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The first handmade nails where used in the United States which lasted up to the end of the Colonial Period. In France, light nails for carpenters were made by hand and hammer out of steel wire as early as the days of Napoleon I. In 1851, the wire nail was first introduced by William Herser of New York. 25 years later in 1876, Father Goebel Introduced the manufacture of the wire nails. And at the last part of the 18th century, 23 patents for nail making machine were approved in the United States which was later introduced in England.
Kinds of Nails as to:
1. Cross sectional shape
a. Cut ( rectangular )
b. Wire ( circular )
2. Size
a. Tacks
b. Sprigs
c. Brads
d. Nails
e. Spike
3. Materials
a. Steel
b. Brass
c. Cooper
4. Finish
a. Plain
b. Coated
c. Galvanized
d. Blued
5. Service
a. Common
b. Flooring
c. Finishing
d. Roofing
e. Boat
- Tacks - are small sharp pointed nails with tapering sides and a thin flat head. Tacks are chiefly used in fastening carpets and flashing of any thin materials.
- Sprigs - are small headless nails sometimes called barbed dowel pins. The regular size of sprigs ranges from 12 mm to 5 cm gauge No. 8 wire or 4 mm diameter.
- Brads - are small slender nails with small deep heads. The common variety is made in sizes from 2.5 cm (2d) to 15 cm (6d) in length.
- Nails - are popular name for all kinds of nail except those extreme sizes such as Tacks and sprigs. Generally used nails are common nails of sizes 2.5 to 15 cm.
- Spikes - are stout piece of metal from 7.5 cm to 30 cm in length, much thicker in proportion than a common nail. Spikes is mush in used in fastening railroad rails, construction of docks, piers and other work using large timber.
Two kinds of Spike:
1. The Flat head, diamond point
2. The Oval head, chisel point
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