AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR MAKING BOLTS, RIVETS, AND SPIKES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Gossiaux, Manufacturer, at Laeken, near
Brussels, Kingdom of Belgium, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
MACHINE FOR MAKING BOLTS, RIVETS, AND SPIKES."
MA
Sealed the 4th December 1863, and dated the 18th June 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Gossiaux at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
,: 18th June 1863.
I, EDWARD GOSSIAUX, Manufacturer, at Laeken, near Brussels, Kingdom of
Belgium; do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
MACHINE FOR MAKING BOLTS, RIVETS, AND SPIKES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to certain new mechanical arrangements and com-
binations of parts constituting an improved machine for making bolts, rivets,
and spikes.
The following are the principal features of novelty of this Invention:—
First, making in one and the same machine, and at the same time,
bolts, rivets, and spikes of any shape, length, or size desired; secondly, the
employment of an automatic movement of the anvil in machines employed
for the above purposes; thirdly, the employment of a screw for regulating
the speed of the anvil during the working of the machine; fourthly, adapting
to the aforesaid improved machine an apparatus for expelling the bolts, rivets,
or spikes from the machine; fifthly, adapting an intermittent rotatory
movement to the anvil.

page_text: The following is an example of the combination of the principal parts of
the aforesaid improved machine-In a suitable framing a sliding piece is
mounted; said piece carries a die box, and is put in motion by a lever worked
by an eccentric suitably fixed. The mechanism employed to expel the bolts,
rivets, or spikes from the machine consists of a sliding piece of metal raised
by a cam and fitted with a screw for adjusting the length to which the
expelling tool moves. The tool in which the bolts, rivets, and spikes are
nade consists of a piece of metal moving around an upright.axis. This table
has six vertical holes made therein to receive the metal from which the bolts,
rivets, and spikes are to be made, and there are four fixed standards, carrying
tools for forming the heads of the aforesaid articles, so that as the table is
moved round by toothed gearing, and the pieces of metal are placed in each
of the holes therein, when they come opposite to their respective heading tools
they stop whilst the heading operation is being performed, and then the table
moves on until the next pieces of metal are brought under the heading tools;
and so on in succession, the articles being expelled by a self-acting lever.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Gossiaux in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
18th December 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
GOSSIAUX, Manufacturer, at Laeken, near Brussels, Kingdom of Belgium,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of June, in the year of
our Lord
Que thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Edward Gossiaux, Her special licence that I, the said Edward Gossiaux,.
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward
Gossiaux, 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 IMPROVED MACHINE FOR MAKING
BOLTS, RIVETS, AND SPIKES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Edward Gossiaux, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe

page_text: 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. Edward Gossiaux, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment, that is to say:-
This Invention relates to certain new mechanical arrangements and com-
binations of parts constituting an improved machine for making bolts, rivets,
and spikes.
The following are the principal features of novelty of this Invention :-
First, making in one and the same machine, and at the same time, bolts, rivets,"
and spikes of any shape, length, or size desired; secondly, the employment
of an automatic movement of the anvil in machines employed for the above
purposes; thirdly, the employment of a screw for regulating the speed of the
anvil during the working of the machine; fourthly, adapting to the aforesaid
improved machine an apparatus for expelling the bolts, rivets, or spikes
from the machine; fifthly, adapting an intermittent rotatory movement to the
anvil.
The following is an example of the combination of the principal parts of
the aforesaid improved machine:-In a suitable framing a sliding piece is
mounted; said piece carries a die box, and is put in motion by a lever worked
by an excentric suitably fixed. The mechanism employed to expel the bolts,
rivets, or spikes from the machine consists of a sliding piece of metal raised
by a cam and fitted with a screw for adjusting the length to which the expelling
tool moves. The tool in which the bolts, rivets, and spikes are made
consists of a piece of metal moving around an upright axis. This table has
six vertical holes made therein to receive the metal from which the bolts.
rivets, and spikes are to be made, and there are four fixed standards carrying
tools for forming the heads of the aforesaid articles, so that as the table is
moved round by toothed gearing and the pieces of metal are placed in each of
the holes therein, when they come opposite to their respective heading tools
they stop whilst the heading operation is being performed, and then the table
moves on until the next pieces of metal are brought under the heading tools,
and so on in succession, the articles being expelled by a self-acting lever.
In order to explain my said Invention as completely as possible, I now
proceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, reference being had to the illustrative Sheets of

page_text: Drawings accompanying these Presents, and to the numeral figures and
letters of reference marked thereon respectively, as follows.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Sheet 1 is a front view of the machine. In this Figure the anvil and parts
relating thereto are omitted, to enable the cam (n) and other parts to be more.
easily seen and comprehended. Sheet 2 is a side view of the machine. In
this Figure the parts above omitted are visible. Sheet 3 is a plan and eleva-.
tion (partly in section) of the anvil and parts appertaining thereto, showing
the toothed gearing by which intermittent motion is produced; also a plan
and elevation, partly in section, of the arrangement of dies.
At Sheet 1, a is the framework of the machine; b, a sliding piece, to which
is fixed the die box x, which receives its motion from the lever d, which is
worked by the cam n; c are slides fixed to the framing in which the sliding
piece b runs ; d, lever; e, rod moving in the grooves h, and serving to expel
the bolt from the guidez; f, screw for adjusting the die or plunger y; g, screw
for regulating the stroke of the expeller e; h, guides or grooves of the ex-
peller e; i, right and left handed screw for regulating the action of the sliding
piece b while in motion; l, box of the excentric or cam n; m, slides of the
excentric box; n, cam or excentric for imparting motion to the lever d by
means of the box l and screw k; o, bolts
box and the lever d; p, bearing of the shaft q; r, toothed wheel gearing
with the pinion s; t, pulleys on the shaft u; v, bearing of the shaft u; w, fly.
wheel; x, die box; y, z, dies for forming the head of the article to be manu-
factured.
which the screw k is fixed to the
At Sheet 2, a is the framing; b, sliding piece; d, lever; e, square rod for
expelling the bolt or other article from the die guide; g, thumbscrews, as
shewn in Sheet 1; i, bolt or screw, as shewn in-Sheet 1; k, adjusting screw,
as shewn in Sheet 1; 1, excentric box, as shewn in Sheet 1; l, slide of the
excentric box; M, shaft carrying the bevil wheels N, the toothed wheel B',
and the governing block A¹ of the stop C¹; the bevil wheels N are for
reversing the motion of the shaft q; n¹, cam or excentric, shewn at n, Sheet 1;
o, bolts, shewn in Figure 1; p, step or bearing of shaft q; r, s, toothed wheel
and pinion, see Sheet 1; t, fast and loose pulleys on the shaft u; w, fly wheel;
x, x¹, die box; y, z, and A, dies for forming the heads of the articles to be
manufactured; B, screw for keeping the die A in the box a¹; D, plate or
table for the reception of the die boxes a¹; this plate rests on the toothed
wheel E, and both are fast upon the anvil F; E, toothed wheel gearing with
the partially toothed wheel B', by which an intermittent rotatory motion is

page_text: produced, which brings back the centres of the dies A to the centre of the
plunger y and of the die guidez; F, anvil; G, pivot on which the anvil F
turns; H, steel rods moved by means of the crank levers L for pushing the
bolt or other article out of the die A; the length of these rods will depend
on the length of the article to be manufactured; R, bearing of the shaft u;
V, bolts fixing the plate D to the anvil F; W', washers for regulating the
thickness. of the heads; A', block governing the stop C¹, which acts upon
the crank each, time that motion is imparted thereto by the wheel B'; D¹
spring connected with the stop C²; E¹, step in which the shaft M turns.
At Sheet 3, Figure 1, a are six die boxes; L, levers; D, plate or table
upon the anvil F (Figure 2); E, toothed gearing working in the partial
gearing P, by which the intermittent rotation of the anvil is produced; M,
shaft carrying the gearing; P, G, axis or pivot of the anvil F, at Figure 2,
revolving on the pivot G.
At Figure 3, Sheet 3, A is a plunger presenting in its horizontal section the
same shape as the head of the article intended to be made; B, die guide of
the shape of the bolt or other head intended to be made; C, die upon which
the plunger A descends to form the head of the bolt or other article, said die
being of the requisite shape; D, piece of iron from which the head is formed;
E, block or piece in which the die guide B is fixed; F, block in which the
die c is fixed; G, thumbscrew for tightening the die c in the block; F, H,
washers for regulating the thickness or depth of the heads.
;
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of my said
Invention for "An Improved Machine for Making Bolts, Rivets, and Spikes,"
together with the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same into
practical effect, I would remark, in conclusion, that I do not claim the
exclusive use of any of the separate parts above mentioned and referred to,
except in so far as the same may be employed in combination and for the
purposes of my said Invention, which I hereby declare to consist in, and I
claim, a machine of the above construction, by means of which I am enabled
simultaneously and in one machine to make bolts, rivets, screws, cramp irons,
and other articles of various different forms, lengths, and sizes, and especially
I claim,-
First, the mechanism for producing automatic motion of the anvil.
Secondly, the mechanism employed for preventing the crank lever from
moving further than from centre to centre of each die placed upon the crank,
as above described.
Thirdly, the mechanism above described employed for expelling the bolts or
other article from the die guide.

page_text: Fourthly, the use of any number of dies resting on the anvil, as represented
by the Drawing, for the purposes of this Invention.
Fifthly, the mechanism above described for producing intermittent rotatory
motion, so as to obtain a pause necessary to enable the anvil to turn and the
pressure to be applied as desired.
Sixthly, the screw i for regulating and altering the extent of the motion of
the piece b while the machine is in operation.
Seventh, and lastly, combining together the mechanical contrivances above
described in such manner that the die guide B shall have reached a position
over the die C, at Sheet 3, before the plunger A begins to act upon the bar
of iron marked D, which is to form the bolt head (for example); by these
means the iron is enclosed in a mould of exactly the proper shape, and
cannot possibly be struck crookedly and become deformed. The dotted lines.
B, B', shew the position of the die guide and plunger 6¹ at the moment of
striking.
In witness whereof, J, the said Edward Gossiaux, have hereunto. set
my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
EDWARD GOSSIAUX. (L.S.)