Patent GB-190414188-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Machines for Filling Boxes with Matches
Inventor: WRIGHT JACOB PULVER
Filed: 1904-06-23
Granted: 1904-07-28
Abstract: 14,188. Wright, J. P., and Wright, C. F. June 30, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Measured quantities, delivering.-In an apparatus for filling boxes with matches, toothpicks, or like articles, the matches &c. are fed into receptacles on a moving, endless, horizontal band, and are pushed automatically therefrom by plungers into cylindrical boxes contained in similar receptacles on a parallel, endless band moving at the same speed. Fig. 1 shows the apparatus in plan view, while Figs. 6 and 7 show transverse sectional views. The matches are pushed by the punch head 3, Fig. 1, of a match-making machine into receptacles 9 on an endless chain 8 passing round horizontal sprocket-wheels 6<1>, 7<1>, the wheel 7<1> being adjustable in the bed 5. The boxes descend a shoot 53 into receptacles 44 fixed on a chain passing over vertical sprocket-wheels at the ends of the bed 5, all these sprocket-wheels being driven by worm and spur gearing from a main shaft. The match carrier is agitated in its passage in front of the punch head 3 by passing through a trough 43 formed in three sections, with the outer sections pivoted to the bed, and the central section connected to the other two, and agitated by a rotating cam 38, Fig. 6, actuating a bell-crank lever 37 fixed on a pivot 35, and connected to brackets 31 fixed to the central section 30. To prevent displacement of the matches by this agitation, and to ensure proper delivery by the punch head 3, a guard 43 is provided with an inclined portion extending over the receptacles. The matches are pushed into the boxes by a pair of plungers 76, Fig. 7, on arms 74 actuated through links 77 by levers 78 on a rock-shaft 79, this operation being caused by a spring 83, while the plungers are withdrawn by a cam actuating a roller 81 on a lever 78 fixed on the shaft 79. The matches are however first shaped into bundles by pressure from two guide-pieces 61 with concave lower faces, carried un a two-armed lever 56 on a rock-shaft 57, to which is fixed an arm 58 connected to a forked arm 62 embracing a shaft 63. The pieces 61 are depressed into the match receptacles by a spring 63<x>, while a cam 64 on the shaft 63 withdraws them by actuating a roller 65 on the arm 62. This apparatus for bundling and pushing out the matches is carried by a sliding carriage 68, Fig. 1, reciprocated longitudinally along the bed 5 by means of a stud on an attached piece 70 engaging within a peripheral cam-groove in a disc on the shaft 63, Fig. 7. This disc is mounted together with the cams on a sleeve 84, allowing longitudinal movement on the fixed shaft 63 by a feather 64<b>. The box shoot 53, Fig. 1, terminates in a covered way 54, in which the boxes are filled, and the. box receptacles 44 then descend slightly, the boxes being tilted gradually to a vertical position by a partition 85 of gradually increasing height situated between the match and box receptacles. A curved guide 87 finally conducts the filled boxes in a vertical position on to a fixed table 86.