Patent GB-190126623-A (GB)
Title: Machine for Making Matches.
Inventor: CRISWELL JAMES ADAMS EKIN
Filed: 1901-12-30
Granted: 1902-12-04
Abstract: 26,623. Criswell, J. A. E. Dec. 30. Cutting-up, splitting, and slicing. -Relates to match-makiug machinery, more particularly to machines in which the splints are cut from blocks, such as the machine shown in side elevation in Fig. 1. The blocks are placed in one or more hoppers 11, and fed to feed-rolls 14, 15 by means of an endless belt or otherwise. The rolls 14, 15 are geared together, and the roll 15 is driven by ratchet-andpawl mechanism 23, 24 and an eccentric 26 on a shaft 27. One or more sets of suitable cutters 28, Fig. 5, are provided, and are shown held adjustably between cutter bars or plates 31, which are mounted to slide in discs or wheels 30 on the shaft 27, Fig. 1, and are provided with arms 39 carrying studs and rollers 41 engaging grooves 42 in stationary cams 43. Each or any cutter bar may have a knife 45 for trimming the blocks. A sliding plate 46, Fig. 9, with an upturned end 47 adapted to rest under the blocks during cutting, may be arranged in the hoppers, the plate being forced clear of the cutters at the proper time by means of levers 49 operated from cams 50, Fig. 1, on the main shaft 51. The shaft 27 is connected by toothed gearing 52, 53 to the shaft 51. Broken splints & c. are removed from the machine by an exhaust shoot or pipe 54. The splints ejected from the cutters are received by a transfer carrier such as 55, Fig. 9, and thence inserted into a dipping &c. carrier such as 68, Figs. 1 and 9. The carrier 55 comprises arms or sections 57 provided with splint-holding devices 61 and held in pairs on a rotary, partlyrectangular shaft. Projecting ends of the arms 57 ride normally on stationary bosses 60, and when one pair of arms is vertical, their ends span lugs 62 of bars 63 reciprocated from cams 65 on a shaft 66, Fig. 1. Dust and the like is removed from the carrier 55 by means of an exhaust pipe 70 &c. The shaft 66 is geared to the shaft 27 and carries an arm and roll engaging slots in a disc on the shaft 56, on which is also a notched disc engaging a locking-disc in the usual way. The carrier 68 comprises. plates or sections with the usual splint holes. The transfer-carrier arms may be provided with yielding sliding blocks. In the transfer carrier shown in Fig. 14, the arms 86 are independent, and slide in projecting'portions 89 of wheels or discs 87, and are connected to one or more straps 92 operated by eccentrics on the shaft 88. The discs 87 normally rotate with the shaft 88, but at a fixed point the shaft has an independent movement, for which object a ratchetwheel 94 and pawls 95 may be provided. In the construction shown in Fig. 15, the splints are removed from the cutters 28 by means of wedgeshaped &c. devices 98 on a shaft 99, and are carried by these to receiving devices 103 of slides 100 held in slots of wheels 101 on a rotary shaft 102. Projecting ends of the slides ride normally in grooves of stationary discs 106, and reciprocitory bars 107 serve to force the splints into the dipping &c. carrier 69. In another form of transfer carrier, splint receivers are spaced round a rotary drum and a transfer device between the cutters and drum is provided as in Fig. 15, the shaft carrying an arm and pair of rolls engaging a cam rib. The dipping &c. carrier in this case comprises plates pivoted to an endless chain moving tangentially to and in the same direction as the drum. A machine may be arranged for cutting only, the splints being removed by an exhaust pipe &c.