Year: 1889

page_text: [Communicated. from abroad by LA SOCIÉTÉ L. GOUMAND ET CIE., of Buenos Ayres,
in the Argentine Republic, Manufacturers.]
I, WILLIAM HENRY BECK, of 115, Cannon Street, in the City of London, Consulting
Engineer & 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, reference being had to the accompanying four
sheets of Drawings and to the letters and figures marked thereon that is to say:—
This invention relates to machinery for the manufacture of match and other boxes
composed of an outer case or sheath hereinafter called the case, and of an inner box or
drawer sliding in the said outer case or sheath hereinafter called the drawer. The new.
or improved machinery consists firstly of mechanism for making the drawer and the
case which together comprise the complete box, and secondly of mechanism for fixing
the piece of elastic material which connects these two parts to one another.
The pieces of paper or cardboard, intended to form the boxes, are previously cut out
to the proper shape to form the drawer, or the case, and they are then delivered into
the machine by a feeding appliance. In the machine they are pasted or gummed at
the overlapping parts; they are then carried under a mandril on which they are
folded to form the cases, or the drawers, as the case may be, and the shaped cases, or
drawers, are then conducted into cells or recesses on the circumference of a wheel
where the drying of the said cases, or drawers is effected without fear of deformation.
The drawers are afterwards fitted into the cases and the two parts connected
together by pieces of elastic by the machine for that purpose, which is also applicable
to the fixing of the elastic connections of other forms of boxes, such as mercery boxes
for example.
Figures 1 to 11 of the Drawings hereto annexed illustrate the machinery for making
the case and the drawer of the box.
Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation taken on the line 1-2 of Figure 3, of
a machine arranged to make two cases, or two drawers, or if preferred, a case and a
drawer at the same time.
Figure 2 is a plan.
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Figures 4 to 11 show in full size the various bending or folding operations the
shaped pieces of cardboard are subjected to in order to produce the case and the
drawer composing a match box of the kind shown.
Figures 12 to 15 show, to an enlarged scale, details of the mechanism for forming
the case, or the drawer. Figure 12 shows a part of Figure 3; Figure 13 a plan of
Figure 12; Figure 14 a section taken on the line XX of Figure 12, and Figure 15
the levers by the action of which the last folds of the case, or of the drawer, are made.
The entire box which is shown in longitudinal section and plan in Figure 11,
comprises the case A and the drawer T connected together by a piece of elastic
material E fixed at one end to the bottom A¹ of the case, and at the other end to the
cover T of the drawer. This fixing at both ends of the piece of elastic T may be
effected by known means, but preferably by means of the machinery, for that purpose
hereinafter described.
The case A is produced from a piece of cardboard cut out to the shape shown in
Figure 4 with the lines 1, 2, 3 and 11, 21, 3' cut through. This piece of cardboard is
placed in the machine and is thereby pasted or gummed on the surfaces 2, 3, 6, 7
and 21, 3, 6, 71; the sides 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 1', 21, 31, 41, 5¹ are turned up square
(Figure 5); the square pieces 1, 2, 3 and 11, 21; 31 are folded inwards; the
part 3, 6, 7, 71, G', 31, is turned up; the part 3, 6, 61, 31, is turned down; the
sides 2, 3, 6, 7 and 21, 3, 6, 71 being inclined slightly inwards and the fold 1, 1¹
(Figure 6) is then made. The folding down of these various parts and then fastening
by means of the pasted or gummed parts is then completed (Figure 7). The case thus
formed is removed from the mandril and deposited in one of the circumferential cells
or recesses of the drying wheel.
When the machine is arranged to make the drawer instead of the case the
previously cut out piece of cardboard (Figure 8) is subjected to the same operations
after it has been furnished with the piece of elastic E (Figure 28). Figures 9 and 10
show the bending or folding operations the cardboard is subjected to in being formed
into a drawer. The front end Tx being finally closed by means of a special tool.
The cast iron frame of the machine (Figures 1, 2 and 3) is made of any suitable
form and dimensions adapted to the various mechanical parts. The driving shaft o is
furnished with the fast and loose pulleys of 03 and drives a second shaft q parallel to
itself by means of two toothed wheels o¹ q'; the shaft g communicates motion to a
third shaft v by means of spiral toothed wheels qu'u², the two latter wheels being
carried on the shafts u u, and other spiral toothed wheels v¹ by the shaft v.
The shaft drives the cams which communicate, by means of the levers n' n³ and
the levers n³ connected thereto at n² by the rods, alternate up and down movements
to two ladder-like bars a a placed lengthwise of the machine. These bars are furnished
with pins or pegs a¹ a¹ placed at certain distances apart and are intended to receive
the pieces of cardboard at the right hand end of the machine, to present them to
pasting or gumming brushes p, and to carry them under the forming mandril m..
this purpose they receive, besides the up and down movements before mentioned,
alternating longitudinal movements imparted to them by the eccentrics b, the
levers and the connecting rods be jointed to the said bars a.
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The pieces of cardboard placed between two pins or pegs, a a¹ are carried thereby
immediately under the brushes p, which are caused to rise and fall by the cams c so as
to take paste or gum from a reservoir, not shown in the Drawings, and to spread the
same over the sides 2, 3, 6, 7 and 21, 3¹, 6¹, 71 (Figure 4). Two springs suitably
placed clear the brushes of superfluous paste or gum when they leave the reservoir.
The pieces of cardboard thus pasted or gummed pass under a blowers which blows
cold or warm air over them to remove some of the moisture from the gummed parts.
This drying means may be omitted if preferred.
The mandrils m, placed above the shaft q, are connected to a horizontal piece d'
which is moved up and down, by a cam d, in vertical slides ³; the cam d is connected
with the piece by means of the connecting rod . The object of the downward
movements of the mandrils is, as above mentioned, to hold the pieces of cardboard
while the other parts of the mechanism are forming them into cases or drawers.

page_text: When the case is formed and gummed the mandrils rise and move forward in a right
line by the action of the cam, the levers and the slides, on the ends of which
the said mandrils are secured.
These forward rectilinear movements bring the cases into the cells or recesses 3.
round the peripheries of the wheels y' y'. These wheels are moved intermittently by
means of the pawls taking into the ratchet teeth y of the said wheels, by the action
of levers y pivoted at y and operated by the cams Y; 6 are retaining pawls for
preventing the backward movement of the wheels y¹.
The cases or the drawers, as the case may be,made by the machine are only placed in
the wheels y y' to assure their drying without change of shape. They are expelled
therefrom by the fresh cases or drawers which come successively forward to take their
place.
When the mandril m is lowered on to the part 1, 5, 51, 1 of the piece of cardboard
(Figure 4) the sides 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 11, 21, 31, 4', 5' are raised by the folders f¹ fi put
in motion by means of the connecting rod f and the lever f moved by a cam fon
the shaft q (Figures 1, 2, 3, 12, 13 and 14). The square pieces 1, 2, 3 and 11, 21, 31
are afterwards folded inwards by means of the pushers g¹ g¹ moved by the levers g² g³
operated by the cams gg. The cams g are formed on the opposite vertical faces of the
same pieces of cast iron.
While the small sides 1, 2, 3 and 11, 2, 3' are being folded inwards a piece ¹ begins
to raise the whole of the part 1, 6, 6, 1. It is actuated by the connecting rod n³ of
the lever by the action of the cam Y. When this piece has reached the top of
its stroke it is carried forward by the two levers h pivotting at h and acted on by two
studs he fixed on the vertical faces of the cam Y.
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It now only remains to fold down completely the top and the gummed sides 2, 3, 6, 7
and 21, 31, 6, 71. This double operation is effected by the cam k which causes the
pieces to descend; the piece k presses the part 2, 7, 71, 21 (Figure 4) down
on to the mandril, and the other pieces slide down over the piece k, and press the
sides 2, 3, 6, 7 and 21, 31, 61, 71 against the previously folded up parts 1, 5, 4
and 1', 51, 41; is the lever which connects the cam k with the pieces EE.
In order to produce a certain pressure on all the lateral parts of the case levers t
are operated by projections t¹ formed on the edge of the cam k, and move the wedges t
which press the cardboard against the mandrils so as to form sharp angles at the folds.
When the wedges rise again the pressing parts are drawn back by the springs r and
the mandril rises again with the case, and the two make together the rectilinear.
movement above described, so as to carry the case into the corresponding cell or recess
in the wheel y'. Each of these cells or recesses is furnished at its entrance with two
springs, the purpose of which is to detach the case from the mandril when the latter is
drawn back.
The mode of action is as follows: the operative places the pieces of cardboard one
by one on the feed bar a a little in front of the brushes p when the latter are in their
raised position after having been charged with gum or other cementing material as
above described. The cardboard is advanced under these brushes and is gummed at
2, 3, 6, 7 and 21, 31, 61, 71 (Figure 4); it passes under the dryers and continues
to advance intermittently, finally arriving over a seat or kind of anvil fo placed
perpendicularly below the mandril m.
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This mandril m is now lowered on to the part 1, 11, 5, 5¹ of the cardboard to hold
the latter firmly on the anvil fo. Then the folders f f raise the sides 1, 2, 3, 4. 5
and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5' vertically, and the pushers push inwards the square
pieces 1, 2, 3 and 11, 2, 31. At the same time the piece h¹ raises the whole of the
part 1, 2, 3, 6, 6, 31, 21, 11, then folds down the part 3, 6, 61, 31 on to the mandril.
Finally the pieces, descend and press the part 1, 7, 71, 11 down on to the
mandril and the gummed sides 2, 3, 6, 7 and 21, 31, 61, 71 against the raised sides 1, 5, 4
and 1', 5, 41. The wedges complete the folds and then retire, and the mandril rises
again carrying the case with it. The mandril then carries the case into the cell or
recess presented opposite to it by the wheel y¹, and the mandril returns to its first
position in order to commence the formation of a fresh case.

page_text: What has been described above for the production of the case A of the box
(Figure 11) is applicable to the manufacture of the drawer T (Figures 10 and 11)
which is similar to the case except that in the drawer the front Tx has to be folded
down by hand or by the aid of a special tool.
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The case A and the drawer T (Figures 11 and 27) being made as above described
they have to be united by the piece of indiarubber or other elastic material E, this
may be effected in the apparatus shown in Figures 16 and 17.
Figure 16 is a front elevation of the machine for fixing the aforesaid piece of elastic
to the piece of cardboard.
Figure 17 is a corresponding side view.
Figures 18 and 19 are respectively a front and side elevation of the arrangement of
the feeding pincers for the metallic wire used to secure the ends of the elastic.
Figures 20 and 21 are details, to full size, of the needle at the moment when it
seizes the elastic before passing through the cardboard.
Figure 22 is a transverse section taken at the line 1-2x of Figure 20.
Figures 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27 are details of the arrangements applied to the fixing
of the elastic of the drawer T to the bottom A' of its case A, Figure 25 being a section
taken at line 3× 4x of Figure 23.
The frame is formed of the cast iron legs a a, suitably cross stayed, and a table b
fixed on the said legs. These legs are furnished with the bearings a¹ a¹ of the driving
shaft o which carries the driving pulley P and the two cams c d.
On the table b are fixed the guides e e¹ of the needle f, the bearings y of the wire
cutters and the support h of the bobbin carrying the coil of metallic wire. This
wire a passes through a guide i and is led into a tube j which conducts it to the special
piece through which the needle passes with the piece of elastic.
Between the guides i and j the metallic wire is seized by the feeding pincer, the
jaws pp of which are normally held apart by a spring 7, are closed at the proper
time by a rib d' on the eccentric d which rib passes in between the lower branches
of the jaws p p (Figures 18 and 19). The pivot p² of this pincer is moveable on
an axis so that it takes by the action of the eccentric d and of the spring y an
oscillating movement from back to front in order to effect the feeding forward of the
metallic wire, and inversely from front to back, after it is opened, to enable it to
return to seize the wire in a fresh place and so on.
The needle has intermittent alternating rectilinear movements imparted to it by
the came which is connected with it by means of the lever . In front the guide es
of the needle has an elliptic boss 7 in which is formed the oblique groove g₁ so
situated that the ring of indiarubber E placed in it and intended to form the elastic
piece is presented exactly across the hole of the guide in which the needle slides
(Figures 20 21 and 22).
The needle is split or forked at the end in order to take hold of one side of
the ring of caoutchouc E and to carry it with it, stretching the ring on the boss y as
shown at Figures 20 and 21. The end of the needle f is deeply notched underneath
at (Figure 20) to allow of the passage of the metallic wire between the needle
and the elastic É.
This metallic wire is brought forward by the pincer, when the needle and its
elastic have passed through the card T which is to form the drawer, and is then cut
off by the cutter s which is screwed into a socket supported by a lever pivolted
at the lower arm of the said lever being furnished with a friction roller which
takes into the curvilinear groove of a cam t.
The action of the machine is as follows:-The cardboard cut out to the shape and
dimensions required (Figure 28) is placed by hand against the piece k, the piece of
elastic is sprung into the groove q' of the boss a while the needle f is in the drawn
back position. The rotary motion of the shaft o is transformed, by the cam c, into a
rectilinear movement of the needle f which seizes one side of the elastic ring E,
stretches it and forces it to pass with it through the piece of cardboard (Figure 16)
at the same time the pincers p p close and seize the metallic wire and causes it to
advance between the needle and the stretched indiarubber ring until it bears against

page_text: a spring which prevents the entrance of the indiarubber into the picce k
(Figure 25).
These movements are communicated to the pincers 7 71 by the cam d and the
rib d'; the cam & then acts on the lever r forcing the cutters to descend and to cut
off the metallic wire.
The piece of wire cut off returns with the elastic on the return of the needle but
being placed across the hole pierced in the cardboard it prevents the elastic from
returning through the cardboard which is then removed from the machine and a
counter ticket is gummed over the end of the elastic and the piece of wire securing
the whole to the cardboard.
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The needle having returned to its original position, a fresh piece of cardboard is
applied and the same operations are repeated.
The pieces of cardboard furnished with elastics in the manner above described are
then made up into drawers, in the machine herein before described or otherwise, the
elastic pieces E remaining free outside (Figure 27). In order to fix the elastic to
the bottom A (Figures 11 and 27) of the case ▲ the needle fl (Figures 23, 24, 25,
26 and 27) is substituted for the needle above described. The needle f¹ is longer
than the needle and its range of rectilinear movement is greater, the curvilinear
groove of the cam c being made accordingly.
The case A is placed on a support in front of the piece k. The needle passes through
and beyond the bottom A' and the elastic E is hooked on to it. It then retires,
drawing with it the drawer T into the case A. The needle passes back out of the
bottom A drawing the end of the elastic E through the same, and at that moment
the metallic wire a is passed through the loop of the elastic, between it and the
bottom A¹, and is cut to length by the cutter s. The needle then returns towards the
case which it pushes away a little, and as its end is split or forked as shown at
Figure 27 it presses the wire against the bottom so as to prevent it from falling out
when the elastic is unhooked from the hook of the needle.
In these two distinct operations (fixing the elastic E to the drawer T, and to the
bottom of the case A in order to connect the drawer to the case) it is desirable that
the machine should stop a certain length of time after each operation in order that
the working parts may always return to the same relative positions, and for this
purpose any suitable known arrangements of mechanism may be employed.
Figures 16 and 17 show a stop motion for the needle and the elastic which is
brought into action at each revolution by means of the levers v v³. The machine is
brought into action by pressing down the pedal w.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
:
First In a machine for making the cases and drawers of match and other such
like boxes the device for feeding forward the previously cut out pieces of paper or
cardboard consisting of a bar furnished with equidistant pins or pegs a¹ for holding
the said pieces of paper or cardboard, the said bar having up and down and horizontal
to and fro movements imparted thereto, as herein before described, and illustrated in
Figures 1, 2 and 3 of the Drawings hereto annexed.
Second In a machine for making the cases and drawers of match and other such
like boxes the mechanism for spreading the gum or other adhesive material on the
two lateral parts 2, 3, 6, 7 and 21, 31, 61, 71 of the piece of cardboard, consisting of
brushes having up and down movements imparted thereto for the purpose of taking
a supply of adhesive material and spreading the same on the said parts of the card-
board which is brought under the said brushes, as hereinbefore described, and
illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings hereto annexed.
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Third In a machine for making the cases and drawers of match and other such
like boxes the use of the mandril m for holding in place the piece of cardboard left
below it by the feeding bar a and for forming a shaper on which the case A or the
drawer T, as the case may be, is folded, and by which the said case or drawer is

page_text: deposited in the cell or recess y of the drying wheel y', the said mandril having up
and down, and to and fro movements imparted thereto, as herein before described, and
illustrated in Figures 1, 2 and 3 of the Drawings hereto annexed.
Fourth In a machine for making the cases and drawers of match and other such
like boxes the folders f f for turning up the sides 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 11, 21, 31,
4, 5; the folders y g¹ for folding the square parts 1, 2, 3 and 11, 21, 31 inwards;
the piece for turning up and pressing downwards the top 1, 6, 6, 14; and the
finishing pieces for pressing the parts 2, 7, 71, 2, against the mandril
and the pasted or gummed sides 2, 6, 7 and 21, 6, 7 against the sides 1, 5, 4
aud 1, 5, 4 all combined, arranged and operating as hereinbefore described, and
illustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 12, 13, 14 and 15 of the Drawings
hereto annexed.
Fifth In a machine for making the cases and drawers of match and other such
like boxes the use of the wedges for forming the folds and assuring adhesion of
the parts to one another, as hereinbefore described, and illustrated in Figures 12
and 13 of the Drawings hereto annexed.
Sixth In a machine for making the cases and drawers of match and other such
like boxes the driving shaft o, the spur gearing o' q', the cam shaft 9,
the spiral
gearing qu¹u, the intermediate shafts u u, the spiral gearing us u² vv, and the
suaft v, combined and arranged ashereinbefore described, and illustrated in Figures1,2
and 3 of the drawings hereto annexed.
Seventh In a machine for making the cases and drawers of match and other such
like boxes the general arrangement and combination of the various parts forming the
subjects of the first, second, third, fourth and fifth claiming clauses hereof, for the
purpose of producing one by one the cases or the drawers of such boxes substantially
as hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 1, 2 and 3 of the Drawings
hereto annexed.
Eighth In a machine for placing and securing the pieces of elastic in the
drawers and cases of match and other such like boxes the cam e' for effecting the
intermittent to and fro movements of the needle for fl for passing the piece of
elastic E either through the cover T¹ of the drawer T or through the bottom of the
case A.; the cam d for feeding forward the metallic wire and furnished with a
rib or tongued for effecting the closing of the pincers and the cam
actuating the cutters which cuts the metallic wire to length, all arranged on the
shaft and combined and operating substantially as herein before described, and
illustrated in Figures 10 and 11 and 16 to 28 of the Drawings hereto annexed.
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Ninth In a machine for placing and securing the pieces of elastic in the drawers
and cases of match and other such like boxes the combination of a needle for fl for
piercing the cardboard 1 of the drawer T, or the bottom A¹ of the case A, and for
passing the elastic E through those parts, the feeding pincers ? pl for feeding forward
the wire intended to fasten the elastic to the drawer or to the case, and a cutter s
for cutting off the said wire, all arranged and operating substantially as herein-
before described, and illustrated in Figures 16 to 28 of the Drawings hereto
annexed.
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Tenth In à machine for placing and securing the pieces of elastic in the drawers
and cases of match and other such like boxes the use of metallic wire in coil form fed
forward and cut off to length, as hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 16
to 19 of the Drawings hereto annexed.
Dated.this. 31st day of January, 1889.
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W. H. BECK,
115, Cannon Street, London, E.C.,
Applicant.