Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-01-24
THE NEW NAIL.
The Prospects for Its Introduction
in Wheeling.
The Manufacturers Think it Will Be q
SucCess---Wha a Carpenter Says
About Its Adapta-
biIity,

Our committee has gone TO examine
The machine and if it proves to be all that
the inventor claims it is, We shall surely
take the matter in hand. | am already
assured OF its success in the manufacture
CT small nails, aud the inventor has but
recently made the attemp. to cut large
sizes upon the machine From the sam
pies he hos sent us, however, am con-
yinced that it will also
BE A SUCCESS.
81 see some one claims that it is an Old
invention, dating back some twenty-five
years. Is hat trueY'
In one sense it is. The man who in
vented the machine is one Of those Yankee
geniuses who is always dropping into some
new idea and attempting 10 work 1t out.
Probably twenty-five years ago he thought
he would build a nail machine, and he
cid so. He patented a machine construct
ed on the same principle as the present
one, butt only cut one nail each revolu'
ton like our ordinary machines. But
everything was booming along in the nail
business then; manufacturers were makiOg
money and the nsilers were not thinking
of a strike, so he let his machine drop
at that time. The old saying that Ne.
cessity is the mother Of invention, is ever
true. however, and VIXEN the
PRESENT LONG NAIL STRIKE
was inaugurated, Mr.. Inventor bethinks
himself OF his nail machine. He resur,
reefs it aud what is the result? He has
brought it to such perfection that it cuts
thirty.two small nails to one revolution aud
fourteen ten pennys, while it ia self feed
ing aud dots not need the services Of q
mailer.
But how about the nails. Do you
think they will fill the BILL
Yes; | think they will, especially the
small sizes. OF course there are somt
kinds OF nails that will necessarily have tc
be manufactured upon the old machine
such "a barred and probably n or two
others"
VIVA are your intentions should III,
machine prove to do all that is claimed
for it2"
la all probability we will 70 III q com
pany and pu! the machines into operation
q! the
EARLIEST POSSIBLE DAY,
but of course we have taken no definite
steps yet. The number of machines nesC
not be large, for if they cut fourteen nail
ut ole revolution, one machine would be a
least equal 10 twelve ordinary machines
while the small ones do better still. Tn
inventor clsims that ono man can keeE
twenty machines in running order. un
ders;aud that he has had n Of his ma
chimes running for some time past or
small sized IhilJ, for which he has found {
good market
Mr. J. p. Gilchris,, one OF the gentle
men who went to Boston 10 investigate in
10 the merits Of the nail machine, returned
lost evening, and during q briet converse
ton he said that he was fully satisfied with
the machine and lis work, samples o
which he brought with him. He said also
that the other gentlemen Of the committed
expressed themselves in the same way, but
no official report will be made until ell tbs
gentlemen nave returned.
CARPENTERS VIEW OF TIL NAIL.
Meeting a carpenter yesterday the re
porter showed him one Of the new nail.
end asked him what he thought Of them.
He said
The small sizes will do Tor cigar boxes
and allpurposes for which casing or I'm
ishing nails are used, but that is about all
The larger sizes may do for flooring ant
several other purposes, but | hardly think
as a general thing, they will meet with any
auccess whatever. OF course the poin.
gives them an advantage, out the head i,
insufficient and it is most improbable tina
that grea! fault can be easily remedied
But let them have it out; we will wait saC
see what we shall see