Year: 1895

page_text: We, MAXIMILIAN BALS, of 111 Sofienbruckenstrasse 13, Chemist, CHARLES
NOEL of Domgass 6, Professor, and GEORG GERRERSDORIER, of XVI
Herbststrasso 42, Gentleman, all of Vienna, Austria, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows :-
Our invention relates to an improved manufacture of matches from pasteboard-
or cardboard-like material.
The process consists mainly in subjecting pasteboard or cardboard produced in
any known manner to heat, then impregnating it with a solution of paraflin, steariue
οι wax &c. and petroleum or a resinous substance, and while still in a soft
condition, cutting it up into small sticks which are then provided in the usual
manner with heads of match composition. Matches thus produced are considerably
cheaper than wood or wax matches.
By preference the pasteboard on cardboard differs from that of ordinary
manufacture in that there is sprinkled between the several layers of material to bo
pasted together a solution consisting of copperas and phosphate of ammonia, mixed
with paste. The paste and copperas impart solidity to the pasteboard, while tho
phosphate of aminonia prevents the continued glimmering of the match after being
extinguished.
The proportions employed are advantageously 4,500 grammes of paste to
1,000 gr. of phosphate of ainmonia, and 250 gr. of coppotas with about 18,500 gr.
of water, the paste being made of the consistency of milk.
The pasteboard thus prepared having being died, it is cut into bands of a width
corresponding to the length of the matches, by preference by circular cutters on
the compressing rollers, and these bands aro then heated to the temperature of
boiling paraffin &c., and dipped into the before mentioned molten materials so as
to be saturated thereby, this being facilitated by the previous henting of the paste-
board While still soft, the bands aro cut into thin strips by a cutting machine,
which is by preference of the following arrangement.
Two cylinders suitably geared together are provided with cutting blades parallel
to their axes, which, as the bands of prepared paste board are passed between them,
cut this into strips corresponding to the size of the matches, but the blades are so
formed that the cut does not extend right across, thus leaving the strips all
connected together at the one end. At the opposite end of the blades the cylinders
are formed with annular surfaces, which, as the edge of the pasteboard passes
between them, compress this so as to make the end of the strips thinner than the
other part, for the reception of the match compound, whereby the head of the
match is rendered of about the samo thickness as the other part
The bands thus prepared are now fitted with the uncut end edge-wise round a
cylinder, whereby the cut ends are opened out away from each other in assuming a
radial position, the band being wound in this position holically round the cylinder.
The cylinder is then rotated so that the separated ends come consecutively in
contact with a layer of the match paste, so as oach to take up a certam quantity
thereof for forming the head.

page_text: Or the said cuds may be dipped into a vessel containing such paste.
The cylinder with the matches attached thereto is then taken to the drying room,
and when dry, the matches are separated from the connecting part of the band, and
are packed
in boxes.
If it be desired to render the matches wind-proof when burning, the paste board
may be treated with saltpeter solution on the like before treating with paraffin &c,
or a layer of paper saturated with saltpeter &c. may be introduced in tho
pasteboard at the time of manufacture.
Dated this 13th day of May 1805
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants,
We, MAXIMILIAN BALS, of III Soflenbrückenstrasse 13, Chemist, CHARLES
NOEL of Domgass 6, Professor, and GBORG GERRERSDORFER, of XVI
Herbststrasse 42, Gentleman, all of Vienna, Austria, 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 :-
Our invention relates to an improved manufacture of matches from pasteboard or
cardboard-like material.
The process consists mainly in subjecting pasteboard or cardboard produced in
any known manner to heat, then impiegnating it with a solution of paraffin, stealine
or wax &c. and petroleum or a resinous substance, and while still in a soft
condition, cutting it up into small sticks which are then provided in the sunl
manner with heads of match composition. Matches thus produced are considerably
cheaper than wood or wax matches
f
By preference the pasteboard or cardboard differs from that of ordinary
mauufacture in that there is sprinkled between the several layers of material to be
pasted together a solution consisting of copperas and phosphate of ammonia, mixed
with paste. The paste and copperas impart solidity to the pasteboard, while the
phosphate of ammonia prevents the continued glimmering of the match after being
extinguished.
The proportions employed are advantageously 4,500 grammes of paste to
1,000 gr. of phosphate of ammonia, and 250 g. of copperas with about 18,500 gi.
of water, the paste being made of the consistency of milk.
The pasteboard thus prepared having being dried, it is cut into bands of a width
corresponding to the length of the matches by preferenco by circular cutters on the
compressing rollers, and before cutting up into matches these bands are then heated
to the temperature of boiling.
Paraffin or other similar body such as wax, stearine, corosine &c and is then at
once dipped into a molten mixture of paraffin (or wax, stearine, cerosine &c) and
petroleum or a resin (colophony, acaioid resin &c, the latter being used by
preference on account of its fragiant odour on burning).
While still soft, the bands are cut into matches by a suitable cutting machine
If it be desired to render the matches wind-proof when burning, the pasteboard
may be treated with suitable chemicals such as saltpette, either by sprinkling the
sanie between the layers in manufacturing the pasteboard or by introducing a
separate layer of paper that has been saturated with solutions of such chemicals
The matches are then fixed u frames and dipped into the inflammable compound
for forming the heads thereon, such compound being of any of the known descriptions
employed for matches.

page_text: The cutting of the pasteboard bands into matches is by preference effected by
means of a machine the essential parts of which are shewn on the accompanying
diawings, in which Fig. 1 shews a plan of the cutting cylinders Fig. 1a part
longitudinal section through one of them Fig. 2 a cross section through both
cylinders, Fig. 3 shews a part of a cardboard strip out into matches by tho
machine so as to leave them connected together at the one end. Fig. 4 shews this
strip of matches secured in an opened out position on a cylinder for forming the
heads of igniting material thereon.
The machine consists of two cylinders a and b mounted on trunnions, and rotated
by means of toothed wheels h h. On the periphery of these oylinders are fixed a
number of cutter-blades a¹ b' arranged parallel to the axes, and so that, in revolving,
the cutters of the one cylinder come exactly opposite those of the other oylinder at
the point where the cylinders are in contact. These cutters stop short at the ono
end of the cylinders, so as to leave an annular gap g, so that the band of pastoboard
in being passed between the cylinders as they revolve is cut through at that part
which passes between the cutters a' b', while that part which is situated between
the grooves g g is not cut through, as shewn at Figs. 3 and 4. At the other end
of the cutters projecting rings d are formed on the cylinders which, as the
pasteboard passes between them, compiess the latter so as to reduce it in thickness
at e, forming a shoulder ou cach side, as shewn at Fig. 3. By this means the
cap of igniting material which is afterwards placed on this thinned end does
not project to any material extent beyond the thickness of the body of the
match, whereby the packing of the matches is facilitated, and the risk of
detaching the caps in handling obviated.
The bands thus cut into matches connected together at f, are now placed
edgewise helically round a dipping cylinder C Fig. 4 so that the ends e that are
to receive the igniting caps aro all separated from each other. The cylinder C
18 then rotated while the ends of the matches aro brought against a layer of
match paste spread on a plate or roller, or they may be successively dipped
into a vessel containing the paste. The roller with the coated matches is thon
placed in a dying 100m, and after drying, the matches are separated from the
connecting strip and are packed in boxes.
This method of manufacture is very rapid, so that with a series of 15 pairs
of cutting 1ollers running at normal speed, about one million matches can be made
in an hour.
The matches can be coloured in any desired manner
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inveu-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim 18:-
1. The process of manufacturing matches of pasteboard material, consisting
in treating the separate sheets before forming the pasteboard with a mixture of
dilute paste or other cementing material, copperas, and phosphate of ammonia
solution, the pasteboard prepared from such sheets being then heated and soaked
In a mixture of melted paraffin, wax or other fatty body, and petroleum or a resin
solution, and while still in a hot and soft condition, it is cut up into matches, which
may or may not be treated with saltpetre or the like for rendering them wind proof,
or the pasteboard may have a sheet impregnated with such material combined with
it in the first instance for that purpose, substantially as described.
2. For the manufacture of matches from pasteboard, the use of apparatus for
cutting the pasteboard into small strips, consisting of two cylinders a, b, having
cutting blades a' b fixed at equal distances apart on their periphery between
which the pasteboard, previously cut into bands of the requned width cori esponding
to the length of the matches, aie passed so as to be cut through by the blades in
such manner that they are lett connected together by an uncut portion at one end,
while at the other end they are compressed by annular projections dd so as to form
thinned or notched ends for receiving the caps of inflammable material, which are

page_text: thus prevented from projecting materially beyond the thickness of the matches,
substantially as described.
Dated than 711 7
1005
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.