Improvements in Machines for Filling Match Boxes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Mar., 1890-Accepted, 3rd May, 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Filling Match Boxes.
I, FRANS LUNDGREN of 19 Floragatan, Stockholm, Sweden, Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed
to be particularly described in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to machines for filling match-boxes. The machine works
mainly in such a way, that a compartment of the same capacity as a match box is
filled with matches, and the match quantity thus measured is then transported in front
of the end of a sliding bolt or piston which then brings the matches into the inner
box or drawer. The inner box thus filled is then by means of another bolt pushed
into the outer box. The inner and outer boxes are introduced into and run in different
gutters in the machine until they at last meet and are pushed one into another.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a plan view of the machine and
Figure 2 a front view partly in section on the line a-b, Figure 1. Figure 3 is a
transverse section on the line e d, Figure 1, and Figure 4a transverse section on the
line, also Figure 1. The other figures show details.
The construction and working of the machine are as follows:-
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Upon the machine table A two parallel bolts B and C have their bearings, of which
the holt B has for purpose to transport the match quantity detatched into the inner
box or drawer and the holt C to push the filled inner box into the outer one.
The
fore end of the bolt B runs into a gutter D, to which the magazine E for the matches
is placed perpendicularly. This latter E consists of a lengthy receptacle, in which
the matches are piled up, as shown in Figures 1 and 3. The right wall (Figure 1)
of the match magazine is to be removed, in order that the matches may be deposed
in the magazine from the side.
In Figure 3 the said wall is considered removed the match magazine has an inclined
bottom with a rapid alternate motion imparted to the same by means of the crank
dise a from which proceeds the link bar a jointed to the bottoin F and to the shaft
of which the motion is transinitted from the main shaft G by means of the endless
cord or band a Figure 1. The bottom F is at the upper end suspended from a
standard H by means of a strap a while its lower end rests upon a plane on the
same level as the bottom of the gutter D. Towards the gutter D the magazine is
contracted in height or formed into a spout the matches being there covered by a
li a fixed by means of a hinge joint to the foremost short end a. Under the said
lid and in the magazine for the rest, a leather strap a' is laid upon the matches.
The gutter D is opposite the match magazine and is provided with an angular lid I
fixed by means of an arm Figure 1 and 2. This arm is jointed to the guide or
bearing & Figures 1 and 2 for the bolts B and C and adjustable to different heights
by means of the adjusting screw . A helical spring c Figure 2 draws the lid
downwards. In Figure 3 the lid I is represented viewed from the top. Further
there is under the machine table a knife K Figures 1. 2. and 3 moveable as a slide
up and down in the guide bracket 63. This knife, the top of which Fig. 2, is some-
what pointed without being sharp, has for purpose to intercept the magazine from the
gutter D when this is filled with matches, which is thus affected that the knife moves
up and down through the matches close to the vertical side of the lid I. The match
quantity in the gutter D is thus determined as to height by the lid I and as to width
by the knife K see Figure 3. When the knife is drawn down, the matches can without
obstacle fall into the gutter D and are besides forced in owing partly to the shaking
of the inclined bottom F and partly because of the somewhat square end of the
bottom. The quantity of matches detatched by the knife is just enough to fill a box.
The knife receives an alternate motion by the cam ³ Figure 3.

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The introduction of the match quantity detatched into the box is shown in Figure 2
and 4. Directly under the end of the gutter D is a vertical bolt L moveable up and
down in the guide d between the thin springs or blades d leaning close to its sides
and fixed below to the guide. These blades d' have for purpose to guide the matches
into the box drawer which turned upside down is passed upon their top ends. In
Figure 2. the front blade d' is partly cut off. The box drawers are placed into the
inclined gutter M Figure 1 the lower end of which opens to the side of a horizontal
bolt N being straight opposite the bolt L. Owing to the inclination of the gutter M
the box drawers placed herein glide down by themselves and every time the bolt N is
drawn back, the box drawers glide down, so that the downmost one gets into the
way of the bolt and is pushed forwards by the latter. When the bolt L is in its
upper position the upper end is at the same plane as the bottom of the sliding face
of the bolt N and the ends of the blades d¹ do not then reach over the same. By
the bolt N the box drawer is brought upside down, as it has been deposited into
the gutter M, upon the end of the bolt L, and when this same bolt goes down, the
box, forced by a lid d² which previously was raised by another smaller vertical bolt d³
sinks down upon the ends of the blades d', so that these partly reach into the interior
of the box drawér see Figure 2 where a box drawer d' is seen in this position.
When on the other hand the bolt L is in its lowest position, its top end is level
with the bottom of the gutter D'and the space between the blades d' constitutes then
a continuation of the said gutter. The matches piled up into the gutter D and
detached from the magazine in the manner stated above can therefore easily be
brought by the bolt B between the blades d', so that they remain upon the top of
the bolt L, Figure 4. After that has taken place the bolt L goes upwards, so that
the matches are introduced into the box passed upon the blades d' and the bolt goes
so far upwards, as to push the box drawer from from the blades. The box drawer is
now filled with inatches and it remains now only to push the same into the outer box.
In connection with the filling of the boxes it ought however be mentioned that the
bolt L receives its motion from the cam fand the bolt 3 from the cam on which
cams and the bolts rest with their respective rollers 3 and 1. The bolt B
receives its motion from the grooved cam g and the bolt N from the lever g2 of the
weigh shaft g, while another lever g on the same shaft is actuated by the crank g.
The outer boxes are deposited one upon another in the magazine O which is
traversed by the bolt P Figures 1 and 2. Further there is opposite the end of the
bolt Ca gutter having an opening towards the bolt N. This gutter is formed of thin
blades or springs and Figures 1 and 5 fixed in any suitable manner in the
interior of the bearings or guides for the bolts B and C or in the gutter D and of
yet another spring which is made in the same piece as a part 3-shaped as a lid
and pivotted to the machine table. All the springs are free at the one end and
somewhat bent together so that the outer box may be pushed upon them and the
gutter formed in this way has for purpose to constitute a guide, by which the 'filled
inner box or drawer is to be pushed into the outer one. By the bolt P one outer box
at the time is pushed opposite the free end of the said gutter, and by the other bolt R
the outer box is pushed upon the same end of the same gutter as shewn in the part
plan view figure 7. In the upper position the end of the bolt 1. carrying the fitted
box is level with the bottom of the gutter, and the box with the matches is pushed
by the bolt N by means of the next following inner box or drawer (figure 1)
sideways into the gutter. The drawer is then by the bolt C pushed into the
outer box, the bolt C advancing so far that a couple of studs on the same push the
outer box, with the filled drawer placed therein off the end of the gutter hh.
The filled and closed boxes are by the subsequent outer boxes, advanced in the
gutter until they leave the machine. The bolt C receives its motion from the
lever m figure 2 fixed on the weight shaft m', which by means of the eccentric m² its
strap and the levers.m³ and m' passed one into another receives an oscillating motion.
The bolt R receives its motion from the face cam S All the lids I dare pivotted
to the machine table by means of levers so that they may be raised and held depressed
.

page_text: by, helical springs, weights or the like acting upon the levers. The lid is held
depressed by a superposed spring and a hook n' pressing upon it and fixed to the
side of the match magazine E. In figure 5 the lids are shown in plan.
As to the feeding in of the matches it should be remarked, that the shaking
bottom F may conveniently receive an intermittent motion in such a way, that it
moves to and fro only when the gutter D is to be filled, but such stands still, until the
next filling is to take place. The motion for that purpose can easily be effected by
means of a shaft running in the pedestal of the machine and provided with two levers,
one connected with a lever fixed on the shaft of the eccentric a² or united with the
bottom in some other way, and the other actuated by cam fixed on the main shaft,
and which only on part of the circumference is toothed but plain for the rest, and
against which the same lever rests by intervention of a roller. On the shaft G there
is a pulley G for driving the machine by means of a belt the machine being moreover
provided with a friction coupling so that the same may be easily stoppeil or put in
motion.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner it may be performed I declare that what I claim is
1. In a machine for filling match boxes a magazine E provided with an inclined
bottom having a reciprocating motion imparted to it in combination with a com-
partment D located opposite the end of the bottom F and communicating with the
magazine E for the purpose that the matches placed transversally upon the bottom
may by the same be transported into the said compartment D.
2. In a machine for filling match boxes an arrangement for detaching the matches
which are to fill a box drawer consisting of a thin knife or blade K having a recipro-
cating motion imparted to it and with its free end penetrating between the matches
and intercepting the passage through which the matches are lel from their magazine
thus taching part of the foremost matches in the said passage from the rest.
3. In a machine for filling match boxes an arrangement for measuring off a
quantity of matches just enough to fill a box drawer consisting of a gutter placed
perpen ticularly to the match magazine, which gutter is open to the front of the
magazine, and has an adjustable lid I lying in the gutter.
4. In a machine for filling match boxes an arrangement for introducing the
matches into the box drawer consisting of a bolt L movable up and down between
two thin springs or blades on the top ends of which the drawer turned upside
down is passed and between which the matches are pushed in above the bolt for
being introduced into the drawer by this bolt at its upward stroke.
5. In a machine for filling match boxes an arrangement for pushing the filled inner
box or drawer into the outer box, consisting of a gutter, composed of thin, elastic
side walls, which at one end are free and somewhat bent together so that an outer
box may be passed upon them as upon a funnel and of a bolt having a reciprocating
motion in the gutter with the view that a filled inner box introduced into the gutter
through an opening in its side may by the bolt C be pushed into the outer box passed
upon the end of the gutter and that this box may finally also be pushed off the same
bolt. C.
6. In a machine for filling match boxes the arrangement of two bolts P and R
placed perpendicularly one to another the one passing through a magazine for the
outer boxes and the other being in the same line as a gutter in which the inner boxes
are advanced with the view that the first bolt may push out a box at the time from
the magazine and that the other bolt may in the same order push the boxes upon the
free end of the latter gutter turned towards the same bolt in order to receive the
interior boxes led through the same gutter.
7. In the construction specified in the fourth claim an arrangement for passing the
inner box upon the ends of the blades d' consisting partly of a bolt N which passing
by an inclined gutter M in which the boxes are placed one after another brings a box
at the time upon the end of the raised bolt L located between the blades and partly

page_text: of an elastio lid lying above the last named bolt which lid when pushing forth the
box is held in a raised position by a bolt, lever or the like, but which when the bolt L
has gone down forces the box down upon the free ends of the blades.
8. The construction of machine shewn on the drawing.
Dated this 26th day of March 1890
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents