Improvements in Apparatus for Packing Matches in Boxes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Aug., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 23rd May, 1893-Accepted, 22nd July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Packing Matches in Boxes.
We, CARL JOHAN BOLINDER, Engineer, and MATHILDA KJELLBERG, both
of Stockholm, Sweden, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for packing matches in
boxes, in which the matches are allowed to full in a lying position into a number of
grooves arranged side by side whereby they are measured off in predetermined
uniform quantities to be packed in the boxes.
The improvements consist essentially in arranging the grooves, in which the
matches are brought together by means of pistons or the like, in a vertical instead
of in a horizontal position. With this arrangement it will be possible to use a greater
number of such grooves in one apparatus whereby the output of the apparatus is
increased.
The improved apparatus are of two somewhat different kinds, viz.
1. Those in which the matches introduced into the compartments, cases or boxes,
are separated from the bulk of the matches contained in the magazine supplying or
feeding the matches, by implements or instruments acting in the lateral direction
relatively to said compartments cases or boxes; and
2. Those in which this separating operation is effected by instruments acting in a
vertical or oblique direction.
In the accompanying drawings Figs. 1 to 7 represent an apparatus of the first
kind.
Fig. 1 being a front view of the apparatus in section along the line fx in Fig. 2,
da, in Fig. 3, and ex in Fig. 4.
Fig. 2 a horizontal section on the line a x in Figs. 1, 3 and 4;
Figs. 3 and 4 are cross sections, taken respectively on the lines b x and c x
Figs. 1 and 2.
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Figs. 5 and 6 show the device by means of which the inner boxes and casings are
brought in order;
Fig. 5 being a section on the line 9 x Fig. 6, and Fig. 6 a plan.
Fig. 7 illustrates to an enlarged scale the construction of the separating blades e
and the rods o' o' to which they are attached.
a is the magazine, containing the matches to be packed. This magazine is
provided with a number of vertical grooves, separated from each other by partition
walls c.
The endless belts, pistons, rollers, rakes or simply weights placed above
the bulk of matches, by means of which the matches are pressed down in the
grooves are not shown in any of the drawings, with the exception of Fig. 13 in
which is shown by way of example two rollers A and B which are mounted in the
partition walls c and serve to draw down the matches in the grooves. d are compart-
ments at the lower ends of the grooves, into which the matches are pressed during
the operation, and in which they are measured off in suitable quantities for packing
in the match boxes; e the horizontal blades movably arranged in the partition
walls c by means of which the matches within the compartments d are operated
from those above; f pistons, by means of which the matches in said compartments
are pushed through openings g in the front wall of the magazine; h rollers mounted
above these openings, for the purpose of facilitating the pushing out of the matches;
i cases or boxes fixed on to an endless belt, into which cases the matches pushed out
fall down as the movable covers ; above these cases are withdrawn; k the endless
belt to which said cases i are attached, and which belt runs over the square-shaped
rollers ; ma shelf supporting the upper part of the endless belt k, as well as the

page_text: cases i attached thereto, n another shelf supporting the lower part of the same
endless belt and the cases attached thereto; o' and of two rods with arms movable
in grooves in the front and rear walls respectively of the magazine, to which arms
the blades e are fixed and by means of which said blades are moved to and fro
p the inner boxes in which the matches are to be packed; channels through
which these boxes are brought down; r pistons by means of which said inner boxes
are pushed into the casings s; spistons used to push forward these casings so as to
embrace with their openings the free ends of the springs t, which serve to guide
the inner boxes into the openings of said casings; u pistons which push the
standing inner boxes so as to cause them to fall on their faces and place themselves
with the openings turned downward above the cases i; other pistons effecting a
similar operation with the casings & so as to bring each of them to turn one of its
ends towards the free ends of the springs; to the match-lifters, used to bring the
matches from the cases into the inner boxes p; the lever on which the match-
lifters are fixed; y the handle of said lever; the receptacles in which the stock
of inner boxes and casings is placed (though there is only one such receptacle shown
in the drawing-see Figs. 5 and 6-there are, nevertheless two in each apparatus, viz.,
one for the inner boxes and one for the casings); funnels in connection with the
receptacles in which the inner boxes and casings are brought down from said
receptacles during the operation; "hooks by means of which the inner boxes,
that are brought down in the funnels ¹ in a wrong position are expelled during the
operation.
The apparatus operates in the following manner :-
In the magazine a the matches to be packed are placed parallel with each other
in such a quantity as to entirely cover the grooves between the partition walls c.
During the operation of the apparatus these matches fall down through said grooves
in the compartments d and rest upon the bottoms thereof. The blades e, which have
been withdrawn in the partition walls e during the falling down of the matches in
said compartments, will now, by means of the rods o¹, o, be pushed horizontally
between the matches contained in the compartments and the matches in the
grooves above, and in this manner éffect the measuring off of the quantities of
matches to be packed in a corresponding number of inner boxes. By the pistons
the matches thus measured off are thereafter pushed out from the magazine through
the openings g in the front wall of the same, and under the rollers h. During this
pushing out the matches rest on the covers j. When thereafter these covers are
withdrawn said matches will fall into the cases i placed underneath. The endless
belt k, running over the rollers l, on which the cases i arc fixed will now be moved,
in the direction indicated by the arrows, by rotating said rollers, and the cases i,
with the matches contained therein, are thus transported till these cases i have
come right under the inner boxes p, where they are arrested. During this transport
the cases are drawn along the shelves m and n.
The inner boxes p and casings & are, before the commencement of the working
operation, thrown into the receptacles (and of these receptacles there must, as
aforesaid, be one for the inner boxes and one for the casings in each apparatus)
and from these receptacles, which may be kept shaking by some mechanical device,
the boxes and casings are gradually passed down into the funnels ', the lower ends
of which are connected with the channels in such a way that the inner boxes and
casings will during the working fall down from the former into the latter and rest
respectively against the pistons and the pistons s¹. Before the boxes and casings
fall they are, however, subjected to an operation of such a character, that those of
said boxes and casings which are not turned in the right direction are pushed out
of the funnels. This operation, which, as to the boxes, is effected by means of the
hooks, one of which is arranged in connection with each of the funnels z¹, is
effected in the following manner; The hooks z", which are pivotted, are by suitable
mechanism, not shown in the drawing, kept oscillating in such a manner that their
points are intermittently introduced through holes formed in the side walls of the
funnels nearest to the hooks, the arrangement being such that these points move as

page_text: far as openings formed in the opposite walls of the funnels; the boxes having their
bottom sides towards the hooks will be thereby pushed out through said openings,
that are large enough for this purpose, while the boxes having their openings
against said hooks remain unmoved in the funnels, because the points of the hooks
pass into the interiors of the boxes. The boxes pushed out fall into receptacles
(not shown in the drawing), from which they are taken up, in order to be replaced
in the receptacles, for being again exposed to a picking out operation of the same
kind as that already performed, so as to possibly receive such a position in the
funnels that they turn their openings against the hooks, and consequently may
freely pass down in the box-filling apparatus. As regards the casings they must be
placed in a proper position by a workman (or several), who by means of suitable
tools effects the same pushing-out operation on them as the hooks ¹¹ on the
inner boxes.
The boxes and casings having been arranged in the manner above described, it
remains only to place them in a horizontal position, before the introduction of the
matches and the pushing of the inner boxes into the casings, can be effected. They
are caused to assume this horizontal position by means of the pistons u and v, the
first of which operates on the boxes and the latter on the casings. A movement of
the handle y is sufficient to carry the matches lying in the cases i into the boxes p.
In lifting this .handle the match-lifters we fixed on the rod will be forced in
through the transverse openings at the bottoms of the cases and will push the
matches above into the boxes p, the turned down openings of which are at this
moment placed just over the turned up openings of the cases i.
While the match-
lifters to keep the matches in this position the pistons r are put in motion and push
the boxes p between the springs t and into the casings s, which have just before, by
means of the pistons s', been so far moved in a horizontal direction from their
former positions as to embrace with their fore ends the free ends of the springs t.
The match-lifters to may during the movement of the pistons r be let down in their
former positions.
In order to prevent the squeezing of matches between the points of the blades e
and the opposite walls of the compartments d, at the time when the matches
brought down in the compartments & are being separated from the stock above by
means of said blades e, each such wall may be provided with a little recess, in
which such matches are pushed in by the blades e at such occasions. The matches
thus pushed in will upon the withdrawal of the blades e to their former positions in
the partitions e, be expelled from said recesses by means of springs or other suitable
devices.
Figs. 8 and 9 represent in different positions and from the side a partition wall c
with matches lying in front of same. This partition wall consists, as shown in the
drawings of three rods or plates placed side by side, the central one c¹ is movable
in a vertical direction, in order to facilitate at the arranging of the matches lying
above, so as to cause these to fall regularly down the grooves between said partition
walls c.
In Fig. 8 the movable part of the wall is shown in its lowest and in
Fig. 9 in its highest position. During the operation of the apparatus the plates
'or rods are caused to move rapidly up and down, while the magazine a remains
still. It is obvious that the partition wall c need not be divided but may be bodily
movable in a vertical direction, instead of only the plate or rod c', and also that
the lowest part of the magazine a, which magazine may in this case consist of two
parts, can be kept shaking during the working and the partition walls c fixed. In
this construction the plates or rods care superfluous.
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It may be observed that the movable partition walls c (or only c¹) may also be con-
structed so as to 'facilitate the measuring off of the matches by means of the blades e
for which purpose the walls (c or c¹) are provided with pins or projections toward the
compartments d, said pins being so arranged that they will carry away such
matches which may come between the partition walls and the points of said blades.
Special movable hooks; or similar devices, may be arranged in the fixed partition
walls cand serve the same purpose:

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Fig. 10 shows in section an apparatus with a magazine a containing a match
supply, from which eight lots of matches have been brought down in a corresponding
number of cases, boxes or compartments d. The lots of matches lying in these
cases, boxes or compartments are separated from the bulk of matches above by
means of two blades e, which are pushed in from opposite sides of the magazine
close over the cases, boxes or compartments and penetrate the partition walls cas
well as the matches brought down between said walls, and meet each other in the
middle of the magazine.
Fig. 11 represents a section of another apparatus of a somewhat modified
construction. In the apparatus hereinbefore described the cases or boxes d are
located beside each other and on the same level; in the apparatus shown in Fig. 11,
they are certainly placed beside each other between the partition walls c, but they
are also placed step-wise and so arranged in relation to each other that the blades e
may be freely pushed in horizontal direction under the bottoms of the cases or
boxes immediately above in order to act upon the match lots brought down in the
cases or boxes placed on a lower level and separate these lots from the matches
above. Thus it is possible by this arrangement to separate at the same time a
greater number of match lots, which are brought down from a match supply above
into cases or boxes placed beside each other, without having the blades e or the
other instruments that effect the separating operation, located in the partition
walls c or in the spaces between said cases or boxes, as in the apparatus represented
in Figs. 1-7. As shewn on the drawing half the number of the blades e are fixed
to a rod D and the other half to another rod D³.
Here it may be remarked that the blades e ought to be supported or carried in
such a manner as to be allowed a little play in a longitudinal direction.
Fig. 12 represents in horizontal section an apparatus which differs from those
herein before described, in that the cases or boxes d, which are, as in the apparatus
shown in Figs: 1-10, placed between partition walls c arranged side by side and
on the same level, have their ends projecting the one before the other, so that the
front sides of these ends will form a zig-zag line instead of a straight one. In
separating the matches that are brought down in the cases or boxes d from the
matches above, the blades e are pushed across said cases or boxes in front of the
ends of the adjoining cases or boxes, in order to act upon the matches in the cases
or boxes the ends of which project. By this arrangement it will also be possible,
just as in the arrangement shown in Fig. 11, to separate at one time a greater
number of match-lots brought down in cases or boxes without placing the tools or
instruments by which the separating operation is effected, in the partition walls c
or in the spaces between said cases or boxes, as in the apparatus shown in Figs. 1–7.
From the drawing it will be seen that half the number of the blades e are carried
by the rod D' and the other half by the rod D³.
Fig. 13 represents in cross section part of a match magazine and a quantity of
matches that has been by means of two rollers A and B brought down between
partition walls c in a case or box d underneath. By means of two blunt ended
slides e provided at their inner ends with teeth or the like, for better taking hold of
the matches, the matches brought down in the case or box will be separated from
those above, so that the matches in front of the ends of the slides are pressed
against the opposite partition wall and thus prevented from falling down in the case
or box d, after said case or box has been emptied, until said slides e are withdrawn
and the pressure on the matches has ceased.
Fig. 14 represents in cross-section part of a match-magazine, from which a
quantity of matches has been brought down in a case or box d between two
partition walls c. The arrangements in this apparatus differ from those shown in
Fig. 13 in that the lots of matches, brought down are separated from the matches
above by two movable hooks e aude instead of by two slides e.
Fig. 15 represents a cross, section of two compartments d formed as rings into
which the matches are successively introduced from the stock above through
openings in the walls. The matches thus introduced are thereafter separated from

page_text: the matches above by rotating the ring-compartment, so as to cause the edge of the
opening to penetrate between the matches introduced in the compartment and the
matches lying above. In the figure one of the compartments, (that to the left) is
shown in the position which it occupies before the separation of the matches, while
the other compartment is represented in the position it occupies after separating
the matches.
Fig. 16 shows in cross-section two compartments formed as tongs with tubular
jaws. The left compartment is represented in the position it occupies before the
matches are separated and the right compartment in the position it occupies after
the separating operation has taken place by bringing together the tubular jaws.
a is
Figs. 17 and 18 show in horizontal section a part of a match-magazine a in which
the lots of matches brought down between partition walls c are separated by means
of blades e rigidly fixed outside the magazine. In this arrangement said magazine
is, for effecting the separating operation, pushed laterally against the blades e, so
that these will penetrate the match-lots to be parted from the match-supply.
the magazine, the matches; c the partition walls; e the blades fixed on the
immovable rods C' C. In Fig. 18 the apparatus is seen in the position occupied
by said parts before the matches have been separated, and in Fig. 17 it is represented
when the magazine has been pushed so far in lateral direction against the blade e,
that this blade has penetrated between the match-lot to be separated and the match-
supply in the magazine.
Figs. 19 and 20 represent arrangements used in apparatus of the kind wherein
the lots of matches are divided from the matches above by means of instruments
acting vertically or in oblique directions from above or from below.
Fig. 19 shows in section a part of a match-magazine, from which a quantity of
matches has been brought down between partition walls c through a channel, which
is enlarged in its lower end to a compartment d and from thence into a case or box
placed underneath. This case or box is shown in the drawing as filled with
matches. The matches from the compartment are brought down in the case or box
when the plate e' which serves as a cover for said case or box, is withdrawn. The
proper measuring off of the quantity of matches to be packed in each case or box
is, however effected by a blunt ended slide e, provided with teeth or the like which
is pressed obliquely against the matches in the channel, whereby some of the
matches are pressed and held against the opposite wall thus the matches from above
are prevented from entering the compartment d until the slide e is drawn back to
its former position and releases the matches.
The arrangement shown in cross-section in Fig. 20 differs from that last described
in that the matches from the grooves between the partition walls c are directly
introduced into a case or box d placed at the side of the end of said groove the
opening of said box being turned towards said groove, and that the matches
introduced into the case or box d are separated from the match-supply in the
groove by means of a knife-formed blade or knife e movable in vertical direction.
The improved apparatus for the packing of matches in boxes is in the first place
intended to be used as an auxiliary to the hand work in the manufacture of matches,
but it may however readily be constructed so as to be driven by motive-power.
Dated this 20th day of August 1892
C. J. BOLINDER,
By L. W., per F. B.,
M. KJELLBERG,
By L. W., per F. B.:
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Packing Matches in Boxes.
I, CARL JOHAN BOLINDER, of Handtverkaregatan No. 4, Stockholm, Sweden
Engineer, and MATHILDA KJELLBERG, of Drottninggatan No. 97, Stockholm,
5 Sweden, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the

page_text: same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for packing matches in boxes
in which the matches are arranged horizontally and are allowed to fall into a number
of grooves or compartments arranged side by side in which they are measured off
in predetermined uniform quantities to be packed in the boxes.
The improvements consist primarily in arranging the grooves or compartments
in which the matches are brought together by means of pistons or otherwise,
vertically instead of horizontally. With this arrangement it is possible to use a
greater number than usual of such grooves or compartments in one apparatus and
thus the output of the apparatus is increased.
Apparatus according to our invention may be of two different kinds, viz. :
1. Those in which the matches introduced into the compartments, cases or boxes,
are separated from the bulk of the matches contained in the magazine supplying or
feeding the matches, by devices acting in a lateral direction relatively to the said
· compartments, cases or boxes; and
2. Those in which this separating operation is effected by devices acting in a
vertical or oblique direction.
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In the drawings filed with our Provisional Specification,
Figs. 1 to 7 represent an apparatus of the first kind, Fig. 1 being a vertical
.section of the apparatus on the line fx Fig. 2, de Fig. 3, and ex Fig. 4;
Fig. 2 a horizontal section on the line a a Figs. 1, 3 and 4; and
Figs. 3 and 4 cross sections taken respectively on the lines b and c .x Figs. 1
: and 2.
Figs. 5 and 6 show the means by which the inner boxes and casings are brought
into position; Fig. 5 being a section on the line g x Fig. 6, and Fig. 6 a plan.
Fig. 7 illustrates to an enlarged scale the construction of the separating blades
or slides e and the rods o', o³, to which they are attached.
a is the magazine, containing the matches to be separated and packed. This
magazine is provided with a number of vertical grooves or compartments separated
from each other by partition walls c. The endless belts pistons, rollers, rakes or
weights that are placed above the bulk of matches and by means of which the
matches are pressed down into the grooves, not shown in any of the drawings with
the exception of Fig. 13 which shows by way of example two rollers A and B which
are mounted in the partition walls c and serve to draw down the matches in the
grooves. are compartments at the lower parts of the grooves, into which the
matches are pressed during the operation and in which they are measured off in
suitable quantities for packing in the match boxes; e are horizontal blades movably
arranged in the partition walls c and by means of which the matches within the
compartments d are separated from those above; fare pistons, by means of which
the matches in said compartments d are pushed through openings in the front
wall of the magazine; rollers mounted above these openings, for the purpose of
facilitating the pushing out of the matches; i cases or boxes into which cases the
matches pushed out fall down as the movable covers above these cases are with-
drawn; and which cases are fixed to an endless belt k which runs over the square-
shaped rollers; m a shelf supporting the upper part of the endless belt k with the
-cases attached thereto; n another shelf supporting the lower part of the same
endless belt and the cases attached thereto; o' and o³ two rods with arins movable
in grooves in the front and. rear walls respectively of the magazine, to which arms
the blades e are fixed and by means of which said blades are moved to and fro;
p the inner boxes in which the matches are to be packed; q channels through which
these boxes descend; pistons by means of which said inner boxes are pushed into
the casings s; s pistons used to push forward these casings so as to cause them to
embrace with their open ends the free ends of the springs t, which serve to guide the
inner boxes into the openings of said casings; u pistons which push the inner boxes
(which stand on end) so as to cause them to fall on their faces and place themselves
with their open faces downward above the cases i; other pistons that cause the

page_text: casings s which also stand on end, to assume a horizontal position and so that they
will each turn one of its ends towards the free ends of the springs t; w the match
lifters, used to transfer the matches from the cases i into the inner boxes p; the..
lever on which the match lifters w are fixed; y the handle of said lever; zone of
the receptacles in which the stocks of inner boxes and casings respectively are
placed (it will be understood that although only one receptacle is shown in the
drawing (Figs. 5 and 6) there are two in each apparatus; one for the inner boxes.
and one for the casings); ¹ channels in connection with the receptacle in which.
the inner boxes are brought down from said receptacle during working of the
apparatus; (the receptacle for the casings is also provided with such channels).
and hooks by means of which the inner-boxes, that are brought down in the
channels in a wrong position are expelled during the operation of the
apparatns.
The apparatus works as follows:-The matches to be packed are placed in the
magazine a parallel with each other in such quantity as to entirely cover the grooves
between the partition walls c. During the operation of the apparatus these matches..
fall down through said grooves into the compartments d and rest upon the bottoms
thereof. The blades e, which have been withdrawn into spaces in the partition
walls during the falling of the matches in said compartments, are now, by means..
of the rods of, o, pushed horizontally between the matches contained in the com-
partments d and the matches in the grooves above, and in this manner effect the
measuring off of the quantities of matches to be packed in a corresponding number
of inner-boxes. By the pistons f the matches thus measured off are then pushed
out from the magazine through the openings g in the front-wall thereof, and under
the rollers . During this pushing out operation the matches rest on the slides j.
These slides are then withdrawn and the matches on them fall into the cases i
underneath. The endless belt k, running over the rollers l, on which the cases i
are fixed is then moved, in the direction indicated by the arrows, by rotating said
rollers, and the cases i with the matches contained therein, are thus transported till
these cases i come right under the inner-boxes p, where they are arrested. During
this movement the cases are drawn along the shelves m and n..
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The inner-boxes p and casings s are, before the apparatus has started working,.
thrown indiscriminately into the receptacles (of which there must, as above
mentioned, be one for the inner-boxes and one for the casings in each apparatus).
and from these receptacles, which may be kept shaking by some suitable mechanical'
device the boxes and casings gradually pass down into the channels, the lower
ends of which are connected with the channels q in such a way that the inner-boxes.,
and casings will during the working fall down from the former into the latter and
rest respectively against the pistons and the pistons s'. Before the boxes and.
casings fall they are, however, subjected to an operation whereby, those which are
not turned in the right direction are pushed out of the channels. This operation,.
which, as to the boxes, is effected by means of hooks 2", one of which is arranged.
in connection with each of the channels z', is effected in the following manner :-
The hooks, which are pivotted, are by suitable mechanism, not shown in the
drawing, kept oscillating in such a manner that their free ends are intermittently.
introduced through holes formed in the side walls of the channels nearest to the
books, the free ends moving as far as openings formed in the opposite walls of the..
channels; the arrangement is such that the boxes having their bottom sides towards
the hooks will be thereby pushed out through said openings, which are large
enough for this purpose, while the boxes having their openings against said hooks
remain nnmoved in the channels, because the free ends of the hooks pass into the
interiors of the boxes. The boxes pushed out fall into receptacles (not shown in
the drawings) from which they are taken, in order to be replaced, in the receptacles,.
for being again subjected to the picking-out-operation just described. The casings
must be placed in a proper position by a workman, who by means of suitable tools. :
effects a similar pushing-out-operation on them as the hooks z¹¹ on the inner boxes. .
The boxes and casings having been arranged in the manner above described, it.

page_text: remains only to place them in a horizontal position, before the introduction of the
matches and the pushing of the inner-boxes into the casings, can be effected. They
are caused to assume this horizontal position by means of the pistons u and v,
operating respectively on the boxes and the casings. An upward movement of the
handle y is sufficient to transfer the matches lying in the cases i into the boxes p.
In lifting this handle the match-lifters w fixed on the rod a will be forced in through
the transverse openings at the bottoms of the cases i and will push the matches
above into the boxes p, the turned down openings of which are placed just over the
turned up openings of the cases i. While the match-lifters w keep the matches
in this position the pistons are put in motion and push the boxes p between the
springs t and into the casings s, which have just before, by means of the pistons s',
been so far moved in a horizontal direction from their former positions as to embrace
with their fore ends the free ends of the springs t. The match lifters w may during
the movement of the pistons be let down into their former positions.
In order to prevent the squeezing of matches between the points of the blades e
and the opposite walls of the compartments d at the time when the matches brought
down in the compartments d are being separated from the stock above by means of
said blades e, each such wall may be provided with a small recess, in which such
matches are pushed by the blades e at such occasions. The matches thus pushed in
will upon the withdrawal of the blades e to their former positions in the partitions c,
be expelled from said recesses by means of springs or other suitable devices.
Figs. 8 and 9 are views of an improved construction of partition wall c with
matches lying in front of same. This partition wall consists, as shown in the
drawings of three blades or plates placed side by side, the central one c' is movable
in a vertical direction, in order to facilitate the arranging of the matches lying
above, so as to cause them to fall regularly down the grooves between said partition
walls c.
In Fig. 8 the movable part of the wall is shown in its lowest and in
Fig. 9 in its highest position. During the operation of the apparatus the plates or
rods c¹ are caused to move rapidly up and down, while the magazine a remains still.
It is obvious that the partition wall c need not be divided but may be bodily
movable in a vertical direction, instead of only the plate or rod c¹, and also that the
lowest part of the magazine a, which magazine may in this case consist of two parts,
can be kept shaking during the working and the partition walls c fixed. In this
construction the movable plates or rods c' are superfluous.
The movable partition walls c (or part c¹ thereof) may also be constructed so as
to facilitate the measuring off of the matches by means of the blades e for which
purpose the walls (c or c¹) are provided with pins or projections said pins being so
arranged that they will carry away such matches which may come between the
partition walls and the points of said blades. Special movable hooks, or similar
devices, may be arranged in the fixed partition walls c and serve the same purpose.
Fig. 10 shows in section a magazine a containing a match supply, from which
eight lots of matches have been brought down in a corresponding number of spaces
or compartments d. The lots of matches lying in these cases, boxes or compart-
ments are separated from the bulk of matches above by means of two blades e,
which are pushed in from opposite sides of the magazine close over the spaces or
compartments and penetrate the partition walls c as well as the matches brought
down between said walls; meeting each other in the middle of the magazine.
Fig. 11 is a section of another magazine of somewhat modified construction. In
the apparatus hereinbefore described the cases or boxes d are located beside each
other and on the same level; in the apparatus shown in Fig. 11 while they are
placed beside each other between the partition walls c, they are also placed step-wise
and so arranged in relation to each other that the blades e may be freely pushed in
horizontally under the bottom of the cases or boxes immediately above in order to
act upon the match-lots brought down in the cases or boxes placed on a lower level
and separate these lots from the matches above them. Thus it is possible by this
arrangement to separate at the same time a greater number of match lots, which
are brought down from a match-supply above into cases or boxes placed beside

page_text: each other, without having the blades e or other devices that effect the separating
operation, located in the partition walls c or in the spaces between said cases or
boxes, as in the apparatus represented in Figs. 1-7. As shewn on the drawing
half the number of the blades e are fixed to a rod D' and the other half to another
rod D⁹.
The blades e should be supported or carried in such a manner as to be allowed.a
little play in a longitudinal direction.
Fig. 12. represents in horizontal section an apparatus which differs from those
hereinbefore described in that the compartments or boxes d, which are, as in the
apparatus shown in Figs. 1 to 10 placed between partition walls c arranged side by
side and ou the same level, have their ends projecting the one before the other, so
that the front sides of these ends form a zig-zag line instead of a straight one. In
separating the matches that descend into the compartments & from the matches
above, the blades e are pushed across said compartments in front of the ends of the
adjoining compartments in order to act upon the matches in the compartments the
ends of which project. By this arrangement it will also be possible, just as in
the arrangement shown in Fig. 11, to separate at one time a greater number of
match lots brought down in compartiments without placing the tools or instruments
by which the separating operation is effected, in the partition walis cor in the
spaces between said compartments, as in the apparatus shown in Figs. 1-7. From
the drawing it will be seen that half the number of the blades e are carried by the
rod D' and the other half by the rod D³.
Fig. 13 represents in cross section part of a match magazine and a quantity of
matches that have been by means of two rollers A and B brought down between
partition walls c in a compartment d underneath. By means of two blunt ended
slides e provided at their inner ends with teeth or the like, for the better taking
hold of the matches, the matches brought down into the compartment d will be
separated from those above, so that the matches in front of the end of each of the
-slides e are pressed against the end of the other slide e and thus prevented from
falling down in the compartment d, after said compartment has been emptied, until
said slides e are withdrawn and the pressure on the matches removed.
Fig. 14 represents in cross-section part of another match-magazine which differs
from that shown in Fig. 13 in that the lots of matches brought down are
separated from the matches above by two movable hooks e and e³ instead of by
two slides e.
Fig. 15 represents in cross-section two compartments d formed as rings, or
cylinders slotted into which the matches are successively introduced from the stock
above as shewn. The matches thus introduced are afterwards separated from the
matches above by rotating the compartments so as to cause the edge of the opening
to penetrate between the matches introduced in the compartment and the matches
lying above. In the figure one of the compartments, (that to the left) is shown in
the position it occupies before the separation of the matches, while the other com-
partment is represented in the position it occupies after the matches have been
separated.
Fig. 16 shows in cross section two compartments d formed as tongs with
tubular jaws. The left compartment is represented in the position it occupies
before the matches are separated and the right compartment in the position it
occupies after the separating operation has taken place by bringing the jaws
together.
Figs. 17 and 18 show in horizontal section a part of a match magazine a in which
the matches that have descended between partition walls c are separated by means
of blades e rigidly fixed outside the magazine. In this arrangement said magazine
is, for effecting the separating operation, pushed laterally against the blades e, so
that these will penetrate between the matches to be separated and the match-supply
above them. a is the magazine; b the matches; c the partition walls; e the blades
fixed on the immovable rods C' C'. In Fig. 18 the parts are shewn in the position
they occupy before the matches have been separated, and in Fig. 17 they are shewn
B

page_text: in the position they occupy when the magazine has been pushed laterally to such
an extent against the blade e, that this blade has penetrated between the matches
to be separated and the match supply in the magazine.
Figs. 19 and 20 represent arrangements used in apparatus of the kind wherein
the lots of matches are divided from the matches above by means of devices acting
vertically or in oblique directions from above or from below.
Fig. 19 shows in section a part of a match-magazine from which a quantity of
matches has descended between partition walls c through a channel which is
enlarged at its lower end so as to form a compartment d and from thence into a
case or box placed underneath. This case or box is shown in the drawing as filled
with matches. The matches from the compartment, are brought down. in the case
or box when the plate e', which serves as a cover for said case or box, is withdrawn.
The measuring off of the quantity of matches to be packed in each case or box is,
however, effected by a blunt ended slide e provided with teeth or the like, which is
pressed obliquely against the matches in the channel, whereby some of the matches
are pressed and held against the opposite wall and thus the matches above are
prevented from entering the compartment d until the slide e is drawn back to its
former position and releases the matches.
The arrangement shown in cross-section in Fig. 20 differs from that last described
in that the matches from the groove between the partition walls c are directly
introduced into a case or box d placed at the side of the end of said groove the
opening of said box being turned towards said groove, and that the matches intro-
'duced into the case or box d are separated from the match-supply in the groove by
means of a knife-formed blade or knife e movable in a vertical direction.
The improved apparatus for the packing of matches in boxes is primarily
intended to be used as an auxiliary to hand work in the manufacture of matches,
but it may however be readily constructed so as to be driven by motive power,
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. Apparatus for packing matches in boxes, comprising a magazine (a) from
which the matches descend in a horizontal position into a number (at least three)
of compartments boxes or cases (d), in which they are separated from the matches
above them in determined quantities, by separating devices such as blades or
slides (e), hooks (e e³) wedges points or the like substantially as described.
2. In apparatus of the kind referred to in Claim 1, separating the matches in
the compartments d from those above them by means of devices or instruments
carried by arms extending from rods (o', 0), said arms being movable in or between
the partition walls forming the compartments d substantially as described.
3. In apparatus of the kind referred to in Claim 1, causing the inner-boxes and
the casings therefor to descend through channels 2 by imparting a shaking or
vibrating movement to the receptacles z in which the boxes and casings are
placed and which are in communication with the said channels substantially as
described.
Dated this 23rd day of May 1893.
C. J. BOLINDER,
By L. W., per F. B..
M. KJELLBERG,
By L. W., per F. B.