CERTAIN ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS ON MACHINES FOR CUTTING, HEADING, AND FINISHING NAILS, AND THE MODE OF WORKING THEREOF (FOR WHICH MACHINES I HAVE ALREADY OBTAINED HIS MAJESTY'S LETTERS PATENT, BEARING DATE ON OR ABOUT THE NINETEENTH DAY OF AUGUST, ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-SIX), WHEREBY CONSIDERABLE LABOUR IS SAVED, AND WHICH ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS MAY BE USED WITH OR INDEPENDANT OF SUCH FORMER MACHINES
Year: 1804

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I SAMUEL
GUPPY, of the City of Bristol, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of His United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Nineteenth day of
December, in the forty-fifth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the
said Samuel Guppy, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial
licence that I, the said Samuel Guppy, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN ADDITIONS AND
IMPROVEMENTS ON MACHINES FOR CUTTING, HEADING, AND FINISHING NAILS, AND
THE MODE OF WORKING THEREOF (FOR WHICH MACHINES I HAVE ALREADY OBTAINED
HIS MAJESTY'S LETTERS PATENT, BEARING DATE ON OR ABOUT THE NINETEENTH
DAY OF AUGUST, ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-SIX), WHEREBY
CONSIDERABLE LABOUR IS SAVED, AND WHICH ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS MAY BE
USED WITH OR INDEPENDANT OF SUCH FORMER MACHINES;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Samuel Guppy,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular

page_text: description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within one calendar month after the date of the said recited Letters Patent,
as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Samuel Guppy, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as follows;
that is to say
First, I proceed to cut out from a slip of metal, the length and thickness
required, small slabs, each containing about the quantity of metal requisite for
one of the said nails, and this either by certain improved tools affixed in a
press (see Drawing, Fig. 1 and 2, and the references thereto), or otherwise by
an engine, for which I have already Letters Patent as aforesaid. I then
proceed, secondly, to stamp them by means of dies made purposely to receive
them (as Fig. 3, &c.), by striking them, in which. the metal is hardened in a
much greater degree than by any other mode now in practice. I then proceed,
thirdly, to cut off the superfluous metal with tools, as Fig. 4, fitted into the
press for that purpose. I then proceed, fourthly, to the heading the nail,
which I do by putting it into a hollow bore (see Fig. 5), which I make exactly
to fit, and to the under side of which is fixed a thin plate of iron to preserve
the nail strait, and prevent injury to the point. This tool I slide into
a steeled die, and the nail is driven down by means of a punch affixed in the
press or otherwise. I head them with the machine of which I am already the
Patentee. I then proceed to cut off the superfluous metal attached to the
head, so as to render it completely the shape required, with the tool Fig. 6.
I then proceed, fifthly and lastly, to point the nail, by laying it in a tool (sce
Fig. 7), which I make the exact shape of the point required, and I strike it
with a punch fixed in a press, by which means it is made harder in finishing
than any wrought nail of pure copper has ever yet been made.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Guppy, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and five

page_text: Fig. 2, 2, the tool for cutting the slabs. a, the steel bed to be fixed
between the poppits; b, the punch to be screwed into the box of the press;
the part that cuts off the bit of metal for the nail; d, a hollow part of the
bed through which it is forced.
Fig. 3, the die for stamping. a, a, the block of steel; b, the cavity to
receive the slab of metal cut by Fig. 2. Another die, exactly the same make,
is used at top, affixed in the stamp hammer.
Fig. 4, 4, a tool to cut off superfluous metal. a, a bed of steel; b, the
punch.
Fig. 5, 5. a, a die, steel'd, to fix into the press to receive the heading tool;
b, a square part sunk to fit; c, a cut to receive the point of the nail; d, tho
heading tool.
Fig. 6, a tool to cut off the superfluous metal from the head. a, a bed of
steel; b, the hollow in the bed, thro' which the metal is forced by a punch.
Fig. 7. a, a bed of steel, in which the nail is laid for pointing, which is
effected by driving it into the shape required by a punch screwed into the
press.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Seventeenth day of January,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Samuel Guppy came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also
the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute
in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Eighteenth day of Janua