An Improved Skip or Basket Nail with Two Shanks or with One Shank.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Mar., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 27th Oct., 1898-Accepted, 3rd Dec., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Skip or Basket Nail with Two Shanks or with One
Shank.
THOMAS PARISH, Nail and Chain Manufacturer, Careless Green House, Stour-
bridge, I do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My nail is formed without welding or rivitting. In carrying this into effect
I machine cut my two shanks or one shank according which nail (a nail with two
shanks or a nail with only one shank) I am making with spear point & leaving
them wider or V shaped at the head to prevent them falling through a hole in
a specially prepared washer, which said hole is made taper, so that the shanks
when inserted, points first, will fit in but cannot go through. The malleable
washer is the special part of the improvement, being made with one or more
pegs or projecting pieces cast on the top, & with a taper or V hole, into which
the taper or V head shank, before mentioned exactly fit, when the pegs or pro-
jecting pieces are closed over them, and force the shanks home and prevent
them falling out or being driven out when being used.
Dated thi Wit 1
1000
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
‘An Improved Skip or Basket Nail with Two Shanks or with One
Shank.
I, THOMAS PARISIL, Nail and Chain Manufacturer, Careless Green House,
Stourbridge, in the County of Worcester, 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 is an improved skip or basket nail of the kind built up from
a loose head and a loose shank and without welding, but according to this in-
vention also without rivetting or displacing any of the metal of the shank.
Such nails have hitherto either had their heads formed in one piece with the
shank, or welded onto the shank, or the head of the shank rivetted into and
over the head, but in each case objectionable points arise, either from the shanks
(if they are split ones) not being sufficiently pliable, or the attachment of the
head not being sufficiently secure. The nail according to this invention can be
more quickly and cheaply built up than those of known construction.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings the invention is shown applied to a
basket or skip nail with two shanks or with a split shank, Figs. 1, 2, and 3.
showing in elevation and section the shank and head parts attached, and Figs. 4, 5,
and 6, the head and shank parts separate and their position prior to being
permanently connected. Fig. 7 is a section of a slightly modified form of the
complete nail, Fig. 2.

page_text: The shank of the nail according to this invention is built up of two machine-
cut blanks a, a, having spear or other suitable shaped points, but the head
ends a² thereof are formed taper or V-shaped as shown clearly in Fig. 6. The
head c which is to be attached to the head ends of the shank is formed of the
ordinary shape, but it has centrally through it a taper hole c² corresponding to
the V-shaped head ends of the shank; the said head ends being adapted to lie
within the said taper hole and fit it so that they cannot pull through. On the
top face of the head c and upon each side of the taper hole €2
are formed lips or projecting pieces c, which are adapted, when the
head ends a3 of the shank are in position within the taper hole c³,
to be closed over and around and about the said head ends in the
manner shown by Figs. 2 and 3.
The under side face 5 of the head c has its edges abounding the taper hole ²
thickened or beaded up at c, and the metal of these edges is to a certain extent
closed in and around the inner parts of the head ends of the shank at the same
time as the lips or projecting pieces on the top side of the head are hammered
over.
In the modification set forth in Fig. 7 the head ends a² of the shank are
shaped so as to divide or project from each other at the extremities of their
upper edges, and the taper hole c² in the head conforms to the projecting of the
said head ends; the idea being that when the lips or projecting pieces are ham-
mered over a certain amount of the metal of the said pieces will be hammered
into the space formed by the division of the head ends and constitute a more
rigid method of affixing the head to the shank.
It is obvious that the shank of the nail need not be split or a two-part one so
long as its head end is tapered to fit the taper hole in the centre of the head.
The shank is introduced into the taper hole of the head from the head's top
side, and pulls down into the centre hole so that its head end seats itself therein
after which the lips or projecting pieces are closed over by a press or by
hammering.
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
First. In a skip or basket nail, attaching the shank to the head by forming
a taper hole or seating in the said head, and lips or projecting pieces abounding
the said hole on the top side, forming the said head ends of the shank Taper
or V shaped to fit the taper hole in the head so as not to pull through, and
affixing the said shank in position by closing or hammering over the said lips
or projecting pieces to cover the head ends of the shanks and to close up the
hole in the top face of the head, substantially as described.
Second. In a skip or basket nail as claimed in the preceding claim, the pro-
vision on the underside face c5 of the head c, of thickened or beaded edges c
which abound the taper hole and which are adapted to be closed in around a
part of the shank when the head and shank are connected, substantially as set
forth.
Third. The particular construction of nail head and shank head end and
method of attaching the one to the other as set forth.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
11, Burlington Chambers. New Street, Birmingham,
Also of Liverpool, London, and Manchester,
Patent Agents for the Applicant.