A MACHINE OR APPARATUS FOR TWISTING ORDINARY NAILS AND ALL OTHER SIMILAR DRIVING ARTICLES OF A PARALLEL OR TAPERED FORM, AND OF A PLAIN, FLUTED, GROOVED, OR INDENTED SECTION THROUGHOUT OR IN PART
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Montague Wigzell, of Friar's Green, Exeter, in the
County of Devon, for the Invention of "A MACHINE OR APPARATUS FOR
TWISTING ORDINARY NAILS AND ALL OTHER SIMILAR DRIVING ARTICLES OF
A PARALLEL OR TAPERED FORM, AND OF A PLAIN, FLUTED, GROOVED, OR
INDENTED SECTION THROUGHOUT OR IN PART."
Sealed the 4th February 1862, and dated the 10th August 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Montague Wigzell at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 10th
August 1861.
I, MONTAGUE WIGZELL, of Friar's Green, Exeter, in the County of
Devon, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A MACHINE
OR APPARATUS FOR TWISTING ORDINARY NAILS, AND ALL OTHER SIMILAR DRIVING
ARTICLES OF A PARALLEL OR TAPERED FORM, AND OF A PLAIN, FLUTED, GROOVED,
OR INDENTED SECTION THROUGHOUT OR IN PART," to be as follows:-
This, my Invention, consists of a machine or apparatus, or an arrangement
of spur, worm, or other toothed wheels, friction rollers of a parallel, conical,
or other suitable form, screws with or without nuts, mandrils, or other shaped
pieces worked by a rack or racks, or other gearing, moving on suitable guides,
and working in the necessary bearings, and arranged on suitable stands or
beds, and driven by the requisite driving wheels and pullies, to which motion
may be given by steam power, water power, or by hand.

page_text: The machine may be made to twist the nails and other similar driving
articles when in a horizontal, vertical, or oblique position; it may have any
number of head pieces with rollers, segments, or other shaped pieces of steel,
iron, metal, or other metallic alloy that may be thought desirable to follow
up or suit the thickness, shape, or length of the nails or other similar driving
articles to be twisted.
The nails and other similar driving articles can be fed into the machine
and removed therefrom when twisted by hand or machinery, and the machine
may be made to twist any number of nails, or other similar driving articles
at any number of revolutions or parts of a revolution of its driving gear.
The nails and other similar driving articles already made and required to
be twisted are fed into the machine so as to rest in holes or slots, or between
grippers or rollers, these twisted by a traversing and revolving mandril or
screw, having at one or both of its ends rollers or other shaped pieces of steel,
iron, or metal of a form suited to the thickness, length, or shape of the nails,
and the said nails, when twisted, are removed from their resting place by
hand or suitable machinery or apparatus.
I claim the right of applying the machine or apparatus herein described or
its parts to the twisting of all kinds of nails and other similar driving articles,
and to other purposes to which it may be applicable; and I do not limit
myself to any particular size of machine, or size of its parts, as they must
vary according to the size of the nails and other articles required to be
twisted. My machine or its parts may be made of iron, steel, brass, or other
metallic alloy that may be thought desirable.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Montague Wigzell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th February 1862. .
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MON-
TAGUE WIGZELL, late of Friar's Green, Exeter, in the County of Devon, and
now of Strand Topsham, in the said County, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Montague Wigzell, Her special licence that I, the said Montague Wigzell, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Montague

page_text: Wigzell, or 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 "AN IMPROVED MACHINE
OR APPARATUS FOR TWISTING ORDINARY NAILS AND ALL OTHER SIMILAR DRIVING
ARTICLES OF A PARALLEL OR TAPERED FORM, AND OF A PLAIN, FLUTED, GROOVED,
OR INDENTED SECTION THROUGHOUT OR IN PART," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Montague Wigzell, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Montague Wigzell, 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 :-
This, my Invention, consists of a machine or apparatus or arrangement of
worm, spur, or other toothed wheels, friction rollers of a parallel, conical, or
other suitable form, screws with or without nuts, or mandrils or other shaped
pieces worked by a rack or racks or other gearing moving on suitable guides,
and working in the necessary bearings, and arranged on suitable stands or
beds, and driven by requisite driving wheels and pullies, to which motion may
be given by any known motive power.
The machine may be made to twist the nails and other similar driving
articles when in an horizontal, vertical, or oblique position. It may have any
number of head pieces with rollers, segments, or other shaped pieces of (steel,
iron, metal or metallic alloy) that may be thought desirable to follow up
or suit the thickness, shape, or length of the nails or other similar driving
articles to be twisted.
The nails and other similar driving articles can be fed into the machine,
and removed therefrom when twisted by hand or machinery, and the machine
may be made to twist any number of nails or other similar driving articles at
any number of revolutions or parts of a revolution of its driving gear.
The nails and other similar driving articles already made and required to be
twisted are fed into the machine so as to rest in holes or slots, or between
grippers or rollers, then twisted by traversing and revolving mandrils by
means of screws, racks, toothed wheels, segments, or friction rollers, having at

page_text: one end or both of their ends rollers or other shaped pieces of steel, iron,
metal, or metallic alloy of a form suited to the thickness, length, and shape
of the nails.
What I claim, and wish to secure by "Letters Patent," is the right of
applying the machine, apparatus, or its parts, as arranged and herein described,
to the twisting of nails and all other similar driving articles, and to other
purposes to which it may be applicable; and I do not limit myself to any
particular size of machine or size of its parts, as they must vary according to
the size of the nails and other articles required to be twisted. My machine
or its parts may be made of iron, steel, brass, metal, or other metallic alloy
that may be thought desirable.
The accompanying Drawings,. Plates 1, 2, & 3, are to illustrato in plan.
and elevation one arrangement of the parts herein mentioned which I claim
as my Invention:-Plate 1, A, A, are racks which move in suitable guides, as
B, B, B, B, B, and revolve the wheels C, C, C, C, C, C, C, C, C, C, which
rotate the mandrils, as shewn in D, D, (Plate 3,) and to which racks traversing
motion is given by any known motive power by means of pullies E, E, on driving
shaft F and gearing wheels G, G, and connecting rod H, the various parts
working in guides and bearings arranged on a suitable frame or. bed. Plate 2
shows the side elevation of the plan, as seen in Plate 1; Plate 3 is an end
elevation of the machine, as arranged and shewn in the plan, Plate 1. A, A,
being the racks; B, the guides; C, C, the wheels; d, d, the rotating mandrils;
I, I, the following-up rollers or segments to suit the shape and size of the
nails; J, J, the screws working in nuts K, K, which cause the mandrils to
rise and fall when rotated by the racks and wheels A, A, and C, C; L, L, are
the nails held in the slots, as is shewn in the Plan, Plate 1. But I do not
limit myself to the precise shape of the details or angles that the parts make
with each other, as they may vary without deviating from the principal of my
Invention.
Witnessed by
FRANK BODDY SIMONS,
Topsham.
MONTAGUE WIGZELL. (L.S.)
Tapsham,
February 7th, 1862.