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. PATENTED JAN; 12, 1904.

w. H. PARKER. APPARATUS FORPREBARING' MATCH STOCK.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 29. 1902.

H0 MODEL.

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I ATTORNEY UNITED STATES Patented January 12, 1964.

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. PARKER, OF PASSAIC, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO PARKER MATCH COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

APPARATUS FOR PREPARING MATCH-STOCK.

SRECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 749,218, dated. January 12, 1904.

Application filed December 29, 1902. Serial No. 136,937. (No model.)

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that. 1, WILLIAM H. PARKER, [of ,Passaic, Passaic county, New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Preparing Match- Stock, of which the following is a full, clear,

and exact description. I

My invention relates to improvements in a means for preparing match-stock, such as veneers or similar -materials, to fit them for making matches.

My invention is especially applicable to preparing stock for the processes illustrated in Letters Patent of the United States No. 7 03,453, dated J my 1, 1902, and No. 704,091, dated July 8, 1902. In the processes referred to the strips of stock, which are of approximately the width of the match length, have.

their edges prepared for dipping in the several compositions and are then either rolled up and dipped ordipped and then cut, as the case may be. It has been my practice heretofore to take the stock as it came out of the veneer-machine and then pass it through a separate machine to prepare it for dipping and cutting; but I have found thatby putting an attachment on an ordinary veneer-machine I can prepare the stock at the same time the veneer is turned, and thus eliminate one machine from the process, thereby cheapening to a certain extent the cost of the finished matches. My present invention has this end in view, and other objects of it are to produce an apparatus which can be convenientlyapplied to any ordinary veneei machine and which would be drivenfrom the log being turned. This latter is an important feature, as it is known that when a log is first started the velocity of the veneer when it is turned from the log is much greater thanit-is after the log has been reduced in size, and. by driving my apparatusfrom the log the speed is thereby always proportioned to the circumferential speed of the log and to the velocity of the veneer as it leaves the log.

With these ends in View my invention consists of certain features of construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

cutter.

Reference is to be hadto the accompanying similar parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation showing diagrammatically the main parts of one type of veneer-machine with my apparatus connected therewith. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the apparatus. Fig. 3 is a much-enlarged detail of the rotary cutter which operates on the stock. Fig. 4 is a broken plan view of the Fig. 5 is a detail sectional view showing a means of ejecting the chips from the cutter; and Fig. 6 is a detail view of the stock, showing its appearance after it is prepared.

In the drawings I have shown a log 10 as it would appear in a common form of veneer- .machine having any usual driving-wheel, and

the machine is shown with the customary knife-feed, which has nothing to do with this invention and which comprises the gear 11, the pinion 12, and the screw-and-ratchet feed 13, driven from the pinion 12 and advancing the knife-bar 14.

p The machine is shown with a knife-bar 14, having a knife 15 the length of the log, and above the knife-bar is the pressure-bar 16, carrying the spur-knives 17, which separate the veneer-sheet as it is turned into a series of strips 18, the width of which corresponds to the length of the match-splints.

I have shown the above mechanism only sufliciently to illustratethe use of my apparatus, but with no idea of claiming it and with tary cutter 22, which is carried by the shaft 23. The two shafts 21 and 23 are connected by gears 24, so that both will turn oppositely and in unison, so that the stock may be fed by the action of the cutter between the cutter and the bearing-roller 20. I have shown the shaft 21 supported in the forked end 25 of the frame 26, which at its other end is forked, as shown at 27, and provided with handles 28, by which it may be raised and swung on the shaft 21, the forkedend 27 carrying also the shaft 30 of a driving-roller 29, which rides on the log 10. This roller or wheel 29 can be provided with spurs or roughened to give it a better hold on the log, if desired. The shaft 30 has a sprocket-wheel-31, connecting by a belt 32 with a sprocketwheel 33 on the shaft 21, so that the shaft 21 will be driven by the contact of the driving roller or wheel 29 with the log.

I have shown the shaft 21, carrying a form of rotary cutter 22, which has circumferential knives 24 parallel with the axis of the cutter, these knives being short and spaced the distance apart which corresponds to the width of a match-splint, so that they will notch the ends of the stock, as shown in Fig. 6. At the inner ends of the end rows of the knives 34 are short cross-knives 35, and in the middle rows of knives 34 the knives 35 appear at each end of the knives 34, because, as will be seen by reference to Fig. 2, the end knives on the cutter have merely to cut one edge of a strip, while the middle knives cut simultaneously the meeting edges of two strips.

As will be seen, the knives 34 cut transversely of the stock 18, while the knives 35 cut parallel therewith and cut off the portions which are split by the knives 34, so as to leave the stock as shown at 19 in Fig. 6. The severed chips are'likely to stick between theter will always correspondto the speed of thestock 18 and that the several strips of stock will be simultaneously cut, and I have'shown.

a simple form of rotary cutter without intending to limit the invention to this precise form of cutter.

When the stock leaves the cutter, it can beleft straight, but it is preferably rolled up, as

shown in the drawings and as illustrated in. one of my former patents referred to,- so asto prepare it for dipping. To this end theusual spindle 37 is provided for rolling up the stock 18, the spindle being driven by a belt 38, connecting it with the shaft 33. When the stock is rolled up, a web 39' is rolled in with it to keep the edges of the stock sepa- I do not limit.

rated for dipping purposes, and I have shown the several webs as being unwound from the shaft 40.

I have not shown the means of supporting the several shafts in the drawings, because obviously they might be sustained in a bearing or framework, and, as above remarked, the invention lies chiefly in a rotary cutter operating on the stock, as described, and driven from the log which is being reduced.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

-1. The combination with a rotary veneermachine, of a rotary cutter acting on the veneer-stock as it leaves the machine and operating to cut equidistant rectangular notches in the edges of the stock, and means for driving the cutter from the face of the log to maintain the ratio of travel between the stock and the cutter.

2. The combination with a rotary veneermachine, of a rotary cutter acting on the veneer-stock as it leaves the machine and operating to cut rectangular notches in one-edges of the stock, the notches on one edge coming opposite the projection formed by the notches on the opposed edge, and means for operating the cutter from the surface of the log in the machine.

3. The combination with a rotary veneermachine, ofa rotary cutter acting on the veneer-stock as it leaves the machine and operating to cut notchesin the edges of the stock, the notches on one edge coming opposite the projection formed by the notches on the opposed edge, a set of gears operating the cutter, said gears being of the same size, a swinging frame supporting the gears and serving to hold. a friction-wheel to engage'the surface of the log in the machine, and means for operating the gears from thefriction-wheel.

4. The combination with a rotary veneermachine, of a rotary cutter arranged to cut transversely and longitudinally of the stock so as to form rectangular notches in the edges ofthe same, a vertically-swinging frame connected to the cutting mechanism and having its free end extending over the log, a frictionwheel carried by the frame and riding on the log, a set of gearsjournaled in the frame and operating the cutting mechanism, and means for operating the gears from the frictionwheel to maintain the speed of the cutters in relation to the travel of the stock.

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

WILLIAM H. PARKER.

In presence of- W. B. HUTGHINSON, J. G. DUNBAR;

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