Machinery For Nail Making.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 400, 7 September 1889, Page 6

Machinery For Nail Making.

By a new process of making nails it is claimed that the product i? greatly increased, with a largo saving 1 of cost. The process would appenr, from the description, to bo quite simple, for, instead of employing the parallel plates, which are usually about, thirteen inches in length, there arc employed plates that, by suitable knives and die?, produce at a single operation the finished goods. By the ordinary method the plate must bo turned tor every nail cut, whereas by the improved process a plate fully thirteen feet in length can be placed in the machine, the latter feeding itself ; and whi eat present there- aro required four feeders and one nailer to run four machines, by the new method two feeders and one nailer easily operate four machines. Formerly, in turning out tenpenny nails, four machines and five men were accustomed to mako 7,000 pounds per day, the amount of waste being four per cent. ; while according to the new arrangement the operation of four machines by two men results in the production of 10,000 pounds nor day, with no waste. The same proportion thus indicated is also paid to be carried out, by this means, in all kinds of , nails except) horse -shoo nails, the latter being more difficult to make.—' Providence Journal.