IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CASES OR TUBES FOR MATCH BOXES AND SIMILAR ARTICLES, AND IN MACHINERY THEREFOR."
Year: 1880

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Elijah Marsh Dixon at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st December 1880.
ELIJAH MARSH DIXON, of Newton Heath, in the County of Lancaster, Timber
Merchant. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CASES OR TUBES FOR
MATCH BOXES AND SIMILAR ARTICLES, AND IN MACHINERY THEREFOR."
My Invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of cases or tubes which
are employed to cover the drawers or slides of match boxes and other like articles,
and comprises improved machinery whereby such cases or tubes may be produced
in a more expeditious and advantageous manner than heretofore.
In carrying my Invention into practice, a continuous strip or series of lengths of
cardboard, pasteboard, strawboard, paper, wood-pulp board, or other suitable
material, of which the cases or tubes are to be formed, and either plain or previously
printed with the desired design, is fed to a pair of rollers which are provided with
cutters to effect the required scoring of the said strip, to ensure its assuming the
desired form when folded, as hereinafter described. Adjacent to these rollers I
arrange a drum or wheel which dips into a trough containing liquid glue, gum, or
other suitable adhesive material. From this wheel the adhesive material is taken
up by a revolving brush wheel, which, as the cardboard or other material travels
beneath the same coats one side or edge of the said material. The cardboard is
then carried forward by suitable feed-rolls, and is brought in contact with a bell
mouth or curved ways, which fold up the two sides of the case or tube around a
mandrel of the same shape as the interior of the tube to be produced.
The partially folded strip of cardboard on its further progress through the
machine, is brought successively into contact with two stationary folders, the first
of which turns one side of the box over the upper surface of the mandrel; the
second folder then folds or brings down that portion of the cardboard which was
previously coated with adhesive substance over the side previously turned over by
the first folder, and, as the tube or case is further drawn along by a series of
perpendicular rollers at each side of the mandrel, the aforesaid portions of the case
which have been folded over the upper surface of the mandrel pass under pressure
rollers, which cause the close contact of the glued portion of the case with the part
forming one side of the same, and folded over the mandrel as above explained, and
effect a close union of the two edges of the strip. The case or tube, which by this
operation has imparted to it the exact form of the mandrel, may then be cut off in

page_text: lengths as desired, and is quite ready for the insertion of the drawers or slides
without necessitating any opening of such tube or its further folding.
The mandrel is preferably provided with small perpendicular anti-friction rollers
opposite the rollers which draw the case along the mandrel, and rollers may be
provided in the bottom of the mandrel to prevent friction on the bottom or bed
plate.
The devices for printing the case or tube may be arranged separately or combined
with the machine, and the parts of the said machine may be duplicated, so that
strips of any desired width may be folded, and a series of. tubes formed in one
passage of a strip through such machine.
The said tubes or cases may not only be employed in the construction of boxes
for containing matches and other like articles, but also in the construction of boxes
or cases for containing various kinds of powder or other material.