US629167A - Honey-box machine. - Google Patents

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CHARLES MONDENG, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

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7 Application filed March 25, 1898. Serial No. 675,0?8r (No model.)

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Beit known that 1, CHARLES MONDENG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Honey-Box Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledv in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. Y

Myinvention relates to machines for making honey boxes or sections; and it has for its principal object to provide such a machine capable of performing the complete operation and makingthe box blank or section.

My invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described, and defined in the claims.

The preferred form of my said invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is 'a view in right side elevation showing my improved machine. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken approximately on the line 00 0: of Fig. 2.' Fig. 4 is a detail view in rear elevation with some parts broken away, showing the discharge-plunger or ejecting-blade and associated parts. Figs. 5 and dare diagram views, respectively, in right and left side elevations, illustrating in particular the driving connections for the various movable parts'of the machine; and Figs. '7 and 8 are perspective views, of the finished product, the former showing the section as in blank form and the latter illustrating the completed box.

The frame of the machine is made up principally of a flat bed-plate a and parallel side brackets a, which support the same. A rectangular channel through which the blanks are fed laterally is formed on the face of the bed-plate a by the cooperation of a fixed 1ongitudinal end guide I), an adjustable longitudinally-extended end; guide b and a pair of overhead or top guide bars or strips b The adjustable guide I) is provided with slotted feet or lugs 6 through the slots of which setscrews 11 are passed and screwed into the bedplate a.

. The overhead uides or bars b are rovided with perforations b Spring-catches h lare secured to theforward'end of these exten- =sionfs b and work with their free ends mounted forjvertical movements within said perfosprings or catches b 'is a'codperatingand similar spring-catch b These spring-catches plate a, to which their forward ends are secured, and are prov'idedwith depending fingers at their free ends, which are free to work in seats or perforations b in said bed-plate.

with forward extensions 5 that are provided b are shown ascountersunk into the bed-.

rations b Immediately below each of these The blanks are fed laterally, extending of the feed-head-as shown the right-hand,

member-is provided with a depending finger 0 which is spaced apart from the face of the feed-bar c far'enough to permit the blank to be placed between the same by endwise move- Inent.

At the rear end of the blank-containing channel or guideway, hereinbefore noted as being formed between the bed-plate 0, bars 19 and end guides 11 b, a discharge-head or ejector is mounted to work vertically, so as to eject the sections one by one. This discharge-head or ejector, as shown, comprises a transversely-extended ejector-blade f, set edgewise in a vertical plane and provided at its ends with vertical racks f'.' The ejectorblade f works in a narrow tranverse exit-passage f formed between the rear end of the blank-containing channel and the face of a guide flange or plate j, that is rigidly secured at its ends to the frame sides a. Pinions f on a rock-shaft f journaled in boxes f on the main frame, are in mesh one with each of the racks f. i

The feed-head and the discharge-head or ejector are reciprocated so that the former will feed and the latter discharge or eject a section in alternate order through the following" connections: The shaft f is provided with an arm f and the shaft 0 is provided with a bell-crank c. The lower arm of the bell-crank c is connected to the free end ofthe arm f byalinkf c indicates a counter shaft which is journaled in the lower portions of the side frames a. This shaft 0 is provided at one end with a crank-arm c ,'which is connected to the upper arm of the bellcrank o by means of a link 0. The shaft 0 .is also provided with a pulley 0 A shaft g, mounted in suitable hearings on. the under side of the bed-plate a, carries a v opposite to the saw g the guide I) is cut away or notched on its inner guiding edge,asshown at Z1 After this notch Z1 reaches a point rearward of the transverseline cutting the rear edge of the saw it is inclined or beveled,

so that it will cam the sections back into the line which they formerly occupied.

The cutters for forming the notches or the machine and arepositioned one directly over the other. The shaft his mounted in journalboXes h ,that are adjustablymounted for vertical movements on brackets 7L3, rigidly secured to andrising from the opposite sides of the bed-plate. The journal-boxes 7L are vertically adjusted by means of vertical screwrods hflswiveled thereto and working through lugs 7L5 on the brackets 7Z3. At their npperends the screw-rods 71 are provided with sprocketwheels h, over which a sprocketchain 7L7 runs, so that both of said screw-rods, and hence, also, both of said journal-boxes 71, will be simultaneously moved or vertically adjusted. This simultaneous adjustment of the journalboxes 7L2 is readily accomplished by means of a hand-crank 7L8, secured or securable to one of the screw-rods 1L By this means it is evident that the shaft h when vertically adj usted will always remain parallel to the face of the bed-plate a.

The shaft h is journaled in boxes or blocks 7L9, that are mounted for vertical adj ustinents in keepers or brackets h secured to the under side of the bed-plate a, oneat each side of the same. Set-screwsh work through the bottoms of the keepers h and engage the bottoms of the blocks 7L to effect the vertical adjustments of the same. Other set-screws h which work through the sides of the brackets h and are screwed into the blocks h, serve to lock said blocks wherever set.

The knives or cutters 78 which cut the beepassages or entrance-notches, are approximately U-shaped, and their prongs are socounter-shafts '7c are journaled. ends of the brackets embrace the trans-V cured to annular heads h, that are ad justably mounted, two on the shaft 7; and two on V the shaft h. 'lheupper cutters work through.

passages cut in the overhead guides b and bed plate a and extending parallel to the counter-shafts h and h, is'a transverse guiderod 7c. Mounted for transverse adjustments on this rod is is a pair of journal-brackets 76, having journal boxes k in which vertical The lower verse guide-bar 70 The prongs which embrace this guide -'bar k are adapted to be clamped onto the same to rigidly secure the a the bed-plate a, they are provided with a plurality or stack of small circle-saws it that are spaced-apart from each other approximately the thickness of the saws themselves. The saws on the one shaft or spindle 70 are set in planes that fall between the saws that are carried by the other shaft or mandrel.

As will later appear, these saws are adapted to cut grooves in the ends of the box-section,

or, in othenwords, to form the same with an interlocking tongue-and-groove joint.

Thebrackets 7c, and hence, of course, the

saws 70 are adapted to be adjusted laterally and to be moved outward far enough to throw said saws outward of the guides Z) and 1), thereby permitting the saws to be lifted off from their shafts or mandrels. As shown, the right-hand bracket 7; is adjusted by a long transverse rod in that is swiveled against endwise movement in the left-hand bracket J0, works through a large perforation it in the left-hand bracket 7t, and is screwed into said right hand bracket. The left hand bracket is in a similar manner adjusted bya short screw-threaded rod 75, that is swiveled against endwise movement in the left-hand frame-section a and is screwed into said lefthand bracket 7c. A removable hand-crank 7a is adapted to be applied to the projecting angular ends of either of the screw-rods 7t k Below the bed-plate a, between the saws k and the dischargepassage f another transverse counter-shaft-nisjournaled. Said shaft is journaled directly in boxes 72, that are adjustably mounted in keepers or flanged seats n and are secured where set by set-screws 12 At its outer end the counter-shaft n is provided with a small pulley n, and at its intermediate portion it is provided with a se ries-as shown three--of tool-carrying heads or collars 71 that are preferably adj ustably mounted on said shaft. These heads or collars of carry knives or, that are provided with V-shaped extremities, adapted to cut V-shaped vertical grooves in the box-sections as-they are being ejected or forced vertically downward against the face of the backing or guideplate f The box sections are spring-held against the faceof said backing or guide f while the cutters n are operating thereon by means of spring-fingers 19, that are secured at their intermediate portions to a transverse bar 9', rigidly secured to and extending between the frame brackets or sides a.

The driving belts and pulleys which in-the' particular construction illustrated are employed to give motion tothe various movable parts are illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6. In these views 1 indicates what for the purposes of this illustration may be described as a wide-faced pulley, although, in fact, several pulleys will be employed instead. This pulley 1 is carried by a shaft 2, which may receive motion in any suitable way. The shaft 2 also carries a very small pulley 3. .4 indicates the counter-shaft, provided with a large pulley 5 and small pulley 6. A belt 7 runs over the pulleys 3 and 5, and another belt 8 runs over the pulley 6 and the pulley 0 9, which latter pulley transmits motion to the feed-head and discharge-head or ejector. The parallel shafts 7b and h project in opposite directions and areprovided'at their projecting. ends,'respectively, with small pulleys h and h A belt 9 runs over the pulley land the pulley h. A belt 10 runs over the pulleys g and n A belt 11 runs over the pulley 1, small pulley h, over the pulley g and belt 10, and over a loose pulley l2. Belts 13 run over pulleys 1 and It.

In the description of the operation, which will soon follow, it will be important to note the action of a cam-flange or knife-edged strip 13. This cam strip or knife t is shown as secured to the under side of the right-hand member of the overhead guides b and at a point transversely opposite to the recessed or cut-away portion b of the guide I).

In Figs. 7 and 8,2 indicates the finished box section, which when finished is provided with three transversely-extended-V-shaped grooves 2, that are out nearly, but not quite, through the section. At its ends said section 2 is formed with interlocking tongues and grooves .2 and certain of the subsections or sides of the box-forming section 5 are grooved or cut out, as shown at 2 to form what are usually termed bee-entrances. As shown in Fig. 8, the box, when formed for use, is rectangular, three of the corners being formed by folding the section at its V-shaped grooves z and the fourth corner being formed by interlocking the tongue and groove formed ends.

Operation: As previously indicated, the socalled sections or box-sections z are formed from long strips that are alreadycut to the proper thickness and width. These long strips are fed by hand through the narrow passage formed between the finger c andthe faceof the feed bar or head c, the strip being forced inward until it strikes the end guide I). The section-forming strip must of course be thus forced into place while the feed-head 0 stands in its normal position. (Indicated in'Eig. 1.) When said feed-head is reciprocated into the position indicatedin- Fig. .3, the strip will be forced by the cutting edge of the saw g and the first box-section will be cut ofi. This same movement, it will be noted, carries the section thus cut off in-. ward of. the free ends of the spring-catches 'b" and 12 so that this section. cannot return with the feed-head. The finger c on the feed-head will, h0we ver,'carry the inner end of the section-forming strip forward of the saw, so that it may be readily moved into'posi-tion to be again cut off on the next forward movement of the feed-head. It is of course evident'that every time a box-section is cut oif under the forward movement of the feedhead the sections which have previously been cut off will be forced inward-or forward in the guide channel or magazine a distance equal to the thickness of said sections. By this process the said guide channel or magazinewill' be completely filled with box-sections. Immediately'after the sections have been out 01f by the saw g they will be thrown in contact with the knife-edged cam-flange t, and by it they will be forced endwise away from the saw and with their farther ends projected into the recess 6 of the end guide I). Then as they are forced onward to a point just-beyond the saw 9' the cam or incline bwill force said sections back into thesame line which they before occupied, with their right-hand ends against and guided by the guide b. The sections 5 will next be forced between the cutters h, and the bee-entrances a will be out. After passing the cutters h the sections 2 will be forced between the tongue-and-groove-cutting saws g and the tongue-and-groove joints 5 will be cut in the ends of said sections. The section 2, which by the last succeeding feed movement of the feed plunger or head 0 was forced against the backing or guide plate f will by the downward movement of the discharge-head or ejector be engaged by the ejector 7 bladef' and forced downward through the exit slot or paslower portion of said plate f by the upper ends of the springs 19. This downward movement of the ejector, it will be remembered, takes place simultaneously-with the return or backward movement of the feed head or bar. The next succeeding section 2, which is forced downward by the ejector-bladeflwill they are a finished product, or, in other words,

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So far as I am aware I am the first to provide a single machine adapted to perform the complete operation of forming finished h'oney-' box sections of the character shown from blank-strips.

While I have very specifically described the preferred form of my invention above illustrated, it will of course be understood that I do not limit myself to these details. On the contrary, it is obvious that my invention 'is capable of a large range of modification.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

1. The combination with a channel or guideway extended laterally and longitudinally in a horizontal plane, of a reciprocating feedhead operating to feed the blank-strips sidewise intosaid guideway, a discharge-head or ejector mounted to move vertically across said guideway to eject said strips edgewise, one at a time, connections for reciprocating said feed-head and ejector so as to feed and discharge alternately, and intermediate section-forming devices, operating substantially as described.

2. The combination with a channel or guideway extended laterally and longitudinally in a horizontal plane, of a feed device operating to feed the blank-sections sidewise into said guideway, a discharging device or ejector operating to eject said sections, one at a time,v

by edgewise movement in a vertical plane, stationary corner-groove-formiug cutters positioned to operate on the sections as they are being ejected edgewise, and intermediate sec- Lion-forming devices, operating substantially as described.

3. The combination with a channel orguideway for the sections and a feed device for delivering the sections thereto, of a saw arranged to cut at one side of said guideway, and the cam flange or rib t projecting into said guideway and arranged to engage the intermediate portions of said sections just after they are out by said saw and to cam the same endwise away from the saw, substantially as described.

4. The combination with a channel or guideway for the sections, and a feed device for delivering sections thereinto, of a circle-saw arranged to cut in the plane of one side of said guideway, a recess formed transversely opposite to a portion of said saw, as at b and terminating in the cam portion 1), and the cam flange or rib t secured and projecting into said guideway for action on the sections, substantially as described.

5. Acombination with a channel or guideway for the sections, of a reciprocating feedhead delivering sections sidewise thereinto, a circle-saw arranged to cut oif the sections presented thereto by said feed-head, cutters working through the top and bottom of said channel-for forming the'bee entrances'or passages and the tongue-and-grooved corner-joint in said section's, while passing through said guideway, a dischargehead or ejector working transversely of said guideway and discharging said sections edgewise one at a time, and the cutters for forming the V-shaped corner-grooves in said sections as they are ejected or discharged, substantially as described.

6. In a machine for forming honey-boxes,

the combination with a channel or guideway for the sections, of reciprocating feeding and discharging devices mounted to work in reverse order, a saw for cutting 0d the sections under the actionof the said feed device, cutters for forming the bee-entrances, cutters for forming the ton gue-and-grooved corner joints, and cutters for forming the V-shaped cornergrooves, all of the said parts being automatically operated with a properly-timed action and operating as a single machine to form a complete honey-box, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES MONDENG.

Witnesses:

LILLIA'N O. ELMoRE, F. D. MERCHANT.

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