Patent GB-190612817-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Filling Boxes with Matches or the like.
Inventor: WRIGHT JACOB PULVER
Filed: 1906-06-01
Granted: 1906-07-19
Abstract: 12,817. Wright, J. P., and Wright, C. F. June 8, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Match - boxes, filling.- In a machine for filling matches into boxes of the drawer-and-shell type, the boxes, which are closed when supplied to the machine, are e received by holders mounted o n a uniformly-moving endless chain. As the boxes travel through - the machine, the drawers are pushed out of the shells by one set of plungers, another set of plungers pushes matches from temporary match-holders into the drawers, and a third set of plungers close the boxes. The temporary match-holders and the three sets of plungers are mounted on endless chains which travel at the same speed as the matchboxes. Closed m a t c h - boxes placed upon the endless belt 55, Figs. 1 and 2, are carried forward by it and fall down the shoot 54, at the bottom of which each is pushed sideways by a plunger so that it may be gripped between a pair of the projections 42, Fig. 13, formed on the links of the continuously-moving chain 38, Figs. 1 and 2. As the boxes move forward, the drawers are pushed out of the shells by means of plungers 83, Figs. 1 and 15, adapted to slide in box guides 88, Fig. 14, mounted on the uniformly-moving chain 84. The plungers 83 are actuated by pins 90 engaging with the fixed camgroove 92. Before the matches are filled into the drawers, the latter are tilted relatively to the shells of the boxes, as shown in Fig. 18, by means of a thin fixed bar cam which slides in the groove 41<a>, Fig. 13, cut in the links of the chain 38. The matches are supplied to the-machine by the carrier 2, Fig. 5, from which they are removed by horizontally-reciprocating plungers 4.. The matches then fall into the temporary holders 11, Fig. 12, mounted upon the chain 10, Figs. 1 and 5, which is shaken by a pair of pivoted arms 29 to ensure the correct arrangement of the matches in the holders. As soon as the filled match-holders 11 come opposite the opened match-boxes, the matches are pushed from the match -holders into the drawers of the boxes by plungers 96, Figs. 1 and 16, which are carried by the endless chain 95<x> and are actuated by pins 99 engaging with the serrated cam groove 101. The drawers are then returned to their horizontal position by an inclined bar fixed to the casing 123, Fig.-5, which extends along the path of the boxes. The matches are' pressed gently into the-drawers by a fixed flexible rod entering the vertical slots 43<a>, Fig.. 13, in the box-holders. The box-holders then pass through a vertically-vibrating piece 105, Figs. 1, 2, and 23 which settles the matches correctly in the drawers, the matches being meanwhile gently pressed upon by a second flexible rod entering the slots 43<a>, Fig. 13. The rib f, Fig. 23, enters the lateral slots 43<b>, Fig. 13, and partly closes the boxes. The closing operation is completed by plungers 114; Figs. 1 and 17, which are mounted on the chain 115 and are operated by the cam-groove 121.. When the fillel boxes reach the left-hand side of the machine, they fall from the box-holders into a suitable collector.