IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR FILLING DIP- PING CLAMPS WITH TAPERS AND MATCH SPLINTS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Whines, of Pimlico, in the County of Middlesex,
Carpenter, for the Invention of "IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR FILLING DIP-
PING CLAMPS WITH TAPERS AND MATCH SPLINTS."
Sealed the 20th February 1863, and dated the 16th September 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Whines at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 16th
September 1862.
I, JOHN WEINES, of Pinilico, in the County of Middlesex, Carpenter,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED MACHINERY
FOR FILLING DIPPING CLAMPS WITH TAPERS AND MATCH SPLINTS," to be as
follows:-
The object of this Invention is to facilitate the separation of tapers or match
splints, of whatever form or material they may be made. On one side of the
machine is a box or hopper with a series of divisions, into which the tapers or
splints are placed; at the bottom of this box or hopper is a slide with a series
of grooves at one end, running across at right angles, when the grooved
portion of the slide is drawn under the box or hopper, containing the tapers or
splints, the grooves become charged therewith. At one end of the box or
hopper and immediately over the slide is a toothed roller with recesses or
grooves, at intervals, into which is fitted a fender or check; by imparting with
any suitable gearing rotary motion to the roller, that portion of the slide

page_text: charged with the splints or tapers is readily withdrawn from the box or hopper
into a tube with guideways or grooves, corresponding with the grooves in the
slide; the splints or tapers are now thrust out of the grooves in the slide, and
through guideways into the dipping clamp by a series of plungers, connected
to a reciprocating bar, put in motion by a rocking shaft with levers, and con-
necting links; to this bar is also secured two or more taper pointed rods,
which may be either round or square, and which separate the boards to receive
the splints or tapers between them, and cause the frame and boards to descend;
the taper pointed rods are then withdrawn, and the boards which were on the
upper side of them fall on to the row of splints or tapers just deposited on the
lower board, and are kept from contact with each other by vertical guides. In
front of the dipping frame is a guard to prevent the splints or tapers from
being thrust farther than is necessary; this guard is provided with a moveable
panel, which, after the frame is filled, is forced by eccentric rollers against the
ends of the splints or tapers to put those which have been driven too far back
again, after which two strips are withdrawn from between the dipping frame
and the front of the machine, and the frame itself is forced by levers close to
the front of the machine, thereby putting the ends of the whole of the splints
in one plane; they are then screwed fast together, and the frame charged
with the splints or tapers is removed for dipping in the igniting com-
position.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Whines in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
14th March 1868.
JOHN
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
WHINES, of Pimlico, in the County of Middlesex, Carpenter, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John Whines, Her special licence that I, the said John Whines,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Whines, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel

page_text: Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR FILLING
DIPPING CLAMPS WITH TAPERS AND MATCH SPLINTS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said John Whines, my executors or admi-
nistrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
bands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Whines, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The object of this Invention is to facilitate the separation of tapers or
match splints, of whatever form or material they may be made. On one
side of the machine is a box or hopper, with a series of divisions, into
which the tapers or splints are placed; at the bottom of this box or hopper
is a slide, with a series of grooves at one end, running across at right
angles; when the grooved portion of the slide is drawn under the box or
hopper containing the tapers or splints, the grooves become charged there-
with. At one end of the box or hopper, and immediately over the slide is
a toothed roller, with recesses or grooves at intervals, into which is fitted
a fender or check; by imparting with any suitable gearing rotary motion
to the roller, that portion of the slide charged with the splints or tapers
is readily withdrawn from the box or hopper into a tube with guideways
or grooves, corresponding with the grooves in the slide; the splints or tapers
are now thrust out of the grooves in the slide, and through guideways into
the dipping clamp by a series. of plungers connected to a reciprocating bar
put in motion by a rocking shaft with levers and connecting links; to this
bar is also secured two or more taper pointed rods, which may be either
round or square, and which separate the boards to receive the splints or
tapers between them, and cause the frame and boards to descend; the taper
pointed rods are then withdrawn, and the boards which were on the upper-
side of them fall on to the row of splints or tapers just deposited on the
lower board, and are kept from contact with each other by vertical guides.
In front of the dipping frame is a guard, to prevent the splints or tapers
from being thrust farther than is necessary; this guard is provided with a
moveable panel, which, after the frame is filled, is forced by eccentric
rollers against the ends of the splints or tapers, to put those which have

page_text: been driven too far back again, after which two strips are withdrawn from
between the dipping frame and the front of the machine, and the frame
itself is forced by levers close to the front of the machine, thereby putting the
ends of the whole of the splints in one plane; they are then screwed fast toge-
ther, and the frame charged with the splints or tapers is removed for dipping
in the igniting composition.
My Invention will be fully and clearly understood by reference to the
Drawings hereunto annexed, and the following description of the same.
Fig. 1 is a plan, Fig. 2 elevation, Fig. 3 vertical sectional clevation, and
Figs. 4, 5, and 6, shew parts of the machine full size. The same letters and
figures of reference indicate the same parts seen in different positions in the
several Figures.
A, A, framing of machine; B, hopper to receive the tapers or splints; C,
grooved slide; D, toothed roller; E, fender plate; F, plungers, connected to
reciprocating bar G; H, rocking shaft; I, levers; K, connecting links; L,
pointed rods, for separating the boards M, and causing the clamp N to descend
at every depression of the hand lever S; U. winch-handle, to put in motion
wheel T, for driving grooved toothed roller D in the direction indicated by the
arrow, and acting as a brush sweeping the overlying splints off those deposited
in the grooves of the slide, and allowing it to be readily withdrawn, charged
with the splints or tapers from the hopper B; V, handle connected to slide C,
for imparting reciprocating motion thereto; R, R. eccentric rollers for pressing
moveable panel P against the ends of the tapers or splints, after the clamp is
charged therewith; W, W, eccentric pointed levers for pressing clamp N,
close to the vertical guide O, carrying therewith the splints or tapers, until
their ends come in contact with the board X, thereby arranging the whole in
one plane for dipping; a, a, screws to secure the boards and splints in the
clamp, before removing the same from the machine; d, balance weight for
suspending the clamp during the operation of filling; e, e, e, e, brackets to
support panel P.
The mode of operation is as follows:-Having charged the box or hopper B
with splints or tapers, put in the machine the clamp N with the boards M,
lying close on each other, and cause the clamp to ascend to the top of the
machine when the balance weight d will descend; then place the panel P in
the brackets e, e, c, e, and take hold of the handle V, and draw the grooved
portion of the slide C, under the tapers or splints in the box or hopper, when
it will become charged therewith; but in order to withdraw and return it to
the position where its grooves correspond with the grooves in the tube, the
wheel T must be put in motion by the winch U, or any other suitable gearing,

page_text: so that the small toothed and grooved roller D may have a rapid rotary motion
imparted thereto when the slide may be readily returned; then by pressing
down the hand lever S, the pointed rods L will insert themselves between two
of the boards M, and separate them, and at the same time the plungers F will
discharge the splints or tapers from the grooves in the slide, and deposit them
between the separated boards; then raise the hand lever S, and the remaining
boards will fall on the row of splints or tapers just deposited; repeat the
operation until a row of splints or tapers is placed between each of the
boards, when the whole will have descended between the moveable panel P
and board X; then turn partly round the eccentric rollers R, R, and the
eccentric pointed levers W, W, turn down the screws a, a, which will
secure the whole firmly together; then remove the panel P, and the clamp
is charged and ready for dipping the tapers or splints in the igniting
composition.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my improve-
ments in machines for filling dipping clamps with tapers and match splints,
the general construction of such machines, and the particular combinations
of their several parts, together with the method of action thereof, herein-before
described and represented in the Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Whines, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of March, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three.
JOHN WHINES. (L.D.)