Improvements in Nails.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Jan., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 15th Mar., 1890-Accepted, 7th June, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Nails.
We, HENRY MUNSLOW and WILLIAM MUNSLOW, 229 Ladywood Road Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick Brassfounders and Stampers & Piercers do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
We cut out a metal blank.
We stamp in such a manner as to raise a rim or collar round the centre of the
blank thus forming a cup or dome in the centre of the blank.
We place the head of a wire or other nail in the cup or hollow formed in the
centre of the blank by the raising of the rim or collar upon the blank. By means of
suitable closing tools, we close the rim or collar of the blank over the head of the
wire or other nail or shank.
It is now ready to be stamped into any ornamental pattern or shape suitable for
upholsterers nails, picture or other nails having a metal head plain or fancy.
The process of stamping between dies or tools may not only impress a pattern upon
the metal blank which now forms the head of the nail or shank but also may
tighten the rim or collar of the metal blank round the head of the wire or other nail
or shank upon which it has been closed and renders the metal head less likely to
come off the wire or other nail or shank upon which it has been closed.
Another way we close the metal blank upon the head of the wire or other nail or
shank is as follows.
After we have formed the rim or collar upon the metal blank as previously
described, we pierce a small hole in the centre of the cup or dome part formed in the
blank by the raising of the rim or collar.
We then thread a wire or other nail or shank (preferably a wire nail with a small
head) through the hole we have pierced in the centre of the cup or dome part of the
metal blank, and then close the raised rim or collar of the metal blank over the head
of the wire nail or shank.
It is now ready to be stamped either for the purpose of still further tightening the
metal rim or collar on to the head of the wire nail or shank, or for impressing an
ornamental pattern upon the metal blank or head when required.
The nails so formed are suitable for upholsterers fancy nails, picture nails, carpet
and drugget nails or other nails to which it is usual to attach a metal head plain or
fancy and we claim that our method of attaching the metal heads to the shanks is an
improvement upon the usual methods now in use.
Jannary 11th 1890.
HENRY MUNSLOW.
WILLIAM MUNSLOW.
For H. & W. Munslow,
H. Munslow.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Nails.
We, HENRY MUNSLOW and WILLIAM MUNSLOW, Brassfounders, 229 Ladywood
Road, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick 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 :-
'We
Ve commence the construction of our invention in the following manner :
We cut out a metal blank, we next stamp the blank in such a manner as to raise
a rim or collor round the centre, thus forming a cup or dome.

page_text: we place the head of any ordinary nail in the cup or dome formed in the centre
of the blank.
We next by means of suitable closing tools, close the rim or collor of the blank
over the head of nail, or over the shank of the nail: the combined blank and nail is
then ready to be stamped into any ornamental pattern, or shape, suitable for use as
upholsterers nails, picture nails, or other nails usually provided with a plain, or
ornamental head.
The process of stamping between dies or tools may not only impress a pattern
upon the metal blank which forms the head of the nail or shank but also may tighten
the rim or collor of the metal blank round the head of the nail or shank upon which
it has been closed, and thus render the metal head, or rose, less likely to come off the
wire nail or other nail or shank of nail upon which the rose has been closed.
Another method of closing the metal blank upon the head of the wire or other nail
or shank is as follows:
After we have formed the rim or collor upon the metal blank as previously
described, we pierce a small hole in the centre of the cup or dome part formed in the
blank by the raising of the rim or collor.
We then thread a wire or other nail or shank, (preferably a wire nail with a small
head), through the hole we have pierced, in the centre of the cup or dome part of
the metal blank, and then close the raised rim or collor of the metal blank over the
head of the nail or shank, the combined nail and rose is then ready to be stamped,
either for the purpose of still further tightening the metal rim or collor on to the
head of the wire nail or shank, or for impressing an ornamental pattern upon the
metal blank or head when required.
We will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawings
the manner in which the various modifications of our invention are carried out;
similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
Figure 1 represents a metal blank with a raised rim or collar.
Figure 2 represents a plan of figure 1.
Figure 3 represents a blank a' formed with a central recess.
Figure 4 represents a plan of Figure 3.
Figure 5 represents the blank shewn at Figure 1 with a nail placed in position
ready to be secured to the shell.
Figure 6 represents a plan of figure 5.
Figure 7 represents the blank or shell compressed over the nail.
Figure 8 represents the blank compressed over the head of the nail.
In carrying out the first modification of our invention we provide a metal blank or
shell a and stamp it with a raised rim b; we next provide any suitable nail and
place the head in position represented at figure 5 ready to be attached to the blank
or shell.
We next by means of suitable closing tools close the rim or collar 6 over the
under surface of the head of nail e as clearly shewn at 6' figure 7: during the process
of closing we may in some cases stamp or ornament the shell a into the configuration
shewn at figure 7, or we may use closing tools to lock the head of nail e to the
shell a and afterwards by a series of stampings form the combined nail and shell
into any desired ornamental configuration.
By a second modification of our invention we provide a shell a as shewn at figure 1
and pierce a central hole through the dome as represented in dotted lines at d, we
then insert the shank of fail through the hole and close or compress the shell a on
to the upper part of the shank c and afterwards by means of suitable tools stamp the
shell a into any desired ornamental configuration as herein before referred to in
reference to figure 5: the blank instead of being curved in the manner represented
at a can be made flat as represented at a figure 3 and in lieu of the dome, a recess
can be formed in the blank a¹, a central hole d' being formed to receive the shank
of nail c', the shank of nail would be passed through the central hole d¹ the
blank and nail would then be compressed together between closing tools, and
afterwards stamped and compressed together so that a lip 62 would be forced or

page_text: compressed out of the material constituting the blank or shell, such lip 6" answering
the same purpose as the lip b' figure 7.
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,
1st. The making of a rose-headed nail by the combination of any ordinary nail
with a shell or blank, by the processes of closing, compressing, and stamping herein
set forth in relation to figures 1, 5, and 7, the nail being locked to the shell by means
of a portion of the blank expanded into a lip under the head of nail.
2nd. The making of a rose headed nail by the combination of any ordinary nail
with a shell or blank, the shank of nail being passed through the blank so that the
head of nail is outside the blank, the nail and shell or rose being secured to each
other by the closing or compressing of the central hole formed in the rose or blank
on to the upper part of the shank of nail close under the head of such nail.
3rd. The making of a rose headed nail by the combination of any ordinary nail
with a shell or blank, the shank of the nail being passed through a central hole
formed in the blank, the blank being secured to the nail by the expansion of a part
of the material constituting the blank over the lower part of the nail head as illustrated
at figure 8.
Dated this 14th day of March 1890.
ALFRED WILLIAM TURNER,
Cobden Buildings, Corporation Street, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicants.