IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HORSE-SHOE NAILS AND OTHER NAILS, AND IN MACHINERY TO BE EMPLOYED THEREIN
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James William Price, of Frogmore Street, Aber-
gavenny, in the County of Monmouth, Ironmonger, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HORSE-SHOE NAILS AND OTHER
NAILS, AND IN MACHINERY TO BE EMPLOYED THEREIN."
Sealed the 13th July 1869, and dated the 18th January 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James William Price
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 18th January 1869.
I, JAMES WILLIAM PRICE, of Frogmore Street, Abergavenny, in the
County of Monmouth, Ironmonger, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HORSE-SHOE
NAILS AND OTHER NAILS, AND IN MACHINERY TO RE EMPLOYED THEREIN," to be as
follows:-
The object of this Invention is the improvement of the manufacture
of horse-shoe and other nails, and of machinery for that purpose; and the
improvements consist in providing a machine employed in such manu-
facture with a special furnace, through which the nail rod is passed

page_text: continuously before arriving at the anvil or anvils; also in an automatic
feed motion for so propelling the nail rod, and in the employment in
such machines of two distinct anvils and hammers, one of which anvils
is stationary and the other movable. One of these anvils has formed on
its face a die representing in section a nail on its side and the other at
die representing a nail on its flat, or these dies may be formed on the
faces of the hammers of the respective anvils, or partly in the hammer
and partly in the anvil in cach case.
The Invention further consists in an arrangement for so moving the
rod from one anvil to the other between the strokes of the hammers that 1
it shall turn on its axis through a quadrant as it makes this lateral
movement in order that the proper faces of the nail shall be presented
to the dies on the different anvils above described, and further in the
adaptation to the movable anvil (caused to turn on an axis for this
purpose) of a knife or cutter to sever the bar at the moment that the 1
formation of the nail is finished.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James William Price in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 17th July 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
WILLIAM PRICE, of Frogmore Street, Abergavenny, in the County of
Monmouth, Ironmonger, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the
thirty-second year of IIer reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said James William Price, Her
special licence that I, the said James William Price, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James
William Price, 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HORSE-SHOE NAILS AND OTHER

page_text: NAILS, AND IN MACHINERY TO BE EMPLOYED THEREIN," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said James William Price, my ex-cutors
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 James William Price, 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 statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings.
hereunto annexed, that is to say :-
The object of this. Invention is the improvement of the manufacture
of horse-shoe and other nails and of machinery for that purpose; and the
improvements consist in providing a machine employed in such manu-
facture with a special furnace, through which the nail rod is passed
continuously before arriving at the anvil or anvils; also in an automatic
feed motion for so propelling the nail rod, and in tho employment in
such machines of two distinct anvils and hammers, one of which anvils
is stationary and the other movable. One of these anvils has formed on
its face a die representing in section a nail on its side and the other a
die representing a nail on its flat, or these dies may be formed on the
faces of the hammer of the respective anvils, or partly in the hammer
and partly in the anvil in each case.
The Invention further consists in an arrangement for so moving the
rod from one anvil to the other between the strokes of the hammers that
it shall turn on its axis through a quadrant as it makes this lateral
movement in order that the proper faces of the nail shall be presented
to the dies on the different anvils above described, and further in the
adaptation to the movable anvil (caused to turn on its axis for this
purpose) of a knife or cutter to sever the bar at the moment that the
formation of the nail is finished.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is an elevation of a machine
constructed according to my Invention, and Figure 2 is a plan thereof.
A, A, is the main frame of the machine, the two ends of which are
held firmly in relation to one another by the tie rods B, B. At one

page_text: end of the machine the anvils and other working parts are chiefly
situated. This end carries the fast and loose pulleys O, D; these are
mounted upon a shaft E which stretches across the machine and com-
municates motion through gearing to a bevil wheel F, to a vertical
shaft G, which has at its opposite end a bevil pinion H for producing the
rotation of a threadel shaft J; this shaft is supported in suitable
bearings and is embraced by a loose socket of a cradle or frame K,
which is free to travel or guide rails L. The upper part of the cradle
has projecting tong claws or a clip M, by which one end of a bar of
iron N from which the nail has to be made is fastened. The other or ]
free end of the bar passes through the furnace O, which is kept at the
required heat by an attendant. As the bar passes through the furnace
it becomes gradually heated up to a white or welding heat; it then
passes out and rests its heated end upon an anvil P, the face of which
corresponds with the side of the nail, and as it slides forwards upon the
anvils it is gradually reduced to the required size by the blows of
hammer heads Q, Q', which are pressed down upon it by tappets R, R',
on the main shaft E; the hammer heads are lifted alternately and kept
in contact with the tappets by springs. When the end of the bar has
been struck on one side by the hammer upon the movable anvil the bar
is caused to move to a second or fixed anvil for being struck on its other
or flat sides, then back again to the movable anvil, and so on alternately
until it is reduced sufficiently to represent a perfect nail. This is
accomplished by means of the rod T, which is rotated by bevil gearing U,
Figure 9, through the main driving shaft. The rotation of this rod acts
upon a toothed wheel V at the opposite end of the machine, and is in
gear with another wheel W mounted upon a shaft carrying the disc X.
To this disc is connected an arm Y of a movable block Z, as seen in the
detached view Figure 4. The pin on the arm works in a slot a in the
block, so that the arm travels a short distance in both directions without
imparting any motion to the block. The nail is acted upon by a hammer
hicad Q actuated by a tappet c on the same shaft as the other tappet and
shaped to fit the flat sides. The hammer is lifted by springs, as shewn
in F.gure 5, and when the nail is completed the anvil, which is movable,
rises by the action of the lever d through a double lever e, and cuts it
from the bar. One end of the lever d rides against the face of a cam
wheel e, and as the wheel rotates its cam strikes against the end of the
lever d and depresses it. The movable anvil is shewn in Figures 6, 7,
and 8; it is centred upon an axle f and carries a claw or cutter g for

page_text: severing the nail from the bar. is a wheel for returning the cradle
to its first position previous to fitting a fresh bar in.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
First. The general construction and arrangement of, machinery for
manufacturing borso-shoe and other nails, as herein-before described and
represented in the Drawings hereunto annexed.
Second. I claim the arrangement of mechanism for moving the bar
from one anvil to another, in the manner herein-before described and
represented in the Drawings hereunto annexed.
Third. I claim the travelling cradle actuated in the manner and for
the purpose herein-before described and represented in the Drawings
hereunto annexed,
And, fourth. I claim the arrangement of mechanism for cutting off
or sovering the finished nail from the bar, as herein-before described
and shewn in the Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said James William Price, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of July, One thousand
eight bundred and sixty-nine.
JAS. W. PRICE. (L.s.)