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MATCH MAKING MACHINE.

No. 332,737. Patented Dem-22, 1885.

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MATCH MAKINGMAGHINE.

No. 332,737. Patented Dec. 22, 1885.

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No. 332,737. Patented Dec. 22, 1885.

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FFICE ATENT GEORGE E. NORRIS AND \NILLIAM E. HAGAN, OF TROY, ASSIGNORS OF ONE- THIRD TO JAMES K. P. PINE, OF LANSINGBURGH, NEW YORK.

MATCH-MAKING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 332,737, dated December 22, 1885.

Application filed m 13, 1885. Se1'in1N0.1G5,'294. (NOIIIOdOLl To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE E. NoRRis and WILLIAM E. HAGAN, of the city of Troy, county of'Rensselaer, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Making Matches, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to certain attachments to machines for making match splints or to blanks, our improvements having for their object the insertion of the splints or blanks (as produced by the machine) within a web for dipping, and for other uses.

Our invention is more particularly adapted r 5 to that class of machines by which the splints or blanks are cut from a veneer of wood by means of two rollers that are actuated to move together, and which are provided with grooves, and intermediate cutting-edges that are ar- -ranged coincidently in said rollers parallel to their axes, and as appearing in an applica- -tion for Letters Patent made by us, and filed in the Patent Oiiice February 13, 1885, and which is now pending.

Accompanying this specification, to form a part of it, there are five plates of drawings, containing fourteen figures, illustrating our invention, with the same designation of parts by letter-reference used in all of them.

Of these illustrations, Figure l is a perspective of a machine for making matchsplints containing our invention, with that side of the machine on which the driving-pulley is placed and the delivery or front end of the 5 machine turned toward the sight and the driving-pulley removed. Fig. 2 is aperspective of the same machine that is shown at Fig.

1, but with that side of it which is opposite to the one on which the driving-pulley is placed 0 and the front end of the machine turned toward the sight. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section taken on the line 00 0c of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a vertical section taken on the line a x of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a vertical section 5 taken on the line no a of Fig. 3, omitting the machinebed and the chain belts. Fig. 6 is a vertical section taken on the line 00* of Fig.

3. Fig. 7 is a vertical section of the shaft and sprocket-drum and the rollershaft which 5 operate the chain belt that forces the splints into the web, with that stretch of the chain the splints onto said plate, and the. springs across said opening under which the splints pass. other mechanism the presser-frame, which, when in position in the machine, is over the splints on the machine-bed, after they have passed out from under the rubber roller and Fig. 9 designates as detached from the from off the concavely-curved guide-plate.

Fig. 10 is a perspective of a part of the machine-loed, part of the upper fold-plate, and

the side plates which position and shape the Web to produce a longitudinal puncturingfold therein, and showing also a part of the web threaded upon said plates. Fig. 11 is a cross-section taken on the line 00% of Fig. 10. Fig. 12 is a longitudinal section taken on the line no :0 of Fig. 10 and Fig. 13 is a view in perspective of a part of the lower cutting-rollers,and the fingers which strip the veneer from off said roller. Fig. 14 is a longitudinal vertical section taken through the cutting and pressing rollers, their shafts, and connecting gear-wheels, taken on the line a x of Fig. 3. Figs. 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, and 11 are shown with the parts in larger proportion than in Figs. 1 and 2.

The several parts of the mechanism thus illustrated are designated by letter-reference,

and the function of the parts is described as follows:

The letters It and R designate two cutting and pressing rollers that are of the same size, and which are constructed to be connected by the gear-wheels G and G so as to move together, each of them being made with grooves g and interniediately-placed cutting-edges e, that are arranged in the cylindrical face of said rollers in lines that are parallel to their axes. These rollers have also two ring-form grooves, 9 which are placed in the cylindrirco' cal face of each roller, so as to be vertically parallel in both of them when they are in position one above the other in the machine.

The letter I designates a rubber roller arranged on a shaft having its bearings in the machine-frame F", said rubber roller being provided with a groove, a, made in revolution in its cylindrical face at each end to carry thereat an endless conveying chain belt, 0'.

The letter L indicates a concavely-curved guide-plate that rests on the machine-frame, and the concave thereon is made to curve coincidently to the face of the rubber roller I, but to be far enough away from it to leave a passage-way, O, for the movement therein of the splints as they are drawn along over the concave by the two conveying chain belts O and their engagement with the cylindrical face of the rubber roller 1. This concavelycurved guide-plate is made to have an opening, a provided with two downwardly-projected leaf-springs, h h, from underneath the lower ends. of which the splints pass onto the concave.

The letter F indicates two fingers arranged on a plate, p, which are adapted to enter the ring-form grooves ofjthe upper roller, R, to underrun and to strip the adhering veneer of partly-cut splints therefrom when at the bottom of the roller, from whence they pass downwardly through a passage-way, '01, formed between the lower roller and the concave surface plate L, and adapted to enter thering-form drawn into and through the machine by means grooves of said lower roller. From thence the splints are forced through an opening, (H, on the guide-plate L, when the ends of' each splint are caught by the recesses r,oppositely made in the outer face of the conveying chainlinks, and carried down along over the. concave surface of the guide-plate L and along over the bed B.

The letter D indicates a drum arranged on a horizontal shaft, S. W designates a gearwheel on the said shaft, which receives power from agear-wheel, V and communicates mo tion to said shaft S and the drum D arranged thereon. The drum D has two sprocketgrooves, d, in revolution thereon, each of which is adapted to communicate motion to one of the endless conveying-chains O C. These conveying-chains run in the drums D, and in grooves a in revolution on the rubber roller I.

The letter M designates a roll of paper forming the web, into which the splints are inserted crosswise, so as to pass twice through the Web to include an intermediate outfold made therein longitudinally. This web M is arranged to have a shaft, 0, passed through it centrally, and which shaft is made to be inserted in or removed from open-top bearings arranged'at the sides of the roll. The web is of two rubber rollers, I 1 located at the defrom thence is extended frontward nearly to the rubber roller 1 in a line horizontally parallel to the machine-bed. While the raised center of the web is thus passing over the raised fold-plate a, with the side edges of the web in a lower plane. beneath the adjacent side edges of the plates 12 n two puncture foldlines, 0 0, are produced in the web, one of them being at each side of the plate n, and through which a splint maybe forced cross wise or pinned into the web, with the central part of each of the splints within the fold where raised, and the opposite ends of the splints projected therefrom, as shown at m of Figs. 1 and 2. The fold-plate n and the plates n are arranged on the machine-bed at one side of the line of the traverse made by the belt- I conveying chains 0, with the machine-bed on the lineof the said plates recessed, as indicated at i of Fig. 10.

The letters 0 indicate an endless-chain belt, the function of which is to force the splints laterally crosswise into the web, and this chain belt is arranged to be operated by a drum, (2, provided with sprocket-teeth and to run on a roller, 01, having a vertical shaft, S the drum d having a vertical shaft, S. This vertical shaft S receives power from a beveled gear-wheel, g, on its upper end, which meshes into a beveled gear-wheel, g, on the shaft S. The vertical shafts S and S on and by which the chain belt 0 is operated, are arranged in a line that makes an acute angle with the line of direction in which the web moves, and the said chain belt is so operated that the stretch IIO of the latter which is adjacent to the splints,

moves toward the delivery end of the machine, with the top of the chain belt 0 just above theadjacent part ofthe bed B,the body of the chain belt being arranged to run in a sink, Y, made in the machine-bed. As thus arranged, with the web and the endless-chain belt (3 moving at the same speed, when each of the recesses i, made in the outer face of the links composing the belt-chain 0 comes in contact with the adjacent end of each one of the splints as they are being moved by the chains 0. While leaving the latter the chain 0 pushes the splints lateral-1y as they move forward, so that they will pass through the upfold made in the web where at each side of the plate a, and where indicated at O, as shown at Figs. 1', 2, and

11, and by which the splints are inserted inthe. web, and by the latter are carried out of the machine, as indicated at in. As the splints are being moved over the bed Bhorizontally, they are,

helddownonthelatterbythepressing-framef,

arranged over them between the'rubber roller I and the shaft S. The letters if designate bars of rubber arranged on the bottom of the frame f, which are in contact with the passing splints. By means of the endless chains 0 on each side of the rubber roller the splints at their ends are caught by recesses in the chain-links, while the rubbeuroller face is in contact with them between the said chains, and rolls them along over the concave on the guide-plate L,to clean them of adhering fiber, the ends of the splints turning in the recesses formed in the links of the conveying chains while this is being done.

The method of cutting the splints by means of the two cutting and pressing rollers B and R the method of stripping the splints from off the rollers, excepting as herein shown to be modified, when compared with our older application before named, and the application of the rubber roller I arranged to operate in connection with the concavely-curved guide-plate L, excepting as said roller is constructed to operate the conveying chains 0, and said guideway is constructed with an opening, a", form no part of the invention made the subject of claim herein, excepting as they are connected with the means added to put the splints into a dipping-web, and hence are not described in detail.

The cutting-rollers are operated by the power applied to a connecting gear-wheel on the shalt of the lower cutting-roller, B, and by agcar' wheel on the latter power is communicated to gear-wheel G on the upper roller-shaft.

To operate the rubber roller 1, power is applied to a gear-wheel, W on the rubber-roller shaft.

To operate the shaft S, on which the drum D is placed, and which, in connection with the rubber roller I, operates the conveying-belt chains 0, power is applied to the gear-wheel on the end of the shaft S, and the shalt S has a gear-wheel, W, on the end opposite to that at which it receives power, and this meshes into a wheel, W and the latter into a wheel, W, that actuates' a wheel, WV, on the shaft S which operates the rubber rollers l".

Any form of geared connection of the parts may be used that will move the conveyingbelt chains 0, so that on their lower stretch they will move toward the front of the machine, and at the same speed as the web moving in the same direction, and any form of arrangement of geared connection that will also move the puncturing chain belt, so that it will have the same speed as the conveying-chains and the web, may be used.

The function of the endless-chain belts 0 being to receive the matches when passing through the opening a made in the curved guide-plate, andto keep them at a proper distance from each other, any form of recess may be used in the chain which will perform the same function; and the function of the endless-chain belt 0 being to communicate lateral motion to a line of moving splints, so as to force them into a web moving in the same direction, any form of chain and recess may be used that will perform the same function in substantially the same manner.

Having thus described our invention, what we'claiin, and desire to secure by Letter Patent, 1s

1. The combination, with the splint cutting and pressing rollers B and R, each having the circumterentially-arranged grooves {1 and connected by gears to move together, of the fingers F, constructed to enter said grooves of the upper roller, B, to strip the splints from off the bottom of the latter, the fingers F, arranged to enter the said circumferential grooves of the lower roller, R, to. strip the splints from the side of the latter, and the concavely-curved guide-plate L, made with the passage a substantially in the manner as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination of the concavely-curved guide-plate L,'made with the opening a", the rubber roller I, made with the! grooves a, and arranged with reference to said guideplate substantially as shown, the drum D, arranged on the shaft S, the endless conveying chain belts C, and the bed B, said parts being constructed and arranged to operate substantially in the manner set forth.

3. The combination, with the bed B, of the endless chains 0 O, constructed to be actuated by the roller I and drum D, substantially as described, the web M, having a longitudinally and centrally arranged upfold, the rollers I I constructed to draw said web through the mechanism, and the endless-chain belt 0", constructed to be actuated by the sprocketdrum (1 and roller d relative to the traverse of said chain 0 and the said web, substantially in the manner as and for the purposes set forth.

4. The combination of the fold-plate n, made to curve upwardly from where attached at the rear of the machine-bed, as shown, and therefrom extended frontwardly in aline hori zontally parallel with but above the machinebed, the side fold-platesm a, each of which is arranged over and above the bed, but below and at one side of the said plate a, substantially as shown, and the endless-chain belt 0', operated by means of a vertical sprocket drum and roller with the stretch of said chain belt that is adjacent to the said fold'plates, making an acute angle with the latter and moving thereat toward the delivery end of the machine, as and for the purposes set forth.

5. The combination, with the bed B, of the conveying-chains G C, constructed to be operated by the roller I and drum D, substantially as described, the presser-frame f, having the rubber strips o the web M, having a longitudinally and centrally arranged upfold, the rollers l I", and the endless chain 0 actuated by the sprocket-drum d and roller 01 all substantially in the manner as and for the purposes set forth.

6. The combination, with the bed B, of the IIO web M, having a centrally and longitudinally 27th day of April, 1885, and in the presence arranged .upfold made therein, the rollers I", of the two witnesses whose names were by 10 constructed to move said web, and the endlessthem hereto written.

chain belt 0, arranged to be actuated by the GEORGE E. NORRIS.

5 drum d and roller 01 to move relatively to WILLIAM E. HAGAN.

the traverse of said web, substantially in the Witnesses: manner as and for the purposes set forth. CHARLES S. BRINTNALL,

Signed at the city vof Troy, New York, this STANLEY M. HOLDEN.

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