Improvements in or connected with Wire Nails.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 28th Jan., 1995-Accepted; 30th Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Wire Nails.
I, LEOPOLD ZEYEN, of the Firm of Gottl, Heerbrandt, Raguhn, Anhalt, in the
Empire of Germany, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a disc or washer for use in connection, with wire nails to
facilitate their withdrawal from the wood into which they may be driven.
At present boxes or barrel lids secured with wire nails can only be opened by
means of a hammer and chisel, and in doing this the cover is often damaged.
Then too, the special tools which have been devised for the purpose in question to
be driven into the wood are unsatisfactory, since there is not only the special,cost of
obtaining them, but the lid is damaged as in the former case.
The washers forming bearing discs now under description avoid these disadvantages
and allow the nails to be drawn by means of an ordinary pair of pincers,. without
any injury to the lid. A further advantage which they possess is that they can be
repeatedly used, and their cost is very small, and the method of employing them
very simple.
The washers or discs are manufactured from sheet metal by cutting or stamping
out, and may have the shape of a circle, oval, polygon, with or without rounded
angles or rosette and have a countersunk depression provided with a.hole.
The nail is driven so far through the hole that its head comes to lie in the
depression, the washer or dise being thus driven a little way into the substance of
the box lid or other object, but the edge of the washer or disc projects. When it
is desired to withdraw the nail, a pair of pincers is applied under the edge of the
washer or disc and the latter, together with the nail, is raised and the nail there-
upon withdrawn. Since the bearing disc is never driven completely into the wood,
there is always a small interspace between the disc and the lid, which allows the
disc to be easily grasped with the pincers.
Too deep an entry of the disc into the wood is hardly possible, for the effort
required to effect it would be very considerable, and in addition to this, the fibres
of the wood under the disc are merely compressed and would raise the disc again in
virtue of their elasticity.
Neither the disc nor the lid of the box is damaged in drawing out the nail, so that
both may be utilized again.
The external form of the disc may, as has been stated, be of various forms, and
the form and size of the depression will naturally be chosen in correspondence with
the nails which it is proposed, to use.
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G. F. REDEERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: 1, LEOPOLD ZEYEN, of the Firm of Gottl, Heerbrandt, Raguhn, Anhalt, in the
Empire of Germany, Manufacturers, 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:--
My invention relates to a disc or washer for use in connection with wire nails to
facilitate their withdrawal from the wood into which they may be driven.
At present boxes or barrel lids secured with wire nails can only be opened by
means of a hammer and chisel, and in doing this the cover is often damaged. Then
too, the special tools which have been devised for the purpose in question to be
driven into the wood are unsatisfactory, since there is not only the special cost of
obtaining them, but the lid is damaged as in the former case.
My washers forming bearing discs avoid these disadvantages and allow the
nails to be drawn by means of an ordinary pair of pincers, without any injury
to the lid. A further advantage which they possess is that they can be
repeatedly used, and their cost is very small, and the method of employing them
very simple.
.
In the accompanying drawing,
Figure 1, and Figures 3 to 12 are plan views illustrating various forms of my discs
or washers for use in connection with wire nails :
Figure 2 is a section of Figure 1:
Figures 13 and 14 are sections illustrating the use of my discs or washers.
Similar letters in all the figures indicate similar parts.
The washers or discs a are manufactured from sheet-metal by cutting or stamping
out, and may have the shape of a circle, an oval, or a polygon with or without
rounded angles or a rosette and they have a countersunk depression e provided with
a hole b.
The nail, as illustrated in Figure 13, is driven so far through the hole that its
head comes to lie in the depression c, the washer or disc a being thus driven a little
way into the substance of the box-lid or other object, but the edge of the washer or
disc projects. When it is desired to withdraw the nail, a pair of pincers is applied
under the edge of the washer or disc, as shewn in Figure 14, and the latter,
together with the nail, is raised and the nail thereupon withdrawn. Since the
bearing disc a is never driven completely into the wood, there is always a small
interspace between the disc and the lid, which allows the disc to be easily grasped
with the pincers.
Too deep an entry of the disc into the wood is hardly possible for the effort
required to effect it would be very considerable, and in addition to this, the fibres of
the wood under the disc are merely compressed and would raise the disc again in
virtue of their elasticity.
Neither the disc nor the lid of the box is damaged in drawing out the nail, so that
both may be utilized again.
The external form of the disc may, as has been stated, be of various forms, and
the form and size of the depression will naturally be chosen in correspondence with
the nails which it is proposed to use:
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. Discs or washers for use in connection with wire nails, consisting of a round
oval, angular or rounded augular plate a, provided with a hole 6 and depression

page_text: which, when applied, is located under the head of the nail and allows the same to be
easily withdrawn, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawing.
2. Discs or washers for use in connection with wire nails as hereinbefore described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 28th day of January 1895.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.