Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Jan., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 7th July, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 5th Jan., 1889
RICHARD RUSSELL GUBBINS of 17 Park Road New Cross in the County of
Kent Engineer and EDWARD HODGESON BAYLEY of 42 Newington Causeway
London, S.E. Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows
This invention relates to that class of machine wherein blanks are fed through
a number of pairs of revolving dies or rolls each pair of which elongates it and forins
it to the required shapo, the nails being afterwards pointed and headed by suitable
punches and dies.
Our invention consists of a narrow straight or spiral trough or race, in which the
blanks, which are short pieces of metal of oblong or circular section, are placed by
the operator in charge, a feeding device or plunger which keeps the said blanks
pressed up against the end of the said race, a striker which forces the end blank
down through a guide tube to the first pair of rolls-In our improved machine we
arrange the axis of the rolls, alternately at right angles to each other and in vertical
standards which rise from the bed of the machine, thus opposite sides of the blanks
are alternately acted upon, as they drop by their own weight from one pair to another,
in their descent from the first pair downwards-On leaving the last pair of rolls, the
blank falls through a vertical tube the lower end of which is bent upwards in a
gentle curve, and joins so as to communicate laterally with another vertical tube the
lower end of which coincides with the heading dies-These are arranged radially in
the circumference of a wheel & at right angles to them that is to say in a
direction parallel to the axis of the said wheel and intersecting the heading
dies we place the punches which point & trim the blanks into finished nails-
We also provide a hammer which strikes the blanks, so as to form their
heads properly in the heading dies, and to bring their points within reach of the
punches aforesaid.
The action of our machine is as follows-A supply of blanks being produced by
cropping up a rod to the proper length, or otherwise, the race or channel is filled
with these by the attendant, the striker forces the first one to within the reach of the

page_text: rolls by which it is seized, compressed & passed on to the next pair of rolls below.
These latter being at right angles to the first pair act on the opposite sides of the
blank and compress and draw it out still more & so on until it is, as a blank,
complete.
This drawing process entails the necessity of having the head of the nail down-
wards & it must be turned end for end in order to enter the point in the
heading die, this we accomplish by allowing it to fall through the tube before
described, its momentum carries it round the curve and up the other side, when it
falls back through the other vertical one point downwards into one of the dies in the
revolving wheel before described where it is headed pointed and ejected by suitable
cams and hammers as the said wheel revolves.
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RICHARD RUSSELL GUBBINS.
EDWARD HODGESON BAYLEY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Making Horse Nails.
We, RICHARD RUSSELL GUBBINS, of 17 Park Road, New Cross, in the County of
Kent, Engineer," and EDWARD HODGESON BAYLEY, of 42 Newington Causeway,
London, S.E. "Manufacturer," 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 :-
:-
This invention relates to that class of machine wherein blanks are fed through
a number of pairs of revolving dies or rolls, each pair of which elongates it and forms
it to the required shape, the nails being afterwards pointed and headed by suitable
punches and dies.
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In our improved machine, we arrange the axis of the rolls, alternately at right
angles to each other, and in vertical standards which rise from the bed of the
machine, thus opposite sides of the blanks are alternately acted upon, as they drop
by their own weight from one pair to another, in their descent from the first pair
downwards. On leaving the last pair of rolls, the blank falls into a receptacle from
which it is afterwards fed into other pointing and swaging machines, of any well
known kind, for the purpose of finishing the nails.
•
The action of our machine is as follows:-
A supply of blanks being produced by cropping up a rod to the proper length, or
otherwise, the attendant, feeds them one by one to the first pair of rolls, by which it

page_text: is seized, compressed and passed on to the next pair of rolls below, these latter being
at right angles to the first pair act on the opposite sides of the blank and compress
and draw it out still more, and so on until it is, as a blank, complete; when it is after-
wards finished as before described.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed
to describe the accompanying drawings thereof, reference being had to letters and
figures marked thereon.
Figure 1. represents a transverse section of a portion of the machine, showing the
dies marked J, on each respective rolls C.
Figure 2. is a section of the machine on line a, b, of figure 1.
Like letters give like parts in each of the figures.
A, the prime motor shaft. B, the shaft of transmission to rollers..
C, the roll. D, the set screws.
E, the brasses. F, the nut on roll I.
G, bevel gear on roll. H, bevel gear on shaft.
I, the roll spindle. J, the die.
A', bevel gears.
K, the sleeve for retaining die in position.
L, the pass between the dies, J, in which the blank is formed. N framing.
Having now fully described the nature and object of our invention and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, we claim as novel the following:
:-
First The combination of the machine wherein blanks are fed through a number
of pairs of revolving dies or rolls, each pair of which elongates it and forms it.
to the required shape, substantially herein described and according to the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 7th day of July 188e
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W.,
Agent for the Applicants.