CERTAIN IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING NAILS
Year: 1849

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
Goose, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Fifth day of Junc, One
thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, in the twelfth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Goose, my exors, adiñiors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said William Goose, my
exors, adñiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Goose,
my exors, adñiors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein ex-
pressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, an Invention of
"CERTAIN IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING NAILS," communicated to
me by a Foreigner residing abroad; in which said Letters Patent is contained
a proviso that I, the said William Goose, should cause a particular descrip-
tion of the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to be
inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar

page_text: months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Goose, lo hereby declare that the nature of the said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say:-
The said improved machinery consists of an addition to the ordinary machine
used for manufacturing cut nails, that is to say, such nails as are made by
being cut from sheets or plates of iron, or other metal or alloy.
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In order that the Invention may be better understood, I remark, that in the
ordinary method of manufacturing cut nails the piece of iron cut from the
strip or plate is subjected to the action of a pair of dies, which said dies com-
press and reduce the partially formed nail to the desired shape immediately
after it is detached from the strip or plate from which it is cut. This compres-
sion of the nail between the said dies is commonly called the "griping" of the
nail, and the said compression or " griping" takes place on the edges of the
nail, as represented in the Sketch, Figure 1, which said Figure represents a
cross section of a nail, and the arrows indicate the direction in which the dies
move, so as to close upon and compress the nail. The object of Invention
is to partially turn the nail before it receives the pressure of the compressing
or griping dies, so that the said nail may be pressed or griped on its sides, as
represented in Figure 2, instead of on its edges, as represented in Figure 1.
By compressing the nail on its sides instead of its edges, the iron is rendered
more compact, whereas compression on the edges has a tendency to open the
fibres of the metal.
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The Invention consists of an apparatus or mechanism to be added to
ordinary cut-nail machines, which said apparatus. or mechanism affects the
partial turning of the nail during its passage from the cutters to the com-
pressing or griping dies, as herein-after particularly described and represented
in the accompanying Drawing. As the construction of the cut-nail machine
is well known, and as the said machine constitutes no part of the said
Invention, I do not deem it necessary to describe or represent the said
machine, but shall confine myself to the description and representation of the
improvement on or addition to the said machine.
Figure 8 represents the Invention in side view, and Figure 4 represents the
same in front view. a is a vertical axis turning on the centres b, b. c is an

page_text: arm (the form of which is represented by the Drawing), which said arm is
attached to and moves with the axis a., The upper end of this arm is bent in
the form represented at d, for the purpose hercin-after explained. e is a bar
of steel, of the form represented, which said bar I call a "springing nipper."
This springing nipper is keyed to the axis a ata, and consequently moves
with it. The said "springing nipper" passes under the bent end of the arm c,
as shown on the Drawing, the said arni serving to prevent the motion of the
said "springing. nipper" in any other than a vertical plane. The end of the
said springing nipper has the shape represented at e'. The apparatus, Figures
3 and 4, is so placed on the nail machine, that by motion being given to the
axis a, the end e¹ of the said springing nipper may be brought into the position
represented in Figure 5, in which Figure f represents the fixed die, between
which and the end of the springing nipper the end of the nail is held while the
griping dies approach in the directions indicated by the arrows in Figure 5, and
compress the body of the nail. The manner in which the said springing
nipper effects the partial turning of the nail is as follows:-the nail is brought
by the cutter into the position represented at 9 in Figure 5, and the springing
nipper is brought into the position represented in the said Figure 5 by the
motion of the axis a, Figures 3 and 4, and the said springing nipper, pressing
against the edge of the nail at a point somewhat lower than that at which
the opposite edge of the nail is supported by the fixed die f, the said nail turns
upon the angle f¹ of the fixed die as a centre, and passing from the position g,
Figure 5, through the position h, Figure 6, at length arrives at the position i,
Figure 7, when the compressing dies approach and compress the nail on its
sides instead of on its edges, as they would have done but for the partial
rotation of the nail on its axis, as effected by the action of the springing nipper.
As soon as the dies "gripe" the nail, the springing nipper retires into the
position represented in Figure 5, and is ready to receive and turn the next nail
brought down by the cutter. The elasticity of the springing nipper allows its
end e¹ to move vertically from the position Figure 5 to the position Figure 7.
Motion is communicated from the driving shaft to the springing nipper in
the same way as motion is communicated to the nipper of the ordinary
machine.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood, that I am
aware that cut nails have, or may have been, compressed or griped-on their flat
side, and I do not claim the compression or griping of cut nails on their flat
sides as the said Invention; but I claim the method herein described and
represented in the accompanying Drawing of constructing and working a

page_text: Enrolled the Third day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.