IMPROVEMENTS IN THOSE KINDS OF NAILS WHICH ARE USED UPON FUR- NITURE, SADDLERY, AND TRUNKS, AND FOR OTHER USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL PURPOSES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Manly, the younger, of Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, Brassfounder, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THOSE KINDS OF NAILS WHICH ARE USED UPON FUR-
NITURE, SADDLERY, AND TRUNKS, AND FOR OTHER USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL
PURPOSES."
Sealed the 28th August 1868, and dated the 3rd March 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Manly at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 3rd March 1868.
I, JOHN MANLY, the younger, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Brassfounder, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THOSE KINDS OF NAILS WHICH ARE USED
UPON FURNITURE, SADDLERY, AND TRUNKS, AND FOR OTHER USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL
PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has reference to the manufacture of those kinds of
nails specified in the title, and consists in the combination of a cast head
with a wire point or shank secured or put together by pressure, in the
manner herein-after explained.

page_text: I first cast the head in a mould in the usual manner and as is well
understood, but with a cavity or recess in the under side thereof for the
reception of the point or shank; I then fix the said point or shank in
the head by pressure, which may be produced either by an ordinary
stamp or by any other mechanical equivalent, and at the same time I
give the head any desired form or design by means of the die which may
be employed. Or in certain cases I first stamp the heads of the nails
in suitable dies, and afterwards fix the points in them by pressure, as
herein-before mentioned.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Manly in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 3rd September 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
MANLY, the younger, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Brass-
founder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Manly, Her special licence
that I, the said John Manly, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said John Manly, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THOSE
KINDS OF NAILS WHICH ARE USED UPON FURNITURE, SADDLERY, AND TRUNKS, AND
FOR OTHER USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John Manly, 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
cause the same to be filed in the
same was to be performed, and
Great Seal Patent Office within

page_text: six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Manly, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement (that is to say) :-
This Invention has reference to the manufacture of those kinds of
nails specified in the title, and consists in the combination of a cast head
with a wire point or shank secured or put together by pressure in the
manner herein-after explained.
I first cast the head in a mould in the usual manner, and as is well
understood, but with a cavity or recess in the under side thereof for the
reception of the point or shank; I then fix the said point or shank in
the head by pressure, which may be produced either by an ordinary
stamp or by an other mechanical equivalent, and at the same time I
give the head any desired form or design by means of the die which may
be employed. Or in certain cases after casting the heads as before
described, I stamp them in suitable dies, and afterwards fix the points ir
them by pressure, as herein-before mentioned.
That my Invention may be fully understood I have annexed Drawings
thereof which I now proceed to describe.
Fig. 1 shews a flat blank a cast as herein-before described; it is
circular in plan, as at 6. Its under side has a small recess or cup c for
the purpose of receiving the enlarged head d of the wire peg or shank e.
Fig. 2 shews a section and plan of the finished nail, the flat blank of
Fig. 1 having been cupped, as shewn at f, and the wire peg or shank
having been secured therein by means of pressure in suitable dies. A
pair of dies adapted for this purpose are shewn in Fig. 3, where g is the
lower die in which is a vertical hole h to receive the said peg or shank e,
the flat blank lying upon the ball-shaped top i of the die; the upper
die k being caused to descend with sufficient force, fixes the two parts
of the nail together and gives the required shape to the head. It
will be understood, of course, that the head may be made to assume
any desired form or design according to the die which may be
employed.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is or may be performed, I desire it to be

page_text: understood that I do not confine myself to the shape or form of the
head herein-before described and shewn in the accompanying Drawings,
nor to the machinery or apparatus herein-before described and illustrated
in the Drawings filed herewith for affixing the two separate parts of the
nail, as any other mechanical equivalent might be employed for that
purpose; but what I do claim as the Invention to be protected by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the combination of a
cast head with a wire point or shank in the manufacture of those kinds
of nails specified in the title, affixed or put together by pressure,
substantially as herein-before set forth and described.
In witness whercof, I, the said John Manly, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Second day of September in the year of our
Lord 1868.
Witness,
HOWARD SMITH,
Clerk to Mr. G. R. Holland,
Birmingham.
JOHN MANLY, JUNE. (L.S.)