Patent GB-190222886-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machinery for Filling Match-boxes.
Inventor: SCHUSTER ALBERT
Filed: 1902-10-21
Granted: 1902-12-24
Abstract: 22,886. Schuster, A. Oct. 21. Measured quantities, delivering. - Machinery for filling match boxes is shown in plan in Fig. 1, and part in section on a larger scale in Fig. 8. Match-box trays and covers are fed on separate endless bands 2 provided with clips 3 and mounted on discs, not shown, driven intermittently from the main shaft 4. The matches are placed tip forwards in a hopper 9 closed below by a vibrating grate 12 provided with two sets of plates sliding under projections on a sliding back 11. The grate rests on a plate 23, and is guided by trunnions 24 bearing in the sides 10 of the hopper, and vibrated by means of a lever pivoted to the framing and engaging an eye in one of the trunnions 24, and a spring-pressed bar engaged by a lever oscillated by a ratchet-wheel on a shaft 34. The plate 23 forms the upper face of a casing containing box-like receivers 15 corresponding in dimensions to the match boxes to be filled. Sunk plates 35 form the bottoms of the receivers 15, and are mounted on rods 36 secured to a sliding frame 37, guided in a frame 38 and reciprocated by roller levers 41, 42 from a cam-disc 40. The lever 42 is adjusted relatively to the lever 41 by means of a slotted lever 47 and screw pin 49. Transversely-disposed matches cannot enter the receivers 15, but fall through the grate into collectors. Piston - like pushers 50 corresponding in number to the plates 35 are fixed to rods 51, which are adjustably secured to a plate 52 resting on a slide 56, reciprocated by means of an anchor-like lever and rolling bolts 60, 61 on discs 62, 63 on shafts 8, 7. Dividing- blades 64 with tangs or rods 65 are pivoted to a plate 68 and pressed towards each other by springs 67. Two sliding plates 69, 70, the former beneath the plate 68, and the latter disposed over the tangs 65, are provided with pins which tend to rotate the tangs when the plates are moved in opposite directions, by means of roller pins 80 engaged by the tapered end 79 of a rod 73, operated by a lever and a cam-disc on the shaft 7. The matches are pushed from the plates 35 to doors 81 in a frame 82, guided between plugs 83. The frame 82 is raised and lowered by means of rods 152, a frame 151, and a lever 149 pivoted to the framing and actuated from a cam on the shaft 8. The doors are carried on shafts 88 provided with toothed wheels 89, which are geared in pairs comprising a wheel engaging a rack 92 and a segmental wheel not engaging the rack. The rack is operated by a forked lever, secured on a shaft 99 and actuated by means of a lever 101, engaged by a forked rod, provided with a roller engaging a cam on the shaft 8. A spring secured to the lower end of the forked rod serves to effect a sudden opening of the doors 81. The matches fall through the doors into the trays, which are directed by rollers into a channel 86 provided with edges overlapping the ends of the trays, the doors 81 to a certain extent holding the sides apart. Rammers 108 for shaking the boxes during filling are guided in plates 109, 111 and operated by pawls 119 on a shaft 118, which also has arms carrying a roller 121 resting on spring-pressed rods 122, and a knob 126 adapted to engage a toothed sector 127 on the disc 62. Pressure hammers 131, comprising cheeks united by bolts and fitted with a base-plate, are provided at the ends of bent levers 135, and serve to prevent ejection of the matches from the boxes during the action of the rammers. The levers 135 are carried by a shaft 136, and have noses 140 resting against a rod 139 carried by arms 138 on the shaft. The rod 139 is connected with a lever 141, against which acts the roller of a lever operated by a cam on the shaft 8. One arm 138 is provided with a set-pin 147.