IMPROVED PINS, NAILS, OR TACKS, THE APPLICATION OF THE SAME TO CERTAIN PURPOSES, AND AN APPA- RATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN INSERTING THE SAME WHEN FIXED TO CAPS OR CAPSULES INTO CORKS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, of the Firm of
Robertson, Brooman, and Company, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agents, for the Invention of "IMPROVED PINS, NAILS, OR
TACKS, THE APPLICATION OF THE SAME TO CERTAIN PURPOSES, AND AN APPA-
RATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN INSERTING THE SAME WHEN FIXED TO CAPS OR
CAPSULES INTO CORKS."-A communication from abroad by Victor Palyart,
of Paris, France.
Sealed the 11th January 1867, and dated the 19th October 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th October 1866.
I, CLINTON EDGCUMBE BROOMAN, of the Firm of Robertson, Brooman, and
Company, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED PINS, NAILS,
OR TACKS, THE APPLICATION OF THE SAME TO CERTAIN PURPOSES, AND AN APPARATUS
TO BE EMPLOYED IN INSERTING THE SAME WHEN FIXED TO CAPS OR CAPSULES INTO
CORKS," to be as follows:-
*This Invention consists, firstly, in the construction of what may be termed
safety pins, nails, or tacks to be applied to caps or capsules, for bottles and
other, receptacles, and to other purposes; and, secondly, to an apparatus to
be employed in inserting them when fixed to caps or capsules into the heads

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of corks in bottles and similar receptacles. The improved pins, nails, or tacks
are in the form of a lance, an arrow, or an anchor; they may be advan-
tageously substituted for all ordinary nails, and they are applicable to caps or
capsules for bottles, vases, jars, and other 'slmilar vessels; these pins, nails, or
tacks may be round, triangular, or other desired shape in section. In employing
them as nails or means of attachment they present against their withdrawal
a projection or projections towards their end or at their middle, or at regular
or irregular distances for their whole length, in the form of a cone, or of
umerous projecting points or pins, or otherwise; they may be of uniform
thickness, but they are preferred to be thicker towards the top. In applying
them to capsules or caps for bottles and other vessels, the pins or nails should
be round, flat, square, or triangular, and of the same metal as or of different
material to the capsules, and be fixed thereto by soldering, rivetting, or
otherwise; these pins, nails, or tacks of any length and thickness, with or
without a head,. may be applied to, various purposes. As a capsule or cap they
consist of the pin, surmounted, by a flat, round, or other shaped head, plain,
engraved, stamped, open-worked, or otherwise.
Figures 1 shows a hooked nail or pin with a point in the form of a lance;
Figures 2 and 3 show an ordinary headed nail, but formed with asperities
or projecting points which prevent it being withdrawn, when driven into
wood or other material; Figure 4 shows the same nail, but pointed at both
ends; Figure 5 shows a headed nail formed with projections, which likewise
prevent the removal of the nail when driven into material; Figure 6 shows
the same with only one projection; Figure 7 shows in section one of the
improved nails or pins applied to a capsule or cap a fitted on a cork b, whereby
great firmness is produced between the cock and capsule; Figure 8 is a similar
view, but with a capsule a formed with a depending flange; Figures 9 and
10 are respectively a vertical section and exterior view of a pin or nail in
the form of an anchor fitted to an openworked capsule a; Figure 11 shows
one of the improved nails applied for the purpose of uniting two pieces of
wood c, c; Figures 12 and 13 show an improved pin formed with a stud or
button suitable for boots or for furniture. The metal discs a forming caps or
capsules for corks may also be connected to the kind of pin or nail shown in
two views in Figures 14 and 15, or to that shown in Figure 16, or the pin or
nail may be plain, as in Figure 17; Figure 18 shows one of the improved
pins attached to a handle so as to serve as an apparatus for drawing corks.
When the improved pins are fitted to caps or capsules for corks the caps may
be formed on the under side with a series of points or small pins which enter
the cork or fit round the neck of the bottle. Sometimes I form the improved

page_text: pins or nails the same at each end, some of the projections or asperities-being
formed in the opposite direction to the others.
The apparatus to be employed in inserting the improved pins when fixed to
caps or capsules into the heads of corks in bottles and similar receptacles
consists of a block or bed formed with a vertical aperture to receive a vertical
rod fixed at the bottom by a nut, which bears against a projection in the
aperture; this rod has fitted over it a tube, the internal diameter of which is
about equal to the diameter of the cap, and which is enlarged at its upper end;
a spiral spring is fitted between the bottom of the tube and the projection
before mentioned, and when distended keeps the tube at its highest position.
The tube is free to be moved up and down the rod, and is guided by a feather
To use this
or projection which takes into a vertical groove in the block.
apparatus place in the tube on the top of the piston a cap provided with one
of the pins, the point being uppermost; then place the neck of the bottle
containing a cork into the enlarged top of the tube, push down the bottle,
and consequently the tube; and the pin will enter the cork; when the bottle is
To facili-
removed the spiral spring returns the tube to its first position.
tate the placing of the neck of the bottle into the top of the tube 1 carry up
from the block a vertical plate, on which at the upper part a horizontal
semi-annular plate is adjusted at the required height, and this plate embraces
the body of the bottle.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 18th April 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CLINTON
EDGCUMBE BROOMAN, of the Firm of Robertson, Brooman, and Company, of
166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of October, 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 Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said
Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, 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,

page_text: 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 "IMPROVED PINS, NAILS, OR TACKS, THE APPLICATION OF
THE SAME TO CERTAIN PURPOSES, AND AN APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN INSERTING
THE SAME WHEN FIXED TO CAPS OR CAPSULES INTO CORKS," (communicated to me
from abroad by Victor Palyart, of Paris, France,) upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, my executors or admi-
nistrators, 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 Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, 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 thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-
This Invention consists, firstly, in the construction of what may be termed
safety pins, nails, or tacks to be applied to caps or capsules for bottles and
other receptacles, and to other purposes; and, secondly, to an apparatus to be
employed in inserting them when fixed to caps or capsules into the heads of
corks in bottles and similar receptacles. The improved pins, nails, or tacks
are in the form of a lance, an arrow, or an anchor; they may advantageously
be substituted for all ordinary nails, and they are applicable to caps or cap-
sules for bottles, vases, jars, and other similar vessels; these pins, nails, or
tacks may be round, triangular, or other desired shape in section. In em-
ploying them as nails or means of attachment they present against their
withdrawal a projection or projections towards their end or at their middle,
or at regular or irregular distances for their whole length, in the form of a
cone, or of numerous projecting points or pins, or otherwise; they may be of
uniform thickness, but they are preferred to be thicker towards the top. In
applying them to capsules or caps for bottles and other vessels the pins or
nails should be round, flat, square, or triangular, and of the same metal as or
of different material to the capsules, and be fixed thereto by soldering, rivet-
ting, or otherwise; these pins, nails, or tacks of any length and thickness,
with or without a head, may be applied to various purposes. As a capsule
or cap they consist of the pin surmounted by a flat, round, or other shaped
head, plain, engraved, stamped, openwork, or otherwise.
Figure 1 shows a hooked nail or pin with a point in the form of a lance;

page_text: Figures 2 and 3 show an ordinary headed nail, but formed with asperities
or projecting points which prevent it being withdrawn when driven into
wood or other material; Figure 4 shows the same nail, but pointed at both
ends; Figure 5 shows a headed nail formed with projections, which likewise
prevent the removal of the nail when driven into material: Figure 6 shows
the same with only one projection; Figure 7 shews in section one of the
improved nails or pins applied to a capsule or cap a fitted on a cork b,
whereby great firmness is produced between the cork and capsule; Figure 8
is a similar view, but with a capsule a formed with a depending flange;
Figures 9 and 10 are respectively a vertical section and exterior view of
a pin, or nail in, the form of an anchor fitted to an openworked capsule a;
Figure 11 shows one of the improved nails applied for the purpose of uniting
two pieces of wood c, c'; Figures 12 and 13 show an improved pin formed
with a stud or button suitable for boots or for furniture. The metal discs
a forming caps or capsules for corks may also be connected to the kind of
pin or nail shown in two views in Figures 14 and 15, or to that shown
in Figure 16 or Figure 16, or the pin or nail may be plain, as in Figures
17 and 17... Figure 18 shows one of the improved pins attached to a handle,
so as to serve as an apparatus for drawing corks. When the improved pins
are fitted to caps or capsules for corks the caps may be formed on the under
side with a series of points or small pins which enter the cork or fit round the
neck of the bottle. Sometimes I form the improved pins or nails the same at
each end, some of the projections or asperities being formed in the opposite
direction to the others.
The apparatus to be employed in inserting the improved pins when fixed to
caps or capsules into the heads of corks in bottles and similar receptacles is
represented in vertical section in Figure 19, and in horizontal section in
Figure 20, through the line A, B, of Figure 19; it consists of a block or bed d
formed with a vertical aperture to receive a vertical rod fixed at the bottom
by a nut which bears against a projection d' in the aperture; this rod has
fitted over it a tube g, the internal diameter of which is about equal to the
diameter of the cap, and which is enlarged at its upper end; a spiral spring k
is fitted between the bottom of the tube g and the projection d¹, and when
distended keeps the tube at its highest position, which is that shown in the
Drawing. The tube g is free to be moved up and down the rod f, and is
guided by a feather or projection h, which takes into a vertical groove in the
block. d. To use this apparatus place in the tube on the top of the rod / a
cap a provided with one of the pins, the point being uppermost; then place
the neck o of the bottle containing a cork into the enlarged top of the tube g,

page_text: push down the bottle, and consequently the tube and the pin will enter the
cork. When the bottle is removed. the spiral spring k returns the tube g.to
its first position. To facilitate the placing of the neck of the bottle into 'the
top of the tube I carry up from the block a vertical plate 1, on which at the
upper part a horizontal semi-annular plate m is adjusted at the required height,'
and this plate embraces the body of the bottle.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
P
First, constructing pins, nails, or tacks in the form of a lance, arrow, or
anchor, that is to say, with one or more projections or asperities, substantially
as herein-before described and represented in the accompanying Drawings, so
that the pins, nails, or tacks when inserted into any object are prevented by
the projections or asperities from being readily withdrawn.
Second, constructing caps or capsules for bottles or other receptacles,
substantially as herein-before described and represented in the accompanying
Drawings, with pins or nails attached thereto to enter the cork of such
receptacles, for the purpose described.
Third, constructing apparatus or instruments for drawing corks substantially
as herein-before described and represented in Figure 18 of the accompanying
Drawings.
Fourth, constructing apparatus substantially as and for the purpose herein-
before described with reference to Figures 19 and 20 of the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of April. One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven.
C. E. BROOMAN. (S.)