A NEW METHOD OF MAKING HORSE-SHOE NAILS
Year: 1801

page_text: TO ALL TO WHO.
DHALL
JOHN SPENCER,
of the Parish of Duffield, in the County of Derby, Nail Maker, sends greeting:
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twentieth day of
June, in the forty-first year of His reign, for Himself, His heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto the said John Spencer, his exors, adñiors, and
assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that he, the
said John Spencer, his exors, adñors, and assigns, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term of fourteen years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend his. Invention of "A NEW
METHOD OF MAKING HORSE-SHOE NAILS," within England, Wales, and the Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed; in which said Letters. Patent is contained a proviso,
obliging the said John Spencer, by an instrument in writing under his hand
and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of his 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 next and immediately
after the date of the said 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, he, the said
John Spencer, doth hereby declare that his said Invention of a new method of
making horse-shoe nails, is particularly described and ascertained by the

page_text: Drawings hereon delineated or hereunto annexed, and by the references there.
unto and description herein-after contained (that is to say):-
A is the roll, with impressions cut, or may be formed in casting, and which
must be varied according to the length, of nails intended to be made, and to be
run (in forming the iron for the nails) against a plain roll; after the iron has
passed these rolls it will be left according to B, which is then taken and sepa-
rated by shears, or any other engine for the purpose of cutting, at C, which is
the thinest part, the edges of which are, if necessary; thinned by hand or tilt
hammer. The piece, No. 1, is then applied to the bed D and punch E, which
are fixed in a screw press or any other power fit for the purpose, and when the
stroke is made, presses the iron out as F, which is then applied to the bed G
and separater H, in a power similar to that used for the bed and punch D, E,
and which then leaves two compleat horse-shoe nails I. The punch E may be
formed of different shapes so as to suit any fancy, and it may also be formed
to punch out only one nail instead of two, if found more convenient. There
may be rolls used for the purpose of making impressions on iron or other
metal,, and there may be punches used, for pressing, out articles of different
sorts;, if there, are not, he, the said John, Spencer, claims every advantage, to
be derived from such. Invention; but, for the method of making horse-shoe
nails by, this process; he solely claims every. Invention and advantage.
In witness whereof, they said Jolin-Spencer hath hereunto set, his hand
and seal, the Sixth day of July, in. the year of our Lord. One thousand
eight hundred and one..
Jnrolled the Thirteenth day of July, in the year of our-Lord One thousand
eight hundred-and-one.