The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-05-04
NAILS.
Early Record-Legend OF &c Dun
stan-Early Pateuts=The Troy
Z Machine : Gustayson's lnyen-

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Machine GustaHson's Ansen
ton. 5. " III
Thomas ]. Bovdlieb. in Troy Times. ~
Nails are Of very ancient origin, for
;,or v.. krowr at least 1887 years b, G,
Iron was sno"n ~ ..sJ. al =, ;n,I ,an.v
Inc LaceGemoIiAnseo'I :. ~ NV a'gA ~
and In homere ame !. was ussu 4ot
plowshares, wood criters axes, nails etc'
Ancient remains otsiron nails are not 10
be found, for iron rapidly corrodes With
rnst and soon disapuears. Nails OF
hror,. ,ss,s .,ssai nv Xxx d rse,ts nd Ro.
DtUn-' VII - ~, :, 1870 HsrcnIs-
mans anu nave Oeen iOu"u :" --'N
neum.
There 10 q legend that 81 Rpnstan who
was worker Of metals, wa onsy one
night At his forge making nAlS, Tnen Ine
devil visited him IN lhe shape Of = Deau'
tiful woman, and that Dunstan aiscon'
flied him by seizing his nose WIN nus iea'
hot tongs. IL y also st9'ea tha. pgns. ~,
who was Archbishop Oh Sanletputy wv
years ago, nailed q pair Oh h9rSesnTes up.
on Tue hooiS Vi tneu''"' "AN '"'' f
him 10 much pain. .,-r-. ,..,
Until n compafMlyeiy Iecens ua'e,
nails were made only ~ Many, 9u' T NOV
are mannlacInTea ~ ms aSa nssS. n III
biacksmiths In bngianu VIM Ina, maui ~ n ,hs
by hand were frequently NsiIea ~ VI
female members Of the iamllles, snO'a'-
qulred great dex!eriy IN 1neir e;ai
The first machine lor aiSpensins WIZ
hand labor ~ nail making Wa passnseiS
by Thomas Clifford, Of brstol, Sns SiIaNi
In lIgO; lie hau usea wv isol .y ynsat,
In which were snpk i ieStons ~ -; ,oi =
OF the nails, han Oh lne iorm Deihg u
each roller ana arranged Sitcun.eie "
italy, so mat . tou .. i'yn oetIs a ~.
between the rollers came 'ntougn AZ, as nii
OF nails-the heaa Oh one naii peips
slightly joined 70 lhe point 81 .he ne1!.
These were then seperaIea ~ saeass.
Sometimes several lows VI . Iueu ssiiOl.!
were made IN the surface Oh the iG Gii,
and instead Of RODS VIDE p,aies 81 tIol
were passed through, anu oei5s io a;s.a
into The iaenlaloh: we VII; iofmsa ia "
nails. Nails maue 10 this nan tf me a'l
very expensive. ,j,.s,-.,..--....,,. a.
The inst atlemp. 70 m man M.0a Anu Sa.
nails was made near Boston, mMs. uut-
ing The Revolutionary wal, WIN gu iio a
ior ihe material, ~ aua pau n.s =, 1 hs.dsd II Nv
the machine. Inc naIis neLs I'll, heaaeu ~
few blows Of hammer WINE gtEPiIs
them 10 . wee WORKED ~ Ine ioos. -
the United states, whefe SO many M NY s.i
structures had 10 oe erected " 'ne sest
tiers, the obtaining oil cheap nails was o.
the utmost Importance. u was uauei
stimulus oil this pressing necessity w. .iss
about the year Ivy INGENIOUS men pa, ~ -
work 10 invent nan naca lan pe .NtsI
1890 and 1917 more than Ivy palenls mao
been Issued for nail machines ana I'M
proyements. Ia Hants Mefc'dnW Ma9a'
sine 1t Is stated that ben amin Cochtan,
shopmate OF Ell whitney, VINO Giea =.
Batavia, New York, IN ls4o, MADE the
first machine Tor cutting ana nearing
about 1880. The hr.t patent io 90 . ma, maI
chine for cutting nails, Maieh e, va,
was issued 10 ! osiah y. ferkihs, q NV
York. The hrst patent LOT cu,Iins
and heading machine was granted ~
Isaac Garetson, oil fehnsyiyania, NoVem I
Der II, 1875, and on DECEMBER u,
patent for similar machine 70 osorge
Chandler, oil Maryland. Aitetward s ~
eral patents were granted TO Melville
Ohs, Jesse Reed and samnel Rogers, Q,
Massachusetts. The machine invented
by jesse Reed, with q NUMBER OF ia.er
Improvements, Is that stu most iafgeiy
used. The manufacture Of cut mans was
soon established in Massachusetts, new
York, Pennsylvania and Maryiane; IN
1910 Joseph Z. Dyer, Of Boston; MASH
took out patents IN England Tor the naii
machinery invented IN Massaehuse..s,
and number o. nail factories were soon
put In operation near birmingham.
Many oil the tirst inventors spent large
sums Of money on their machines: AZ
bert Galtatin estimated that II cost oyer
81 100000 to bring them 10 the petIecu9,n
arrived at IN islV, When macnine lnaG .s
about 100 nails per minute; Large nan
factories were early established IN dlner.
ent parts OF Massachusetts, and AZ Ell.
cots mills, near Baltimore. ~
III 1866 the following was published IN
the London Times:
"There has been set to work al Troy
(u.S) a machine ior making CUT hails,