US389950A - Match-making machine - Google Patents

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JOSEPH A. BAUGHMAN, OF AKRON, OHIO.

MATCH MAKING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION rorming part of Letters Patent No. 389,950, dated September 25,1888.

Application filed April 19, 1886.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH A. BAUGHMAN, of Akron, county ofSummit, and State ofOhio, have invented new and useful Improvements in lVlatch-lilaking Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters of reference marked thereon.

This invention relates to that class of wellknown match making machines in which match-sticks are cut from a block in the downward movement ofa head carrying the cutters, and are set in a receiving-plate in the upward movement of the head; and it consists, mainly, in the combination, with a vertically-moving head carrying knives or cutters of special construction and a vertical supportingplate having open-sided grooves, of a receiving-plate, into which the match-sticks are set, as will be fully described hereinafter.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a top view of the knife, showing holes extending through the shank of the same, by means of which holes the knives are secured to the cutter-head; Fig. 2, a bottom view of the same as it appears in connection with the block; Fig. 3, a side View of the knife as it is about to enter the block. Fig. 3 is an enlarged view of Fig. 3; Fig. 4, a view of the knife with the stick out by it in place as it appears when the latter is free to assume its natural position Fig. 5, a top view of the grooved supportingplate; Fig. 6, a top view of the grooved supporting-plate with the knives in position below the plate; Fig. 7, a front view of the same; Fig. 8, a view illustrating the operation of the mechanism, with the parts in the relative positions occupied by them just before the sticks out from the block and held by the knives and grooved supporting-plate are entered through the openings in the guiding-plate into the receiving-plate; Fig. 9, a sectional View of a guide-plate employed in connection with the receiving-plate; Fig. 10, a bottom view of the same; Fig. 11, a view illustrating the operation of the mechanism, the parts being shown in the relative positions occupied by them just before the knife descends to perform the cutting action.

To enable others skilled in the art to make Serial No.199 331. (No model.)

and use my invention, I will proceed to describe fully the construction of the same.

A represents a cylindrical knife, having a cutting-edge, a, at the lower side of the same and the solid portions aato furnish the requisite strength for the cutting action. The cylindrical opening through the knife isinclined inward from the end of the knife, as shown in Fig. 3, and also toward one side, as shown in Fig. 7. By means of the specific construction of the knife the proper clearance is obtained in the cutting action, and also the sticks when out are held against the bearing sides of the grooved supporting-plate with positive pressure, as will be fully described hereinafter.

B, Figs. 8 and 11, represents any suitable head, in which the series of knives A Ais held.

0 represents a supportingplate, located above the knives and in contact therewith, as shown in Figs. 6, 7, 8, and 11, which plate has open-sided grooves, as shown in Figs. 5and 7. This supporting-plate is so constructed and so located relatively to the other parts that its bearing-lines, against which the sticks rest when in placc,coincide in vertical planes with the edges of the corresponding openings in the guidingandreceivingplates. Thecoincidence issuchsubstantially thatthe center ofthesticks theopeningsintheguidingand reccivingplates above, or near enough thereto for all practical purposes. The cut sticks are held with positive force against the bearing lines of the grooves by means of the peculiar construction of the knives, the pressure being exerted by the knives upon the sticks, as indicated by the arrow, Fig. 6. By means of this construction the sticks are firmly pressed back into the grooves and securely held in proper registering position during the upward movement, and consequently the upper ends enter without difficulty through the openings in the guid ing-plate into the receiving-plate, and are thus properly set for dipping.

D represents the guiding-plate, ofany proper construction, and E the receiving-plate in which the matches are set.

F represents a bar or plate, which is moved in beneath the cutters after the downward movement has been completed,to furnish abase of resistance for the lower ends of the match at the upper ends registers with the center of a guideplate and a receiving-plate, substalr tially as described.

3. In combination with a vertically-moving .head carrying cutters having inclined openings, substantially as described, and a supporting-plate having open-sided grooves, a receiving-plate and aholdingplate, F, substantially as described.

This specification signed and witnessed this 27th day of January, 1886.

JOSEPH A. BAUGHMAN.

.Vitnesses:

O. G. BARBER, CHARLES BAIRD.

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