US1479490A

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Publication number: US1479490A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1924-01-01
Anticipated expiration: 1941-01-01

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1,479,490 J. E. ZOMNIR MACHINE FOR ASSEMBLING BOOK MATCHES Filed Feb. 7, 1923 6 Sheets-Sheet l J. E. ZOMNIR MACHINE FOR ASSEMBLING BOOK MATCHES Jan. 1, 1924 6 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Feb. 7, -2

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Jan. I, 1924 J. E. ZOMNIR MACHINE FOR ASSEMBLING BOOK MATCHES 6 Sheets-Sheet 6' Filed Feb. 7, 1923 50 IYU/rticna Patented Jan. 1, 1924;.

JOSEPH E. ZOMNIR, 01E SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO'THE DIAMOND MATCH COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, .A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

MACHINE FOR ASSEMBLING BOOK MATCHES.

Application filed February 7, 1923. Serial No. 617,500.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrrr E. ZOMNIR, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Assembling which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to mechanism for assembling book or card matches and the like in a row in order to facilitate the operation of packing them uniformly and compactly in suitable containers; and the invention has for its object to provide mecha-. nism of simple and efficient construction and operation whereby the articles are rapidly arranged side by side with the larger and thinner ends of adjacent articles in opposite relation to each other.

The invention is especially, though not exclusively, designed for use in connection with or as an attachment to the book-match making machine described in Letters Patent of the United States No. 1.073.391, dated September 16, 1913, to which reference may be had.

The invention comprises various features of construction and organization, and principles of operation, which will be here inafter described and claimed.

In the drawings- Figure 1 is a side elevation of book assembling mechanism embodying a preferred form of my invention. so much of the bookmatch machine being shown as is necessary to illustrate the invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan of the mechanism shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a transverse horizontal section through the said mechanism in the plane of the axis of the conveyer wheel at the delivery end of the book-match machine; as on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a longitudinal vertical section through the mechanism in the plane of the axis of said conveyer wheel, as on the line 4- 1 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a transverse horizontal section in a plane through the cam devices and their actuating mechanism. as on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 6 is a sectional actuated reciprocating detail of the camhead for effecting Book Matches, of z the oscillation of the turret structure, as on the line 6-6 of Fig. 5,

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of said head and cam, and the associated gearing, including a cam for controlling the operation of certain book-discharging, book-shifting and book-depressing plungers.

Fig. 8 is a transverse horizontal section in a plane immediately above the turret head, showing the plungers retracted; the book conveyer and the turret being at rest, and the latter being at the limit of its left hand or contraclockwise movement and supporting a book in position for transference to the central opening of the turret.

Fig. 9 is a vertical section through the upper part of the turret structure and the receiving end of the trough, the latter being represented as supplied with reversely arranged match books, and the book-depressing and book-shifting plungers, and adjuncts, being shown.

Fig. 10 is a perspective view of the turret,

showing the book-depressing plunger above the upper end thereof, and also the basal actuating connections.

Referring to the drawings, 11 designates the delivery end of the table of a bookmatch machine of the general character illustrated in Patent No. 1,07 3,394 aforesaid. The endless conveyer 12 upon which the book-matches are formed in the said machine is fiexed about suitable wheels at or adjacent the respective ends of the table and is intermittently driven by appropriate mechanism; the wheel at the delivery end of the table being shown at 13. The conveyer comprises an endless steel band having transverse blocks 1 1 regularly spaced apart on its outer surface to provide a succession of pockets for flat-lying match-books which, in the intermittent travel of the conveyer, are advanced consecutively to the path of discharge, as fully described in said patent.

The mechanism embodying my invention is associated with the delivery end of the book-match machine, and is designed to receive the successive books discharged from the upper run of the conveyer and assemble them side by side, in a row, with the larger and thinner ends of the books alternately reversed, for convenience of packing.

This mechanism, in its preferred form, comprises a centrally throated turret structure 16 having a vertical axis of oscillation and being constructed and arranged to receive the successive books discharged from the conveyer and position them in opposite endwise relation to each other in such a manner that the reversely -located books can be superposed one upon another within the throat of the turret, and thence be advanced into and along a suitable supporting chute or trough 17 located within and extending outwardly beyond the turret.

The turret structure comprises a circular head 18 having a central throat 19 therein of suitable form and size to permit a match book to pass flatwise therethrough. The head is mounted to oscillate within a circular opening 20 near the end of the table 11, which end is supported by standards 21 rising from the bed 22 of the book-match machine and also from a supplemental bed 23 conveniently bolted to the main bed. The head 13 is preferably formed on or secured to a vertical casing 24 having a lateral opening 25 therein and also having a depending hub 26, the latter being secured to the upper end of a central shaft 27 that is rotatably mounted in a suitably-disposed bearing 28 included in a substantial supporting frame 29. Fast on the lower end of the shaft 27 is a crank 30 which is connected by means of a link 31 with a head 32 mounted for horizontal reciprocation in a guide casing 33 forming part of the frame structure 29. The head 32 comprises a hollow block having therein two transversely-disposed rolls 34 in spaced relation to each other, the sides of the block being longitudinally slotted, as at 35. Extending transversely of the block and through the slotted sides thereof is a shaft 36 having fast thereon, within the block, an appropriate cam 37 which, by actuation of the shaft, alternately impels the rolls in a manner to effect the positive reciprocation of the block 32, thereby trans mitting through the link and crank congpection to the vertical shaft 27 oscillatory motion in synchronism with the intermittent motion of the conveyer. relation of the parts just described is such that the turret is intermittently swung through an arc of ninety degrees.

The shaft 36 has its hearings in the frame structure 29, and is provided at one end with a sprocket wheel 38 that is connected by means of a chain 39 with a wheel 40; on an adjacent parallel shaft 41 having its bearing in the walls of a cam housing 42 supported on the bed 23.- On the shaft 41 is a sprocket wheel 43 which is connected with a similar wheel fast on a shaft of the book-match machine. Thus continuous motion is transmitted to the

shafts

41, 36.

A while the other The co-operative stance, comprise a pair are two guide-ways which are arranged at a a right angle to each other and lead from the:

periphery of the head to two adjacent sides of the central throat. Each of these guideways comprises a pair of ribs 4 1 secured to the head 18 and spaced apart for the free passage of a 'book therebetween. Such guide-ways are so disposed that when the turret is oscillated through an arc of ninety degrees, as hereinbefore described, they are positioned alternately in the path of discharge of the books from the adjacent run of the conveyer; one guide-way being located at either the right or the left hand side of the axis of oscillation of the turret uide-way is in the said discharge path. lence when the turret is thus positioned a book pushed from the conveyer will enter into the proximate guideway. If then the turret be swung through an arc of ninety degrees to the right or left, as the case may be, the book thus entered in the guide-way will be correspondingly carried and the empty guide-way will belocated in book-receiving position. At this juncture the book supported on the turret can be pushed fiatwise to a position above the centralthroat of the turret head, and at the same time another book can be pushed from the conveyer into the adjacent empty guideway. Coincidentallythebookpositioned above the throat of the turret head can be pushed down into the throat. The books successively discharged from the conveyer are thus received by the turret and positioned thereby in opposite endwise relation to each other and then placed fiatwise one upon the other above and depressed through with the thin end of one book at the thick end of the contiguous book, and so on. It is to be noted that the top of the turret head is provided with suitably-disposed lugs 44' which serve as stops for the leading ends of the respective books when they have been corpiectly positioned above the throat of said hea 1 The superposed books when they are depressed into the throat of the turret as just mentioned enter and progrem along the trough 17 which, in the present instance, comprises a curved chute portion which is supported within the turret with its mouth adjacent to and in register with the central throat. The trough, which is fixedly secured to a bracket 45 bolted to the table, extends outwardly through the lateral opening 25 of the turret and is so positioned as not to obstruct the movement of the latter. Preferably the receiving end of the trough is provided with means operative to permit the entry of the succeeding books into the trough but to prevent their upward displacement. Such means, in the present ins ereed la ch heads 46 which normally overlie the opposite upstanding walls of the trough and are yieldingly supported by depending springs 47 suitably secured to the walls. (See Fig. 9). The books, assembled side by side, progress down the curved portion of the chute as above mentioned and thence through the outward extension, which latter is referably upwardly inclined in order to facilitate the manual removal therefrom of the assembled books.

The preferred devices for ejecting the successive books from the conveyer and delivering them upon the turret, and for shifting the reversely-disposed books on the turret to the central throat of the latter, comprise three

plungers

48, 49, 50, respectively, slidably mounted in suitably-located guides 51 on the table. The plunger 48 is reciprocable in a path transversely of the upper run of the conveyer during each dwell of the latter, so as to impinge against theopposing end of each succeeding book on the conveyer and push it therefrom and into the proximate guide-way of the turret; and the

plungers

49, 50 are positioned inlongitudinal alinement with each other, and at right angles to the path of the plunger 48, soas to impinge against the books that are alternately located at the respective sides of the turret, and thus push them toward and above the central opening of the turret head.

In the present instance each of the plungers is provided on. its upper face with rack teeth 52 with which meshes a gear se'ctor on a suitably-disposed shaft having its bearingsin brackets (53) on the table. The shaft 53 of the gear sector 54 that meshes with the teeth of the plunger 48 extends longitudinally of the table and is provided with two spaced apart bevel gears 55 in mesh with similar gears 56 on the

shafts

57, 58 which carry the

gear sectors

59, 60 that mesh with the teeth of the

respective plungers

49, 50, said latter shafts extending transversely of the table. The shaft 53 is provided at on end with a crank 61 that is connected by means of a pitman 62 with a vertical slide 63fitted to guide-ways in the cam housing 42 previously referred to. The slide has a lateral roll 64 that travels in the race of a cam 65 fast on 'the driven shaft 41, which cam is contained within the housing. The contourof the cam roll is such that during each dwell of the conveyer and the turret the slide is reciprocated in a'manner to impart an oscillatory motion to the shaft 53, through the pitman and crank connection, and thereby oscillate the gear sectors and simultaneously reciprocate the three plungers.

The preferred means for depressing the succeeding books into the central throat of the turret head comprises a plunger 66 vertically reciprocative directly above the throat.

shaft 80 having its tion and then in a reverse This plunger is slidably fitted to a guide casing 67 formed in a table, said bracket also including a suitable cap member 69 that overlies the turret head and serves -to prevent upward displacement of the books thereon. The upper end of the plunger 66 is connected by means of a link 70 with a crank disk 71 on one end of a shaft 72 which has its hearings in the bracket 68 and also in an adjacent bracket 73 on the table. On the other end of this shaft 72 is a bevel gear pending through the table and having its hearings in the bracket 73 and also in a bracket 77 on the bed 23. On the lower end of the shaft 76 is a bevel gear 78 in mesh with a similar gear 79 on a short horizontal bearings in the bracket 77 This shaft 80 bears a sprocket wheel 81 that is connected by means of a chain 82 with a similar wheel 83 on the driven shaft 36. Hence during the rotation of the latter shaft the motion is transmitted therefrom to the shaft 72 and its crank disk in a manner to effect the timely reciprocation of the plunger 66 for the purpose described.

From the foregoing it will be seen that during each succeeding movement of the upper run of the conveyer 12 of the bookmatch machine, the turret is swung through an arc of ninety degrees, first in one direcdirection, and that during the dwell of the conveyer and turret one of the guide-ways on the latter is located in alinement with a book-holding pocket of the conveyer, the other guide-way is at a right angle thereto on either side of the axis of oscillation of the turret, and the three

plungers

48, 49, 50 are positively reciprocated. Hence book from the conveyer into the adjacent guideway on the turret head; one of the

plungers

49 or 50 upon the books presented theretoat the opposite sides of the head andpush them, in opposite endwise' relation to each other, to and above the turret throat, through which they are depressed into the chute as just stated, whence the assembled books progress outwardly along the chute and into position for ready removal in series by an attendant.

bracket 68' on the.

74 in mesh with a similar gear on a vertical shaft 76 depushes from the other guide-way and above the throat of the tur-' the throat and into.

.10 5 the plunger 48 pushes a It is to be understood that my invention is not limited to the specific construction herein disclosed, as the mechanisms may be modified within the principle of the invention and the scope of the appended claims.

I claiml. The combination with means for intermittently impelling a row of flat-lying articles with their head portions located at one side of the path'of travel, of means for ejecting each succeeding article from the row, a rotary element having guides in angular relation to each other and having a central throat to which said guides lead, means for oscillating said element to position its guides alternately for the reception of the ejected articles, oppositely-acting means at the respective sides of the axis of oscillation of said element for shifting into the centralthroat the articles positioned in the respective guides, and means for depressing the articles through said throat and in flatwise position.

2. The combination with means for intermittently impelling a row of flat-lying articles with their head portions located at one side of the path of travel, of means for ejecting each succeeding article from the row, a rotary element having guides in angular relation to each other and having a central throat to which said guides lead, means for oscillating said element to position its guides alternately for the reception of the ejected articles, oppositely-acting means at the respective sides of the axis of oscillation of said element for shifting into the central throat the articles positioned in the, respective uides, means for depressing the articles through said throat and in flatwise position, and a stationary chute having its mouth in communication with said throat.

3. The combination with a conveyer having a succession of pockets to receive and hold flat-lying articles with their head portions adjacent one longitudinal edge of the conveyer, of ejecting means reciprocable transversely of the conveyer, an element mounted to oscillate on a vertical axis adjacent the conveyer, said element having guides in angular relation to each other and having also a central throat to which said guides lead, means for oscillating the said element to position its guides alternately for the reception of the articles ejected from the conveyer, oppositely-acting means at the respective sides of the axis of oscillation of said element for shifting into the central throat the articles positioned in the respective guides, and means for depressing the articles through said throat and in flatwise position.

4. The combination with a conveyer having a succession of pockets to receive and hold flat-lying articles with their head portions adjacent one longitudinal edge of the conveyer, of ejecting means reciprocable transversely of the conveyer, an element mounted to oscillate on a vertical axis adjacent the conveyer, said element having guides in angular relation to each other and having also a central throat to which said guides lead, means for oscillating the said element to position its guides alternately for the reception of the articles ejected from the conveyer, oppositely-acting means at the respective sides of the axis of said element for shifting into the central throat the arti cles positioned in the respective guides, means for depressing the articles through said throat and in flatwise position, and a stationary chute having its mouth in communication with said throat.

5. The combination with a conveyer having a succession of pockets to receive and hold flat-lying articles with their head portions adjacent one conveyer, of ejecting means reciprocable transversely of the conveyer, a turret mounted to oscillate on a vertical axis adjacent the conveyer, said turret comprising a hollow laterally open body having a-circular head provided with a central throat and with guides leading thereto in angular relation to each other, means for oscillating said turret to position its guides alternately for the reception of articles ejected from the conveyer, oppositely-acting means at the respective sides of the axis of oscillation of said turret for shifting into the central throat the articles positioned in the respective uides, means for depressing the articles t rough said throat and in flatwise position, and a stationary chute having its mouth in communication with said throat, said chute extending through the lateral opening of the turret body.

6. The combination with means for intermittently impelling a row of flat-lying articles with their head portions located at one side of the path of travel, of an element located adjacent the path of said row and having guides in angular relation to each other and which said guides lead, means for oscillat- 1ng said element to position its guides adjacent the path of the articles, a plunger movable transversely of said path, two plungers movable at right angles to the first named plunger and in alinement with each other above the rotary element, and means for simultaneously reciprocating said plungers, whereby each succeeding article of the row is pushed therefrom into the guide adjacent thereto, and is thereafter pushed by one or the other of the said two plungers to a position above the central throat, means for depressing the articles through said throat, and a stationary chute having its mouth in communication with said throat.

7, The combination with means for interlongitudinal edge of the v also having a central throat to mo tions between said head and the shaft, whereby said turret is oscillated to position its guides alternately adjacent the row, means for moving each succeeding article transversely from the row and into the ide adjacent thereto, means for shifting t e article through said guide and above the central throat when the guide is at either side of the axis of oscillation of the turret and at a right angle to its previous position, means pressing the article through the throat, and a stationary chute having its mouth in communication with said throat.

8. The combination with means for in-' termittently impelling a row of flat-lying articles with their head portions located at one side of the path of travel, of a turret located adjacent the path of said row and having guides in angular relation to each other and also a central throat to which said guides lead, a vertical shaft supporting said turret, a reciprocative head, means for reciprocating said head, and operative connections between said head and the shaft, whereby said turret is oscillated to position its guides alternately adjacent the row, means, including a plunger and associated gearing, for moving each succeedingl article transversely from the row and into t e guide adjacent thereto, means,

for de- Y including two oppositely-disposed plunfiers and associated gearing, for shifting t e article throu h said guide and above the central throat w en the guide is at either side of the axis of oscillation of the turret and at a right angle to its previous position, means, including a pluner and connections, for depressing the articles through said throat, and a stationary chute having its mouth in communication with said throat. 4

9. The combination with a conveyer hava succession of pockets to receive and ho d flat-lying articles with their head portions adjacent one longituinal edge of the conveyer, of ejecting means reciprocable transversely of the conveyer, an element mounted to oscillate on v a vertical axis adjacent to the conveyer, said element having ides in angular relation to each other and having also a central throat to which said guides lead, means for oscillating the said element to position its ides alternately for the reception of the artlcles ejected from the conveyer, o positely-acting means at the respective si es of the axis of oscillation of said element for shifting into the central throat the articles positioned in the respective guides, a cap the said element and having a vertical guide portion directly above the said throat, a plunger vertically reciprocable in said guide portion, and means for reciprocating the said plunger to depress the articles in flatwise position throu h said throat.

Signed at pringfield in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, this 3rd day of February, A. D. 1923.

JOSEPH E. ZOIB.

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