A NEW TOOL OR APPARATUS FOR HOLDING AND DRIVING BRADS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Edward Newton, of the Office for Patents,
66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer,
for the Invention of "A NEW TOOL OR APPARATUS FOR HOLDING AND
DRIVING BRADS."-A communication from abroad by Mack Delorimer
Converse, of London, in the State of Ohio, United States of America.
Sealed the 1st January 1870, and dated the 21st July 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Edward Newton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 21st July 1869.
I, HENRY EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "A NEW TOOL OR APPARATUS FOR HOLDING
AND DRIVING BRADS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a new apparatus for holding and for driving
the triangular sheet metal brads used by glaziers and others.
The Invention consists in a semi-annular or other reservoir of
triangular cross section for holding the brads which are held against a

page_text: plate that forms the bottom of the reservoir by a spring follower. Sliding
on a pin that projects from the brad reservoir is a spring handle
which carries a narrow punch. This punch is held in position by
means of a spring plate, and is so arranged that when it is pushed
forward it will force the lower brad through a slot into the sash or
other work. The inner part of this slot is enlarged by bevelling the
corners in order to let the point of the brad pass out without difficulty.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Edward Newton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 21st January 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Henry Edward Newton, Her special licence
that I, the said Henry Edward Newton, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Edward Newton, 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 Invention for "A NEW TooL OR APPARATUS
FOR HOLDING AND DRIVING BRADS," being a communication to me from abroad
by Mack Delorimer Converse, of London, State of Ohio, in the United
States of America, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Henry Edward Newton, my executors 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..

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Edward Newton, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto
annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to
say) -
This Invention relates to a new apparatus for holding and for driving
into the required places the triangular or other sheet metal brads which
are used by glaziers and others.
The Invention consists in a semi-annular or other reservoir for the
brads which are held against a plate that forms the bottom of the
reservoir by a spring follower. On a pin projecting from the brad
reservoir is arranged a sliding spring handle which carries a narrow
punch that also rests on the bottom of the reservoir. When the punch
is pushed forward it will force the lower brad through a slot into the
sash or other work. The inner part of the slot is enlarged by bevilling
the corners in order to let the point of the brad pass out without
difficulty.
In the accompanying Drawing Fig. 1 represents a side view partly
in section of the improved brad driver; Fig. 2 is a bottom view partly
in section of the same. Similar letters of reference indicate corres-
ponding parts.
A. represents a semi-annular vessel or box with a triangular cross
section sufficiently large to accommodate the brads. One side of this
vessel is closed by a swinging or other lid. The vessel or reservoir A
is placed with its ends upon a plate B, which is perforated under the
outer or lower end a as shewn to let the brads pass through. When
the vessel A is of other than semi-annular form, the lower end of the
reservoir is over the aperture of the plate B. A spring C of suitable
construction has the tendency to force the brads towards and through
the lower end of the reservoir; b, is a pin projecting from the reservoir
and upon it is fitted a handle D which is pushed away from the reservoir
by a spring c; E is a plate fixed to the handle and projecting therefrom
to the aperture in the lower end of the reservoir and extending under
the plate B. A plate F is fastened by a pin d to the under side of the
plate B so as to be still under the plate E. The lowest brad rests between
the plates B and F in front of E as shewn in Fig. 1. When the handle
is pushed forward it will force the plate E against such lower brad,

page_text: and will force the brad out of the machine through the slot formed
between B and F. That part of the blade B under which the point
of the brad first arrives when pushed out is bevilled to facilitate the
passage of such brad. By this device brads can be rapidly and con-
veniently applied and whenever one is used another is immediately
pushed down upon the plate F by means of the spring C.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention as communi-
cated to me by my foreign correspondent, and having explained the
manner of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood
that under the above in part recited Letters Patent I claim,-.
First. The apparatus consisting of the reservoir A, spring C, plate F,
and punch E, all arranged and operating as and for the purpose herein
described.
Second. The bevilled corner formed on the plate B to facilitate the
passage of the brads as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Edward Newton, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-first day of January,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.