IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NAILS OR TACKS CHIEFLY DESIGNED TO BE USED FOR THE MAKING OF BOOTS AND SHOES
Year: 1873

page_text: ETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine,
Lake, & Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NAILS OR TACKS
CHIEFLY DESIGNED TO BE USED FOR THE MAKING OF BOOTS AND SHOES." -A
communication from abroad by Lyman R. Blake, of Brooklyn, New
York, United States of America.
Scaled the 13th January 1874, and dated the 25th October 1873.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said William Robert Lake
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition
and Déclaration, on the 25th October 1873, pursuant to the 9th
Section of the Patent Law Amendment. Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF NAILS OR TACKS CHIEFLY DESIGNED TO BE USED FOR THE
MAKING OF BOOTS AND SHOES," and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant

page_text: unto me, my executors, administrators and assigns, Her Royal Letters
Patent for the same, and have made solemn Declaration that it has
been communicated to me from abroad by Lyman R. Blake, of Brooklyn,
New York, United States of America.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Robert Lake, do hereby &
declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and
seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, in and by the following
statement:-
This Invention relates to the manufacture of nails or tacks, chiefly 1
designed for lasting boots and shoes, and for tacking the soles of a boot
or shoe to the welt or to the upper and the inner sole.
Tacks or small nails are now used almost invariably by picking them
up one at a time, and pushing their points into the material wherein they
are to be driven, and then driving them with a hammer. This operation 1
is slow especially where the tacks are small, and in work where the.
nails or tacks are numerous the inconvenience of this slow inscrtion is
véry great. I have therefore devised my improved manufacture of tacks
or nails as follows, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in the production of a continuous blank or strip. 2
resembling a comb, and wherein a scries of tacks or nails are united at
their heads, and formed in such a manner that when they are severed,
cach will be a perfect tack or nail, and each tack or nail can be cut
from the said blank or comb, and driven into its place by the same
action or movement. Morcover this construction of the nail or tack 2
blank cnables me to present the nails or tacks to the action of a driver,
with the points always in the proper direction, and to effect the delivery
of the nails or tacks by an automatic action of the said driver.
It is obvious that in practising this Invention the form of the said
blank or comb, which is the distinguishing feature of the said Invention,
may be modified in various ways, according to the desired form of the
nails or tacks.
The said Invention will be readily understood by referring to the
accompanying Drawing, wherein A is a front view of a short piece of
sonaturated secondine
to
a
this Invention. Ris

page_text: transverse section; and C is a top view of the same; D shews in
perspective one of the nails or tacks severed from the said blank.
Instead of forming the blank with the cross section shown at B, it
may have the section shown at E or F, or any other desired cross
section. a is the head or head piece from which the shanks b extend as
shewn, the head being in cross section flat on its top, and joined to the
shank or tooth piece by inclined faces. I roll a strip of iron in such
manner as to give it the required cross section, which must correspond
with the form required to be given to the nails or tacks, usually one of
the forms shown at B, E, or F. Or the latter may be produced by
folding or bending a strip or sheet of iron. I then form the shanks or
teeth 6 with a suitable punch or by other convenient means.
In using
this blank for lasting I sever each head at the line of junction between
the two teeth at the end of the said blank, the head of cach severed nail
being square or rectangular in section.
With a nail blank formed according to this Invention I can last or
cut and drive nails or tacks for lasting boots or shoes, or for other
purposes very rapidly, and the cost of the lasting nails and of the
manufacture in which they are used will be greatly diminished.
Having thus fully described the said Invention as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, and the manner of performing the
same, I wish it understood that I claim, the manufacture of nails or
tacks by first forming a comb or toothed blank, and then separating the
nails or tacks therefrom, as herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of October,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three
0 Witness,
H. J. NOONE,
8, Southampton Buildings,
London.
W. ROBT. LAKE. (L.S.)