IMPROVE- MENTS IN APPARATUSES FOR ARRANGING SPLINTS FOR MATCHES, AND FOR PLACING THEM. IN THE FRAMES READY FOR DIPPING
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Hynam, of Wilson Street, in the County of
Middlesex, Chemical Light Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUSES FOR ARRANGING SPLINTS FOR MATCHES, AND FOR
PLACING THEM. IN THE FRAMES READY FOR DIPPING.""
Sealed the 23rd November 1861, and dated the 23rd May 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Hynam at the.
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 23rd
May 1861.
I, JOHN HYNAM, of Wilson Street, in the County of Middlesex, Chemical
Light Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUSES FOR ARRANGING SPLINTS FOR MATCHES, AND FOR
PLACING THEM IN THE FRAMES READY FOR 'DIPPING,"" to be as follows:-
The "splints" after they are cut are placed in a case or hopper to which
oscillating and jogging motions are imparted, and in the interior of which rise
pins and division plates to form grooves, into which grooves, from the motions
imparted to the hopper, aided by the pins, the matches find their way, and are
driven forward in a single row or layer to the front of the hopper, and are finally
thrust into the frames placed for their reception, in which they are held to be
dipped" or have the igniting composition applied.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Hynam in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd
November 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HYNAM, of Wilson Street, in the County of Middlesex, Chemical Light Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
any.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said John Hynam, Her special licence that I, the said John
Hynam, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said John Hynam, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
time agree with, and. no others, from time to time, and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUSES FOR ARRANGING SPLINTS FOR MATCHES, AND FOR
PLACING THEM IN THE FRAMES READY FOR 'DIPPING,'" upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John Hynam, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Hynam, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say:-
The "splints" after they are cut are placed in a case or hopper, to which
oscillating and jogging motions are imparted, and in the interior of which rise
pins and division plates to form grooves, into which grooves, from the notions
imparted to the hopper, aided by the pins, the matches find their way, and are
driven forward in a single row. or layer to the front of the hopper, and are
finally thrust into the frames placed for their reception, in which they are held
to be "dipped" or have the igniting composition applied.

page_text: Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a plan with the hopper removed;
and Figure 2, a front elevation, of a machine, constructed according to my
Invention.
a, a, are the side frames carrying bearings b, b, at one end, in which a shaft c
is free to revolve. This shaft c is cranked at d, carrying a connecting rod e,
which is jointed at its opposite end to a frame f, free to slide in V-grooves
formed in the frames a, a, as shown. 9, 9, are pins inserted in the face of the
frame and projecting from it; h is a comb composed of a series of bent plates,
as shown in the detached view, Figure 3; it is connected to plates at front and
back, extending almost to the bottom of the comb, but allowing just sufficient
space for the admission of a splint which is pushed through by the action of
the pins g, g, to the boards, as will be hereafter explained. The shaft c carries
bevilled wheels i, i, in gear with similar wheels k, k, mounted on shafts 1, 1,
supported by and free to revolve in bearings formed in brackets m, m, project-
ing from the frames a, a. The shaft carries a wheel n, having only one tooth
in gear with a pinion o on a shaft p below it; q is a ratchet wheel on the same
shaft p, and q' is a spring taking into the teeth of the ratchet; this is so
adjusted that at each revolution of the wheel n the pinion o moves one tooth
only, the ratchet and spring preventing it receding'; r, r, are cams on the ends
of the shafts 1, l, which at each revolution come or abut against heads s, 8,
formed on the spring wedges s¹, s', which being free to slide in lugs t, t, pro-
jecting from the front ends of the frames, have a to-and-fro motion imparted to
them. is a roller on the end of the shaft p, having a chain v connected to
it, which passes down round a pulley v', and up to a frame w, which is free
to slide in grooves formed in a second frame w³, fixed to the front of the
machine. is a weighted chain connected to the upper end of the frame w,.
and passing over pulleys, as shown; x, x, are the boards laid together one upon
the other, as seen in the front view, Figure 2, and held together by vertical
rods passing through them, or they may be held in a frame similar to that
shown at Figure 4. The wedges s¹, s¹, when acted on by the cams pass
between the ends of two of the boards, and divide them sufficiently to allow a
row of splints to be inserted, as will be hereafter explained; y, y, are cams
carrying pins mounted on the shaft c, for imparting the oscillating and jogging
motions to the hopper z, a detached view of which is given in section at
Figure 5. 1, 1, are rods or uprights, one only of which is seen, for supporting
the hopper above the machine; 2 is a rod extending across the machine for
supporting bell-crank levers 3, 3, the short arm of each of which is connected
to the hopper, the long arms being struck by the pins on the cams y, y, 'on

page_text: each revolution thereof; 4 is the bottom plate of the hopper extending to the
front of the machine, or nearly so; it is grooved or corrugated to guide the
splints to the combs; pins may be fitted in the interior of the hopper to assist
the splints in finding their way into the corrugations. 5 is an eccentric on the
shaft l', having a connecting rod attached to it for imparting an up-and-down
motion to a series of fingers 10, which work up between every alternate
division of the comb, as shown in Figure 3, so as to prevent any splints lying
across the upper part of it. 7,7, are fast and loose pulleys by which motion
is communicated to the machine.
Figure 6 shows another method I sometimes adopt for opening or dividing
the boards; in this case the wedges s', s, have motion communicated to them
at the front of the machine by means of a transverse shaft q, having rotary
motion communicated to it by bevil gearing on the shafts l, l'. Figure 7
is a view of one of the boards I prefer employing when the arrange-
ment just described is made use of. They are corrugated on one side, as
shewn, and padded or felted as usual on the other. A splint rests in each
corrugation.
The action is as follows:-On motion being communicated to the machine
and on splints being fed into the hopper z, the respective motions herein-
before described take place; the splints are led down the corrugated plate 4,
and when they arrive at the bottom thereof they fall into the comb h, and are
pushed forward by the pins 7, 9, between two of the boards x, x, a hinged
flap, not shewn in the Drawing, preventing their being pushed too far, and
at the same time allowing all to project an equal distance. When one set of
splints has been thus fed between the boards, the frame w descends the depth
of the thickness of one board by means of the wheel o, pulley u, and chain v;
the wedges s', s', by means of the cams r, r, now enter above the next board,
divide them as before, and allow another set of splints to be admitted, and so
on until the board is quite full; it is then screwed down and removed from
the machine, and the splints contained in it are ready to be dipped, a fresh
empty frame of boards is inserted, and the operation goes on as before. At
each of revocation of the crank d, and consequently at each to-and-fro motion
of the frame f, a set of splints is pushed forward by the pins 9, 9, and inserted
between two of the boards x, x.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be formed, I declare that I claim the construction,
employment, and method of action of apparatuses for arranging splints for
matches, and for placing them in the frames ready for dipping, substan-

page_text: tially in manner herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Hynam, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of November, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-one
J. HYNAM. (L.S.)