Improvement in Boards used in Moulding Nails and other Small Metal Articles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Oct., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 21st July, 1898-Accepted, 17th Sept., 1898
Improvement in Boards used in Moulding Nails and other Small
Metal Articles.
We, JONAS GORDON, MYER MINDELSOHN, JUSTINIAN MINDELSOHN, SAMUEL
GORDON, and SIMON CARO GORDON, trading together as Gordon & Co., of Bradford
Street, in the City of Birmingham, Upholsterers and Furniture Manufacturers,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows; —
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In carrying out this invention, each end of the moulding board has an iron clamp
made out of tee iron or tee steel or of malleable cast iron of tee section and arranged
with one web fitting in a groove formed in the end of the board against which
the other web lies. The ends of the clamps are bent at right angles to the main
portion of the clamp so as to fit against and embrace the sides of the board and
through these ends screws pass into the board to secure the clamps thereto. By
the webs of the clamps fitting in the grooves in the board the latter is prevented
from warping.
Dated this fith day of October 1897
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.
Improvement in Boards used in Moulding Nails and other Small
Metal Articles.
We, JONAS GORDON, MYER MINDELSOHN, JUSTINIAN MINDELSOHN, SAMUEL
GORDON, and SIMON CARO GORDON, trading together as Gordon & Co., of Bradford
Street, in the City of Birmingham, Upholsterers and Furniture Manufacturers,
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 fol-
lowing statement:-
This invention consists of the herein described improvement in boards known
as "moulding boards" for use in moulding nails and other small articles. By
our invention the boards are strengthened and prevented from warping.
In carrying out this invention, each end of the moulding board has an iron clamp
made out of tee iron or tee steel or of malleable cast iron of tee section and
arranged with one web fitting in a groove formed in the end of the board
against which the other web lies. The ends of the clamps are bent at right angles
to the main portion of the clamp so as to fit against and embrace the sides of the

page_text: board and through these ends screws pass into the board to secure the clamps
thereto. By the webs of the clamps fitting in the grooves in the board the latter
is prevented from warping.
Our invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawing on which Fig. 1 is
a front elevation and Fig. 2 is a side elevation partly in section of a moulding
board with our invention applied; Fig. 3 shews one of the metal clamps of the
moulding board separately; Fig. 4. shews one end of the moulding board with the
metal clamp removed and Fig. 5 shews how the said metal clamps can be made
from a bar of tee section iron or steel.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all
the figures.
A is the moulding board and B¹ B² are the two metal strengthening clamps
applied to the ends of the same.
It will be seen that each of these clamps B1 B2 is tee section having its vertical
web b² fitting in a groove a¹ formed in the end of the board A and having the
other web b lying against the end of the board. 6364 are the end parts of the
clamp which are bent at right angles to the main portion of the clamp so as to
fit against and embrace the sides a a³ of the board to which the clamps are
secured by screws C passing through the ends 63 64 of the clamps into the board.
The web of the clamps B₁ 132 fitting in the end grooves a¹ of the board prevents
the board from warping.
The said clamps are by preference made of malleable cast iron. They can also
be made of tee section bar iron or steel. The bar has to be equal in length to
the clamp and its end parts 63 64. The vertical web 62 has to be cut away from
each end of the bar for a distance equal to the end parts 63 64 (see Fig. 5) which
then have to be turned down against the ends of the remaining portion of the
vertical web 62 as shewn by the dotted lines in Fig. 5.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. A moulding board, for use in moulding nails and other small metal articles,
provided with the metal strengthening clamps B1 B2 constructed and applied to the
ends of the board in the manner substantially as described and illustrated.
2. The moulding board end clamps 131 132 made of tee section metal to fit against
and enter a groove in the ends of the board and provided with the end parts b¹ 3
to embrace and fix to the sides of the board substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
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Dated this 20th day of Tul.. 1000
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.