Improvements in and relating to Composition Applying Mechanism of Match Machines.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Oct., 1898-Accepted, 19th Nov., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Composition Applying Mechanism
of Match Machines.
I, WILLIAM NELSON PALMER, a Citizen of the United States of America, residing
at Second Street and Diamond Avenue, Barberton, Summit County, State of Ohio,
United States of America, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly de-
scribed and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Referring to the accompanying drawings;-
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a composition applying mechanism embodying
my invention, with a portion of the side of the chest or vat broken away:-
Figure 2 is a detail enlarged view, in elevation, of the end portions of the com-
position scraper and strainer.
Figure 3 is a top plan view of one of such end portions; and
Figure 4 is a vertical cross section of the scraper and strainer.
Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of the figures.
The object of my invention is to free or remove from the dipping composition
or material used in the manufacture of matches, pieces of wood or other foreign
substance, that may fall or get in to the composition chest or vat, so that when
the sticks or splints are dipped, the formation of clean and perfect heads will be
assured, and a means of forming "double headers" obviated; and to this end,
said invention―
Consists in the means employed, substantially as hereinafter specified.
The composition holding vat or chest A, having the revolving feeding or
applying roller B shown in the drawings, is of familiar construction, and need not
be specifically described; nor is it necessary to show and describe the means by
which the roller B is revolved, which roller, partially submerged in the composi-
tion, takes the latter on its periphery upward into the path of the lower ends of
match splints, or sticks, held in and moved along through the match machine,
by a carrier C of well known construction, that is composed of a series of perforated
plates hinged or pivoted together. In the absence of means to prevent it, frag-
ments of splints or pieces of wood, or other dirt that may fall into the composition
in the vat, are carried by the roller into the path of the splints as they are moved
by the carrier C to and through the coating of composition on the roller B, and
either adhere to the splints with the composition the latter takes up, or prevent
the proper application of the composition, so that defective or imperfect
matches result. If the particles of wood or other material adhere to the splints,
they are objectionable either as spoiling their appearance, or, if they be long
enough to reach between two adjacent splints, they cause the formation of "double
headers," that is, two matches whose heads are united. Such matches as these
are a loss, and sometimes ignite when being ejected from the carrier.
For preventing injury to the matches from the presence of such foreign bodies
in the composition in the vat, I remove the same from the composition, by passing
the latter through a sieve or strainer, after it has been scraped, as usual, from the
roller, at a point beyond that where the splints come into contact with the com-

page_text: position on the roller. The scraper shown, consists of a bar D, that lies parallel
with the axis of the roller, that is fastened at opposite ends by screws, to lugs e
and e, respectively, on plates E and E, that are in the vat at opposite sides
thereof, having, respectively, flanges e¹ and e¹ that rest upon the top edges of
the vat sides. A thumb screw E, passing through each flange e¹ into the vat
side, removably secures the plate in the vat. The roller engaging edge of the
scraper bar is bevelled off, and to enable double service to be gotten from said
bar, both edges thereof are bevelled, so that by reversing it the two edges can be
used in succession. To enable adjustment of the scraper bar relative to the
roller, the opening in the flangere of each side plate E is elongated.
The sieve or strainer F shown, into which the composition passes from the
scraper, is formed of woven or meshed wire, that is shaped in. the form of a
receptacle, the ends being composed of the two plates E and E to which the wire
fabric is attached, and the two sides and the bottom being formed by said fabric.
The plates E and E are connected by several sparallel. rods and e³, to which
the screen is attached and by which it is supported. The mesh of the fabric
is of such size as not to impede the free passage of the composition, but to prevent
the passage
of foreign substances large enough to be injurious to the match heads.
The strainer can be of any other construction, provided it is reticulated or per-
forated, and so interposed in the path of the composition passing from the scraper
bar, that foreign substances removed from the roller by said bar, cannot again
pass to the composition in the vat where they may be caught up by the roller.
It will be observed that such pieces of wood, etc., as fall into the strainer, are
kept from entering the composition where it is taken up by the roller, and that.
when desired, the strainer can be readily removed from the vat to permit the
As the strainer
clearing from the strainer of whatever may be accumulated in it.
is located so that it co-operates with the scraper bar, and does not itself act on,
or require any special part to act on the periphery of the roller, it is apparent that
the operation of the roller, in feeding out the composition, is in no degree inter-
fered with.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. In a composition applying mechanism, the combination of the receptacle
for the composition, a moving feeder, means for removing composition from the
latter, and a strainer to which the composition is delivered from the removing
means, substantially as and for the purpose described.
2. In a composition applying mechanism, the combination of the receptacle
for the composition, a feed roller, a scraper bar for the latter, and a strainer
to which the composition removed by the bar is delivered, substantially as and
for the purpose described.
3. In a composition applying mechanism, the combination of a composition
vat, a moving feeder, means for removing composition from the latter, and a
receptacle-like strainer to which composition is delivered from the removing means,
substantially as and for the purpose described.
4. In a composition applying mechanism, the combination of the receptacle
for the composition, a moving feeder, means for removing composition from the
latter and a removable strainer in the receptacle, to which the composition is
delivered from the removing means, substantially as and for the purpose described.
5. In a composition applying mechanism, the combination of a composition
vat, a feed roller therein, a scraper bar, plates in the vat to which said bar is
attached, and a strainer attached to said plates, substantially as and for the
purpose described.
6. In a composition applying mechanism, the combination of a composition
vat, a moving feeder therein, and a reversible scraper-bar having double scraping
edges, substantially as and for the purpose described.

page_text: 7. In a composition applying mechanism, the combination of a composition
vat, a feed roller therein, a reversible scraper-bar having double scraping edges,
plates at opposite sides of the vat to which said bar is attached, rods connecting
said plates, and a strainer attached to and supported by the rods, substantially
as and for the purpose described.
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TA-LA
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JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.