Patent GB-125937-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Packing Matches in Boxes for Match-making Machines.
Inventor: GSELI HENRY ALFRED
IPC: C06F1/12
Filed: 1918-12-21
Abstract: 125,937. Gsell, H A. April 24, 1918, [Convention date]. Packeting matches in boxes.-In match-boxfilling machines of the kind in which the matches are ejected from a carrier 1 on to a conveyer or endless chain which receives intermittingly a traverse equal to the width of the carrier, a number of conveyers each traversing part only of the carrier are provided. The arrangement enables the conveyers to be given a shorter and slower traverse than is required for a single conveyer. As shown, two endless chains 5<a>, 5<b>, each traversing half the width of the carrier 1, are arranged at different levels and pass round wheels 6, 7, 8, 9 and wheels 10, 11, 12, 13 respectively, the wheels 9, 13 being co-axial. The ejecting- bar 3 is provided with two sets 16<a>, 16<b>, Fig. 5, of punches which are arranged at different levels for ejecting matches into receptacles 15, 14 on the chains 5<a>, 5<b> respectively. In some cases, each set of punches is mounted on a separate ejecting-bar. After each ejecting-stroke of the bar 3, the chains 5<a>, 5<b> are traversed through the distances x, y, Fig. 1, respectively, these distances being only half the traverse z required for a single conveyer. The chain 5<b> is arranged so that the straight part presents seven receptacles 14 for filling, the last receptacle being swung into contact with the preceding receptacle by a device such as that shown in Fig. 5 and consisting of a spring-urged lever 18 which is pivoted on the wheel 13 and is adapted to engage the receptacles. The wheel 13 makes one revolution at each tra, verse of the chain. The provision of the device 18 enables the longitudinal gap between the sets 16<a>, 16<b> of punches to be made small. The wheel 9 may also be provided with a lever, arranged in the same manner as the lever 18 and acting on the receptacles 15. Each of the chains 5<a>, 5<b> may be arranged to run parallel to and in unison with a chain 23 for conveying match-boxes, devices A, C of usual construction being provided for pushing the drawers out of and into the skelets respectively, and a device B of the following construction being provided for ejecting matches from the receptacles 14, 15 into the drawers. The devices B each consists of an endless chain 27, Fig. 9, passing at each end over wheels 25, 26 and driven in unison with the chain 5<a> or 5<b>, the links of the chain carrying plungers 28 for ejecting matches from the receptacles 14 or 15. The plungers are operated in sets of seven, alternate sets having upwardly and downwardly turned heads 29, 30 adapted to engage grooved rails 31 and 32 respectively, which are reciprocated laterally in guides 33, 34 by rods 35, 36, the parts being timed so that the traverse of the chains occurs while the plungers are being withdrawn and are still in engagement with the receptacles 14, 15. The arrangement causes the receptacles 14, 15 to be maintained in register with the plungers and the carrier 1. Empty match-boxes are fed to the chains 23 at 24 and full match-boxes are removed at 37. In a modification, the match-boxes are carried by the chains 5<a>, 5<b> and are filled directly from the carrier 1.