Package making – Matchbook making – Methods
Patent
1983-01-05
1985-07-02
Combs, E. Michael
Package making
Matchbook making
Methods
C06F 126, A24F 2712
Patent
active
045259810
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to a method of separately conditioning matches in a package subdivided into oblong compartments in each of which is arranged a match, said compartments being closed at one end and open at the opposite end in such a way that the head of the match is located at the closed end and the opposite portion of the match projects beyond the open end of said compartments to allow for the removal of the match from its compartment.
More precisely, an object is to provide a method permitting a continuous commercial manufacture of match-filled packages in a very efficient and also simple way.
To this effect, matches are first inserted into a relatively flat prismatic core comprising oblong housings for the matches, which housings are situated one after the other and separated in their longitudinal direction by partition walls, said housings being almost completely open along at least one of their outer longitudinal sides, these open longitudinal sides being then covered by means of a closure element, in such a way that closed oblong compartments are formed along their longitudinal sides and that the matches are removably confined therein.
Conveniently, a core is used wherein the housings for successive matches are nearly completely open at one main face of the core and at the opposite face thereof in an alternating way, said closure element being formed then by a sheet which is adhered to the noncompletely open longitudinal sides of the housings situated in the above-mentioned two mutually opposed main faces of the core.
According to a special embodiment of the invention, a recess providing a sufficiently large space for the head of the match to be located therein is provided in the longitudinal side of the housings facing the almost completely open longitudinal side and at least at the location of the head of the matches.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the matches are moved into the housings of the core in longitudinal direction.
The invention also relates to an apparatus for the separate conditioning of matches and more precisely for effecting the above mentioned method.
This apparatus is characterized by the fact that it essentially comprises: conveyor means upon which a thin sheet of wood may be conveyed in its longitudinal direction, cutting means for the creation of teeth into at least one of the longitudinal edges of this sheet, a bath of liquid inflammable material, means for treatment of the wood and for impregnating the teeth with said bath, dividing means for dividing the sheet according to its cross-direction into narrow parallel sticks such that a head is present at at least one end of each stick, clamping means capable of retaining the sticks in relation to each other, pasting means for applying an adhesive to the outer side of the core, supply means for moving the cores onto the sticks in such a way that one of them will penetrate into each of the housings of the core, and covering means for adhering the closure element to the outer side of the core.
Further, the invention relates to the parallelepiped-shaped core and to the match package comprising such core and obtained by the method and/or with the aid of the apparatus described above.
Further particulars and further advantages of the invention will be clear from reading the following description of some specific embodiments of the invented method and apparatus; such description is only given by way of example and cannot restrict the invention. The reference numbers used hereinafter relate to the attached figures.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view, and partial section, of a match-filled package obtained by using the invented method.
FIG. 2 is a section along the line II--II of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a section similar to FIG. 2 but wherein the match is in a first intermediate position.
FIG. 4 is also a section similar to FIG. 2 but wherein the match is in a final intermediate position.
FIG. 5 is a schematic representation, in perspective view, of a special embodiment of the invented method and apparatus for the conditioning of m
REFERENCES:
patent: 2039491 (1936-05-01), Nolan
patent: 2097839 (1937-11-01), Leukhardt
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