IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NAILS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of the Firm of John Gedge
and Son, of No. 4, Wellington Street South, Strand, London. Patent
Agents, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
NAILS." A communication from abroad by Bernard Roelandt and Com-
pany, of Fontaine l'Evèque, Belgium, Nail Manufacturers.
Agents, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
NAILS." A communication from abroad by Bernard Roelandt and Com-
pany, of Fontaine l'Evèque, Belgium, Nail Manufacturers.
Sealed the 6th March 1860, and dated the 9th September 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Gedge
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 9th September 1859.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of No. 4,
Wellington Street South, Strand, London, Patent Agents, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
NAILS," communicated to me from abroad by Bernard Roelandt and Company,
of Fontaine l'Evèque, Belgium, (Nail Manufacturers,) to be as follows:-
The greatest inconvenience inherent to those nails known as "Paris
points," has hitherto been their liability to split, and the object of my improve-
ments is so to manufacture them as to obviate this tendency, and also to make
them less pliable and less likely to break than those made of wire. By my
process they may be made supple or rigid at will, and to this effect I com-
mence by half scouring the brute iron rods in muriatic acid, I then laminate
them cold in two passes. The first to render the rods half flat and convex,

page_text: the second to make them round like iron wire. The rods (henceforth round)
having acquired by this double operation considerable rigidity, I render them
malleable by passing them through a furnace (heated to a red heat) during
five or six minutes, according to the degree of suppleness or stiffness I desire
to give to the "Paris points" or nails. The nails are then cut and manu-
factured in machines making from 60 to 250 revolutions a minute, and then
pass into metal drums for polishing.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Edward Gedge in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 9th March 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWYRD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of No. 4, Wellington
Street South, Strand, London, Patent Agents, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Willliam Edward Gedge, Her special licence that I, the said William
Edward Gedge, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and law-
fully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NAILS," communicated
to me from abroad by Bernard Roelandt and Company, of Fontaine l'Evèque,
Belgium, Nail Manufacturer, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said William Edward Gedge, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Gedge, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by

page_text: of laminator, and Figure 5, section of Figure 4. A, cast-iron pulley; B, hori-
zontal shafts; C, cast-iron bearings; D, cast-iron chair; E, cog wheels;
F, cast-iron jacket; G, cylinders; H, bronze bearings; I, wooden bearings;
J, cast-iron chair; K, press screw; L, cast-iron support; M, front puppet ;
M, M, back puppet; N, press screws for regulating cylinders; O, wooden
framing. Figure 6, plan of oven or kiln for reheating the rods when
laminated round. Figure 7, head of the oven. Figure 8, section of back of
oven, and Figure 9, elevation of back of oven. 1, door of entrance and exit
of carriage on which the round rods are placed; 2, carriage of wrought-iron
on cast-iron wheels; 3, fire-place; 4, firing hole; 5, first arch; 6, second
arch for equally distributing the heat; 7, front view of head of oven; 8, iron
grating; 9, chimney.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I would have it distinctly understood that 1 do
not confine myself to the precise details herein given or shewn in the
diagrams, as such may be varied without essentially departing from the
Invention; and claim is made for the method herein-before described, of
preparing iron for the manufacture of "Paris points," and for the combination
of parts forming the several apparatus shewn in the annexed Drawing, when
used in combination, and not as parts, and forming thereby "Improvements in
the Manufacture of Nails."
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Gedge, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Witness,
JOHN GEDGE,
4, Wellington Street South,
Strand.
W. E. GEDGE. (L.s.)