Match-dip′ping ma-chine.
Schmidt's matchdipping machine at the Paris Exposition was arranged for dipping 6,000 matches in four minutes. The splints, properly cut and prepared, are received upon a horizontal plate or table grooved to the size of the matches, and are made to fall into the grooves by the action of a broad brush which is suspended above the table, and which the operator moves by means of a pedal. In front of the table on which the matches thus arranged lie, is a frame placed vertically, which is designed to receive a number of layers of matches, one above another. This frame presents immediately before the row of matches a narrow receiving-plate or bed. By the action of a second pedal the workman causes a row of needles to advance, which push forward the matches on to this plate, and are retracted by a spring. The matches are pushed beyond the edge of the receiving-plate just so far as may suffice for dipping, and their ends are kept separate by thin partitions, which are a fixed part of the machine. The frame, which has a movement up and down in guides, is then depressed sufficiently to permit another receiving-plate to be laid on the last row of matches, at a proper level to receive an additional row; and this process goes on until sixty rows, each containing one hundred matches, have been piled up in the frame. The frame is then locked up by bringing down a traverse [1410] bar at the top, so as to compress the whole mass and secure it in place. The matches are thus confined as in a printer's chase. They are then evened at their end like type, and are ready for dipping. — Dr. Barnard's Report Paris Exposition. |
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