US1479481A

US1479481A - paridon

Info

Publication number: US1479481A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1924-01-01
Anticipated expiration: 1941-01-01

Description

Jan. 1, 1924 1,479,481 M. PARIDON MACHINE FORMAKING-MATCH BOOKS Filed June 21, 1921 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 190/ 7 2 NEWPMM /h'fifliforarzqr/ Jan. 1, 1924 1,479,481

M. PARIDON MACHINE FOR MAKING MATCH BOOKS Filed June 21, 1921 5 Sheets-Sheet 2 5%.. f 2 I7 Jan. 1, 1924 1,479,431

- M. PARIDON MACHINE FOR MAKING MATCH BOOKS I Filed June' 21. 1921 :5 Sheets-Sheet 5 MICHAEL PARIDON, 01E BARBERTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE DIAMOND MATCH COM- PANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

' MACHINE FOR MAKING MATCH BOOKS.

Application filed June 21, 1921.

, To all wit-m it may concern:

Be it known that 1, 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 Making Match Books, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines for making match books, having reference more especially to the machine described in Letters Patent of the United States No. 1,042,- 472, dated October 29, 1912.

The patented machine includes an intermittently movable endless carrier chain into the links of which cover blanks, folded at one end, are introduced by oscillating folding blades, the leading ends of such blades entering into and receding from the links which are successively presented thereto. Such links sometimes fail to aline with the folding blades, on account of wear from long service, in which event the blades abruptly impinge against the opposing links, with resulting injury to the blade-actuating mechanism.

It is the object of my invention to obviate liability of damage to the mechanism under the circumstances mentioned; and to that end the invention comprises a novel yielding connection between the folding blades and their actuating mechanism, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

in the drawings Figure 1 is a partial front elevation of a book-match machine embodying a preferred form of my invention, only so much of the machine being shown as is necessary to illustrate the improvement.

Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of the machine, as on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a plan; partly in section, as on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a section through the cover carrier and its adjuncts, as on the line 44 of Fig. 3, illustrating the action of the bladeactuating mechanism when the delivery motion of the blade is interrupted by an improperly positioned link.

Figs. 5 and 6 are sectional details, on the lines '55 and 66, respectively, of'Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawings, 10 designates a suitable supporting frame, including a table 11 upon and along which is guided the upper run of an end1$$ Carrier confor flat cover blanks.

Serial No. 479,305.

stituted by a chain of links 12, whereof each is constructed to receive and support an end folded cover. The chain is intermittently driven by suitable mechanism, comprising a gear wheel 13 in mesh with rack-teeth 14 on the links. Adjacent the path of the chain is arranged the mechanism whereby pairs of cover blanks 15 are folded at one end and inserted into the linksof the carrier, which mechanism includes two spacedapart brackets 16 upon which are respectively supported hoppers or magazines 17 The bottoms of the magazines comprise reciprocative suction slides 18 by means of which the lowermost blanks are successively removed from the magazines. On the inner sides of the brackets 16 are bolted segmental members 18, respectiVely,-each having a curved passage 19 extending from top to bottom, the

outer side of which passage is open, its top being located directly below one end of the blank withdrawn from the adjacent hopper by the suction slide.

Curved blades 20 corresponding with the respective passages are carried by arms 21 on a rocker-shaft 22 which is journaled in a suitably disposed bracket 22 and is actuated to swing the blades into and from the passages. The blades in their downward stroke engage the opposin end portions of the respective cover blan s and tuck them down into the passages, thereby effecting the folding of such end portions, carrying the folded blanks bodily through the curved passages,

and setting the folds within spaced links of the endless carrier. After each set of blanks has been folded and entered in the carrier, and the blades retracted from the links, the carrier is advanced to bring another pair of links into position to receive another pair of folded cover blanks, and so on. 1

The mechanisms above referred to are or may be similar in construction and operation to the corresponding mechanisms of Patent No. 1,042,472 aforesaid, excepting as hereinafter particularly described.

As previously constructed the blades were positively actuated through lever and link connections between the rocker-shaft 22 and an appropriate cam fast on the main shaftof the machine, and hence in the event of any of the carrier links failing to aline with the path of the folding blades such blades would strike the opposing links and thus injure the connections as above mentioned. This objection is effectually overcome by my invention, a preferred form of which is as follows: Fast on the rocker-shaft 22 is a gear sector 23 in mesh with a similar sector 24 fast on a rocker-shaft 25 having its bearings in suitably-disposed brackets 26 on the main frame. Enclrcling the shaft 25 isa coiled spring 27 one end of which is secured to a collar 28 fast on the shaft 25, and the other end of which spring is secured to the hub of a rocker-element which is constituted, in the present instance, by a crankarm 29 loose on the shaft 25. The crankarm 29 is provided with a lateral projection 30 whichis normally maintained by the torsional action of the spring connection, in

. contact with an adjacent rocker-element constituted preferably'by a toe 31 fast on the shaft 25. If desired the projection may be formed on the toe so as to'overlie the crankarm. The crank-arm is positively oscillated 25. In the upward stroke of the arm, the' projection 30 thereof being in contact with the toe 31, raises the latter, thus positively turning the rocker-shaft 25 in a manner to swing the sector 24 downward. Such motion being transmitted to the sector 23, the rocker-shaft 22 is turned in a manner to swing the blades upward. See Fig. 2. In the upward motion of the crank-arm and the toe the collar 28 is concurrently turned therewith and with the shaft 25, and hence the springis bodily rotated without torsional strain.

In the donward movement of the crankarm the motion is transmitted throu h the spring coupling to the collar 28, an perforce, to the shaft 25, the toe normally remaining in contact with the projection 30 of the crank-arm. If the links be in proper position. to permit the blades to register therewith the blades will enter the links and the toe will maintain its close relation to the projection of the crank-arm; but if, for any reason, the links be out of operative relation to the blades and thus obstruct the free entry of the latter, then the crank-arm the arm and effectually obviates all liability of damage to the mechanism under the condition mentioned.

It is to be understood that my invention is not limited tothe specific construction herein disclosed, as the same may be various ly modified within the principle ofmy invention and the scope of the appended claims. v

I claim- 1. In a machine for making match books, the combination with a carrier comprising a succession of cover holders, of means for folding cover blanks and inserting them into said holders, said means including a folding blade, a rocker-shaft, operative connection between said shaft and blade, a positively actuated rocker element loose on said shaft, means whereby the motion of the said element in one direction is positively transmitted to the shaft, and a spring connection through which the motion of the said element in the other direction is trans-' a succession of cover holders, of means for folding cover blanks and inserting them into said holders, said means including a folding blade, a rocker-shaft, operative connection between said shaft and blade, two rocker elements fast and loose respectively on said shaft, oneof said elements having a projection with which the other, element contacts, a spring connection between the loose element and the shaft, and mechanism for positively actuating said loose element.

3. In a machine for making match books, the combination with a carrier comprising a succession of cover holders, of means for folding cover blanks and inserting them into said holders, said means including a folding blade, a rocker shaft, operative connection between said shaft and blade, a toe fast on the shaft, a crank-arm loose on the shaft and provided with a rojection underlying the toe, a spring encircling the shaft and aflixed at one end to the crank-arm and at its other end to the shaft, and mechanism MICHAEL maroon.