Improvements in the Manufacture of Nails.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 11th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 16th Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Nails.
I RICHARD WILKINSON BATEMAN of 8 Hanover Street, Halifax, in the
County of York Shoemaker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
This invention consists of an improved method of manufacturing a continuous
length of nails from a piece or length of wire, each nail to be formed so as to be
readily cut, or detached from the next succeeding one, and ready for driving into a
boot or shoe by any variety of feed and driving apparatus.
According to this invention I employ a length of wire drawn to the required
shape, and size, and at such distance along the said wire, equal to the length of
nail required, the said wire is stamped, milled, or cross cut, so as nearly to sever
the wire so that as the wire or continuous length of nails is fed to the machine the
die, or cutter will simply have to sever the slight attachment, or metal, left between
the head of one nail, and the point of the next succeeding nail.
Dated this 13th day of February 1893.
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Nails.
I, RICHARD WILKINSON BATEMAN, of 8 Hanover Street, Halifax, in the
County of York, Shoemaker do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention consists of an improved method of manufacturing a continuous
length of nails or rivets from a piece or length of wire, each nail or rivet to be
formed so as to be readily cut or detached from the next succeeding one,
and ready for driving into a boot or shoe by any variety of feed and driving
apparatus.
Such being the nature and object of my said invention, the following is a
complete description of same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing,
in which :-
Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4 are plan or end views of the nails or wires from which the
nails are cut.
Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8 shew short lengths of continuous nails, as cut or formed on
the wires, and also a portion of such wires not cut, stamped, turned, milled, or
pressed, but the portions to be removed by one of these processes, indicated by
dotted lines.
Figs. 9, 10, 11, and 12 are views of the nails detached from the continuous
lengths.
According to this invention I employ a length of wire 1 drawn to the required
shape and size, and at such distance along the said wire 1 equal to the length of
nail or rivet 2 required, the said wire is stamped, milled, pressed, turned, or cross
cut, so that portions of the wire are removed as at 3, and so as nearly to sever the
wire 1 in order that as the wire 1, or continuous length of nails or rivets 2. 2 is fed
to the machine, the ordinary die or cutter will simply have to sever the slight
attachment or metal left at the head 4 of one nail 2 and the point 5 of the next
succeeding nail 2.

page_text: In making rivets of brass wire (see Figs. 4, 8, and 12) the wire is pressed between
dies, and the process of pressing hardens the wire or rivet.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
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A continuous length of nails or rivets, wherein the head of one nail or rivet is
connected to the point of the next succeeding nail or rivet, as herein described and
as illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 10th day of November 1893.
RICHARD WILKINSON BATEMAN,
By his Agent, Walter Brierley,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax.
RICHARD WILKINSON BATEMAN,
By his Agent, Walter Brierley,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax.