IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SCORING OR MARKING AND PREPARING 'SQUELETTES OR BLANKS FOR MAKING MATCH AND OTHER BOXES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edmund Pace, of Phoenix Works, Bow Common, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS FOR SCORING OR MARKING AND PREPARING 'SQUELETTES
OR BLANKS FOR MAKING MATCH AND OTHER BOXES, AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES.”
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Scaled the 15th December 1876, and dated the 5th August 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edmund Pace at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th August 1876.
EDMUND PACE, of Phoenix Works, Bow Common, in the County of Middlesex.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SCORING OR MARKING
AND PREPARING ' SQUELETTES OR BLANKS FOR MAKING MATCH AND OTHER
BOXES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
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For this purpose the "squelettes" or blanks, which are first cut to about the size
required in the manner usually adopted, are fed one by one to a feed frame or table
forming part of my present Invention. This feed frame or table is provided with
suitable adjustable stops or guides for the purpose of facilitating the correct adjust-
ment of the "squelettes" or blanks therein and carrying them towards the feed
rollers. This feed table or frame is carried by levers working upon an axis or axes
of motion, so as to enable the feed frame or table to be rocked thereon in a direction
to and from a pair of feed rollers, the lower one of which has its periphery formed
of metal and is truly turned, whilst the upper one has an elastic periphery formed
by preference of a number of rings or collars of india-rubber held in grooves
between rings or collars formed on or fixed to the said roller.
The marking or scoring tools are by preference formed with a comparatively blunt
acting edge, and are carried by levers mounted upon an axis of motion, such levers
being acted upon by springs to keep the marking or scoring tools up to their work,
but (in the case of knots or extra thicknesses occurring in the "squelettes" or
blanks) permitting thein to give way, and thereby prevent injury to them. These
marking or scoring tools are capable of adjustment in horizontal and vertical
directions and their acting ends are placed as close to the bite of the feed rollers as
possible. As the "squelettes" or blanks issue from between the feed rollers they

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arc passed between pairs of rotating disc or wheel cutters which are fixed at
distances apart corresponding with the finished length required for each "squelette
or blank. One of each pair of these disc or wheel cutters rotates in contact with
a pad, cushion, or roller, supplied with suitable lubricating material.
The feed rollers are geared together and the rotating disc or wheel cutters aro
driven by suitable gearing therefrom, whilst the machinery or apparatus may receive
motion by power or otherwise.
The feed table or fram may be operated by hand or by automatic means.
·SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edmund Pace in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th February
1877.
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EDMUND PACE, of Phoenix Works, Bow Common, in the County of Middlesex.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SCORING OR MARKING AND
PREPARING 'SQUELETTES' OR BLANKS FOR MAKING MATCH AND OTHER BOXES, AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
For this purpose the "squelettes" or blanks, which are first cut to about the size
required in the manner usually adopted, aro fed one by one to a feed frameor table
forming part of my present Invention. This feed frame or table is provided with
suitable adjustable stops or guides for the purpose of facilitating the correct adjust-
ment of the "squelettes" or blanks therein and carrying them towards the feed
rollers. This feed table or frane is carried by levers working upon an axis or axes
of motion, so as to enable the feed frame or table to be rocked thereon in a direction
to and from a pair of feed rollers, the lower one of which has its periphery formed
of metal and is truly turned, whilst the upper one has an elastic periphery formed
by preference of a number of rings or collare of india-rubber held in grooves
between rings or collars formed on or fixed to the said roller.
The marking or scoring tools are by preference formed with a comparatively
blunt acting edge, and are carried by levers mounted upon an axis of motion, such
levers being acted upon by springs to keep the marking or scoring tools up to their
work, but (in the case of knots or extra thicknesses occurring in the "squelettes"
or blanks) permitting them to give way, and thereby prevent injury to them.
These marking or scoring tools are capable of adjustment in horizontal and vertical
directions, and their acting ends are placed as close to the bite of the feed rollers as
possible. The "squelettes or blanks are also acted upon by cutters which are
fixed at distances apart corresponding with the finished length required for each
"squelette" or blank.
The feed rollers are geared together and the machinery or apparatus may receive
motion by power or otherwise.
The feed table or frame may be operated by hand or by automatic means.
And in order that my said Invention may be more clearly understood and readily
carried into effect I will proceed, aided by the accompanying Drawings, more fully
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a plan; Figure 2 is a front elevation; Figure 3 is a cross section;
Figure 4 is an end view; and Figure is a detail view of machinery or apparatus 45
constructed according to my Invention; and Figures 6 and 7 are two views of parts
showing a modification thereof.
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a is the main frame of the machine; b is a feed frame or table, which is provided
with suitable adjustable stops b¹, 6, 62, to facilitate the correct adjustment of the
'squelettes" or blanks therein, and carrying them towards the feed rollers c, d. 50
This feed table or frame b is carried by levers 6³ working upon axes of motion b*,

page_text: and provided with stops ³, so as to enable the feed frame or table b to be rocked
thereon within certain limits, in a direction to and from a pair of feed rollers c, d,
the lower one (d) of which has its periphery formed of metal, and is truly turned
whilst the upper one (c) has an elastic periphery formed by preference of a number
of rings or collars c¹ of india-rubber, held in grooves, between rings or collars .
formed on or fixed to the said. roller c. Springa 6 act to bring the feed table b
back to the dotted position shown in Figure 3 after it has fed a squelette" or
blank towards the rollers c, d. The axis of the roller d is supported in journals
formed in the main frame, whilst the necks or axes of the roller c are carried in
journals formed in moveable blocks e working in guides in the main frame a, and
acted upon by screws f to enable the roller c to be forced downwards on to the
roller d with suitable pressure.
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g are the marking or scoring tools, which are by preference formed with a com-
paratively blunt acting edge, and are; according to the arrangement shown by .
Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, carried by levers g¹ mounted upon an axis of motion g³, and
guided by guides g³, such levers g¹ being, acted upon by springs g to keep the
marking or scoring tools g up to their work, but (in the case of knots or extra
thicknesses occurring in the "squelettes". or blanks) permitting them to give way,
and thereby prevent injury to them. These marking or scoring tools g are also,
according to the arrangement shown at Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, capable of adjustment in
horizontal and vertical directions, and their acting ends work in grooves in the
roller c, and are placed as close to the bite of the rollers c, d, as possible.
The feed rollers c, d, are geared together by toothed wheels ; d, and. the
machine is arranged to be driven by a strap or band from a steam engine or other
motive power acting upon a drum or pulley h¹ fixed on one end of a shaft or axis h,
on the other end of which is fixed a drum or pulley h², which by a strap or band
communicates motion to a drum or pulley fixed on the axis of the roller d.
In my Provisional Specification I described the use of disc or wheel cutters for
cutting the "squelettes" or blanks to the exact length required; I have since found
that this arrangement is not so successful as was at first anticipated; I therefore, in
lieu thereof, employ cutters j of a similar character to the marking or scoring tools g,
but formed with sharp cutting edges, and I form in the roller & immediately under
the cutting edges of such cutters a narrow groove or recess to receive such edges,
and prevent injury thereto.
The machine, as represented in the Drawings, is adapted for simultaneously
scoring or marking a length of material suitable for two "squelettes" or blanks for
making match boxes, and it will be seen that eight scoring or marking tools and
three cutters are employed to effect the scoring or marking and preparing of the
"squelettes" or blanks passed through the machine.
Instead of employing scoring or marking tools and cutters capable of horizontal
adjustment and of being kept up to their work by springs, as represented in
Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, the scoring or marking tools g and the cutters ; may be formed
and fixed to a bar a¹ in the manner shown in Figures 6 and 7, in which case they
are capable of vertical adjustment only by means of screws ¹ and slots j².
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The operation of the machine is as follows:-The "squelettes" or blanks are
placed on the feed table b, with two of their edges against the adjustable stops
6, 61, b. The feed table is then pushed forward until the forward edge of the
'squelette" or blank is seized by the feed rollers c, d, which latter draws the
"squelette" or blank through the machine in contact with the marking or scoring
tools g and cutters j, after which the squelettes or blanks properly marked or
scored and cut to the proper lengths fall on to a suitable table.
In the Drawings I have represented the machine as being provided with a
counting apparatus, to count the number of squelettes or blanks passed there-
through. This counting apparatus is arranged and operated as follows:-On one
end of the feed table b is fixed a "dog" b', which when the feed table is pushed
forward raises one end of a lever k mounted on a centre of motion at k¹, and having
at its other end a catch or driver which acts to give a step-by-step rotary

page_text: motion to the ratchet wheel Z, which may be provided with any convenient number
of teeth and has numerals (not shown) on its face, by means of which and a hand
or pointer m the number of "squelettes" or blanks passed through the machine
can be readily ascertained. The ratchet counting wheel has fixed in one side
thereof a number of studs ', which by acting on a projection n¹ on a spring
hammer lever n causes the hammer n² to strike the bell o every time a certain
number of "squelettes" or blanks has passed through the machine.
Although the feed table b is shown and described as being operated by hand it
will be readily understood that it may be worked automatically by means of a
cam, lever, or other contrivance operated by the machine. And I would further
remark, that although I have shown and described the rollers c, d, as being geared
together, I have found by experience that they work equally well or better without
such gearing and being driven the one from the other by simple friction.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention and the mode in which
I carry the same into effect, I would have it understood that what I claim is the
peculiar arrangement and combination of feed table b, feed rollers c, d, marking or
scoring tools g, and cutters j, operating in manner substantially as herein shown
and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edmund Pace have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this First day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-seven