IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR "FILLING' MATCH SPLINTS OR OTHER SPLINTS, WHETHER MADE OF WOOD, WAX, GLASS, OR OF ANY OTHER MATERIAL
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Leonard Mount, of Bromley-by-Bow, in the
County of Middlesex, Ohemical Light Maker, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR "FILLING' MATCH
SPLINTS OR OTHER SPLINTS, WHETHER MADE OF WOOD, WAX, GLASS, OR OF ANY
OTHER MATERIAL."
Sealed the 26th April 1870, and dated the 25th November 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Leonard Mount at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
25th November 1869.
I, LEONARD MOUNT, of Bromley-by-Bow, in the County of Middlesex,
Chemical Light Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said In-
vention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR FILLING'
MATCH SPLINTS OR OTHER SPLINTS, WHETHER MADE OF WOOD, WAX, GLASS, OR
OF ANY OTHER MATERIAL," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to obtain a readier and more economical
means than has hitherto been accomplished of "filling" the dipping
frames used in the manufacture of matches with splints made either of
wood, wax, glass, or of any other material whereby steam or other motive

page_text: power is applied and hand labor is almost entirely dispensed with in
operating the machine or apparatus.
The machine generally employed for filling match splints (and which
is operated by hand only) consists of a frame constructed of wood or
iron of a height to suit the convenience of the operator; also of a
slide bevilled at the ends to work in V grooves; also of a set of wires
running in a bed plate, the bed plate forming the bottom of the box or
hopper for receiving the splints. The box or hopper is put in motion
by a rod and fixings attached. The machine consists also of an ascending
and descending frame with counterbalance weights and other fittings,
including a hand lever for moving the slide.
These improvements include in combination all the above elements
with the exception of the hand lever, which is not used, and this
Invention consists in securing the bevilled slide a connecting rod,
which passes through the back of the machine and terminates in a
turned rod for working in wood or brass bearings. At the back of the
ordinary filling machine and supported on brackets shafting is carried.
having a fixed key sunk into but, raised above the surface of the same.
A cam formed of a plain disc with a groove sunk or cut in the face is
placed on this shafting with suitable keyway.to accommodate the fixed
key; this carries the cam round with it to operate the machine, allowing
the cam to slide freely on the shafting. The boss of the cam is grooved
to receive a fork attached to a lever which enables the operator to shift
the cam at pleasure. By a movement of this lever the cam is brought
close to the connecting rod; in this a stud is fixed, which finds its way
into the groove of the cam, motion being thereby imparted to the slide,
which motion continues till the cam is brought back out of the reach of
the stud.
Any convenient number of these improved machines may be
attached or connected to the same length of shafting, the machines
being intended to be placed or to stand back to back, the two opposite
machines working from or being operated by the same fixed key and
supporting the necessary shafting between them.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,.
filed by the said Leonard Mount in the Great Seal Patent Office.
on the 25th May 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LEONARD
MOUNT, of Bromley-by-Bow, in the County of Middlesex, Chemical
Light Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day. of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-.
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Leonard Mount, Her special licence that I,
the said Leonard Mount, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Leonard Mount, my executors, adminis
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein ex-.
pressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within,
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR.
FILLING' MATCH SPLINTS OR OTHER SPLINTS, WHETHER MADE OF WOOD, Wax,.
GLASS, OR OF ANY OTHER MATERIAL, upon the condition (amongst others).
that I, the said Leonard Mount, my executors. or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands..
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
"
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Leonard Mount, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement in writing, reference being had to the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, that is to say :-
The object of this Invention is to obtain a readier and more economical
means than has hitherto been accomplished of filling the dipping frames.
used in the manufacture of matches with splints made either of wood;.
wax, glass, or of any other material whereby stcam or other motive-

page_text: power is applied and hand labor is almost entirely dispensed with in
operating the machine or apparatus.
The machine generally employed for filling match splints (and which
is operated by hand only) consists of a frame constructed of wood or iron
of a height to suit the convenience of the operator; also of a slide
bevilled at its ends to work in V grooves; also of a set of wires running
in grooves in a bed plate, the bed plate forming the bottom of the box or
hopper for receiving the splints. The box or hopper is put in motion by
a rod and fixings attached. The machine consists also of an ascending
and descending frame with counterbalance weights and other fittings,
including a hand lever for moving the slide.
These improvements include in combination all the above elements.
with the exception of the hand lever, which is not used, and this
Invention consists in securing to the bevilled slide a connecting rod,
which passes through the back of the machine and terminates in a
turned rod for working in wood or brass bearings. At the back of tho
ordinary filling machine and supported on brackets shafting is carried
having a fixed key sunk into but raised above the surface of the same.
A cam formed of a plain disc with a groove of suitable depth and width
sunk or cut in the face is placed on this shafting and is provided with
suitable key way to accommodate the said fixed key, which latter carrics
the cam round with it to operate the machine as herein-after described,
and it allows the cam to slide freely on the shafting in the direction of
the latter's axis. The boss of the cam is grooved to receive a fork
attached to a lever which enables the operator to shift the cam at
pleasure. By a movement of this lever the cam is brought close to the
connecting rod, in which a stud (encircled by a friction roller) is fixed;
this finds its way into the groove of the cam, and motion is thereby
imparted from the shaft to the connecting rod and slide, which motion
will continue until it is desired to stop the machine, when the cam is
again moved by the hand lever and brought out of the way of the
stud.
Any convenient number of these improved machines may be attached
or connected to the same length of shafting as the machines are placed,
or stand back to back, the two opposite machines working from or being
operated by the same fixed key and supporting the necessary shafting on
brackets placed between them.

page_text: Such being the nature and object of my said Invention for "Improve-
ments in Machinery or Apparatus for 'Filling' Match Splints or other
Splints, whether made of Wood, Wax, Glass, or of any other Material," I
will now proceed to describe more in detail the manner in which the
same is to be or may be performed or carried into practical effect, and in
order that the same may be distinctly understood, I have annexed here-
únto a Slicet of Drawings illustrative thereof, and have marked the same
with figures and letters of reference corresponding with those in the
following explanation thereof, that is to say :-
On the accompanying Sheet of Drawings Figure 1 represents a plan
view of an ordinary machine for filling the dipping frames with the
matches or splints previous to the same being dipped shewing my
improvements adapted and applied thereto. This Figure shews one
machine only in work, but it also shows the manner in which the two
(back to back) machines are operated from the same shaft g, and
Figure 2 represents the manner in which the bevilled slide is drawn
backwards and forwards and the length of stroke by the movement given
to the stud and roller, and consequently the connecting rod by the
rotation of the cam. It is a vertical section through the line 1-2,
Figure 1, looking in the direction of the arrow 3.
(either wood
a is the connecting rod secured to the slide b, which is bevilled at its
ends c and works in V grooves 6' in the cast-iron piece d secured by
screws or other convenient means to the body or frame of the machine e.
The connecting rod a is secured to the slide 6 by being passed between
two tongue pieces or jaws f secured to the latter and then secured by a
nut and bolt. It is made in two parts, which are secured together by a
strip of metal and bolted to the same, and it is slotted as shewn at
Figure 2, so that it slides easily over the shaft g, and its outer end is
made or shaped into a turned rod working in the bearings
or brass). The connecting rod is provided with a stud i encircled by a
friction roller j. k is the cam, which has a groove / sunk into or cut
in its face. It is carried round on the shaft g by a key m on the latter
entering a (similar sized) cavity in the inner periphery of the cam, but
the cavity is large enough to allow the cam being operated by the hand
lever n pivoted at o) so as to slide along the shaft and out of the way
of the friction roller j. p is the fork entering a groove in the boss 9 of
the cam and connected to the hand lever, as shewn; ", ", are the
bearings placed between the backs of two machines and on which the

page_text: shaft g is supported; s is a bevil wheel in gear with a wheel or pinion t
on the shaft u; vare bearings to support said shaft; to is a boss set
excentric on the shaft u, and by means of the fixings and attachments
x, y, and z gives a rapid to-and-fro motion to the hopper a¹ containing
the splints. This has the effect of shaking them down into the grooves
.6' formed in the bed plate forming bottom of the box or hopper a¹. c
are the vertical plates through which the splints issuing from the
machine are separately pushed (by the wires d¹) into the grooves of the
dipping frame e'; this frame is set upon the ascending and descending
frame, which is controlled in its working by the counterbalance weight.
The frame e' is prevented from being pulled up by the weight by means
of the counterbalance catches g¹.
The working of the apparatus is as follows:-Motion is imparted to
the shaft by means of a belt from a steam or other motive power
engine passing round a pulley on the same.. This communicates motion
by means of the pinion t to the bevil wheels and to shaft g, which by
means of its fixed key m carries around the cam k, the hand lever n
having first been moved so as to bring the groove of the cam so that
the friction roller; enters therein. The motion is imparted thereto and
to the connecting rod a and slide 6 which is pushed backwards and
forwards, and the wires d' entering the grooves ₁ of the bed plate push
out the splints (which are caused to fall therein by the shaking or to-and-
fro motion imparted to the hopper) between the plates and on to the
fold of the dipping frame, another grooved fold is then put on the same,
and the operation is continued until the dipping frame is filled, when it
is taken away and a fresh one supplied.
5
The to-and-fro motion given to the hopper a¹ is obtained as follows:-
The rotation of the shaft carries around with it the fixed excentric
boss to; this is connected to the jawed connecting rod x, and this latter
to the bar x. The motion is imparted from this to the pieces y and to
the hopper. The lower of these pieces is fixed to the rod X', and
the upper one is attached to the iron band of the hopper; they are
held together when required by means of the drop pivoted bit y' worked
by the rod. An additional groove is formed at either end of the bed
plate, so that if more than the proper number of splints should fall into
the grooves b' they will be kept from being pushed out of the box and so
overcrowding the dipping frame and wearing out the brush as they will.
be caused to enter these additional grooves. The shafts 7 and u and
J...

page_text: the rod X' can be continued or lengthened so as to accommodate and
work any convenient number of machines.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention for
"Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Filling Match
Splints or other Splints, whether made of Wood, Wax, Glass, or of any
other Material," together with the manner in which the same is to be or
may be performed or carried into practical effect, I would remark in
conclusion that what I claim as my Invention is, the improvements in
machinery or apparatus for filling the dipping frames used in the
manufacture of matches with splints, substantially as herein-before
described and illustrated in the accompanying Sheet of Drawing, or any
modification thereof acting in the same or a similar manner, and more
especially I claim the substitution of steam or other motive power in
lieu of land labor for operating and working the bevilled slide
substantially by the means herein-before described.
In witness whercof, I, the said Leonard Mount, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
Witness,
BRISTOW HUNT,
Solicitor and Patent Agent,
1, Scrlo Street,
Lincoln's Inn.
LEONARD MOUNT. (L.s.)