Machine for Manufacturing the Outer Part of maten-boxes.
Year: 1885

page_text: Machine for Manufacturing the Outer Part of maten-boxes.
"
I, PETER JENSEN Fel. Inst. P. A. of 33 Chancery Lane in the County of
Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of this Invention (a communication to me
from abroad by Aktiebolaget Göranssons Mekaniska Verkstad of Stockholm
Sweden Engineers) and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
I will first give a general description of the arrangement and mode of operation
of the machine.
The box is made and finished in four operations which are each executed at
a particular place in the machine and the box is conducted by means of a feeding
apparatus from one station of work to another, and it is this feeding apparatus
around which the veneer is folded. The machine distinguishes itself further
thereby, that all the materials, veneers, paper and labels are taken from their
receptacles and employed directly, without the use of any intermediary parts of
the machine.
The feeding apparatus, round which the boxes are made and finished consists
mainly of two parallel rules or bars, of which one is fixed and the other movable
backwards and forwards on the former. As is well known, the veneer is laid
double at the narrow side of the box and is kept together by a piece of paper which
is usually blue and which extends from the two narrow sides of the box and covers
a little of the broad side, on which the label is to be pasted. For the sake of
brevity the paper keeping together the veneer will be called only the paper, in
order to distinguish it from the label.
Close to the one end of the rules the veneer receptacle is situate in which the
veneers stand vertically and are by the veneer-advancing apparatus constantly held.
pressed against the stationary rule. First comes a hook shaped knife and seizes
the top of the foremost veneer, bending it out from the other veneers. Then a plate
enters between this veneer and the other ones pushing first down the veneer, so
that the portion which is to form the outer layer in the double shortside of the box.
gets beneath the rules, and then folding the veneer around three sides of the rules.
Thereupon the veneer is folded by two folders under the rules, so, that the double.
short side of the box is formed. The veneer is now entirely folded around the

page_text: rules and is brought by the movable rule to the next station, where the paper is
stuck to the box. The paper is kept in a paper receptacle, which towards the rules
has only two sides, but is otherwise open. This receptacle is conducted in front of
a paste roller, by which the foremost paper is done over with paste. Then the.
receptacle moves upwards until the upper edge of the paper gets somewhat higher
than the lower edge of the frontside of the box, whereupon the receptacle is pressed
against the box, so that the paper with its upper end sticks to the front side of the
box and when the receptacle is descending the rest of the paper will be hanging
below the box.
The box is now conducted to the next station, where-the paper is folded and
pasted around the box by meanɔ of a brush, revolving around it. At the next
station the label if any 'is applied by the label receptacle, working about in the
same manner as the paper receptacle. The box is then pushed off the rules.
Sometimes exteriors of boxes are made with a so-called whole label, that is
a paper surrounding the box and serving both for keeping the veneer together and
as a label. Sometimes boxes are made with a so-called half label, that is to say
a paper covering the label side of the box and one of the narrow sides. It is
evident that such boxes also can be made by this machine. For this purpose it is
only necessary to arrange the first (the paper) receptacle accordingly, while the
receptacle, which above has been styled the label receptacle, will be superfluous.
When half label boxes are to be made, the revolving brush may advantageously be
substituted by a brush with alternate motion, working below the rules.
In order that this invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect I will describe the same with reference to the annexed drawings, of which
Figure 1 is a front view of a machine constructed according to this invention,
Figure 2 a plan, Figure 3 a vertical section on the line A A Figure 2 and Figure 4
an end view.
The parts of the machine are arranged on a frame consisting of the two end
frames D and the table E. The main shaft F is supported in bearings in the
frames D under the table. GH are two shafts on which are fixed levers which
receive and transfer the motion to some of the movable parts. I and K are the
two rules, of which I is situated towards the front side of the machine and is fixed
with its left end to the table. The hindmost movable rule K is guided and retained
by means of grooves and pins relatively to the fixed one. A grooved cam L fixed
on the main shaft F and a lever M, the one end of which is working in the groove
of the cam and a link or bar N have for purpose to impart a suitable alternate
motion to the rule K. In a groove, made in the lower edge of the rules, are
hooks (see Figure 1) pivoting on small pivots in the movable rule K. Under.
the two rules there is a fixed bar P. The free ends of the hooks O fall down upon
the bar P. When several veneers are now folded around and at several places on
the rules, the hooks O will, when the rule K moves to the left, glide over the under-
side of the boxes owing to their ends being bevelled but then again fall upon the
bar P, so that they at the return motion to the right take the boxes along. The
hooks situated on the side of the bar P are pressed upwards by springs and are
directed in the opposite direction to that of the hooks O and serve to prevent the
movable rule K owing to the friction from bringing the boxes back with them.
When the work is to begin, the veneers are standing on end in the veneer
receptacle R having a loose bottom or pusher S, which by means of a string and
a roller, actuated by a spring (which parts are not shewn in the drawing) tends
always to press the veneers against the rule I. The veneer in the veneer receptacle
standing with its lower edge about equally high as the lower edge of the rules, has
first to be pushed down or turned over so much as will be equal to a short side.
The mechanism for effecting this turning over and also partly folding the veneer
.around the rules will be best understood from Figure 3 and is arranged in the
following manner. Behind at the table E is a bracket U carrying a lever V
receiving its motion from the main shaft F by means of an eccentric X and an
eccentric rod W. At the fore end of the lever .V is a pin to which are jointed

page_text: a plate Y and a bell crank lever Z. At the left side of the plate Y is a pin A¹
Figures 1, 2 and 3 working in a groove B¹ made in the upwardly prolonged left
side C¹ of the veneer receptacle R. On the one arm of the bell crank lever Z
a spring D¹ is pressing. E' is a pin against which the upper arm of the bell crank
lever Z will stop, when the lever Y is in a certain position. The lower arm of the
bell crank lever Z is broad at the lower end (see Figure 1) but this broader part
lies in the position shewn in Figure 3 in a groove made in the plate Y, so that two
shoulders F on the plate Y one at each side of the bell crank lever Z are then
projecting (inwards to the machine) farther than the inside of the lower arm of the
bell crank lever Z. In the receptacle wall C is a shaft G₁, which on the one side
of C¹ has an arm H¹ which is pressed upwards by a helical spring I'. On the other
side of the wall the shaft G' has an arm K' having at its upper end a pin with
a bell crank lever pivoted thereon and provided with two fork ends L' and M' and
a helical spring, constantly tending to turn the bell crank lever, so that the outer
end of the arm M₁ is pressed downwards. This arm M¹ has on the outer end
a bevelled face and above this a little knife with the edge turned downwards,
secured about the half thickness outside of the bevelled face. The upper arm L'of
the bell crank lever leans on the pin A¹ of the plate Y for the purpose, before the
knife on the arm M¹ has seized the veneer, to keep the bell crank lever in the
position shewn in Figure 3. N¹ is an arm projecting down from the lever V having
for purpose, when the lever V is raised, to press the arm K' and the parts secured
thereon to the left.
the veneer..
The just described mechanism is in Figure 3 shown ready to commence its work
with a veneer and works in the following manner. When the lever V is brought
downwards the plate Y with its pin A¹ is also lowered, whereby the arın D1 and
thereby also the lever M' are turned by the helical spring so that the bevelled face
at the end of the lever M¹ places itself close to the inner side of the nearest,
veneer, until the little knife, on this arm M³ at last penetrates in the top edge of
In the continued descending of the lever V the arm N₁ gets with its
end below the pin O' whereby the lever K¹ is by the helical spring I pulled back-
wards, so that the knife at the end of the lever arm M² pulls the upper end of the
veneer towards the machine. The lever M has now moved inwards so far, that
the plate Y can get between the nearest veneer which is bent outwards and the
next one. In the continued descending of the lever V the knife releases the vencer.
The shoulders F1 of the plate Y now seize the veneer at the top and push it
downwards into an opening between the bottom of the receptacle R and the rule I
but when the veneer gets sufficiently far downwards, the upper arm of the bell
crank lever Z meets the pin E' on the lever V so that the bell crank lever Z is
turned a little and its lower arm bends the top of the vencer out from the
shoulders F¹ whereupon the veneer stops. The plate Y continues its downward
motion, but is then guided by the pin A¹ and the groove B', so that it gets a
motion suitable for folding the veneer around three sides of the rule and the lower
edge of the plate Y stops finally against the vertical inner side of the rule K
whereupon the parts, which fold the veneer in the lower (double) side of the box
begin to work. These are two bell crank levers P¹ and Q¹ each pivotted on a
shaft T and provided at the top with a metallic plate or folder R' and S₁ respec-
tively. The bell crank levers receive their motion from eccentrics secured on the
main shaft F. The folder R¹ has on its topside another metallic plate U¹ which by
a spring is held in the position shewn in Figure 3. The folding of the bottom side
of the box is effected in the following manner. The folder R₁ folds the ioner part
of the bottom side and then returns, but not farther than that the loose plate U¹ is
held by its spring against the vertical side of the box. Immediately thereupon the
folder S¹ comes and folds the outer part and before the folder S¹ has returned the
rule K is put in motion and pulls the box to the next station where its bottom gets
between the rules and the bar P, whereby the box is kept together. At this
station the paper receptacle V₁ works which has a loose bottom, pressing the
papers which are cut to a suitable size towards the inside of the receptacle. This

page_text: latter is on the vertical sides and at the bottom provided with narrow borders,
préventing the papers from being pushed out of the receptacle. The receptacle Vi
has guides, embracing two bars W, which may turn on the shaft G and is raised
and lowered on the bars W by means of an eccentric secured on the main shaft F
and actuating the lever X' and the link bars Y'. Firmly united with the bars W'
is an arm Z¹ which by means of a roller bears on a cam secured on the main
shaft F. Hereby the paper receptacle V¹ can at suitable times receive a horizontal
reciprocating motion. In the table is secured a paste funnel A having an opening
at the bottom, in which the paste cylinder or roller B2 revolves. This cylinder
receives its motion from the main shaft by means of an endless-cord and pullies.
The paste roller B³ receives thus the same speed as the paper receptacle on
descending when it is pressed against the roller B³, whereby the outer paper in the
receptacle is coated with paste. Just as the paper receptacle V' on descending is
to leave the paste roller B it makes simultaneously a motion outwards whereby
the paper coated with paste is with its top pulled a little out of the receptacle,
which thereafter first ascends to a suitable height and then moves inwards, whereby
the paper is pressed so as to stick fast to the front of the box and pulled out of the
receptacle when this is descending. The paper is stuck to the front of the box, and
the rest of the paper hangs freely downwards.
The box is then by means of the feeding apparatus moved to the next station,
where the paper is folded around three sides of the box and stuck to these. The
mechanism for doing this work is arranged in the following. manner. On the
table E are secured two arms or brackets C², in the ends of which are bearings for
a revolving.drum D receiving its motion from the main shaft F by means of a
chain and having a hollow boss or nave the inner diameter of which is so great as
to permit the box to pass freely through. At the left side the drum D2 has
a pin E on which a plate F' is pivoted, the one side of which constitutes a brush.
A belical spring G presses the brush F2 against the box. When the drum D2 is
now revolving, the brush is conducted round the box and causes the paper to stick
to it. On the left of the two brackets C2 there is a pin K2 with a plate Le pivoted
thereon and having bristles on its lower end directed towards the rules.
When the brush F2 is about to fold the paper around the box, the end of the
paper gets between the two brushes F2 and L and the upper brush L2 partly
levels the paste on the paper and partly removes superfluous. paste, so that when
the box is finished, there is no paste outside the joint nor elsewhere on the box.
The box is then pushed further to the next station, where the label is applied.
The mechanism for applying the label is best seen in Figure 4 and resembles the
mechanism for sticking the paper on but at the top of the label receptacle H² is
besides fixed a brush I' which at the descending of the receptacle H³ brushes over
the label and thus fixes it perfectly, whereafter the ready made box is pushed off.
The receptacle H² receives a motion similar to that of the receptacle V₁ and by
similar means as shown in Figures 1, 2 and. 4.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim as the invention communicated to me is
First. A machine for manufacturing match boxes from veneer so arranged that
the nearest veneer in the veneer receptacle is taken out therefrom and folded
directly around an advancing feed bar mechanism, which thereupon brings along
the box a little in its direction towards the paper receptacle and the paste
apparatus, where the pasted paper is partly fixed on the box by pressing the
paper receptacle directly against the box, whereupon the box is pushed further
by the same advancing feed bar mechanism to, a revolving brush or other elastic
appliance, which causes the paper to adhere entirely to the box, whereupon if
a particular label is used, such a one is at the next place applied by pressing the
label receptacle with the first paper pasted. against the box, substantially, as
described.

page_text: Second. In a machine for manufacturing match boxes the use of a separator
mechanism for taking out the veneers, one at a time, of the veneer receptacle,
which mechanism is so conducted against the veneer packet that a little knife by its
motion in the longitudinal direction of the veneer penetrates about into the midst
of the edge or thickness of the foremost veneer, so that this veneer at the next
motion of the mechanism from the veneer packet may be bent out and thus be
separated from the other ones, substantially as described.
Third. In a machine for manufacturing match boxes the, use of a veneer
receptacle and other parts so arranged that the foremost veneer is pressed directly
against the shape around which the veneer is to be folded and when the foremost
veneer has been somewhat bent forwards from the other ones by means of the
veneer separator, it is by a metallic plate bent so that it surrounds three sides of
the shape, whereupon two other metallic plates fold both ends round the fourth
side of the shape, substantially as described.
Fourth. A machine for manufacturing match boxes in which the boxes are
formed around two rules or bars of which one is fixed and the other movable and
provided with hooks, which under the motion of the one rule have for purpose to
seize the boxes and to bring them from place to place, substantially as described.
Fifth. In a machine for manufacturing match boxes the use of paper and
veneer receptacles which (with their open fronts being provided with small borders
in order to prevent the paper from falling forwards) pass first in front of a rotating
paste cylinder, so that the foremost paper becomes coated with paste, and then are
moved against the box so that the pasted paper is partly stuck thereon and pulled
out of the receptacle, when the latter is leaving the box substantially as described.
Sixth. In a machine for manufacturing inatch boxes the use of a brush,
revolving around the box and folding while revolving the free part of the paper
around the box substantially as described.
Seventh. In a machine for inanufacturing match boxes the use of a brush which
after the paper has been coated with paste removes the superfluous paste, before
the paper is stuck to the box substantially as described.
Eighth. The construction of machine shown on the drawings.