CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF HORSE-SHOE AND OTHER NAILS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Armand Le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, of the
General Patent Offices, 10, Rue de la Fidélité, Paris, in the Empire of
France, and 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Patent Agent, for the
Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE
OF HORSE-SHOE AND OTHER NAILS."-A communication from abroad by
Messieurs Bernard Courvoisier, Maxime Antoine Ducis, and François
Bigoy, residing at Lyons, in the Empire of France.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Peter Armand Le Comte de-
Fontaine Moreau at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition and Declaration, on the 24th June 1865, pursuant to the 9th
Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER:
ARMAND LE COMTE DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of the General Patent Offices, 10;
Rue de la Fidélité, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 4, South Street,
Finsbury, London, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTUE OF HORSE-SHOE AND OTHER NAILS," and have
petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and

page_text: assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have made solemn
Declaration that it is a communication from Messieurs Bernard Courvoisier,
Maxime Antoine Ducis, and François Bigoy, persons resident at Lyons, in the
Empire of France.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Peter Armand Le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, do hereby declare that the following Complete Specification, under my
hand and seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, in and by the following statement,
reference being had to the Drawing hereto annexed, and to the figures and
letters marked thereon, that is to say :-
The Invention communicated to me consists in employing for the manu-
facture of nails of revolving cylinders, between which are placed suitable iron
bars, from which the nails are to be produced. On the periphery of each cylinder
recesses are cut forming the dies which serve to give the shape and dimensions
to the nails to be manufactured; a convenient arrangement herein-after des-
cribed compels each nail as soon as it is formed to separate and fall out of the
cylinders. The cylinders are put in movement like other rolling machines,
and revolve in opposite directions. In the accompanying Drawing, Figure 1
shews a section, and Figure 2 an end elevation, of this improved machine. A
horizontal shaft E is set at the top of the framework A, on one end of this
shaft is placed a fly wheel O, serving to regulate the movement, and on the
other end are two pullies M, M³, one of which receives movement from any
suitable motive power and transmits it to the machine, the other pulley is loose
and serves to stop it. The pinion I is keyed on the same shaft E, and catches
with the large wheel J set on the horizontal axis P, which carries the lower
cylinder D, on the periphery of which, as before described, is cut a part of the
die. The aforesaid shaft P is provided at its extremity with the cog wheel
K, which gears with a similar wheel K', having the same diameter as the first,
and consequently gives movement to the upper cylinder D', on which is cut
the counter die of the lower cylinder D. By this arrangement the two cylinders
work at the same speed but in contrary directions. On the fore part of each
row of the recesses forming the dies the cam H is keyed on a shaft G, carry-
ing on the extremity corresponding to the wheels K and K' a pinion L, set
in movement by the wheel K, with which it gears. These cams H serve to
separate the nails when manufactured from the dies of the cylinders.
Having now described the Invention communicated to me, and the best mode
of putting the same into execution, I wish it to be understood that I do not
confine myself to the precise details of arrangements herein-before described,
as the same may vary without deviating from the principle of the Invention;

page_text: but what I claim and wish to have protected is, the manufacture of nails by
means of revolving cylinders or rollers in which are cut the shape and dimen-
sions of the nails to be manufactured, substantially as herein-before described
and shewn in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Armand Le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of
June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
five.
L. DE FONTAINEMOREAU. (L.S.)
Witness,
HY. GILBEE,
No. 10, Rue de la Fidélité,
. Paris.
14th June 1865.