IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR MAKING MATCH SPLINTS
Year: 1885

page_text: We, GEORGE EASTMAN NORRIS, Machinist of No. 118, North-Third Street,
City of Troy, County of Rensselawr, State of New York, United States of North
America and WILLIAM ELIJAH HAGAN, Solicitor of 219 River Street, City, County,
State, and Country before named, do hereby declare the nature of our invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR MAKING MATCH SPLINTS and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described in, and by the
following statement:→
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Our invention relates to machines for making match splints, and more particu-
larly to certain improvements on that class of machines that are constructed to
slit up a veneer of wood for that purpose by means of rollers that are made with
cutting grooves between which the veneer is passed. The object and purpose of
our invention being to cut the splints from a veneer of wood; to point them for
dipping; to polish or render smooth the rounded sides of the splints; and to
put the latter into boxes preparatory to dipping them after having been placed
therein.
In the application of our invention two cutting rollers having proper shafts and
bearings are employed. These cutting rollers have the same diameter and length,
and they are connected by gears on their shafts so as to move at the same time,
and with the same speed in opposite rotation. The cylindrical faces of these
rollers are constructed (in lines that are parallel to the axis of each roller) with
longitudinally arranged grooves that have intermediately placed cutting edges;
and these rollers are so keyed to their respective shafts as to bring the cutting
edges of each of them in cutting contact as they are rotated; so that a veneer of
wood being passed between said rollers when the latter are rotated will be cut or
pressed into splints that adhere on the line where nearly cut through.
The cylindrical face of each of these cutting rollers are provided with two
circumferentially arranged ring-form grooves; and these grooves of each roller are
vertically parallel with those formed in the other roller when the two rollers are in
position within the machine. As the splints of the partly cut veneer have the
tendency to adhere to the roller grooves, a trough provided with fingers is used to
detach them; the fingers being adapted to under-run the veneer by entering the
ring-form groove and thus strip the veneer of adhering splints from off the rollers,
and guide it into the trough. To brake up this adhesion of the splints the latter
are caused to pass over the abrupt edge of a concavely curved guide-plate, and
from thence are carried down and along over the concave of the latter by the
coincident surface of a rubber roller that is actuated to turn in said concave at a
sufficient distance therefrom to allow a passage-way for the splints.
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page_text: being rolled down along the concave surface of the guide plate by the rubber
roller all adhering fibre splinters are removed from the splints, and to facilitate
which the curved surface of the concave may be covered with emery or other
similar material. When the splints are thus moving along over the concave, one
end of each of them is chamfered off, or pointed by the action of a circular saw
that has bevelled teeth, and which is arranged to turn on the rubber roller shaft.
The aforesaid rubber roller is made with two ring-form grooves in its circum-
ferential face for the reception of fingers to under-run the splints, and to guide
them into a trough leading to the boxing mechanism.
The boxing mechanism is constructed of two tubes arranged side by side, and
each of which is provided with a hopper opening in the top, and each tube has a
piston that is actuated to be reciprocated within the latter to push the splints
falling therein through the top opening, into a box placed on the end of the tube,
and the filled box from off the latter.
The boxing tubes are provided with oscillating hopper guides which operate to
direct the current of falling splints from one tube to the other in alternating
Bеquence; this oscillating movement of the hopper guides being arranged with
reference to the alternating reciprocation of the pistons so that when one of the
tubes is filling with splints the other tube by means of its piston is being actuated
to fill a box that is placed on over its open end, and then to force the filled box
from off the tube.
Accompanying this statement and specification to form a part of it there are four
plates of drawings containing twenty figures illustrating our invention with the
same designation of parts by letter reference used in all of them.
Of these illustrations Figure 1, is a perspective of a machine for making match
splints containing our invention; this view having been taken with the delivery
end and one side of the machine turned towards the sight; and the belt which
actuates the splint pointing saw being omitted.
Figure 2, is another perspective of the machine illustrated in the previously
described figure but in this instance shown with the receiving end and one side of
the machine turned towards the sight; the driving shaft being shown with its
actuating pulley removed, and the mechanism illustrated with the feeding table
removed.
Figure 3, is a cross-vertical section taken on the line x¹, x', of figure 1, through
the cutting rollers, and also through one of the fingers of the horizontal trough,
the latter, the concavely curved guide plate, the rubber roller, the downwardly
curved trough leading to the boxing mechanism, and one of the fingers of said
trough; also through the boxing mechanism and the mechanism operating the same.
Figure 4, illustrates a longitudinal vertical section taken through the cutting
rollers, their shafts, bearings, and connected gear-wheels. Figure 5, illustrates a
longitudinal vertical section of the rubber roller, its shaft, and bearings, actuating
gear-wheel, the hub of the circular splint pointing saw. Figure 6, is a side eleva-
tion of the detached rubber roller, the circular splint pointing saw, and a part of
the belt which actuates the same. This illustration shows also the relative position
of the saw, and a splint, when the latter is being pointed by the former. Figure 7,
is a plan view of the detached boxing tubes, and their oscillating hopper guides.
Figure 8, is a perspective of the detached boxing tubes, their oscillating hopper
guides, and a part of the boxing tube pistons; one of the tubes being shown as
having a match box placed on its end to be filled, and the other tube illustrated
as just having had a filled box forced from off it.
Figure 9, is a cross-vertical section taken on the line x, x³, of figure 7.
Figure 10, is a plan view of the segmental rack-wheel, the two racks, and an
intermediate pinion which operates the boxing pistons, and this figure shows also
the shafts, and the gear-wheel by which reciprocating rotation is communicated to
the rack-wheel.
Figure 11, is a detached and enlarged side elevation of one of the boxing pistons ;
showing also the piston rod, and a spiral spring encircling the same; and the

page_text: tripping mechanism by which said spring is made active to withdraw the piston
from the tube promptly after the piston has forced the splints that are within the
tube into a box placed on its open end, and the filled box from off the latter; the
piston in this illustration being shown as drawn out from the tube by the action
of the spring encircling the piston rod. Figure 12, shows another side elevation of
the same parts that are shown at figure 11 but in this instance the piston is shown
as when forced within the boxing tube against the action of the spiral spring
encircling the piston rod. As the construction of both of the boxing tubes and their
pistons is the same as regards the action of the springs and the tripping
mechanism, but one of them is illustrated.
Figure 13, is a plan view of the shaft that is constructed with two facing
bevelled gear-wheels having opposite arranged blank peripheral spaces where there
are no gears, and intermediate places where there oppositely are placed segmental
series of gears, which will as they are rotated in the same direction engage with
the teeth of a bevelled pinion placed between said wheels, to reciprocatingly
rotate the latter.
Figure 14, is a perspective of the detached horizontal trough or passage-way
constructed with fingers for stripping from off the cutting rollers the veneer of partly
cut splints, and for conveying them to the edge of the concavely curved guide plate
where they are acted upon by the rubber roller and pointing saw.
Figure 15, is a perspective of the same parts that are shown at figure 14, but
which in this instance are shown as turned over to illustrate their under side.
Figure 16, is a perspective of a part of the trough shown at figure 14, cut away on
the line 3, 3, of said figure to illustrate a leaf spring arranged in the side of the
trough to keep the moving veneer close up to the side of the latter.
Figure 17, is a view of the curved trough provided with fingers to strip the
splints from off the rubber roller, and to guide them into the boxing tubes.
Figure 18, is a cross section taken on the line x, x, of figure 17. Figure 19, is
another section of the trough shown at figure 17, taken on the line ³, 3, of said
figure.
Figure 20, is a longitudinal vertical section taken through the driving pulley, a
gear wheel on the hub of the latter, and a section also of a shaft on which said
driving pulley and its hub turns; also in connection a section taken vertically
through another shaft beneath that on which the driving pulley and its hub turns;
and a gear-wheel on said lower shaft which meshes into a gear-wheel on the hub of
the driving pulley to receive power therefrom; also in connected section a gear-wheel
on said lower shaft communicating power to a gear-wheel upon the shaft on which
the driving pulley and hub turns, and in connected section a gear-wheel upon the
shaft on which the driving pulley turns communicating power to a sleeved shaft
on said lower shaft; which sleeved shaft is constructed with a bevelled gear-wheel
for communicating power to a cross-shaft that actuates the boxing mechanism as
will be more fully detailed by letter reference and described hereinafter.
The several parts of the mechanism thus illustrated are designated by letter
reference and the function of the parts is described as follows.
The letters F, indicate the frame of the machine, and t¹, a feeding table arranged
thereon by means of brackets b¹. The letters R¹, and R², designate two cutting
rollers that are made to have on their cylindrical faces grooves g¹, with the cutting
edges e¹, arranged between the latter which grooves and cutting edges are made in
the cylindrical face of the rollers in lines parallel to their axies These cutting
rollers have also two ring-form grooves g' which are arranged in the cylindrical
face of the said rollers circumferentially to their axies, and so as to be vertically
parallel with each other in each roller.
The upper one of these rollers and that indicated at R¹, has a shaft S¹, made to
journal in bearings that are vertically adjustable against a spring a¹, in the
machine frame, and by set-screws t, arranged in the top of the latter.
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The letter S, designates the shaft of the lower cutting roller R³, one end of
which shaft has its bearings as indicated at b³, and the other end of said shaft has

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its bearings in the machine frame, and at the end projected through the latter it
has arranged thereon the gear-wheel W₁, for receiving power.
The letter W³, indicates a gear-wheel arranged on the upper cutting roller
shaft S¹, and the letter W³, a gear-wheel on the lower cutting roller shaft S³.
These gear-wheels on the cutting roller shafts are of the same size, and are arranged
to mesh into each other to communicate power from one to the other, to revolve at
the same speed, and so as to bring the cutting edges of each roller in cutting
coincidence with those of the other, as they are rotated.
The letter D', designates the driving pulley which is shown as applied to the
machine in the perspective figure 1, and illustrated in a diametrical vertical
section at figure 20. This pulley D¹, has a hub bearing indicated at h¹, and on the
lateral extension of said hub there is constructed the pinion p¹. This hub and
pulley turn on the shaft S³, and the pinion p¹, meshes into the gear-wheel W*, that
is arranged on the shaft S, to communicate motion to the latter; and said shaft S
at its end which is opposite to that at which it receives power is constructed with
a pinion p³, the latter meshing into the gear-wheel W5, on the shaft S³, to turn the
latter, and to actuate a pinion p³, located on said shaft S³, on the inner side of
the gear-wheel W, and which pinion p³, meshes into the gear-wheel W₁, on the
cutting roller shaft S³, to communicate motion to the cutting rollers.
The gear-wheel W, on the shaft S, engages with the gear-wheel We, that turns
on a fixed pin or pintle p*, attached to the machine frame. The gear-wheel W6,
meshes into a gear-wheel W", that also turns on a fixed pin or pintle that is
attached to the side of the machine frame, said pintle being indicated at p³, and
the said gear-wheel W7, meshes into the gear-wheel W8, on the rubber roller
shaft SB, to actuate the said rubber roller indicated at I.
The letter p, indicates a pinion on the shaft S³, which makes a geared con-
nection with a wheel W, on the sleeve B; the latter being adapted to turn on the
shaft S', as indicated in section at figure 20. The letter M³, designates a bevelled
gear-wheel arranged on, so as to turn with the sleeve B; and this wheel M',
engages with a bevelled gear-wheel M³, on the front end of the cross-shaft N1; the
latter having its bearings in hangers h³, h³, as shown at figure 13. This cross-
shaft has arranged upon it two facing bevelled gear-wheels E, E, which have the
oppositely arranged perimetral gears a³, a', and intermediate oppositely located
blank places a, a, that have no gear teeth. The letter P, designates a bevelled
pinion arranged between these wheels E, E, the said pinion having a vertical shaft
or pintle m³, and the letter K, indicates a segmental rack-wheel on the upper end
of said shaft adapted to engage at opposite intervals of motion with the teeth on
said wheels E, E. As the shaft N₁, is revolved, the wheels E, E, communicate
reciprocating rotation to the pinion P, its vertical shaft and rack wheel K.
The letter n¹, indicates a gear-wheel arranged on that end of the cross-shaft N',
which is opposite to that at which the said shaft receives power; and this wheel n',
engages with a gear-wheel n², located on the outer end of a short cross shaft J, the
latter having its bearings 65, 66, in the table T³, which supports the boxing
mechanism as indicated at figure 3. This short cross shaft J, by means of a cam
arranged thereon operates the oscillating hopper guides of the boxing mechanism,
as will be subsequently described herein.
The letter d', designates a horizontal trough or passage-way, which is enclosed
so as to have an interior width a little greater than the width of the veneer of
partly cut splints; and a depth a little greater than the thickness of the veneer, or
the diameter of the splints. This trough is constructed with two upper fingers f¹, f¹,
and two lower fingers f, f, projected from its end where adjacent to the cutting
rollers. The upper fingers are arranged to enter the ring-form grooves of the
upper cutting roller, and the lower fingers to enter the ring-form grooves of the
lower roller.
With these fingers thus constructed and placed with reference to the cutting
rollers, the sheet of passing, and partly cut splints is under-run by them, and by
the action of both sets of them it is stripped therefrom, and directed into the

page_text: trough d', and while passing through the latter from the expelling and crowding
force of the cutting rollers, the partly cut veneer is forced closely up to one side of
the trough d¹, by means of a leaf spring 1, located in one side of said trough along
the face of which spring, the side of the veneer must pass, the said trough being
indicated at figure 1, in connection with the other parts and at figures 14, 15,
and 16, as detached from the machine.
The letter C¹, designates a downwardly and concavely curved guide-plate, that is
formed on a support A¹, and which connects with the trough d¹; said curved guide-
plate being adapted to have arranged upon it a polishing material as indicated at y,
if desired. The letter I, indicates the rubber roller which is arranged upon its shaft
so that its cylindrical face shall coincide in curve with that of the guide-plate C¹,
and rotate at sufficient distance from the latter to leave a passage-way for the
splints. As thus arranged when the rubber roller revolves with a rotation that
carries its cylindrical face downward thereat, and in contact with the partly cut
veneer where passing the end of the trough D', the splints are separated in going
over the abrupt edge o, of the trough as they are carried down therefrom by the
rubber roller. As the surface of the latter comes in contact with the sides of the
splints, it rolls them along over the concave surface of the guide plate C¹, so as to
remove all adhering fibre, and to give to them a finished appearance.
The letter V, indicates a ring-form saw having cylindrically arranged and inwardly
bevelled teeth, said saw having a hub bearing *, arranged to run on the rubber
roller shaft. The letter B*, designates a belt adapted to run on said hub, and to
a pulley separate from the machine to communicate power to said saw, the latter
being shown at figure 1, in an operative position as connected with the other parts,
and with the rubber roller on the shaft of which its hub turns at figures 5, and 6.
The letter L, indicates another trough, having fingers f*, f, arranged to run in
two circumferential grooves G², formed on the cylindrical face of the rubber roller;
the purposes of these fingers is to free the finished splints from the rubber roller,
and direct them into the trough L. The letters no, no, indicate springs that are
attached to offsets a', on the sides of the trough L, which springs act to keep the
splints within the trough as crowded towards the boxing mechanism; said curved
trough being shown in connection with the other mechanism at figures 1, and 3, and
separately illustrated at figures 17, 18, and 19.
The boxing mechanism consists of two tubes 0', and O', which are arranged side
by side on the table Ts. The inner one of these tubes has a piston U₁, and a top
feed opening d³, and the outer tube has a piston U2, and a top feed opening d³.
These top feed hopper openings are arranged in the tubes side by side and
immediately beneath the discharge end of the trough L. These pistons are arranged
to alternatingly move in said tubes in reciprocation so as to force therefrom into
a match box placed on the end of each of the tubes the match splints coming from
the trough L, and by a continuation of the same motion to force the filled boxes
from off the tubes.
The letter Re, designates a rack which is provided with teeth upon both of its
vertical sides, and having a grooved guide-way on its under side not shown in the
drawings. This rack Rº, receives power and reciprocating rotation from the
combined action of the bevelled pinion P, the facing gear-wheels E, E, having
broken out or omitted gears and the shaft N', as before described. The letter R,
indicates a rack that also has a grooved guide-way on its under side that is not
shown; the letter c, a pinion having a pintle or shaft on which it turns; and this
pinion meshes into the adjacent sides of both racks R, R. As thus arranged when
the segmental rack-wheel K, actuates the rack R6, in one direction, the latter
actuates the pinion c, to move the rack R', in an opposite direction.
Each of the pistons U¹, and U', have a piston rod r³, with a headed outer end eª,
and the letters Go, indicate guides attached to the top of each of the racks, for the
passage of said piston rods. The letters de, designate a spiral spring arranged on
each of the piston rods between its headed end e, and the guide G. The letters L³,
designate latches, one of which is pivoted to the other side of each of the racks į

page_text: said latches each having a hook-form end 16, and being provided with a keeper
spring me, which acts to keep the inner ends of said latches down and the outer
hook-form ends up. The letters t6, t6, designate tripping bars, each of which is
attached to the table T³, and adjacently to one of the latches of each rack; and
these tripping bars are each constructed with a friction roller We, that is adapted
to engage with a projection a, on the lower side of each one of the latches L³, to
which the tripping bar is adjacent. The function of these tripping bars is by the
engagement of their friction wheels or rollers W6, with the projections aº, on the
latches to independently force upwardly the inner end of each one of the latches, so
as to unhook the outer end thereof from off the end of the piston rod when the
piston moving with the latter has made its traverse through the tube, to force the
splints therein into a box placed on the outer end of the tube, and the box from off
the latter. The pistons, the springs upon the piston rods, the latches and tripping
bars being shown in an enlarged representation at figures 11, and 12.
Thus constructed as the racks R, and R', are alternatingly reciprocated as before
described when moving towards the boxing tubes, the hook-form ends of the latches
of each of the racks hook on to the adjacent headed end of one of the piston rods,
and draws the latter and the connected piston, forcing the latter to pass into and
through one of the boxing tubes, and in alternating sequence both of said pistons
are so operated; and in the interim between their alternating forward movement
each one of the latches is tripped as before described, and the pistons are drawn
back by the stored up recoil force of the springs do.
This
The letters H¹, H, designate two oppositely placed hopper guides, each of which
has a hinging connection made with a support d', arranged on the table T.
hinging connection is made by a hinging rod h7, passing through a tube c', to which
latter the outer ends of each of the hopper guides are attached; there being two
side arms to each of the hopper guides, and these arms are in each hopper guide
designated by the letters 67, 67. The letters a', designate a spring arm projected
downwardly from the cylinder of each of the hopper guides, and n², a spring
connecting with the ends of each of the arms; said spring intermediately_passing
through an opening y', made in the base of the center wedge-form piece A7. This
center piece A7, is fixed to the table T³, and projected upwardly between the sides
of the two boxing tubes 0, 0, and the inclined surfaces of this wedge-form center
piece, indicated at 7, runs down to the top openings d', d³, in the boxing tubes on
the inner side of the said openings.
The trough L, is arranged to deliver the splints immediately over the upper edge
of this wedge-form center piece. The tops of the guide hoppers are rounded off
at t, so that when either set of the hopper guides are down within the cross
openings m7, of the center piece A7, the rounded off part t7, of the hopper guide that
is down and the adjacent inclined surface r, of the center piece, form a connected
inclined passage-way for the splints through the top opening of the tube whereat
the hopper guide is up; and thus as these hopper guides are oscillated, the splints
coming from the trough 1, are alternatingly diverted from one tube to the other
thereby.
The letters e, indicate an offset formed on the outer side of the hinging tubes of
each of the hopper guides and ƒ7, a cam roller arranged on a pintle constructed on
each of said offsets. The letters z, designates cam rollers arranged on the short
cross shaft J; the latter receiving power as before described from the cross shaft N¹.
These cams 27, are constructed on the shaft J, so that they will alternatingly raise
up and depress each of the hopper guides as said shaft rotates; and thus alter-
natingly guide the current of falling splints from one boxing tube to the other.
To produce splints from the mechanism thus described and illustrated, a veneer
of wood having a thickness equal to about twice the depth of the grooves in each
of the cutting rollers R1, R2, is used. This veneer is cut across the grain to make
strips from it equal in width to the required length of the match, and each strip is
fed into and between the cutting rollers with the grain of the wood parallel to the
longitudinal grooves of the rollers. In passing between the cutting rollers, the

page_text: splints are cut and pressed by the edges of the grooves, but they adhere where the
ring-form grooves are made in the cutting rollers, and in a sheet form are stripped
from off the cutting rollers by the fingers of the horizontal trough d¹, and by said
fingers guided into the latter, being as passing forced close up to one side of the
trough by the action of the leaf spring 1. When the veneer of partly cut splints
reach the curved passage-way a³, formed between the rubber roller I, and the
concavely curved guide plate C₁, they are separated in passing abruptly over the
square edge O*, of the horizontal trough or passage d¹ by the action of said rubber
roller, which carries them down along, and over the curved guide plate C, and a
polishing surface y, when the latter is used, and discharges them into the trough L,
as before described from whence they pass to the boxing mechanism. While the
splints are thus being moved along over the curved guide plate C³, one end of each
of the splints, where projecting beyond the face of the rubber roller is chamfered off
and pointed by the saw V, as shown at figure 6.
When the splints fall into the tubes, the pistons are reciprocated by the
racks, and their connections, with such speed as it is desired to have the hoppers
oscillate, so as deliver a regular number of splints into each of the tubes to fill a
box at each reciprocation of the pistons; the speed at which the hoppers oscillate,
and that at which the boxing pistons are moved, is regulated to meet the delivery
capacity of the cutting roller by the relative size of the gear-wheels on the cross
shaft N1, and J.
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The cutting rollers R¹, and R³, made with their grooves and intermediate cutting
edges parallel to their axies and with the ring-form grooves circumferentially
arranged on said rollers, the latter being actuated substantially as described, when
combined with the passage-way or trough d¹, made with fingers, the guide plate C¹,
and rubber roller may be used to produce splints without the saw or boxing
mechanism; so also the rollers R¹, and R2, made and arranged to be actuated as
described, when combined with the trough d¹, made with fingers, may be used as a
sub-combination of parts to partly divide the veneer, leaving the same to be
finished by other mechanism.
The said rubber roller and the concavely curved guide plate C¹ may be used
without the polishing surface on the latter, as the rolling of the splints over said
guide plate, will of itself, to a certain extent, clean the splints from adhering fibre ;
and so also the said rubber roller, and the concavely curved guide plate with or
without a polishing agent, may be used without the saw, when the pointing of the
splints is not desired.
Preferably the form of veneer used is made in a shaving or sheet form, and is
cut from a section of a lug across the grain of the wood; said section having the
proper width, and the veneer the required thickness. This veneer is curled up in a
roll; is adapted to have a short shaft inserted through its diametrical center, and
to be provided with open top bearings for the ends of the shaft to journal in. The
outer end of the roll is introduced between the rollers, aud as fast as the veneer is
drawn into the machine and cut up into splints the veneer unrolls to continue the
feed; and when one roll is exhausted another is put in place.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
First. In a machine for making match splints, the combination of the rollers R',
and R², connected by gears to rotate as described, said rollers having grooves, and
intermediate cutting edges arranged parallel to their axies; and the ring-form
grooves g³, g², arranged in the cylindrical faces thereof circumferentially to their
axies;
and the fingers f1, connected to a support and constructed to enter said ring.
form grooves and strip the veneer of partly cut splints from off the upper roller R¹
substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
Second. In a machine for making match splints the combination of the rollers R¹,
and R, connected by gears to rotate as described, said rollers having grooves and

page_text: intermediate cutting edges arranged in their cylindrical faces parallel to their axies,
and the ring-form grooves g³, g³, arranged in their cylindrical faces circumferentially
to their axies; the fingers f¹, connected to a support to strip the veneer of partly
cut splints from the said roller R¹, and the fingers f*, connected to a support and
constructed to strip the veneer from the lower roller R2, substantially in the
manner as and for the purposes set forth.
Third. In a machine for making match splints the combination of the rollers R¹,
and R2, connected by gears to rotate as described, said rollers each having grooves
and intermediate cutting edges in their cylindrical faces arranged parallel to their
axies, and the ring-form grooves g², g², arranged thereon circumferentially to their
axies; and the trough or enclosed passage-way d¹, made with the fingers fƒ³, and f³,
said parts being constructed and arranged to operate substantially in the manner
as and for the purposes set forth.
Fourth. In a machine for making match splints the combination of the rollers R¹,
and R³, constructed and arranged to operate substantially as shown; the trough d',
made with the fingers f¹, and f*; the concavely curved guide plate C³, and the
rubber roller I, said parts being constructed and arranged to operate substantially
in the manner as and for the purposes set forth.
Fifth. In a machine for making match splints, the combination of the trough d',
constructed to receive and guide a partly cut veneer of splints; the guide plate C',
having a concave inner surface terminating on its upper end at the delivery end of
the trough; and the rubber roller I, arranged to be rotated within said concave,
with the cylindrical face of said rubber roller passing downwardly across the
delivery end of said trough, but at a sufficient distance from the latter and the
.surface of the concave to be in contact with the splints passing over the latter
substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
Sixth. In a machine for making match splints the combination of the rubber
roller I, made with the ring-form grooves g'; the concavely curved guide plate C',
arranged with reference to said rubber roller substantially as described and the
trough or passage-way L, made with the fingers f, as and for the purposes set
forth.
Seventh. In a machine for making match splints the combination of the trough d';
the concavely curved guide plate C¹, the rubber roller I, arranged to be rotated
with reference to said guide plate as shown and the saw V, constructed and
arranged to operate substantially in the manner as and for the purposes set forth.
Eighth. In a machine for making match splints the combination of the concavely
curved guide plate C¹, the rubber roller I, and the circular saw V, said parts being
constructed and arranged to operate substantially in the manner as and for the
purposes set forth.
Ninth. In a machine for making match splints the combination of the boxing
tubes 0, 0, arranged side by side and made with top hopper openings; the wedge-
form center piece A³, between the hopper openings; the oscillating hopper
guide H¹, H³, and the pistons U' U³, said parts being constructed and arranged to
operate substantially in the manner as and for the purposes set forth.