Scientific American Volume 85 Number 10 (September 1901) . cking up a fresh block,is nearly a million splints per hour. Thesplints are first dried by hot air, and thengathered up by boys and placed in the hop-per of a cleaning machine, where all sliversor broken fragments are separated cleaner consists of a hopper which deliv-ers the matches onto the upper end of asloping oscillating table, whose surface contains anumber of parallel grooves, running in the directionof the oscillation. At intervals of a few inches trans-verse slots are cut entirely through the table. Thematch splints tr
Scientific American Volume 85 Number 10 (September 1901) . cking up a fresh block,is nearly a million splints per hour. Thesplints are first dried by hot air, and thengathered up by boys and placed in the hop-per of a cleaning machine, where all sliversor broken fragments are separated cleaner consists of a hopper which deliv-ers the matches onto the upper end of asloping oscillating table, whose surface contains anumber of parallel grooves, running in the directionof the oscillation. At intervals of a few inches trans-verse slots are cut entirely through the table. Thematch splints travel down the table and fall into areceptacle below, while the slivers and broken frag-ments fall through the slots. From the cleaningmachine the splints are taken to a straightening ma- $ftkntiik ^mmtm. chine, where they are shaken down until they ar-range themselves side by side in long parallel rows,just as cordwood is arranged and stacked by the wood-cutter. The machine is then stopped and the slatsdrawn away, leaving the matches straightened out 149. The splints ore cat by a reciprocating knife from the two-inch Dlocksof cordwood. PREPARING THE SPLINTSscientific-american-1901-09-07
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