Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-08-23
IMPORTANT INVENTION.

Some time since patent was gran cd to Dr. E. MAYNARD
of this city, the inventor Of system of printing for
firearms The Invention was brought to the notice Of
Government and it considered worthy of trial to test
its efficiency joint board of distinguished officers of the
army and navy appointed and most and pro-
tracted trial was made.
The report made by the board was 30 full and favorable
that the Government appointed another Joint board with the
Chief president consider and report upon
the proprey Of purchase Of the patent right for the Govern
ment USE The board reported avoraby and the purchase
made.
Last wear an order for practical field trial was given
and two hundred muskes and thirty thousand primers
sent to Texas where for four months they subjected by
the United States troops the usual trials and exposures
military arms in field service The report of the officers
trusted with this trial is alike gratifying and credable to the
inventor and interesting all military and gun using persons
knowledge of its merits and advantages all that
now necessary the adoption Of this system wherever
the most perfect and efficient for military purposes
be required and where the same advantages are appreciated
for sporting-guns, rifles, &c.
This invention 10 extremely simple changes neither the
model weight action Of the gun, and Is applicable any
kind Of firearms The used for the Government trials
up this time have been fntlocks, altered to
either this primer TIE percussion cap The very slight
creased of the upon this system Uncomfortable
as TO be covered by the saving Ave hundred primers these
costing less than one-fourth as much as caps.
So far the act Of printing is coucerned, "the most d
fcu the soldier has perform in battle, this invention
makes the gun auomatc-it performs the act itse-and
that too with precision unattanabe by hand without
gard position temperature, climate light or be
numbed bruised and clumsy fingers, awkwardness Of
he soldier.
As may be supposed the increase in rapidity Of firing is
very grea-t reported be from twsntyv thirty per
cent ordinarily and under circumstances which embar
ras the soldier the increase would be hundreds per
As under Of the European patent laws published
description would debar the inventor from obtaining patent
will merely that this system differs entirely from those
in which the decorating material is in the form Of loose pow
der Forsyth) in small pills. in metallic other tubes
Heaeloupes Nsbe all which systems have been tried for
military purposes and have been abandoned some inse
curly inefcency, and because they cannot be
derstood handled and managed BY the soldier The
system reported safer than the cap Heretofore
sarded the most safe and being easily understood and
managed with entire simplicity and by the most
tored and when applied the gun lasts, without the
necessity Of being touched by the hand for the duration of
the longest battle Some Of sportsmen partially
quainted with this invention il having been applied to
Sharpe celebrated rife by Nippes and Bueiheld; and
mandatory Of The ard primer upon very large
SCALE is in progress a, Hartford, Connecticut The Mesas
Remington, Of Herkimer New York. celebrated for their
barrels both for the United States and private arms have
Gently completed double barrel gun upon this system Of
printing for the inventor lis beauty, compacness simp
city, and utility have equaled. II fail
to srest the attention and please the taste of the sportsman
Before we saw this not that such beautiful
snd perfect doubled barrel sporting guns made in this
country.
The many and favorable reports that have been made
speeding this important invention, end the unanimous verdict
given IN s favor by all military snd sporting gentlemen who
have tried ~ leave but little doubt OF M general adoption in
this country and abroad.
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