Tackmaking

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The Original Tack Machine

Tack Machine Knives

Acid and Lime Baths

Pickling the tack plate.

"Chopping" Tack Plate

Cutting tack plate into strips. The width of the cut plate has a direct relationship to the length of the tack or nail.

Battery of Tack Machines

Perkins Tack Machines with the "Gatling Gun" feed used by the W.W. Cross Company.

Making Heel Nails at the W.W. Cross Company

Large Perkins' machine for making Cut Heel Nails for the Shoe Industry. Location is the W.W. Cross Company in Jaffrey, NH.

Wafios Wire Nail Machines

Wire nail machines at the W.W. Cross Company in Jaffrey, NH.

Nailmaker adjusting a Wafios Wire Nail making machine.

Perkins' Tack Making Machine

Picture from an old Perkins catalog showing their standard tack making machine. Machine remaining in operation today are little changed from this picture, Originally the machines were made in four sizes capable of making anything from ultra small shoe lasting tacks to long cut nails.

Fire Alarm

Fire alarm box at the D.B. Gurney Company in Whitman, MA.