Patent GB-190126246-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Match Making Machinery.
Inventor: CRISWELL JAMES ADAMS EKIN
Filed: 1901-12-23
Granted: 1903-01-22
Abstract: 26,246. Criswell, J. A. E. Dec. 23. Cutting-up, splitting, and slicing.-Relates to match-making machinery, more particularly to machines in which the splints are cut from veneer, such as that shown in elevation in Fig. 1. One or more removable veneer hoppers 14 with followers register with gated or free passages in one or more socket pieces 12 on a cross bracket or bar on the framing 10. The hoppers have hinged sides with blank-retaining ledges. The blanks may be forced from the hoppers by a rotary device 31, shown partially in section in Fig. 4, or by other means. The device 31 comprises a rotary drum subdivided by peripheral flanges, according to the arrangement of hoppers, and provided with series of adjustable blank-engaging devices 35 and cutting. blocks 37. A suspended cap plate 40 provided with yielding fingers or springs 41 assists in retaining the blanks in position on the blocks 37 and against the devices 35. Any suitable splint-cutting device may be used, such as a shaft 44 with a series of circular cutters. The cutting-device transfers the splints from the device 31 to a separator 47, which is shown as a drum or wheel subdivided by peripheral flanges. Each subdivision has a series of slidable plates or members 52 resting on the rim or web and provided with spaced slots or teeth for the splints. One set of plates may be fixed to the drum, and the other sets timed with respect to it and provided with internal gear teeth, as 59, engaging gears 60 on shafts 61, 62, which are geared to the drum shaft 70. A guide-plate may be arranged below, and a stripping-comb above, the cutters. The splints are carried by the separator under a cover or plate 74 provided with teeth or ribs 74<a>, and may there be subjected to air blasts &c. for removal of fibre &c. Broken or loose splints are removed by means of a pipe 74<b> and exhaust fan &c. The splints are received for completion in a carrier such as 75, comprising endless cables with strung frames 78, Fig. 21, provided with one or more strips or plates 81, which may be pivoted to the frames, and are provided with rows of openings or holding-devices 82. Recesses of the frames engage teeth 84 on endless chains 85 &c. to obtain register of the parts 82 and the slots 55 of the separator, and for the same purpose openings may also be provided in the strips 81 and engage teeth of wheels &c. The parts 81, 35 are correspondingly arranged here so that three blanks are removed and one skipped. The carrier passes over heating, and through paraffining and composition devices 106<a> of the usual type, and over pulleys 107, 108, 109, 110, 111 to a rejecting-device 112, the matches falling upon an endless belt 117. The carrier frames may be dispensed with, and the strips threaded closely on the cables. The frames, when used, may be adjustably secured to the cables by bosses, jaws, and set-screws, pins, bolts, or levers. The device for ejecting the matches from the carrier may consist of an endless belt provided with pins &c. and given at the proper point a sudden movement, as by an eccentric, to eject the matches. In another method of supplying splints to the separator, the veneer blanks are held in a hopper 134, Fig. 37, and forced by a reciprocating plunger 135 to a rotary cutting-device 136, 138 which is provided with strippers 139, 140. A reciprocating cutter may be provided for cutting long splints into shorter ones while held by the separator.