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' (No Model.) 2Sheets-Sheet 1 A. NEWTON.

NAIL PACKAGE.

No. 572,061. Patented Nov. 24, 1896.

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NAIL PACKAGE {No Model.)

Nb. 572,061. Patented Nov; 24, 1896.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR NEWTON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE AS- SIGNMENTS, TO JAMES W. BROOKS, OF PETERSHAM, AND JOHN BROOKS, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, TRUSTEES.

NAlL-PACKAG E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 572,061, dated November 24, 1896. Application filed- March 28, 1890. Renewed July 23, 1892. Serial No. 441,003. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR NEWTON, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Nail Packages or Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to enable nails to be put up in a series of gangs or charges all contained in a single package of cheap construction, the arrangement being such that all the nails of. each gang can be discharged simultaneously from the holder into a gang of guides or distributors adapted 1 5 to convey them to the points from which they are to be driven into the work and to arrange the nails in the order in which they are to stand when driven.

The invention deals principally with nails for boot and shoe heels and with nailing-machines employing a gang of nail guides or distributers, which at their receiving ends are arranged in a straight row and at their delivering ends are arranged in a curved row 2 5 corresponding to the arrangement of nails in a heel.

The invention consists in a nail package or carrier of cheap construction, so that it can be discarded after serving its purpose, and

0 formed to receive a series of gangs of nails and hold the nails of each gang in an independent row, so that the package or carrier may be placed over the receiving ends of a gang of nail guides or distributers and caused 3 5 to deliver gangs of nails thereto, the nails of each gang being arranged to coincide with said receiving ends when they are brought to position over. the latter, said nails being also adapted to enter the guides or distributers either by gravitation alone or by the aid of a suitable ejecting device, as I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my improved package or carrier in the inverted position it occupies before application to the machine. Fig. 2

represents a transverse section of the same in its proper position, the points of the nails being downward, the package being provided with a false bottom. Fig. 3 represents a similar section, showing the false bottom removed and the carrier in position over the receiving ends of a gang of distributers. Fig. at represents a perspective view, and Fig. 5 a transverse section, of a modified form of carrier or package; and Fig. 6 represents a transverse section of another form.

The same letters and figures of reference indicate the same parts in all of the figures.

In carrying out my invention I construct a carrier orpackage a, having a series of rows or gangs of pockets, each row adapted to receive and hold a gang of nails 1), the arrangement being such that when the bottom of the carrier or package rests on a horizontal support, such as the bed or block 0, containing the receiving ends of the nail guides or distrib uters (Z, the nails will stand vertically and in position to drop into said distributers when the carrier or holder is in position to cause the nails of a gang to coincide with said distributers.

When the carrier or package is placed on said bed, it is to be moved over the same step by step and stopped after each step with a gang of nails over the gang of distributers, so that at each stop a gang of nails will be in position to enter said distributers. The pockets in the carrier or package are preferably openat the bottom of the package when the latter is on the bed a, so that each gang of nails on reaching the distributers will enter the latter by gravitation. Said pockets may,

however, be covered at their lower ends by easily-ruptured bottoms, such as would be formed by attaching a sheet of paper to the bottom of the carrier, said sheet supporting the points of the nails, so that some degree of force will be required to eject the nails from 0 the pockets and force them into the distribnters. I prefer to make the carrier or package of sheets of cheap paper-board, such as strawboard, said sheets being arranged in the form of a box, of which 2 2 are the sides, 3 the top, and 4t 4 are partitions parallel with the top. The nail-receiving pockets are in this case made by forming orifices in the partitions i 4, as shown in Fig. 1. The carrier is preferably provided with a false bottom 5, made without perforations and provided with side flanges 6 6 to bear on the sides 2 2, but without end flanges, so that when the carrier is placed on the bed the false bottom may be drawn out endwise, thus allowing the points of the nails to rest directly on the bed, the false bottom supporting the nails and keeping them in place in the carrier or package until they are to be used.

Figs. 4 and show the carrier made of a block, which maybe of wood or any other suitable material, having. a series of holes drilled or otherwise formed through or nearly through it to constitute the'pockets. The said holes maybe covered at their lower ends by a false bottom, as in the figures previously referred to, or a part of the material of the block may be left at the bottom thereof to form rupturable bottoms for the pockets in case it is desirable to employ force to eject the nails.

The package or carrier may be composed of two perforated sheets at 4, connected by side pieces and without top and bottom pieces, as shown in Fig. 6. In this case the carrier may be contained in an open-ended casing 7 before it is used, said casing retaining the nails, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 6, and permitting the carrier to be forced out endwise for'use in the machine.

It will be seen that by providing a cheaplyconstructed package or carrier adapted to hold a large number of nails in a series of gang-s, each gang comprising one row, nails can be-put upon the market and sold to manufacturers read-yfor delivery to the distributers of nai'l-ing machines. A large saving to the users of the nails is thus effected, because the expense ofload'ing the nails. at the factory is avoided, it being of course practicable to load the nails into the carrier by the use of machinery and appliances organized for that purpose more cheaply than they can be loaded by hand, as heretofore, into the devices, used in connection with nailingnnachines to supply the distributers with nails.

The improved package or carrier may be used in connection with an organized heelnailing machine, the latter being provided with means for feeding the carrier step by step.

I prefer in loading the nail-package to place the package in the position shown in'Fig. 1 and insert the nails with their heads down and resting on the top piece 3, which isthen the bottom of the package. The loaded package is to be kept in the position last described until it is applied to the machine, and when so applied is inverted, so that the piece 3,willfl be at the top and the points of the nailswill be at the bottom, as shown in Fig. 3. It will be seen that a package having a permanent piece 3, made without perforations and extending across the pockets, so as to constitute a barrier or closed end for each pocket, and loaded with nails, the heads of which bear on said piece or barrier 3, can be kept in the position shown in Fig. 1, so that the piece 3 supports the nails until they are required for use,

it being only necessary to invert the holder,

box or case'with a cover, horizontal perfor.

rated partitions in which nails are located, and a false bottom movable lengthwiseof the box and supporting the points of the nails, as

set forth.

3. The improved nail-package'composed of sheets 4. 4 having naiLsupporting orifices and bent at their edges to form flanges, side pieces 2 2' secured to said flanges, and a removable bQttOln 5 arranged to support the lower ends of the nails that stand in said orifices, as set forth.

4. A portable nailpackage. comprising a block or case having a series. of independent nail-receptacles arranged in such relation to .one another that the nails will be delivered in gangs or charges to the work.

5. A portable nailpackage or-carrierfor use in heel-nai1ing machines, comprising a box or case having a series of independentnailreceptacles arranged in parallel rows, said rows being so arranged withrelation to one another that each row delivers its nails in gangs. or charges to, the, work at predetermined intervals, substantially as described.

6. A nail-package comprising av block or case having independent nail-receptacles arranged in parallel rows and so disposed as that, the nails are. in position to be delivered to the, work in gangs or charges, anda bottom plate for closing all the holes in said block or case during transfer of the package, substantially as described.

7. A nail package or carrier comprising a block or case having, a series of independent nail-receptacles arranged in parallel rows, and a cover which retains the "nails in said package, substantially as described.

8. A nail package. or carrier for the transportation and distribution of fasteningscomprising a block or case having independent nail-receptacles arranged in parallel rows in which the nails are inserted heads downward,

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and a removable cover for said case so as that name to this specification, in the presence of when said cover is removed and the said case two subscribing Witnesses, this 19th day of is placed in proper operative relation to the March, A. D. 1890.

work the nails will be fed from said recepta- ARTHUR NEWTON. 5 cles in gangs or charges, substantially as de- Witnesses:

scribed. G. F. BROWN,

In testimony whereof I have signed my A. D. HARRISON.

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