Patent GB-252556-A (GB)
IPC: C06F1/20
Abstract: 252,556. Bustamante, C. June 20, 1925. Packeting by wrapping-up.-In a match book machine of the type in which the matches are placed in a cover strip which is wrapped about the matches and secured thereto by stitching &c., means are provided for receiving a strip of matches, dividing the strip into sections and spacing the sections for inserting them in the covers. The strips 4 of matches are placed by hand into boxes 3 carried upon an endless band 2 and are forced by plungers 32 on to a platen 31 where they are held by a spring 34, Fig. 3, so as to be out into sections by knives 27, operated by eccentrics 24, and the sections are impaled by pricker elements 30 carried upon a pivoted arm 48. The covers, which are of strip form adapted to be cut into sections corresponding with the metal sections, each section forming the cover of a book, are contained in a reservoir 35<a> from which they are ejected singly by a sliding plate 41 and are fed by rollers 37 to knives 38, the sections being fed by rollers 43 on to one of a number of platens 45 and positioned thereon by a guide strip 47. The platens 45 are mounted so as to rotate with gears 9, 13 which rotate freely about a shaft 10 and are actuated by levers 69 operated by a cam 71 keyed to the shaft 10. The arm 48 is at this stage rotated into the position shown in Fig. 6, so as to deposit the impaled match sections upon the covers, a stripper plate 59, actuated by the engagement of a roller 62 upon a cam 64, being provided for stripping the match sections from the pricker elements 30. The platen 45 is thereupon depressed and the cover is folded over the heads of the matches by a rocker arm 77, Fig. 10, which is actuated by a cam 79, the other end of the cover being folded over by an arm 82 upon rotation of the platen to the position shown at 83, the arm 82 engaging the upper end of an arm 85. Upon completion of the folding a wire stitch is inserted through the base of the section by a stitching mechanism 86 of usual form, and on further rotation of the platen 45 the finished book is discharged into a shoot 87. The device for spacing the match sections to allow for the difference in width of the match and cover sections comprises a cam member 65 having diverging slots 66 in which followers 67 on the pricker elements 30 engage. The various mechanisms are driven from the main shaft 5, which drives through chain-and-sprocket gearing a shaft 6 from which by means of gears 8, 9 having teeth for a portion only of their periphery, the endless chain 2 is intermittently driven. The feed rollers 37, 43 and knives are operated continuously by chain-andsprocket gearing from the shaft 5, the slide 41 being reciprocated through link motion by an eccentric 23 driven from the wheel 9, while the plungers 32 are actuated by a lever 22 reciprocated by an eccentric on the shaft 6. The arm 48 carrying the pricker elements is oscillated by means of toothed sectors, 52, 53 actuated by a link 54 and an eccentric on the shaft 6, rotation of the sector 52 causing a roller 50 to move over a cam surface 51, thereby lifting or lowering the pricker elements 30. The shaft 10 and cam 71 keyed thereto are rotated by a link mechanism 74 - - 76, the link 74 being actuated by an oscillating arm 19 which receives its motion from an eccentric 18 on the shaft 6.