US785476A - Match-making machine. - Google Patents

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P. CZERWENY'.

MATCH MAKING MACHINE.

AYPLIUATION FILED MAY 27. 1902.

l. 71 a /Z l PATENTED MAR. 21, 1905.v

j UNITED STATES Patented Maren 21, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

MATCH-MAKING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 785,476, dated March 21, 1905.

yApplication filed May 27, 1902. Serial No. 109,191.

To fir/ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANZ GZERWENY, manufacturer, residing at Deutschlandsberg, near Graz, Styria, Austria-Hungary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Match-Making Machines, of which the following is a speciiication. l

My invention relates to the apparatus for collecting the finished matches as they are thrown out from a match-making machine for the purpose of insuring an even and parallel arrangement of the matches in the collectingboxes forming part of such apparatus, thereby facilitating their ultimate transfer to the match-boxes.

The object in view is obtained by providing the collecting-boxes with a bottom which is vertically displaceable and so arranged that it descends a distance equal to the thickness of the matches every timeA a complete row of matches is deposited in the collecting-box. The piling up of the matches is thus perfectly uniform; but in addition, in order to further insure their parallel position as they are falling off the machine, a series of parallel metal strips or partitions are arranged immediately above the collecting-boxes and between the series of adjacent match-sticks in such a manner as to act as guides for the matches.

The apparatus is represented in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a front view, partly in section, of the apparatus for collecting the finished matches when being ejected out of the machine, showing parts of the frame, the'collecting receptacles and supporting means therefor, the rod for carrying the movable bottoms of these receptacles, means for raising and lowering the rod, and means for isolatingthe matches thrown out; Fig. 2, a side view of the parts shown in Fig. l, showing the empty collecting-receptacles when the bottoms are at their highest point; Fig. 3, a side view, partly in section, of the full boxes-- a. e., when the bottoms are at their lowest while Fig. t is a plan of Fig. l.

1n the construction shown in the drawings the collecting-boxes a are arranged side .by side in front of and vbelow the match-expelling punches Z) in such a manner that the match-sticks when they are expelled from the match-carrying strip or chain c (one link only of. which is shown in Fig. l) fall into the boxes. rFliese boxes a are connected with each other and carried by a cross-bar f, fixed to the machine by bolts or in some suitable way, as by wedges or turn-buttons @,while the boxes are fastened to it by means of suitable wedges g or in other ways. The movable bottoms /L of the collecting-boxes are all carried by a guide-bar L', suspended on chains 7c, carrying weights j' at the other end and passing over pulleys or chain-wheels Z, which are keyed on a shaftm. On the same shaft m is keyed aratchetwheel n, actuated by a pawl o, carried by a lever p, capable of rocking on the shaft m, and theo ther end of which lever is pivoted to a further lever q, pivoted in turn to an arm /r of a reciprocating shaft a?, actuated by the machine, by which arrangement when the machine is working the movable bottoms of the collecting-boxes are lowered by the thickness of a match-stick every time a row of matches is driven from the seat until the boxes are full. To prevent the parts moving during the return movement of the lever p, and consequently the bottom from rising, a stop-pawl s for the ratchet-wheel is provided, as shown. When the bottoms /L reach the lower ends of the boxes c, they are arrested and supported by the inwardly-projecting ledges c', while the guide-bar c, with its brackets c", which had carried the bottoms, passes below the box to the position shown in Fig. 3. The boxes having been filled,'they are replaced by empty ones. The pawls 0 and s of the ratchet-wheel are thrown out of gear, after which the guide-bar t', with newbottoms a, will automatically ascend to their highest position by the action of the weight. This done the pawls 0 and e are again thrown into gear with the ratchet-wheel and the filling of the boxes may recommence.

To insure parallelism between the matches as they are falling from the machine, sheetmetal strips t are employed, each of them separating two adjoining series of matches and being carried by a bar o, the ends of which are suitably attached to a part of the frame.

The matches from the boxes are usually transferred to the reservoir of a machine for IOO chains or cords carrying the bar, counter- Weights, pulleys, a ratchet-Wheel, a pawl and means for actuating the paWl to operate the ratchet-wheel and allow the bar to drop intermittently.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name, this 13th day of May, 1902, in the 2O presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

FRANZ CZERVVENY.

Witnesses:

JOHANN FLoTH, ALVEsTo S. HoGUE.

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