Improvements in Nails, Tacks, or Pins.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 28th Oct., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Nails, Tacks, or Pins.
We, THOMAS GRAY PARKINSON, Secretary Westminster Fire Office, JOSEPH
CHARLES GRINSELL, Silversmith, and PERCY GIBBS, Insurance Agent, all of
35 Colore Row, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, do hereby declare the
nature of our said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Our invention for improvements in nails tacks or pins employed for such purposes
as nails tacks or pins may be used, as upholstery cabinet, and ordinary wood work
and where parts may require to be separated, also to the fixing or laying of carpets
and the attaching of labels and such like objects where removal is required.
The aim and object of our invention is to extract the nail tack or pin in a
simple and effective manner without damage to the article to which it may be
applied.
We will describe our invention thus :-
We construct the nail tack or pin with a head of any suitable shape in' metal and
by any process by which nails or tacks may be made, and to this head in the
process of manufacture we construct a "tit," parallel to the spike and of the same
gauge, if so required, when being driven or applied to its purpose this "tit,”
would receive the blow and when required to be extracted a suitable instrument
could be applied to this "tit" and the object effected.
And in order that this our said invention may be more clearly understood we
shall now proceed more particularly to describe our "Improvements in Nails or
Tacks or Pins" and the purposes to which they may be applied and for that
purpose we shall refer to the several figures on the sheet of drawings hereunto
annexed, the same letters of reference indicating like or corresponding parts
throughout all the figures.
Fig. 1, is a view in elevation of a nail constructed according to our invention
applicable for ordinary woodwork.
Fig. 2, is a view in elevation differing only in the shape of head.
Fig. 3 is a view in elevation as Fig. 1 differing only in the tapering of the "tit"
but applicable for the same purposes.
Fig. 4 is a view in elevation a Fig. 1, but shewn how the ornamented disc Fig. 5,
or the plan disc Fig. 6 may be applied thereto for any purpose that fancy nails
may be used.
Fig. 7 is a view in elevation of a nail or pin constructed according to our
invention, applied to the purpose of laying a carpet, of fixing fringe or gimping
and such purposes that fancy nails may be used.
Fig. 8 is a view in elevation of a nail tack or pin applied to the fixing of labels
and such like objects.
Fig. 9 is a view in elevation of a nail as Fig. 1, but with a stamped form suitable
for a picture nail and other purposes.
a are the stems of spikes of nails, tacks, or pins, as usually constructed, shews
the ordinary head, and c the "tit," d is the ornamented disc, provided with a hole e,
fis the plain disc provided with hole e for arrangement upon c and seated upon b,
as shewn at Fig. 4. g is a stamped ornamented form over c and seated upon b
when d, for g are so arranged they are secured by rivetting c, at the top, or by any
suitable means.
It will now be observed that our invention consists substantially of the employment
of a nail tack or pin with one head the addition thereto in process of manufacture
of the tit c, and in some cases discs d or for g, arranged and secured thereto and

page_text: when desirous of extracting the nail tack or pin and separating the parts connecting
together, a tool of a proper construction is applied to c and the object effected.
The above being our invention we wish it to be understood in conclusion that we
do not limit ourselves to the precise details as we may vary the same without
departing essentially from the principle of our said invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In improvements in nails tacks or pins, the combination with a nail tack or
pin with the head; a tit c, substantially as and for the purposes above described.
2. The combination with a nail tack, or pin with the head; a tit c, upon which
is secured a disc as d, or for the form g substantially as and for the purposes
above described.
3. The general combination and arrangements of parts, substantially as herein
before described and for the purposes set forth in the foregoing Specification and
shewn on the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated 9th September 1893
THOS. KENDRICK,
Agent.