An Improved Gimp Pin or Furniture Nail.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 7th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 30th Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Gimp Pin or Furniture Nail.
WILLIAM GILLIES, Engineer, of Ardenville, Pembroke Road, Southville,
Bristol, and THOMAS HENRY LETHBRIDGE, Engineer, of Ivy Cottage, Alpha
Road, Southville, Bristol, trading as Gillies & Lethbridge, St. James' Barton,
Bristol, as Furniture Nail Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
1st. From a sheet of leather board, or other flexible material, we manufacture
in the following manner, by cutting into strips of the required widths, for each
kind of nail, afterwards placing the nails, points downwards, at the required
distance apart, and the heads being pressed down level with the surface.
2nd. A strip of similar material of the required width is then placed over the
first strip after, first being covered with a solution that adheres the two strips.
3rd. The strips after being solutioned passes through rollers, compressing the
two strips firmly together, the head of nail being between the two strips.
4th. The strips are then compressed into discs.
5th. The discs compressed into required shape of nail.
6th. Then operated upon with a solution, which makes them waterproof and of
the required shade.
Dated this 6th day of April 1891
WILLIAM GILLIES.
THOMAS HENRY LETHBRIDGE.
An Improved Gimp Pin or Furniture Nail.
We, WILLIAM GILLIES Engineer of Ardenville Pembroke Road, Southville,
Bristol, and THOMAS HENRY LETHBRIDGE, of Ivy Cottage, Alpha Road,
Southville, Bristol, trading as Gillies & Lethbridge, St. James' Barton, Bristol,
Furniture Nail 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 following statement :-
Our invention relates to a new or improved process for making gimp pins or
furniture nails, by which an ordinary metal nail is attached to and firmly embedded
in a head of leather-board, mill-board, leather, or other compressible material
suitable for the purpose.
This invention consists in fixing the nail-heads between two or more layers of
leather-board or the like, and uniting the layers by an adhesive composition passing
them between rollers under considerable pressure, and then punching the layers
into discs, shaping and compressing them as required.
To carry our invention into effect, we cut the leather board into strips of suitable
width, and then insert a row of nails therein at any desired distance from each
other; the heads of the nails and one surface of the strips are then coated with
any suitable adhesive solution, strips of similar material of corresponding width are
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page_text: laid on the solutioned strips, and both are passed between rollers under con-
siderable pressure, one of the rollers being grooved, so that the nails can pass
without difficulty, the rollers will firmly embed the nail heads between the two
surfaces of the strips and compress the strips into a solid mass; after rolling, the
strips are punched into discs of the required size to form the ornamental head of
the gimp pin or nail, and when sufficiently dry, the discs are compressed into
moulds or dies to further shape and solidify them; or preferably, the strips are
put under a stamping press, which will punch the discs and compress them into
shape at one operation, the upper face of the disc being forced into a die, which
will impart any desired ornamental device or pattern thereto; after which they
are coated with suitable composition to colour and waterproof them.
In punching the strips into discs, or compressing them into shape, the nails are
placed in central holes in the punching or stamping presses, to ensure the nail
being in the centre of the disc and a uniform pressure imparted to the head of
the pin.
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 :-
In the manufacture of gimp pins or furniture nails, inserting ordinary nails in
leather-board or the like in such a manner that the nail-heads will be firmly
embedded between two or more layers, which are then punched and compressed
into the required shape and size, substantially as and for the purposes herein
described and set forth.
Dated this 5th day of January 1895.