MANUFACTURING BY THE AID OF A SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT OF CYLINDERS OR ROLLERS & NOVEL SORT OF BAR OR ROD IRON SUITABLE FOR MAKING HORSE-SHOE NAILS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of the Firm of John Gedgo
and Son, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "MANUFACTURING BY THE
AID OF A SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT OF CYLINDERS OR ROLLERS & NOVEL SORT
OF BAR OR ROD IRON SUITABLE FOR MAKING HORSE-SHOE NAILS."-A com-
munication from abroad by Joseph Jules Falatieu, of No. 15, Passage
des Petites Ecuries, Paris, France, Ironmaster.
Sealed the 28th December 1866, and dated the 5th July 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Gedge
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th July 1866.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of
No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "MANUFACTURING
BY THE AID OF A SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT OF CYLINDERS OR ROLLERS A NOVEL SORT
OF BAR OR ROD IRON SUITABLE FOR MAKING HORSE-SHOE NAILS," (a communication
to me from abroad by Joseph Jules Falatieu, of No. 15, Passage des Petites
Ecuries, Paris, France, Ironmaster,) to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is not the manufacture of the horse-shoe nail
itself, but the preparation of a rod or bar of iron more suitable for making

page_text: horse-shoe nails than thoso hitherto used, whether the nails be made by hand
or by machinery. For this purpose cylinders or rollers constructed and
arranged after the manner illustrated on the accompanying Sheet of Drawing
forming part of this Provisional Specification leave on the rod or bar at certain
intervals a double knob or protuberance A intended to form the head of the
nail, the thinnest part B of the rod serving to form the stem or point. The
iron rod or bar thus prepared is presented to the machines or shears, which
cut it in its breadth, separating the double knob or swelling.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Edward Gedge in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 31st December 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of No. 11, Wellington
Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Edward Gedge, Her special licence that I, the said
William Edward Gedge, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said William Edward Gedge, 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 Inven-
tion for "MANUFACTURING BY THE AID OF A SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT OF CYLINDERS
OR ROLLERS A NOVEL SORT OF BAR OR ROD IRON SUITABLE FOR MAKING HORSE-SHOE
NAILS," a communication to me from abroad by Joseph Jules Falatieu, of
No. 15, Passage des Petites Ecuries, Paris, France, Ironmaster, upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said William Edward Gedge, 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
Putent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Gedge, 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:
The object of this Invention is not the manufacture of the horse-shoe nail
itself, but the production of a novel description of iron bar or rod suitable for
making horse-shoe nails either by machinery or by hand. This iron is shewn
at Figure 1 of the annexed Sheet of Drawing forming part of this Specifi-
cation, and is obtained by means of the special and novel arrangement of
rollers or cylinders shewn in front view and in position at Figure 2, and in
cross section at Figure 1. These rollers or cylinders leave on the bar or rod
a double boss, knob, or protuberance A (Figure 1), which is intended to form
the head of the nail, the thinner part B being for the point. The iron bar
thus prepared is presented to machines or shears, which cut it in its breadth,
separating the double boss or knob; the nail is then finished by machinery
or by hand.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Gedge, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
W. E. GEDGE. (L.S.)