Scientific American Volume 85 Number 10 (September 1901) . which extend across the full widthof the carrier. As each frame is successivelybrought forward beneath the brass platesthe load of 400 splints is pushed down fromthe plates into the frames. The slats arethen closed up tightly, and the splints lockedin, by means of a circular cam. The posi-tion of the matches will be seen clearly inthe various illustrations. The endless car-rier, as we have said, has an intermittentmotion in one direction, and the insertionof the matches in the block is accomplishedat the moment the carrier is stopped—t
Scientific American Volume 85 Number 10 (September 1901) . which extend across the full widthof the carrier. As each frame is successivelybrought forward beneath the brass platesthe load of 400 splints is pushed down fromthe plates into the frames. The slats arethen closed up tightly, and the splints lockedin, by means of a circular cam. The posi-tion of the matches will be seen clearly inthe various illustrations. The endless car-rier, as we have said, has an intermittentmotion in one direction, and the insertionof the matches in the block is accomplishedat the moment the carrier is stopped—thecam opening the frames, the matches beingtransferred from the brass holder, and the slats closedup and locked before the carrier makes its next ad-vance. The frames, with the matches in place, nexttravel over a steam-heated drying table, at the endof which a beater strikes a blow upon each frameand levels the matches out evenly, ready for theirpassage over the phosphorus roller. The lower ends ofthe splints then travel through a bath of melted paraf-. The splints are fedbj boygto the hoppers of the vertical charging station, and unloaded to the earner, which. Hero the finished matches are unloaded from the carrier after having traversed the full circuit of the machine passes beneath the station. «?»•» —v .v~.v. THE CHARGING STATION. THE DISCHARGING STATION. 150 fine wax, the paraftine being necessary to make thesplint burn easily after the match is struck. Thematches next travel over a roller, the lower part ofwhich is immersed in a steam-heated bath of meltedphosphorus. As each frame, with its 400 matches, trav-els across the upper portion of this roller the properamount of phosphorus is deposited. By the timethe matches have traveled in the carrier through thewhole circuit of the machine the composition hasbecome thoroughly dried out. The matches are ulti-mately brought back to the receiving station end ofthe system, where the circular cam descends betweenthe slats
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