Year: 1888

page_text: I, FRANS LUNDGREN, Engineer, of 4 Oxtorgsgatan Stockholm in the Kingdom of
Sweden do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement.:-
This invention relates to a machine for manufacturing match or similar boxes of the
universally known type consisting of a thin wooden veneer surrounded by a piece of
paper stuck thereon and composed of an inner box or drawer and an outer box or
shell. This machine produces only the latter kind or the shells. The paper as well
as the veneers are previously cut in pieces of suitable size, the vencers having trans-
verse grooves or scoring, so as to allow of their being folded, and the papers are also
printed on with the view of serving as labels at the same time, wherefore they are so
styled hereinafter.
Figure 1 is a side view of the machine and Figure 2 a plan of the same. Figures 3, 4
and 5 are cross sections on the lines a-a, b-b and e-e respectively in Figure 2 and
Figure 6 represents part of the machine in end view in the same direction as the
sections. Figure 7 is a section on the line d-din Figure 4. In the sectional figures
such parts alone are visible or represented as cooperate during a certain period of the
formation of the box.
The construction and the working of the machine are as follows :-
Above the bearings A and B of the main-shaft is fixed a rod bar or former D, the
section of which corresponds to the interior of a box or shell and around which the
hox, moving along it constantly in the same direction from one working position to
another, is formed and pasted together. The veneer magazine consists of a gutter
or trough E open at the top and at the one end, the interior of which magazine
having the same width as the veneers, so that these may be placed upright in
the same

page_text: The inner side of the closed end of the trough is nearly in the same vertical
plane as that edge of the rod bar or former D which is nearer the trough, or more
exactly expressed, somewhat in advance, and in the same is located a slide E' which
receives an alternate motion up and down by means of the lever E2 and the excentric E³.
The vencers are pressed against the slide by a movable plate Et drawn towards the
veneers by means of a weight E' suspended by a string, which running on the pulley E
is attached to a bar E' projecting from the plate E' and likewise guided by the pulley E.
In order that the veneers, which are comparatively wide, may not bulge into the
vacant path of the slide, when the latter is in its lowest position, there is a shoulder
in that end of the magazine, against which the veneers are pressing, there being also
a notch a made in the slide. Near the top of the slide there is, on the side turned
towards the veneers, a shoulder a', which, when the slide is rising from its lowest
position, moves along with it the next veneer, which is thus pushed upwards in
advance of the slide. Two arms a firmly fixed to the magazine and one movable
arm a fixed to one of the former and actuated by a spiral spring which serve, the
former ones to guide the veneer during its rising and the latter to prevent the next
veneer from following in consequence of the friction, as it passes so near the shoulder
in the groove a, that there is only space left for one veneer. The vencer rises near
the border of the rod and to such a height, that its middle arrives opposite to the
rod and thus, when folded, it will extend to an equal distance on both sides around
the rod, its length being such, that both its extreme ends will, at the subsequent
folding, cover the opposite side of the rod wherefore the veneer will at this side.
lay double. For each of the four corners of the rod there is a corresponding
transverse groove in the veneer. In front of that point on the rod where the veneer
is fed up from its magazine, the folding of the same is also performed. For this
purpose there are first two folders, which, moving in horizontal direction, fold the
veneer upon and over the upper and lower sides of the rod, and then two other
folders, which, moving in both vertical and horizontal directions, fold the ends of the
vencer upon the opposite side of the rod. Both the first named folders consist of two
arms band & pivotted on the same oscillating arm which projects from a shaft F.
Both the arms which conjointly resemble a pair of tongs are at their ends bent at an
angle towards the veneer Figure 2, and pass one above another beneath the rod and
are held together by a spiral spring 63. The arm 62 is moved to and fro by an
eccentric G, to the rod of which it is connected and the folders and will
in this way be moved to and fro perpendicularly above and beneath the rod.
A piece applied on the upper side of the rod and another part at the under side of
the rod serve on this occasion as sliding surfaces to the folders. When the veneer is
fed up, the folders with their bent ends are in front of the rod that is to say on the
same side as the veneer and when moving towards the rod they are brought against
it and just at the moment that this has been entirely pushed up they fold the same
close to the upper and the lower sides of the rod Figure 3. After this folding both
ends of the veneer extend straight out from the rod in the plan of its horizontal
surfaces and ready to be folded upon the sides of the rod by the other two folders.
These consist of two arms d and d, which together with other similar parts are
pivotted on a shaft 2 supported by two arms d³ and d projecting nearly horizontally
from the shaft F. This shaft is united with the main shaft by means of the crank
disc and the crank lever and the rocking arm 60 and 60. The shaft F imparts
thus an alternate motion to the shaft d and thus the arms d and d¹ receive likewise a
similar motion. These arms are besides drawn towards the rod by spiral springs,
their motion in the same direction being exactly determined, the one d by an
eccentric on the shaft C and the other d¹ by a particular device consisting of a
bent piece fixed at the veneer magazine and provided partly with a flange d' and
partly with a pivotted arin de provided with a shoulder pressing against the
flange such pressure being caused by a spiral spring do which acts upon the
arm ds. The armi d' has a small shoulder a tapering at both ends and sliding
against the flange d' or against the shoulder d such alternative depending upon
whether the arm d¹ is ascending or descending. If descending from its higher

page_text: position, its shoulder du passes along the outer side of the shoulder do, if ascending
from its lower position the shoulder passes between the flange and the
shoulder d when the latter, fixed on the movable arm, gives way. In the first case
the upper end of the arm moves away from the rod, but at the same time the
.other arın d passes with its bent end near the rod thus folding the upper end of the
vencer upon the rod Figure 3b. When in the last case the arms or folders are
ascending the folder d passes with its end near the rod and on concluding its
upward motion folds the lower end of the veneer upon the end which has just been
folded, Figure 3 which is retained upon the rod by the other folder, which does not
leave the upper sido of the rod until the lower end of the veneer has been folded
up. The veneer which has been entirely folded around the rod is now pushed along
the rod to the next working position, where it is provided and partly surrounded
with paper. The device for advancing the folded vencer in this way along the rod
consists of a horizontal bar EL moving longitudinally and receiving an alternate
motion from the disc H in the grooves of which runs a roller fixed to the bar.
From that end of the bar which is directed towards the machine there rises through
a rocess in the rod a shoulder which is slightly larger than tho upper side of
the rod. When the veneer is about to be folded the bar H is in a position apart
from it but as soon as the vencer has been folded around the rod, the bar moves
towards the veneer while pushing it by means of its shoulder to another point of the
rod, after which it returns immediately so that it is back again in its original position
hefore the next veneer is in course of being folded. In order that the folded veneer
shall not unroll, when being pushed from the folder while performing the last folding
operation and then by its pressure upon the veneer holds it together there is in front of
the point of the rod where the veneer has been pushed in the way described above, on
the shaft another arm resembling the last mentioned arm only with the difference
that it has an oblong hole for receiving the shaft d². It has attached to it a spiral
spring which tends to press its upper end against an eccentric g³ on the shaft C.
The folded veneer being advanced along the rod the arm g' is in such a position
that its upper end is out of the rod but when the veneer having been advanced leaves
the arm which is then removed from the rod in order to give place for the folding
of the next veneer, the arm g¹ returns with its upper end against the veneer thus
preventing it from unrolling. As the shaft rises at the same time in order that the
folders dd may receive their above mentioned motions and that the arm g' with its
end that presses against the vencer may not project beyond the rod which would be
an obstacle to the veneer being covered with paper, the arm is as already said provided
with an oblong hole and in addition the lower part of the arm has a shoulder which
encounters a shaft I situate under the machine table thus preventing the veneer holder
from rising higher than to a certain determined height. At the place where the
folded veneer is now located paper coated with paste is brought over and folded
around two of its sides. The label magazine is movable in vertical direction above
the paste apparatus which is fixed to the stand K. The paste apparatus consists of a
tubular drum into which the paste is introduced at the one end by means of a
funnel . In the drum is a screw which with its worm is passing close to the
walls of the drum. The screw is given a rotatory motion by means of the toothed
wheel, into which engages a pawl fixed on an arm h which by means of the link
bar, the arms and fixed on the shaft and the cam 70 acting upon the last
mentioned arm is given an alternate motion. In Figure 3 the stand supporting
the shaft is visible. At the opposite end in front of the funnel the drum is provided
with a plain disk having a number of slots or holes Figure 2 perpendicularly
directed towards the drum.
By means of the screw the paste is advanced through the drum and is at last forced
up the slots or holes in the disk k, or the same purpose may be effected by a piston
inside the drum which forces the paste longitudinally towards that end of the drum
upon which is placed the perforated or slotted plate k, and which may be actuated
from the cam or other convenient part of the machine by means of suitable levers.
The label magazine consists of a square vertical drum L fixed on a slide k¹ traversing

page_text: the stand and directed so as to be located straight above the disk k. In order that
the disk & shall not be hidden by the magazine L the latter is represented separately
in Figure 8 in plan. In the magazine L where the labels are superposed one upon
another and where they may be adjusted as well sideways as longitudinally by means
of a broad spring located at the one inner side of the drum and by means of
projections located at its short sides and joined to one another by means of an
angular piece which passes as a slide through the other long side of the drum.
This has no bottom the labels resting only upon small thin nibs projecting from
the sides of the drum. The slide to which the magazine is fixed has at its end a
roller which rests upon a lifting cam k fixed upon a shaft M traversing the stand k
and by means of the eccentric N and the link-bar gearing N1 N2 receiving a rocking
motion from the main shaft (). The cam is so formed as to impart an alternate
vertical motion to the slide and the magazine. In its lower position the magazine
rests upon the disc k and the lowermost label will then stick on the lid owing to the
paste's penetrating through the same and remains upon the disc & when the magazine
is subsequently raised. In order to effect a pressure upon the labels; when the
magazine is down there is in the latter a weight which is raised previous to the
magazine but let down upon the labels when the magazine is in its lower position.
The device for moving the weight L' consists of a toothed bar clasped by an arm
fixed on a bar which by means of another lifting cam 3 fixed on the shaft M receives
an alternate motion. In the arm is a pawl which when the bar is brought
upwards engages in the bar bringing thus the weight L' upwards. Both the
cams kand are so adjusted and formed that the weight L' is raised slightly before
the magazine L and also so that the weight accompanies the magazine when going
down. When the magazine is down the pawl will be disconnected by means of
some suitable device not shown on the drawing and the weight L¹ then drops down
upon the labels. It is evident that in proportion as the labels diminish the pawl /*
will at the disconnection and the repeated engagement engage at certain moments
with a new tooth higher up on the bar owing to its sinking and thus the labels will
be constantly followed by the weight L. By moving the end of the link bar he along
the arm the feeding of the paste may be regulated. The label placed upon the
disc is brought over to the veneer by a device resembling a pair of tongs consisting
of a lever m fixed on the shaft I the upper end of which lever being provided with
two jaws formed of the bent pieces m¹ projecting from the lever and of two other bent
pieces m² superposed on the former and pivotted at m³. By means of the spiral
springs m the jaws are held together and by means of the lever m and m actuated
by the shoulders me fixed on the eccentric mand which by means of two pivots m³
are supported by the lower ends of the bent pieces m² the jaws open. The tongs are
entirely balanced by a counter weight m10 and are held against the eccentric m' which
has for its purpose the moving of the tongs to and fro over the rod by means of a
spiral spring acting in the counterweight or at the side of it. When the veneer is
advanced on the rod in front of the paste apparatus a label is placed upon the disc k.
The tongs pass then with the jaws above the rod and with the jaws opened, into the
notch n in the border of the disc 'thus catching the label. The tongs when returning
draw the label over the disc perpendicularly to its slots and in this way the paste
will be uniformly coated upon the label. By means of the tongs the label is brought
over to the veneer and when it has got over far enough the tongs open and the paper
is immediately stuck by the other parts upon the top and upon the side of the veneer
directed towards the paste apparatus. The top of the paper is smoothed over and
stuck by means of a sticker n having its under edge rounded and pivotted on a bent
piece projecting from a lever ³ which in its order is fixed to an arm mounting
from a shaft supported on the machine table. By means of the last mentioned
arm actuated by an eccentric n against which it is held by a spiral spring not visible
on the drawing the lever with its shoulder is brought perpendicularly over the rod so
as to stick the paper upon the veneer. At the same time the paper is smoothed over
and stuck upon that side of the veneer which is directed towards the paste apparatus
by another arm'p fixed on the shaft &, its upper end being provided with a bent plató

page_text: or a plate of any other suitable form for sticking the paper. At the same time as the
upper sticker n' is returning backwards the latter pactuated by a spiral spring is
brought down by the shaft de so as to render the strain on the paper uniform in both
directions. In the meantime a new veneer has been folded around the rod which
veneer when advancing carries the vencer which in the way just mentioned has been
provided with paper on two sides further along the rod in front of another sticker
which sticks the paper below. Of the sticker n¹ it remains to say that the lever n³
can be turned upwards in order to get out of the way of the tongs when advancing to
fetch a label. For this purpose there is at the outer end of the lever n³ a link n
jointed to another smaller lever 3 which being pivoted on the arm n is actuated by
an eccentric n³.
When the inner end of the last mentioned lever is raised the inner end of the
lever will evidently also mount. The device which sticks the paper upon the under
side of the veneer consists likewise of a lever pl fixed on an arm p² mounting from
the shaft F and actuated by a spiral spring. By this arm the sticker is brought
under the rod, so as to stick the paper on the vencer. The same piece is held down,
when at work, by a bent lever på, the one leg of which passing beneath an eccen-
tric, the other leg on the contrary pressing by a pin on the arm Figure 5.
Now it remains only to stick the both ends of the paper. The device for that consists
likewise of two arms 66 and 7 of which the former united with the crank disc, also
constitutes the rocker of the shaft F. The other arm 7 of which the crank disc con-
stitutes an eccentric, is in its upper end provided with a brush q¹, to which, by means
of the said pieces and a spiral spring, a motion in a path resembling in shape the
figure 8 is imparted. The brush when going down passes first close to the rod
thus sticking the upper part of the paper figure 6, but immediately after the brush
leaves the rod in order not to tear away the lower end of the paper. By a similar
subsequent motion upwards the lower end of the paper is stuck to the veneer.
box being now ready is pushed from the rod by the following boxes. Lastly there
should be mentioned a modification of the sticker 3 by which the same is simplified.
This sticker can be located on the other side of the rod and may simply consist of an
arm resembling the arm p¹, to which it is attached in the same manner as the arms b
and . Both of the arms ³ and will then be quite similar and act in the same
manner, only with the difference that the upper arm n³ passes by the paste table in
a circle, sticking by its shoulder a' the paper on the upper side of the veneer sur-
rounding the rod at the same time as p' sticks the paper on the under side of the
veneer opposite to the same. The upper and under sides are then stuck simulta-
neously but on different veneers situated abreast of one another.
The
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
First: In a machine for manufacturing the shells of match-boxes, the disposition
of parts so that the veneer after having been fed up, to its middle in front of a fixed
rod, is folded around it and thus folded advanced along the rod being there provided
with labels coated with paste in the meantime and stuck on two sides of the veneer
and afterwards the veneer provided with and partly stuck to a label or paper is
further pushed forwards the label being then stuck on a third or on the underside
of the veneer and the veneer being then still further advanced, the ends of the label
are stuck on the fourth side of the veneer, substantially as described and shown.
Second: In a machine for manufacturing the shells of match boxes a device for
feeding the veneers up to the side of a rod consisting of an open gutter or trough (E)
directed perpendicularly to the rod in the end of which gutter turned towards the
rod is a slide (E¹) provided along its middle with a slot, into which engages a
shoulder (a) fixed at the end of the gutter and likewise a loose plate (E) adapted to
the gutter and which (actuated by a weight (E) suspended by a string descending
located
over a pulley (E) from a bar projecting from the plate) presses the
in the gutter, against the slide, substantially as described and shown.
veneers,

page_text: Third: In a machine for making the shells of match-boxes, by which the veneer
is folded around a fixed rod, a device for folding the veneer upon two sides, consisting
of two arms (and b) pivoted on the same rocking arm (2) and passing on their
respective sides of the rod, their ends being hent at an angle or otherwise formed,
so as to be able to fold a veneer fed up between the bent ends of the arm and the
rod, upon the sides of the rod, substantially as described and shown.
Fourth In a machine for making the shells of match-boxes, by which the veneer
is folded from its middle upon two sides of a rod a device for folding the ends of the
veneer upon the fourth side of the rod consisting of two arms (d and d) passing upon
the rod with their ends, these arms being fixed upon a rocking arm or on a shaft (d)
capable of being raised and lowered, the said arms being moreover actuated by
eccentrics against which they are held by spiral springs or such like, in order that
the arms with their ends, passing alternately more or less near the rod and simul-
taneously in the same direction perpendicularly to the rod, may fold the ends of the
veneer one above another upon the side of the rod, substantially as described and
shown.
Fifth In a machine for manufacturing the shells of match boxes a device for
providing the paper with paste consisting of a drum (h) into which the paste is
introduced through a funnel or such like and which is provided with a plain plate (k)
provided with slots or holes, through which the paste is pressed up by a screw (2) or
à piston passing through the drum, substantially as described and shown.
Sixth In a machine for manufacturing the shells of match boxes a device for
placing one label at a time upon a paste board consisting of a drum (L) with adjust-
able springs or shoulders located at the sides, this drum being fixed upon a slide (¹)
actuated by a lifting cam (7) and of a plate (L') located in the drum above the
labels and suspended from a bar (12) moving up and down and actuated by a cam (13)
the suspension being effected by means of a pawl (1) by the disconnecting of which
the plate drops down upon the labels, substantially as described and shown.
Seventh: In a machine for manufacturing the shells of match-boxes, a device for
fetching the labels from a paste-table and conducting them to the veneer, consisting
of a lever (m) fixed on a shaft and provided in the end with two jaws or bills formed
of bent pieces (m) projecting from the lever on which bent pieces are pivotted,
other two bent pieces (m²) held to the former by spiral springs (m) and opening by
means of some lever device (m³ and m³) fixed on the lever, substantially as described
and shown.
Eighth In a machine for manufacturing the shells of match-boxes, by which the
veneer is folded around a fixed rod a device for conducting the folded veneer along
the rod from one working position to another, consisting of a bar (H) located parallel
with the rod and conducted to and fro in its own longitudinal direction by a slotted
disc (H) or such like and mounting with a shoulder (f) through a slot in the rod,
substantially as described and shown.
Ninth In a machine for manufacturing the shells of match boxes a device for
the simultaneous sticking of the paper on two sides of the folded vencer perpen-
dicular one to another and for keeping together the veneer in the meantime con-
sisting partly of two movable arms (p and g') which fixed on a rocking arm or on a
shaft (2) capable of being raised or lowered, are movable perpendicularly to the rod
and another arm (n³) arranged in the same manner as the former ones but nearly
perpendicular to them, substantially as described and shown.
Tenth In a machine for manufacturing the shells of match-boxes, by which the
veneer is folded around a fixed rod, a device for sticking the paper on the under side
of the veneer consisting of a lever (p) which fixed on a rocking arm (2) and in the
one end actuated by a spiral spring, with the other end passes close to the rod, the
same last mentioned end being held away from the rod in the position of rest by a
bent lever the one branch of which (3) by a pin passes over the arm while the other
branch passes under an eccentric (1), substantially as described and shown.
Eleventh-In a machine for manufacturing the shells of match-boxes, by which

page_text: the veneer is folded and stuck around a fixed rod, a device for pressing together the
ends of the paper consisting of a brush (g) fixed on a rocking arm (4) and actuated
by an eccentric (6) so formed as to impart motion (in a path of the shape of the
figure 8) to the brush, substantially as described and shown."
Twelfth :-The construction and arrangement of parts forming the improved
machine, substantially as described and shown.