Improvements in Machines for Making the Outer Part of a Match-box or other Drawer Box.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Mar., 1892-Accepted, 14th May, 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Making the Outer Part of a Match-box
or other Drawer Box.
We, VICTOR ALDERIN, Engineer of Bondegatan No. 27 and ANDERS
BJURHOLM Brewers' Pupil of Kungsträdgårdsgatan No. 20 both in Stockholm,
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 consists in improvements in machines for making the outer part of
a match box or other drawer box and comprises a mechanism for obtaining the
motions necessary for the manufacture of said outer part or box, the construction
of the box former itself, and the arrangement of the magazines for the veneers, the
wrapping paper and the labels. These improvements are shewn in the accom-
panying drawings of which
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the machine,
Fig. 2 a part sectional plan and Fig. 3 an end view of the box former;
Figs. 4 and 5 are vertical sections on lines A. B and C D Fig. 2;
Fig. 6 is a vertical section on line E F Fig. 2.
In order to obtain the required motions we use in this machine two worms d'
and d which are fixed on the shaft a of the machine. These worms have two
helical grooves and in them are arranged two turn discs which cause a roller
gearing in the block to move in the manner presently to be described. The one
worm provides for the motions for forward feeding of the veneer, the wrapping
paper and the label to the box former and also for the dropping of the paper- and
label-magazines in right time. The other worm provides for the introduction of
the veneer into the box former and the pressing of the wrapping paper and the
label around the bent box as well as the pushing off of the made box. These
motions are obtained in the following manner. In the helical groove of the worm d'
gears a roller on a stud which is fixed to the link or lever. This lever is
at pivoted to the table of the machine and is at f connected to the bolt e that
works in a recess of the table and carries the pusher plate ; the bolt e is by
means of a link and a bracket piece connected to another bolt e, upon which is
arranged the wedge m for moving the paper- and label-magazines. On the worms
are fixed pivoted cam discs d³ which are so arranged that the roller is carried
back during half a screw on the worm and forward during one and a half turns,
whereupon it stops at the front edge of the worm during one turn of the worn.
Into the other worm gears a roller on a stud fixed to the link or lever, which
at is pivoted to the table and at f pivoted to a bolt running along the front
edge of the table. By a link and a bell crank lever this bolt is connected to
bolte working at right angles to the bolt e and serving to carry the veneer provided
with its wrapping paper and label forward to the box former. The worm d' is also
provided with two pivoted turn-discs and which are so arranged that the
roller is carried back during half a turn of the worm, forward during half a turn
and stops during two turns of the worm.
The box-former is so constructed that the veneer is coiled around the core b
which for this purpose is provided with a spring nipper or presser which opens for
taking the veneer out of the casing c. The same serves also to push away the
made box. The casing c receives backward and forward motion over the core b
from the bolt k. At the end of the casing is provided a lever working on a
pivot c¹ and impelled by a spring. On the core is arranged a nipper or presser bl
pivoted at 6 and impelled by a spring. At one side of its bearing it is provided
with a lever carrying a bowl . When the casing or pusher c moves over the core

page_text: or box former b, the roller 63 passes in under the lever . At the subsequent
back movement of the pusher, the roller glides up on the upper side of the lever
whereby the nipper opens until the roller has come to the back edge of the
pusher.
At this moment as will be presently more fully described, a piece of veneer with
its wrapping paper and label is introduced between the nipper and the core. During
the continued back motion of the pusher the roller 63 glides down from the pusher
whereby the nipper closes and holds the veneer while the latter is being coiled
round the core. Meanwhile the veneer and its paper wrapping and label are
pressed by the roller t. The latter is carried in levers which can turn on the
spindle This spindle also has a lever 3 which at its end carries a roller t, that
is impelled by the belt k, so that the roller t presses the veneer, the paper and the
label while the box is bent or coiled round the box former or core >.
gh, and are magazines for the veneer the paper and the labels. They are
arranged side by side but one somewhat further back than the other. The
magazines and are raised simultaneously by the arm m' which by the arms m²
are impelled from a roller on the worm Figs. 4 and 6. They are held up by
the roller m which runs on the wedge m; the latter is cut out at m³ so that the
magazines can drop and deliver a wrapping paper and a label.
The veneer magazine g is provided with a device which serves to hinder that
more than one veneer is pushed out at a time. The veneers at the ends rest on
pushers gl and g, the former being united by a peg to the bolte and the latter
being adapted to slide in the length direction of the magazine by means of the
bolt and the roller which runs in a slanting groove in the bolt e². The
pusher by means of a set off g pushes forward a veneer from the magazine in
under the pivoted gate at the front side of the magazine. At the front edge of
the out pusher plate are pivoted the tongs and an arm which latter goes
down into a groove 3 in the machine table. When the outpusher plate has come
forward under the magazine the forward ends of the tongs a fall into slanting
recesses in the table whereby their rear ends are raised so that they can grip the
protruded veneer and carry it out of the magazine when the plate " is turned.
The arm has then slided up out of its groove u³ and holds with its rear end the
veneers in the magazine above the pusher ", whereby no more than one veneer can
be carried along.
The outpusher plate is provided with three stepwise set off's III and 1-1. The
veneer is carried forward upon the set. off I from the veneer magazine so that it
comes in front of the wrapping paper magazine for the application of the paper
wrapping at the back end of the veneer. Now when the outpusher plate returns
for fetching another veneer the veneer which has already been pushed out is held
fast by the hooks on the arm a fixed to the vencer magazine. By the forward
motion of the outpusher plate the veneer will thus descend upon the set off II and
be carried in front of the label magazine which delivers a label at the rear end of
the paper.
It is meanwhile held fast by the hooks . In the same manner this
vencer with its wrapping paper and label is carried down upon the set off 111,
while the hooks hold it fast, and forward to the bolt 3 which pushes it forward
by means of the set off at right angles to the former motion of the veneer to the
box former which coils the box.
In order to carry forward the paper wrappings and labels, and to prevent them
from sticking to the part beneath, two chains are provided which pass round
hexagon wheels and and consist of long links between which are fixed grids i
upon which the paste covered paper wrappings and labels rest and by which they
are carried forward simultaneously with the vencers that are fed forward by the
outpusher plate u. These chains obtain forward motion from a hook which is
fixed to the underside of the outpusher plate and engages with a joint pin on the
foremost chain and thus carries the chains along in the forward motion of the
plate n. In the back motion of the latter the chains are held by a pawl hook
on the spindle ; this pawl hook engages with a notch in a disc on the side of

page_text: the chain wheel ›³. When the outpusher plate arrives into its rearmost position
and is about returning the pawl hook is disengaged by the set off on the hook
which then depresses an arin fixed on the spindle.
As stated above the two magazines and are simultaneously raised by the
arm and is kept up by the roller m', which runs on the wedge m. The
latter is fixed to the bolt e2 by the links m and is at m² provided with a notch
or recess. When the wedge has come into that position where the roller * enters
this recess the wedge is by the continued motion of the bolt raised as much as the
links m will allow, and thereby both magazines are raised a corresponding amount.
This takes place while the paste roller o' which is fixed to the bolt. e, advances
in under the magazines. When it turns for going back to the paste reservoir o,
the magazines drop down again, so that the roller o can coat with paste the
lowest paper wrapping and the lowest label. For the roller m has then glided
down into the recess m at the rear end of the wedge and compels the wedge to
drop again by the forward motion of the bolt e².
The bolt which feeds forward the vencer with wrapping paper and label to
the box former is at its rear end provided with a grid which is movable round
the spindle e and impelled upward by a spring. As long as the outpusher plate
covers this grid, it is held down flush with the under side of the plate it. Its
bars are so arranged that in the rear motion of the bolt they may enter between
the bars of that grid which is opposite the bolt. When the bolt has finished
its back stroke, the plate has also moved back and thus leaves the grid free,
so that it can spring up between the bars of the grid i. It thus raises the labels
lying on the said grid and also the rear end of the wrapping paper, so that both,
being pasted on the underside cannot stick to the grid i when the bolt e³ moves
forward.
The magazines and are disconnected in the same manner as heretofore by
means of hooks which abut against pegs on the veneer magazine and paste reservoir.
But they are besides provided with hooks and which engage with notches in
the sides of the magazines. These hooks are fixed at one end of the spindles *
and whose other ends carry the levers 3 and 13 passing down through slots in the
outpusher plate u. When a veneer advances from out of the magazine, its edge
comes against the lever 3 thus lifting the latter and disengages the hook ', so that
the wrapping paper magazine can drop and deliver a wrapping paper.
In the same
manner the hook is disengaged when the veneer comes to the set off II on the
outpusher plate. The hooks are again made to engage with the notches in the
magazines by means of helical springs. By reason of this arrangement the two
magazines are enabled to work independently of each other If from some reason
a veneer magazine the paper magazine and the label magazine will not deliver any
paper or label. The labels and wrapping papers in the two magazines and rest
upon ledges and instead of on pegs as heretofore used for the lower part of
each longer sides of the magazines is loose and by means of spring actuated pegs
connected to the magazine walls the lower edges standing out so that the papers
and labels can rest upon them.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
In machines for making the outer part of a match box or other drawer box
having constantly rotating driving spindle and provided with a box former con-
sisting of a core 6 forged upon the spindle and a casing e which can slide thereon.
First. The application and use of a bolt es which is arranged to work at right
angles to that bolt which moves the outpusher plate for advancing the veneer the
wrapping paper and the label to the box former.
Second. The application and use with the box former of a nipper & fixed to the
core thereof and actuated by a spring the said nipper carrying a bowl 6 which
when the casing a moves forward can slide under a pivoted arm c² on the casing

page_text: but which when the casing moves back slides up upon the slanting upper side of
the said arm and thereby causes the nipper to open for receiving a veneer between
it and the box former.
Third. The arranging of the wrapping paper magazine and label magazine in
such manner that the latter is placed directly alongside and a little behind the
former for the purpose of applying a label to the rear end of the wrapping paper
affixed to the veneer, and in such manner that in both magazines the contents are
carried by loose ledges which go along the long sides of the magazines and
are connected to their walls by means of spring actuated pegs.
Fourth. The application and use under the wrapping paper and label magazines
of grids fixed to endless chains passing round hexagon wheels,, and receiving
motion from a hook on the underside of the outpusher plate which hook in the
forward motion of said plate engages with a peg on one of the chains which are
prevented from following the plate in its back stroke by a hook engaging with
notches in a wheel at the side of one of the hexagon wheels.
Fifth. The arrangement for pushing out only one veneer from its magazine at a
time consisting in that the rearmost piece on which the veneers rest is provided with
a set off and can slide in the length direction of the magazine so that one veneer
can be pushed forward somewhat under the front end of the magazine in order to
be afterwards caught hold of by tongs u¹ fixed to the outpusher plate.
Sixth. The construction of magazine shewn on the drawings.
Dated this Twelfth day of March 1892.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.