US664642A - Match-machine. - Google Patents

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No. 664,642. Patented Dec. 25, I900. W. F. HUTCHINSON.

MATCH MACHINE.

(Application filed Aug. 23, 1900.)

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MATCH MACHINE.

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INVENTOR WITNESSES ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM F. HUTOHINSON, OF BOUND BROOK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE ATLAS MATCH COMPANY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

MATCH-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 664,642, d t d D c b r 25, 1900.

Application filed August 23, 1900. Serial No. 27,762. (No model.)

T @ZZ wh y n n: the stock into the cutters. Fig. is a detail Be it known that 1, WILLIAM F. HUTOHIN- cross-section through the cutters and shows SON, of Bound Brook, Somerset county, New the mechanism for guiding the splints and for Jersey, haveinvented certain new and useful preventing them from following the cutters 5 Improvements in Match-Machines, of which in their rotation. Fig. 6 is a detail side ele- 55 the following is a full, clear, and exact devation of one of the cutters and the splint scription. guiding or ejecting device; and Fig. 7 is a My invention relates to improvements-in broken detail perspective View showing the match-machines. means for tightening the slats of the dipping- 10 One object of my invention is to produce a frame, so that they will clamp the match- 60 machine which cuts match-splints without splints between them. waste, which is adapted to deliver the splint-s The machine is provided with rotary cutrapidly and uniformly into an ordinary match ters 10, which are of a well-known type and holding or dipping frame,which has automatic need no detailed description, the cutters bemeans for fastening the splints in place, and, ing spaced apart the width of a match-splint 65 also to produce aguideplate which will hold, and the edges of one set of cutters overlapguide, and separate splints so that they will ping those of the other set, as shown best in bespaced correct-lyinthedipping-frames,and, Fig. 5, and this arrangement causes a strip further, to make this guide-plate a heatingof veneer orstock when fedtransverselydownplate also, which will not only thoroughly ward between the cutters to be cut into a se- 70 heat or char the match ends, but will also enries of splints, as hereinafter described and compass and quickly heat and dry the greater as well understood. The cutters 10 are carportion of each match-splint. ried by transverse shafts 11, which at one end Another object of my invention is to make are geared together by gears 12, so that they a machine of this character which is very will rotate oppositely and in unison, while 75 positive in operation and adapted to work one gear 12 is driven by an idler 13, which in .continuously without great care on the part turn is driven by the gear 14 on the main drivof the operator. ing-shaft 15, this being driven by a pulley 16 To these ends my invention consists of a or equivalent driving device. The above apmatch-machine the construction and arrangeparatus is suitably mounted on a supporting 8o ment of which will be hereinafter fully deframe 17 and no novelty whatever is claimed scribed and claimed. for it. Above the cutters 10 is a suitable Reference is to be had to the accompanying hopper 18, which is supported, as shown, on drawings, forming part of this specification, cross-rods 18, and this carries the stock 19,

in which similar figures of reference refer to which, as illustrated, represents strips of ve' similar parts throughout the several views. neer each the thickness of a match-splint and Figure l is a plan view of the machine emof a width corresponding to the length of a bodying my invention. Fig. 1 is a detail splint. I wish it understood, however, that sectional plan of a part of the cutters, illusthe means illustrated for supplying veneer to 0 trating the manner in which the alternate the cutters is not particularly new, and I do splints are spread or forced in opposite direonot confine myself to this means, as my intions as they are cut. Fig. 2 is a cross-section vention relates chiefly to the mechanism for of the same. Fig. 3 is a broken detail plan receiving, guiding, clamping, and heating the ofthe inner endguide-plate, showingthe mansplints after they are out. As shown, the

5 nerin which the splints are delivered into the stock 19 is pressed forward by a spring 20,-

grooves of the plate. Fig. 4 is a broken side though a weight or other means may be subelevation of a portion of the machine, showstituted, and the strips 19 are adapted to be ing particularly the means for feeding the pushed downward one by one through the slot dipping-frames through the machine and the 21 (see Fig. 5) in the bottom of the hopper 18,

50 means for working the plunger which pushes and as soon as the lower edge of the strip 10 pressed to one side.

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reaches the cutters 10 it is seized by them and quickly carried downward and severed into splints.

The strips 19 are pushed downward by a plunger 22, (see Fig. 2,) which reciprocates vertically and is carried by the cross-rod 23, which connects by means of pitmen 24 with the eccentric-straps 25, the latter being held on the faces of the eccentrics 26, which are secured to one of the shafts 11, as shown best in Figs. 1 and 7. It will thus be seen that the plunger 22, actuated by the eccentrics, will have a constant and regular up-and-down movement, and when a strip 19 is pushed down and the plunger 22 rises the spring 20 forces the strips 19 forward, so that another comes to position beneath the plunger and above the slot 21.

When a strip of veneer has been cut by rotary cutters like the kind shown, the tendency is for the splints to stick between the cutters and to be carried around with them, the splints sticking alternately to the two sets of cuttersthat is, one splint will stick to the left-hand cutter, the next to the righthand cutter, and so on. The reason for this separation of the splints, so that one is forced in one direction, the next in the opposite direction, &c., is probably that cutters of this class are generally made as shown in Fig. 1", in which a pair of knives enters between two opposite knives, the several knives of the cutters overlapping in pairs, as the drawings clearly show, and so the splints are made slightly wedge shaped and naturally are This construction is common to cutters of this class and has always worked in the manner set forth, so that after the splints are out they are delivered in parallel rows and are separated row- To obviate this difficulty, rods 27 are passed downward from the hopper 18 between the knives of the cutters 10, the rods lying in grooves 28 between the cutters and the lower ends of the rods being bent back slightly and secured to cross-bars 29. This arrangement prevents the splints from following the cutters and causes them to be deposited endwise in regular rows, as shown in Fig. 3. The splints of each row aline rowwise, but not in the opposite direction, as the drawings show.

When the splints are carried downward through the cutters 10, they are thrust endwisebetween the slats 31 of the dippingframe 30, which frame, as illustrated, represents what is known as the ordinary German frame, except that the slats 31 are beveled or reduced on their upper edges to enable the splints to be easily guided between them; but other equivalent clamping-frames may be used in connection with my machine,

if desired. The frame, as shown, has the parallel slats 31 held to slide on rods 32 at the two sides of the frame, and when the frame is full, with the splints sticking trans versely through it, the slats 31 may be tightened against the splints by the wedges 33, which are hung to slide on the rods 32 and which at the proper time are forced inward by the earns 34, which are formed on the ends of the arms 35, and which will be again referred to below. 7

When the splints 39 are forced downward between the slats 31, the slats hold the two rows the correct distance apart for dipping, so that bad heads will not result; but the splints in each row are too near together.

The mechanism described below separates the splints in the row and also provides for heating them. As the splints go downward between the slats 31 they enter grooves 37 in the top of the guide-plate 36, which lies flatwise on the machine-frame at a point; below the cutters 10, and as the splints of the two rows do not aline the inner end of each groove 37 is curved, as shown clearly in Fig. 3, so that at each discharge of the cutters two splints are delivered into each groove 37, one

being in the curved or inclined end and the other in the main part of the'groove. 'It will be seen, however, that as the slats 31 are pushed forward the splints will alse be 'c'arried forward, and after a short movement of the dipping-frame 30 the splints in the two To provide, however, for sepagrooves 37 are made to diverge, as shown clearly in Fig. 1, until the part 40 "of the guide-plate 36 is reached, at which point the grooves 37 become parallel, and when the travel of the dipping-fraiiie 30 has brought the splints to this point the divergence of the grooves will have separated them sufficiently,

so that they will be in the proper position for dipping. Just as the last end of the frame 30 reaches this parallel part 40 of the guideplate the wedges 33 on opposite sides of the frame are pushed inward by the cam34 and the splints are clamped in place. I this part 40 of the plate 36 are gasjets'41, (see Fig. 4,) which heat the plate hot, and as the splints lie deep in the grooves 37 they are Beneath dried quickly and thoroughly not only-at the ends, but throughout the greater part of their length. Obviously this part 40 may he made of any necessary length, and when the dipping-frames are taken from it the splints are ready to dipin paraffin preparatory to being v i dipped in a firing composition. It is evident that the plate 36 may be heated throughout its entire length, if desired. I have shown the plate 36 removable, it being supported on cross-bars 37*. (See Fig. 2.)

It is obvious that the frames 30 maybe fed into the machine from the front end a'nd'fed 7 through the machine by many well-known devices; but I have illustrated what is asiin ple and very perfect means of accomplishingthis result. The slats 31 are pushed forward and at the same time separated to the neces:

mounted in suitable bearings, and each shaft is provided with a ratchet-wheel 44, which is engaged and turned by a pawl 45, each pawl being pivoted, as shown at 4:6, to the short arm of a bell-crank 47, which is pivoted on the machine-frame, as shown at 48, and the bell-crank is connected by pitmen 49 with the eccentric-straps already referred to. It will be seen, therefore, that when the eccentric-straps drop and carry down the plunger22 they will also actuate the bell-crank 47, pawls 45, and ratchet-wheels 44, so that the shafts 43 and gear 42 will be turned sufficiently to advance the dipping-frames the distance of two slats, and consequently at every stroke of the plunger 22 the dippingframe is advanced, so as to receive the rows of splints 39, which are cut by the cutters 10 on each descent of the plunger.

The above description shows that the machine is very complete and simple, and it will be clearly understood that any of the various well-known dipping-frames can be substituted for the German frame which I have seen fit to illustrate without afiecting the principle of the invention and that the usual continuous carriers can be made to connect with the part 40, so as to receive the dippingframes, if desired. I am well aware of the fact that the dipping-frame, the cutting mechanism, and the stock-feed are not new, and, as before remarked, my invention lies chiefly in the arrangementof the guide and heating plate and the combination between this plate and a suitable cutting and clamping mechanism. It will be seen that the heating-plate referred to can be used for heating and drying splints without regard to the means for holding the splints, the only thing necessary for this purpose being that some means be provided for holding the splints essentially perpendicular to the plate, and when used for drying simply the grooves in the plate may be parallel.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A match-machine comprising a guideplate having grooves therein, cutting mechanism adapted to deliver splints endwise into the aforesaid grooves so that the splints stand perpendicular to the plate, and a dippingframe movable between the cutting mechanism and the grooves so as to clamp the ends of the splints which project from the grooves.

2. In a match-machine, the combination of the grooved guide-plate, of splint-clamping mechanism movable over the face of the guideplate, and splint-cutting mechanism arranged to discharge the cut splints directly into the clamping means, and into the grooves of the guide-plate so that the splints are held essentially perpendicular to the plate.

3. In a match-machine, the combination with the guide-plate having diverging grooves therein, said grooves at their inner ends being curved or inclined, of cutting mechanism arranged to deliver a row of splints in the inner or curved ends of the grooves and another row in the straight portion of the grooves, and a holding or clamping device to grip the ends of the splints which project from the grooves.

4. In a match-machine, a combination with the guide plate having diverging grooves therein, of the holding-frame movable over the face of the grooves, means for delivering splints into the dipping-frame and grooves, and means as the wedges of the frame and the cams of the plate for locking the dippingframe, substantially as described.

5. In a match-machine, the combination with the guide-plate having grooves which diverge for a part of their length and then run parallel, of the dipping-frame movable over the face of the guide-plate, the wedges of the frame to close it, and cams or abutments located opposite the junction of the diverging and parallel portions of the grooves to engage the wedges and lock the dipping-frame, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM F. HUTCHINSON.

Witnesses:

WARREN B. HUTOHINSON, W. W. Bros.

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