AN IMPROVE- MENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN DESCRIPTIONS OF NAILS. TACKS, AND PINS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Giles, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Malleable Ironfounder, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVE-
MENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN DESCRIPTIONS OF
NAILS. TACKS, AND PINS."
Sealed the 9th April 1867, and dated the 15th October 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Giles at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 15th
October 1866.
I, JOHN GILES, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Malleable
Ironfounder, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN DESCRIPTIONS
OP NAILS, TACKS, AND PINS," to be as follows (that is to say):-
This Invention refers to improvements in the manufacture of chair nails,
coffin nails, and pins, hob or shoe nails, tacks, and other nails and pins of
the same nature as the above, and which are or may be cast or run in moulds
from brass, copper, malleable iron, composition, or other metal capable of
being-similarly treated, and which descriptions of nails have hitherto been
cast or run in sand moulds. I propose to cast them in moulds consisting of

page_text: onė iron mould to form the beads and one sand mould for the shanks, thus
saving the labour of preparing for every casting a fresh mould for the heads,
as one iron mould will work for years.
I also obtain by this process a chill cast head for iron nails, and a much
better finish.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Giles in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 15th
April 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
"GILES, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Malleable Ironfounder,
send greeting.
WHEREAS. Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Giles, Her special license that I, the said John Giles, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Giles, 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 lawfully 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT OR
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN DESCRIPTIONS OF NAILS, TACKS,
AND PINS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Giles,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 John Giles, do hereby declare tho
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say): :-
This Invention refers to improvements in the manufacture of chair nails,
cofliu nails, and pins, hob or shoe nails, tacks, and other nails and pins of
the same nature as the above, and which are or may be cast or run in moulds

page_text: from brass, copper, malleable iron, composition, or other metal capable of
being similarly treated, and which descriptions of nails have hitherto been
cast or run in sand moulds. I cast them in moulds consisting of one iron
mould to form the heads, and one sand mould for the shanks, thus saving the
labour of preparing for every casting a fresh mould for the heads, as one
iron mould will work for years.
I also obtain-by this process a chill cast head for iron nails and a much
better finish.
Having thus described the nature and object of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same may be carried into effect, I claim as my
Invention, the improvement or improvements in the manufacture of certain
descriptions of nails, tacks, and pins, substantially as herein more fully set
forth and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Giles, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twelfth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
JOHN GILES. (L.8.)