Oxford Democrat

Machine for Making Nails.

A Swedish inventor, M. Gustafson, has contrived an ingenious machine for the manufacture of nails. Iron nails hitherto used have either been forged or cut by machinery from sheet iron or iron wire. Thus made, they are necessarily costly--the first named by reason of the slowness of the manufacture, and the two latter by using too expensive material. This new machine supersedes all others by combining in itself the process of rolling, pointing, cutting off, and heading: and produces from bar iron an excellent nail at a very low cost. The rapidity with which the nails are produced by this invention is truly marvelous. Using bar iron three-eighths of an inch square, the machine, with the labor of only one operator, will turn out in a day of ten hours as many as fifteen thousand three-inch nails. The nails produced are of the very highest quality, being compressed by the rolling process, and always having the grain of the metal in the direction of the length. They are formed with fluted sides, which is the most advantageous of all forms but very expensive to produce by any other process hitherto resorted to. By slightly altering and re-adjusting certain parts of the machine, different sizes and forms may be produced.