, and means for simultaneously ejecting a like plurality of nested trays and shucks from the conveyer.
- a boX-iilling machine the combina tion with a conveyer for a succession of closed boxes, of means for ejecting succeeding pairs of boxes from said conveyer, a downwardly inclined track structure to which the boxes are delivered, and an otibearing belt to which the boxes are directed by said structure, said belt being on a lower level than the delivery end ol'Y the track structure and being adapted to receive superposed rows of boxes.
- a box-filling machine the combina tion with a conveyer having a succession of members for carrying closed boxes, and means for intermittently actuating said con veyer, of means for eject-ing succeeding pairs Yol boxes from the conveyer during its intervals of rest, said means comprising a pair of spaced ingers,.a shait therefor, and means for rotating said shaft.
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M. PARIDON.
MACHINEFGR FILLING BOXES.
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MACHINE FOR FILLING BOXES.
APPLICATION FILED MAY 9. I9I 9.
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UNITED STATES PA TENTOFF1CE MICHAEL PAEIDON, or BARBEETON, OHIO, AssIGNR To THE DIAMOND MATCH COMPANY, or CHICAGO, ILLiNoIsn CORPORATION OE ILLINOIS.
MACHINE Eon FILLING BOXES.
Specification of Letters Patent. Patentgd NOV. 30, 1920.
Application filed May 9, 1919i. Serial o. 295,835.
1o @ZZ whom t may concern Be it known that I, MICHAEL PARIDON, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Barberton, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Filling Boxes, of which the following is a specification.
This invention relates to box filling machines; having reference more particularly to machines for filling and closing boxes of the so-called tray-and-shuck type commonly used for containing matches; such, for eX- ample, as disclosed in Letters Patent of the United States No. 1,300,762 dated April 15, 1919.
Briefly described, the machine illustrated in said patent embodies a tray-and-shuck conveyer comprising an endless chain of links having lengthwise thereof two rows of spaced transverse walls; means arranged laterally of the horizontal path of the upper run of the conveyer for inserting box trays between the successive walls of one row; means arranged endwise of the conveyer for inserting box shucks between the successive walls of the other row; a trough-like hopper having a delivery throat for supplying matches to the progressing trays on the upper run of the conveyer, and traveling plunger mechanism for pushing the thus lilled trays into their coi'nplementary shucks on the conveyer.
The object of my present invention is to improve the said patented machine in' va-v rious particulars with the view of materially increasing the capacity and consequently the output of the machine, and also of insuring with greater expedition and certainty the quantitative measurement .of the matches for delivery to the respective boi: trays.
to a suitable take-Off mechanism; all as will be `hereinafter fully described and claimed'.
In the drawings- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a box-filling machine embodying my invention.
2 is a plan of the machine.
Fig.: 3 is a transverse vertical'se'ction of the machine, as on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.
Fig. 4 is a similar section, as on the' line 1g- 4 of Fig. 2.
Fig. 5`isa` sectional plan of the right-`ha.d" or receiving end of the machine, certain parts, including the match supply hopper, the respective chutestructures for thetrays and shucks, and the tray-aiidshuc'k conveyeigbeing omitted for clearness.
Fig. 6 is a partiall plan of the delivery end of the' match hopper a'noly a portion of the tray-and-shuck conveyer, showing the blades and adjuncts.
Fig. 7 is a similar section through the yguide structurefor the measuring blades,
showing the slide bars'for said blades, and the cam mechanism for operating the slide bars.
Fig. 8 is a longitudinal vertical section Fig. 9 is a similar section through the throated portion of the hopper, showing they lowerfmeasuring blades of the respective throats as retractedy and the matches delivered to the trays.
Figs. 10 and 11y are transverse vertical sections through the match hopper and the adjacent portion ofthe tray-andshuck conveyer, as on the lines 101O and 11-11, respectively, of Fig.-8.
Fig. 12 is a perspective view of a twin plunger device, and adjuncts, for feeding spaced-apart box trays to the' conveyer.
Fig. 13 is a skeleton perspective view of the measuring blades and the slide bars therefor.
Fig. 111 is a view of a fragment of the tray-r and-shuck conveyer.
Fig. 15 is a plan of adjacent portionsof the tray-and-shuck conveyer and of the plunger conveyei' for nestingthe trays andA shucks, showing box-ejecting members in section and also an inclined track structure 'for receiving the filled boxes ejected from the said conveyer.
'Fig 16 is a vertical section through the box-ejecting mechanism, showing a part of the tray-and-shuck conveyer, and adjuncts.
The main supporting irame of the Inachine illustrated in the drawings comprises a relatively long table 20; standards 21, and a bed 22. The main power-driven shaft 23 extends longitudinally oit' and beneath the table and has its bearings in suitable boxes on the standards.
The tray-and-shuck conveyer 24 passes about sprocket-wheels 25 mounted on transverse shafts 26 having their bearings in brackets 27 beneath the table near its respective ends. The upper run of this conveyer travels upon the top of the table and the lower run is guided upon a longitudinal guide bar 28 supported by standards 29 rising from the bed 22. The shafts 26 bear pin wheels 30 which are engaged by adjacent cams 31 respectively on the main shaft 23, the peripheral grooves of said cams being of such contour as to iinpel the wheels 30 and perforce the conveyer intermittently for a purpose as hereinafter mentioned.
In the present instance the conveyer com prises a succession ot link members jointed together to form an endless chain, having lengthwise thereof two rows ont spaced transverse walls 32, designed respectively to embrace and support the complementary box trays and shucks in endwise relation to each other in such a manner that the trays can be slid. lengthwise into their respective shucks.
Box trays and shucks therefore are delivered to the links of the conveyer at the receiving portion or' the latter, that is, at the right hand end of the machine as viewed in lfigs, 1 and 27 in order that the complementary trays and shucks, supported in endwise relation to each other as above mentioned, shall progress with the conveyer. The trays and shucks are respectively fed to the receiving spaces of the conveyer from opposite sides of the latter; the construction and operation being such that two traysand two shucks are simultaneously positioned on the conveyer, and that the two spaces thus supplied are separated by series of intervening spacca-tour in the present instance. Each step movement of the conveyer is equal in extent to two adjacent spaces, that is, the length of a link, and the tray and shuck supply stations are so located that each alternate space is supplied with a tray and shuck at the first station and each intervening empty space is supplied with a tray and shuck at the second station. Hence when the succeeding spaces ot' the conveyer pass the latter station they each contain a tray and shuck.
The tray and shuck feeding mechanism includes two pairs of guide channels 34, arranged en the table adjacent and at right angles to the respective sides or' the conveyer. The channels 34- designed to receive empty trays and the channels to receive the complementary shucks for said trays. Leading to each pair of channels is the lower end of an inclined chute structure 36 having two spaced apart parallel guide ways 37 down which the boxes, er shucks, arranged in endwise relation to each other, are progressively` fed to the channels. Mounted to reciprocate in each pair oic channels are two plungers 3S which are carried by slides reciprocable in parallel guides in a bracket meinl'eer 40 that is bolted to the table. (See Figs. d and 12). The plungers are guided in slotted basal extensions 41 of the chute structure, which extensions are snugly iitted in the respective gilde ways olI the bracket member. Each of the slides is provided with a lug which depends through a suit able slot 43 in the guide bracket and is connected by means of a link with an arm. 415 rising :from a. rock-shaft 1G which has its bearings in brackets i7 extending from the side oil the table. The outer ends of the two rock-shafts 46 are provided with inwardly extending arms 48 having at their free ends rolls 4-9 in engagement with appropriate tace cam grooves 50 formed in two corresponding gear-wheels 51, whereby during the concurrent rotation ot said wheels the respective rock-shafts are actuated and the plungers simultaneously reciprocated with in their respective channels 34, 35 in a direction toward and from the conveyer. One olf the gear-wheels is fast on the main shaft 23. and the other wheel is tast on a shorter shaft 52 having its bearings in the main frame: an idler gear 53 on a stud-shaft 54 being interposed between and in mesh with the wheels l. Thus the gear-wheels 51 are concurrently driven t'rom the main shaft.
During the partial retraction of each paiiI oit plungers 38 their inner portions lie directly below and extend inwardly -beyond the lower ends oi the guide ways 37 ot the adjacent chute structure, and hence a pair otl box elements (trays or shucks) are delivered upon such portions ot the plungers. lVhen the plungers are fully retracted they escape such superposed elements and the latter drop upon the floors ot the channels, (3d, whereupon, in the succeeding inward stroke of the plungers, the opposing box elements are pushed along the channels and into the adjacent receiving spaces of the conveyer.
In order to insure the descent ofthe box elements within their respective channels, I preferably provide vertically movable pressure heads 527i which are adapted to bear upon and recede from such elements nnmediately before the latter are. pushed upon the conveyer. There are a pair of spaced pressure heads for each pair of channels7 which heads are conveniently formed on the respective ends oli' a bar 5G which secured to the ups-standing limbs of a. bifurcated plunger 57. ln the present instance the extremities of the plunger limbs, which extend freely through perforated guide bosses on the table, are screw-threaded and provided with` clamp nuts 59, whereby the bar is adjustably secured to the plunger. The lower end ot this plunger is pivoted, as at 60, to one, end of an arm Gl which is loosely hung on th l adjacent rock-shaft 46. On one side olE this arm is a roll G2 which engages the groove x33 olf a face cam 64. There are two counterpart face cams 64, one for each set oi pressure membersa which cams are 'fast on the shatts 23, 52 respectively. The contour of the cams G4 is such that the arms 45 are corresl'iondingly oscillated to effect the periodical raising and lowering of the pressure members tor the purpose mentioned. (See Figs. l, 2 and il.)
rlhe box trays srqiported on the conveyer are carried beneath a suitable match supply hopper by means of which quantities oi matches are measured and delivered in alter-4 nation to two spaced-apart trays during each dwell ot the conveyor while two trays and two shuclrs' are being positioned on spaced rearward linksoli `the conveyor. In the present instance a trough-like hopper is employed comprising an elongated inclined bottom and sides @(3.4a the space between which latter is slightly greater in width than the length of a match, The bottom is provided adjacent. its lower end with two depending` throat portions GT arranged in spaced rela tion to each other correspondingly with each pair of tray and shuck channels Bel, 35, and adapted to receive the matches and deliver them in'nieasured quantities to the :immediately ui'iderlying empty match trays on the conveyor. The hopper is longitudinally reciprocated in any usual or approved manner to citent the orderly descent of the matches from the upper or receiving end of the trough to its lower end, which latter end is constituted by a stationary end wall 88 supported by a bracket S8 rising from the table. This wall. during the longitudinal vibration oi" the body ot the hopper, tends to direct the :u'fcuinulatwl matches at the lower end of the hopper toward the throat portions. A rod 89, which is pivoted at its lower end to the bracket7 overlies the inclined hopper throughout the greater part of the length of the latter, which rod, thus resting upon the contents of the hopper, serves as a top guard tor the matches and also contributes to their descent during the vibration oit' the hopper. The transverse walls of each throat portion of the hopper` are slotted in different horizontal planes, as at 68, 69 respectively, for the reception of a set of slide blades which are reciprocable across the throat at predetermined intervals. The set or" blades comprises an upper pair 70 and a lower pair 7l, whichA pairs are so spaced apart vertically that when they are positioned within and across the throat, as seen most clearly in Fig. 8, they provide between them a chamber substantially equal in capacity to the interior ot a match tray. The slide blades :tor the respective throats are timely actu ated and controlled to cut off and measurel definite quantities of matches; th at is to say, the lower blades are retracted, as seen in Fig. 9, to permit the discharge oli the measured quantities ot matches to the underlying vempty trays while the upper blades remain in their inward or closing position; the lower blades are then positioned to close the lower portions of the throats and the upper blades are retracted to permit the descent ol matches to and upon the lower blades; und the upper blades are then positioned to cutoff the supply ot' matches and complete the measuringl operation preparatory to the delivery oli the matches to a succeeding` pair ot underlying trays as before; and so on.
In the present instance each blade constituted by the right angular extension ot a plate 72 which is atlixed to a slide bar '75? mounted to reciprocate in a longitudinal guide structure 'Tel on the table 2l). There are tour slide bars arranged in sliqiieriiosed pairs, the upper pair arrying the respective upper plates olE the two sets and the lower pair the respective lower plates. The series ot bars are maintained in place by a suitable cap plate 75 on the guide structure. Each bar is provided on its outer edge with a pair of lugs '7G which project outwardly beyond the guide structure; the .lugs of the respective bars beingv arranged .in spaced relation to each other as shown. (See Figs.
"l, L., 6, 7 and 13). The lugs loosely receive the upper or knuckle ends ot' a series of rock-- arms 77 which are arranged in two pairs carried by parallel. rock-shafts 78 extending transversely of and beneath the table, and having theirx bearings in the latter. Depending 'lrom the shafts 7S are arms 7l) equipped at their lower ends with rolls SO which engage the respective grooves Si. ot' a barrel cam S2 fast on the main shaft 9,3, which grooves are arranged in oppositely related pairs respectively, as shown.I See Figs. l and 7). The grooves of one pair are adjacent to and parallel with each other in one hall of their circumference, and gradually diverge and then converge throughout the remainder of the circumternce; and the grooves ot theother pair are widely separated from and parallel to each other in one half of their circumference and gradually converge andthen diverge throughout reinainder of their circumference. The Lairallel iiiortions of one poirof grooves are in diaineti-ic: opposite relation to the parallel poi-ions of the other pair; and hence when one pair of arms are being oscillated by the working portions of one aair of `grooves the other pair of arms are being held at rest bf the parallel portions of the other pair of grooves; and the con verse.
@ne pair of arins 7T w connected with the lugs i of the respectL fe lower bars ills and the other pair connected with the lugs of the respective upper bars. Hence during each complete rotation of the cain the tivo sets of measuring lades, as they may be termed, are operated in t' nely rela-- tion to each other, that is in one half rotation of the cani the lower blades of each sel are maintained in their inward positions to parti-tion the feed throats and provide temporary bottoms therefor, ai l in the reniaindcr of the rotation s 'd lower blades are retracted frein the throats, seen in Fig. 9, and then returned to their inward positions preparatory to a succeeding dwell; the two pairs upper blades being;- siinultaneonsly operated reversely of the loiver blades during such complete rotation; t. c., during the interval. of rest (or closed pesition) of the lower blades the upper blades are gradually opered and then dually closed preparatory to a succeeding ovvell.
The hopper is provided With a suitably disposed guide portion 8?) which slidingly mounted on a guide post rising from a cover plate 85 overhanging the conveyer, and the delivery end of the hopper long tudinally extended, as at S0, and provioed with depending horizontal side ilffinges Si' which are prolonged laterally' of the discharge throats of the hopper. These flanges are offset to receive and embrace the tray receiving portion of and serve as a guard and guide for the conveyer and trays in the region of the match i'illing station.
lllhen the filled trays with their complementary shocks are advanced beyond the hoppera such trays `successively pushed into the shucls, preferably by ineens of an endless series of liorinontally r ciprocative plungers S0 mounted in spaced relation to each other on an endless conveyor 01, the upper run of which is arranged to travel adjacent to, and in the saine direction as, and concurrently with the upper run of the tray-and-shnck conveyer.
The plunger conveyor 91 herein illustrated comp links jointed together in endless series and supported by tivo sprocket- Wheels 92, 93, the former of which is niounted on the left hand shaft 26, and the latter of which Wheels is mounted on a shaft 9e having its bearings in brackets beneath the table. The shaft 941 is equipped With a pin Wheel 95 (similarly to the shafts 2(5) with the i pins of Which engages a cain 96 on the main shaft. hns the plunger conveyer is timely driven in respect to the tray-and-'shuck conveyer. The plungers, which are slidingly fitted in transverse guide Ways in the links of the conveyor 91, are provided respectively with rip-standing studs 9T adapted in the travel of the plnngers, to enter an appropriate cam Way 9S of an overhanging plate structure 99 on the table, such studs thus being successively actuated to effect a gradual inward movement ancl then a corresponding return inoveinent of the plungers in respect to the tray-and-slnicl; conveyer. The forward or acting end of each plunger is provided with a thrust head 100 designed to act upon the opposing end of a illed tray in the conveyer 241;, and push such tray directly into its complementary shuck.
The guide bar 28 is usually constructed with an appropriate bearing portion 101 which underlies and supports the lower run of the plui'iger conveyor 91 in its travel* fr suitable hold-doivn device for the shucls is arranged in the region of their travel Where the trays are successively entered into the shucks7 which device con1- prises a block carried by the free end of a vertically niovable arin 103 overhanging the path of the shucls. rl'his erin being pivoted its outer end to suitably disposed brackets ft` on the table, the blocli exerts sufficient holding pressure on the successive shucls passing thereunder at the time the trays are being entered into the proxiinate open ends of the shucls.
ils the filled boxes, c., nested trays andV shuclis) approach the discharging (lefthand) end of the machine, such boxes are removed in succeeding pairs from the conveyer by means of a suitable ejector and deposited upon an inclined trach structure 10:3 on which they descend to an olf-bearing belt 10G. in the present instance the ejector comprises a. pair of spaced fingers 10T which are formed on a sleeve fast on the inner end of a shaft 108 overhanging the discharge end of the machine, said sleeve hav.- ing preferably a balance wheel or disk 101 formed thereon. rllhe shaft 108, which has :is bearing in a bracket 109 on the table, is
` provided at its outer end vvit-h a sprocket- Wheel 110 connected by ineans of a chain 111 with a similar Wheel 112 on the main shaft 23. Thus the shaft 108 and the ejector fingers are continuously rotated. The bracket 109 includes a suitable guard casing 113 for the rotating lingers. The shaft 10S is so timed and the fingers areso disposed in relation to the tray-and-shuclr cenveyer, that said lingers in a part of their rotation iripinge against the inner ends of two adj acent boxes during each dwell of the c0I1- veyer, and thus sweep them endwise from the latter and upon the inclined track structure 105. (See Figs. 1, 2, 3, 15 and 16).
'The track structure is supported by a bracket 11a on the adjacent end of the table 20; the upper surface=of such structure being formed with aA pair of spaced parallel guidchannels 115 for the reception and guidance of the closed boxes. The off-bearing belt 106 is mounted to travel at right angles `to and slightly below the lower ends of the channels 115 so that the boxes as they glide from the latter pass to and upon the belt. rlhis belt is supported by a pair of spaced pulleys 116, (only one of which is shown) the shafts of which have their bearings in end projections of a table 117, one end of which is supported adjacent to the dischargeV end of the machine by columns 118. The table is preferably provided with a raised guide portion 119 which extends longitudinally of and supports the upper lead of the belt 106. The shaft of the pulley 116 adjacent the track structure is extended inward toward the main frame and is equipped with a. pin wheel 120 with which engages a cam 121 on the main shaft, and hence an intermittent motion is transmitted to the olf-bearing belt. The gearing just described is so timed that in each dwell of the off-bearing belt' two pairs of boxes are discharged from the track structure, one pair thus being superposed on the other, as indicated in Fig. 3. As the off-bearing belt progresses the row of superposed filled boxes are carried to a suitable 'station for packing. An upstanding plate 122 aiiixed to and longitudinally of the table 117, adjacent the outer edge of the belt, serves as a guard rail for the boxes upon'the latter.
It is to be understood that my invention .is not limited to the exact details of construction herein disclosed, as the mechanism may be modified within the principle of the invention and the scope of the appended claims.
I claim-4- l. In a box-filling machine, the combina- 'tion of a conveyerlhaving a succession of members adapted to receive and hold complementary trays and shucks in endwise relation to eachother, means for intermittently advancing said conveyer, means leading to opposite sides of said conveyer for simultaneously supplying a plurality of trays and a like. plurality of shucks to spaced-apart members of the conveyer, means for simultaneously supplying matches to a like plurality of spaced-apart trays on the conveyer, and means for thereafter nesting the filled trays and their complementary shucks.
In a box-filling machine, the combination of a conveyer having a succession of members adapted to receive and hold complementary trays and shucks in endwise relation.' to each other, means for intermittently advancing said conveyer, a pair of tion of a conveyer having a succession of members adapted to receive and hold complementary trays and shucks in endwise relation to each other, means for intermittently advancing said conveyer, means for simultaneously supplying a plurality of complementary tra-ys and shucks to said members, a hopper having two delivery throats in spaced relation to each other for simultaneously supplying matches to two spacedapart trays on the conveyer, measuring de- Avices for said throats, and means for nesting the filled trays and their complementary shucks.
el. In a box-filling machine, the combination of a 'conveyer having a succession of members adapted to receive and hold complementary trays andshucks in endwise relation to each other, means for intermittently advancing said conveyer, means for supplyying complementary trays and shucks to said members, a hopper having twoy delivery throats in spaced relation to each other for simultaneously supplying matches to two spaced-apart trays on theconveyer, upper and lower measuring blades for each of said throats, operative connections between the upper bladesof the respective throats, operative connections between the lower blades of said throats, and means for operating said upper and lower blade vconnectio'nslat predetermined. intervals; y 1- 5. In a box-filling machine, the combination of a conveyer having a succession of members adapted to receive and hold complementary trays and shucks in endwiseV rela-- tion to each other, means for intermittently advancing said conveyer, means for supplying complementary trays and shucks to said members, a hopper having` two delivery throats in spaced relationto each other for simultaneously supplyingy matches to two spaced-apart trays Onthe conveyer, a pair of upper measuring blades for each of said throats, a pair of lower measuring blades for each kof said throats, a pair of slide bars to which the upper blades are connected, a pair of slide bars to which the lower blades are connected, a cam element, and operative connections between said element and the respective slide bars.
6. In a box-llling machine, the combination with a conveyer having a succession of members for receiving and holding box trays, means for intermittently advancing said conveyer, means for simultaneously supplying a paii` of boxtrays to spaced-apart members, a hopper having two delivery throats in spaced relation to each other for simultaneously supplying matches to two spaced-apart trays on the conveyer, a pair of upper measuring blades for each of said throats, a pair of lower measuring blades for each oi? said throats, a pair of slide bars to which the upper blades are connected, a pair of slide bars to which the lower blades are connected, a cam element, and operative connections between said cam element and the respective slide bars.
7. In a box-filling machine, the combination with a conveyer having a succession of members for receiving and holding box elements, of a feed structure for said elements having its delivery end in spaced relation to one side of the conveyer, a horizontal plunger reciprocative beneath the delivery end of said structure and toward and from the conveyer, means for actuating said plunger, a pressure member vertically reciprocative in a plane intersecting the space between the said structure and the conveyer, and means for actuating said pressure member.
8. In a boX-iilling machine, the combination with a conveyer having a succession of members for receiving and holding box elements, of two feed structures leading toward but spaced from the respective sides of the conveyer, one of said structures being for box trays and the other structure being for box shucks, plungers reciprocative beneath the delivery ends of the respective structures, means for simultaneously actuating said plungers, pressure members vertically reciprocative in planes intersecting the spaces between the respective structures and the conveyer, and means for simultaneously actuating said pressure members.
9. In a box-filling machine, the combination with a conveyer having a succession of members for receiving and holding boX elements, means for intermittently moving said carrier, and means for simultaneously feed* ing succeeding pairs of spaced-apart box trays to said members, or' a hopper having two depending delivery throats overlying the path of the conveyer and spaced-apart correspondingly with each pair of trays.
10. In a box-filling machine, the combination of a conveyer having a succession of members adapted to receive and hold complementary trays and Shucks in endwise relation to each other, means for intermittently advancing said conveyer, means for simultaneously supplying a plurality of complementary trays and shucks to spaced-apart members oi' the conveyer, means for simultaneously supplying matches to a like plurality ol? spaced-apart trays on the conveyer, means for nesting the succeeding filled trays and ytheir complementary shucks, and means for simultaneously ejecting a like plurality of nested trays and shucks from the conveyer.
ll. In a boX-iilling machine, the combina tion with a conveyer for a succession of closed boxes, of means for ejecting succeeding pairs of boxes from said conveyer, a downwardly inclined track structure to which the boxes are delivered, and an otibearing belt to which the boxes are directed by said structure, said belt being on a lower level than the delivery end ol'Y the track structure and being adapted to receive superposed rows of boxes.
l2. In a box-filling machine, the combina tion with a conveyer having a succession of members for carrying closed boxes, and means for intermittently actuating said con veyer, of means for eject-ing succeeding pairs Yol boxes from the conveyer during its intervals of rest, said means comprising a pair of spaced ingers,.a shait therefor, and means for rotating said shaft.
Signed at Barberton, in the county oi Summit and State of Ohio this 5 day of May A. D. 1919.
MICHAEL PARIDON.
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