Improvements in Machinery for Introducing Match Sticks into the Dipping Frames.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 16th Sept., 1892—Accepted, 12th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by BADISCHE MASCHINENFABRIK UND EISEN-
GIESSEREI Vorm. G. Sebold & Sebold & Neff, of Durlach, Baden, Germany,
Manufacturers.]
Improvements in Machinery for Introducing Match Sticks into the
Dipping Frames.
I, OLIVER IMRAY, of No. 28 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the
County of London, Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows :—
This invention relates to machinery for introducing the sticks for matches into
the dipping frames and securing them therein, so that the matches may, by means
of these frames, be effectually and rapidly dipped into the igniting compound and
then dried.
With such machines of present construction, the disadvantages exist that, firstly,
the iron striking levers thereof strike upon the framing of the machine, thereby
causing objectionable noise, and also causing rapid wear; furthermore, the tube-
boxes of such machines into which the match sticks fall from the upper box are
made of a large number of thin brass tubes which are liable to rapid wear, and
as soon as they get out of order, they cause all kinds of inconveniences and reduce
the yield of the machine.
Lastly a great disadvantage in such machines arises from the complicated nature
of their construction, as the shaking mechanism cousists of four cam wheels which
raise the tappets of two striking arms at the front side and two at the rear side,
and thereby move the upper box resting upon the said arms, the said four cam
wheels being connected by means of three shafts with bevil gear.
By means of the present improved construction of such machines, all the above
objections are avoided.
I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings,
in which
Fig. 1 shews a side view of the machine with opened upper part and tube box,
the dipping frame being withdrawn ;
Fig. 2 shews a cross section of Fig. 1;
Fig. 3 shews a side view of the machine of a smaller size, in the closed position,
viewed from the opposite side to Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is a detail part section and plan of the tube box.
The machine consists of an upper part A composed of the stick receptacle a
and the tube box b, and of the lower part, containing the dipping frame.
In the stick receptacle a the sticks o are guided in a parallel direction by
partitions h.
The tube box is not constructed as heretofore of separate brass tubes, but
consists of a massive plate of ebonite, celluloid, papier maché, and the like in
which the tubular passages are formed by boring.
The upper side of the box is provided with a brass plate having corresponding
perforations; on the underside thereof is a perforated slide i which closes the
lower ends of the passages m as soon as the sticks have fallen into the dipping
frame.
The lower part of the machine is formed by a channel plate having grooves
corresponding to each row of holes in the tube box : there is also a grating d
that can be raised up, and whose bars correspond with the spaces between thé
grooves of the channel plate c.

page_text: Between the latter and the grating d is the dipping frame formed of wooden
bars, that can be adjusted by means of laterally shiftable steel teeth so that the
distances between them correspond exactly to a transverse row of holes in the tube
box b.
By means of the spaces between theso transverse bars and the bars of the
grating d lying longitudinally thereon, as also the channel plate c below, a system
of holes is formed that accurately correspond to the passages m in the tube plate b.
The shaking gear consists of the cam wheel 9, the lever arms pivotted at one
end to the fraine B and carrying at the other end the bearings for the shaft e,
which in its turn carries the upper part A of the machine, a finger r being fixed
to the underside of the arm f which is acted upon by the cam wheel g.
This shaking gear has for its object to shake the upper part A in such a manner
that a match stick shall fall from the box into each of the passages m of the
tube box b, which matches, on the opening of the slide i, slide down into the lower
part, where they are held securely by pressing the wooden bars together between
which they are situated by means of the toothed rack S and pinion actuated by
a crank handle.
For preventing the very disagreeable noise caused heretofore by the arms
beating against the framing B of the machine, the shaking box is made to rest at
its front end upon a nose on the framing by means of a leather strap k that is
stretched over two projections n n on the box, the rear end of the box being
carried, as before described, by the lever arms f. These arms however do not
bear upon the framing B, but are supported in loops of leather, caoutchouc, hemp
or other suitable pliable material, so that by such more or less elastic suspension
noise is obviated.
Dated this 11th day of February 1892
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Introducing Match Sticks into the
Dipping Frames.
1, OLIVER IMRAY, of No. 28 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the
County of London, Chartered Patent Agent, 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 machinery for introducing the sticks for matches into
the dipping frames and securing them therein, so that the matches may, by means
of these frames, be effectually and rapidly dipped into the igniting compound and
then dried.
With such machines of present construction, the disadvantages exist that, firstly
the iron striking levers thereof strike upon the framing of the machine, thereby
causing objectionable noise, and also causing rapid wear; furthermore, the tube-
boxes of such machines into which the match sticks fall from the upper box are
made of a large number of thin brass tubes which are liable to rapid wear, and as
soon as they get out of order, they cause all kinds of inconveniences and reduce
the yield of the machine.
Lastly a great disadvantage in such machines arises from the complicated nature
of their construction, as the shaking mechanism consists of four cam wheels which
raise the tappets of two striking arms at the front side and two at the rear side,
and thereby move the upper box resting upon the said arms, the said four cam
wheels being connected by means of three shafts with bevil gear.
By means of the present improved construction of such machines, all the above
objections are avoided.

page_text: I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying
drawings.
Fig. 1 is a side view of the machine with opened upper part and tube box, the
dipping frame being withdrawn ;
Fig. 2 is a cross section;
Fig. 3 shews a side view of the machine of a smaller size, in the closed position,
viewed from the side opposite to that of Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is a detail part section and plan of the tube box.
The machine consists of an upper part A composed of the stick receptacle a and
the tube box b, and of the lower part, containing the dipping frame.
In the stick receptacle a the sticks o are guided in a parallel direction by
partitions h.
The tube box b is not constructed as heretofore of separate brass tubes, but
consists of a massive plate or slab of ebonite, celluloid, papier maché, or the like
in which the tubular passages m are formed by boring. Wood should not be used
as in time it becomes worn and its holes become deformed.
The upper side of the box is provided with a brass plate having corresponding
perforations; on the underside thereof is a perforated slide which closes the
lower ends of the passages m as soon as the sticks have fallen into the dipping
frame.
r
The lower part of the machine is formed by a channel plate having grooves
corresponding to each row of holes in the tube box b; there is also a grating d that
can be raised, its bars corresponding with the spaces between the grooves of the
channel plate c.
Between the latter and the grating d is the dipping frame formed of wooden
bars, that can be adjusted by means of laterally shiftable steel teeth so that the
distances between them correspond exactly to a transverse row of holes in the
tube box b. By means of the spaces between these transverse bars and the bars
of the grating d lying longitudinally thereon, as also the channel plate e below, a
system of holes is formed that accurately corresponds to the passages m in the tube
plate b.
The shaking gear consists of the cam wheel g, the lever arms pivotted at one
end to the frame B and carrying at the other end the bearings for the shaft e, which
in its turn carries the upper part A of the machine, a finger r being fixed to the
underside of the arm which is acted upon by the cam wheel q.
This shaking gear has for its object to shake the upper part A in such a manner
that a match stick shall fall from the box 6 into each of the passages m of the
tube box b, which matches, on the opening of the slide i, slide down into the lower
part, where they are held securely by pressing the wooden bars together between
which they are situated by means of the toothed rack S and pinion actuated by a
crank handle.
For preventing the very disagreeable noise caused heretofore by the arms f
beating against the framing B of the machine, the shaking box is made to rest at
its front end upon a nose on the framing by means of a leather strap k that is
stretched over two projections n n on the box, the rear end of the box being
carried, as before described, by the lever arms f. These arms, however, do not
bear upon the framing B, but are supported in loops of leather, caoutchouc, hemp
or other suitable pliable material, so that by such more or less elastic suspension
noise is obviated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim in respect of machinery for introducing match sticks into the dipping
frame is :-
1. Constructing the tube box as a plate or slab with passages bored through it,
substantially as described.

page_text: 2. Resting the front of the shaking box on an elastic bearing, and elastically
suspending the shaking arms, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 5th day of September 1892.
ABEL & IMKAY,
Agents for the Applicant.