A CARTRIDGE OR CASE, AND METHOD OF MORE ADVANTAGEOUSLY ENCLOSING THEREIN SHOT OR OTHER MISSILES, FOR THE PURPOSE OF LOADING FIRE-ARMS AND GUNS OF DIFFERENT DESCRIPTIONS
Year: 1827

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOSHUA JENOUR jun, late of Brighton Strect, in the Parish of Saint
Pancras, in the County of Middlesex, but now of Shoemaker Row,
Doctors Commons, in the City of London, Gentleman, send greeting..
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the
Fourth, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain,
bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-eighth day of November, in
the eighth year of His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Joshua Jenour jun, his especial
license, that I, the said Joshua Jenour jun', my exors, adiñors, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Joshua Jenour, my exors, adñiors,
or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A
CARTRIDGE OR CASE, AND METHOD OF MORE ADVANTAGEOUSLY ENCLOSING
THEREIN SHOT OR OTHER MISSILES, FOR THE PURPOSE OF LOADING FIRE-ARMS
AND GUNS OF DIFFERENT DESCRIPTIONS," in which said Letters Patent is

page_text: contained a proviso obliging me, the said Joshua Jenour, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and
by the saine, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.
:
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the
said Joshua Jenour, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention
to consist in placing or inclosing the shot or other the like missiles to
be discharged from fire-arms and guns in a reticulated or perforated car-
tridge or case, being a hollow cylinder of wire or metal or other material
of sufficient strength not to burst by the force of the discharge, but the
perforations or meshes of which are to be sufficiently large to permit
the free passage of the shot or missiles through them, by which means
greater strength and closeness of the said shot or other missiles when
discharged is obtained, and the distance to which the same may be
thrown is greatly increased by reason that the cartridge or case will
keep the shot together much longer than the ordinary method of loading
will do, or rather will prevent the shot from spreading so immediately.
It, being observed that the efficacy of the Invention is mainly dependent
on the cartridge or case not being burst by. the force of the discharge,
or by the power of the shot or missiles, and that the smaller the meshes
are the greater will be the force and distance to which the shot or
missiles are thrown.
:
And in further compliance with the said proviso I; the said Joshua
Jenour, do hereby describe the manner in which my said Invention is
to be performed, by the following description thereof, reference being
had to the Drawing annexed; and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, viz:
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.

page_text: sufficiently large, as before mentioned, and of a size or diameter to fit the
barrel of the fire-arms or gun, so as to drop easily into it. This case
being inclosed in a thin paper case open at the top B, see Figure 2, is to
be filled with shot or other missiles, and afterwards sand or other granular
substance, such, for instance, as bone or ivory dust, is poured in and
shaken down to fill up the interstices between the shot or missiles. The
open end of the paper is then folded down, and the cartridge is com-
plete, as in Figure 3; wadding may be used at each end of the wire,
metal, or other case, and enclosed with it in the paper case to save time
in loading. The wire or metal case may be use without being in-
closed in a paper case, for which purpose, after the ordinary charge of
powder is rammed down in the gun or fire-arm, the wire or metal
case, Figure 1, dropped into the barrel, and the usual charge of shot is
then pour'd into it so as to fill it, and wadding is then rammed down
upon it.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joshua Jenour, have hereunto set
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of May, in the year of
I thousand night hundred and twenty-eight
my