US Patent: 5,450X
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Machine for Making Nails and Rivets
Manufacturing Wrought Nails, Rivets, &c.
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Patentee:
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| Samuel G. Reynolds (exact or similar names) - Bristol, Bristol County, RI |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Apr. 13, 1829 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. There are no patent drawings available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
“This is an ingeniously constructed machine, which is said to answer its intention perfectly, and specimens of the nails deposited in the patent office appear to justify the assertion. The machine is, of course, complex, but does not appear to be more so than is necessary for the various operations to be performed. The nails when made, are wedge-formed, being as wide at the point as close up to the head, like cut nails; they, however, need not be made of a regular taper like the latter, unless this form be preferred. The rods from which the nails are to be made, are heated in a tube within a furnace, just opposite to the feeding part of the machine. It is received between cheeks which determine the width of the nail. Whilst between the cheeks the rod is operated on by a roller, filed on its periphery into long narrow teeth, adapted to the wedge-form of the nail. The cutting off, gripping, and heading are then performed, the apparatus for which could only be described, satisfactorily, by means of drawings.
There have been previous patents for machines for manufacturing wrought nails, one of which bears a considerable resemblance to the present, particularly in the structure of the cheeks, and the mode of giving the taper to the nail.”
Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 8 1829 pg. 55
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