Nail Driving Extraor= dinary.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 July 1910, Page 4

Nail Driving Extraor= dinary.

A * - The novice at carpentering who experiences difficulty in drivuij;- a nail straght will probably be jut. a loss to iiiidoj'.staiul 'why anyone should go to the trouble of inventing a nail which would bend as it sinks into the wood, but such an article has been made (the subject of a patent. The n.ail is designed especially for the fastening ol abutting pieces of- wood together, ill tile manner technically known as "toe-nailing." in this operation it is .necessary to drive the n.ail at .such an angle that .it will enter the second hoard against which the first one abuts, so that the'two - ill be held together. The difficulty in the use of the ordinary <n.ail |<>Y this purpose is to drive it at just the right angle, so thalt it will take a, [)i'o[kt hold of both pieces. With the new nail, .this is .accomplished by making use of a peculiar Houghshaped ond, which en uses fch® nail to describe an arc as it passes through the wood.