IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARTRIDGES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Tomlinson Bousfield, of Loughborough Park,
Brixton, in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF CARTRIDGES."-A communication from abroad by
Albert Hook. residing at New York. United States of Amerion.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Tomlinson Bous-
field at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 16th November 1863.
I, GEORGE TOMLINSON BOUSFIELD, of Loughborough Park, Brixton, in the
County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARTRIDGES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
cartridges. In making ball cartridges I employ a bullet having at its base an
annular recess, into this recess the end of a paper tube or powder case is
received, and by passing the two together through a die, or by means of
pressure applied in other convenient manner, the outer flange at the-base of
the ball is closed down upon the paper tube or powder case, which thus
becomes secured to the ball.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Tomlinson Bousfield in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 13th May 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
TOMLINSON BOUSFIELD, of Loughborough Park, Brixton, in the County of
Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said George Tomlinson Bousfield, Her special licence that I, the said
George Tomlinson Bousfield, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said George Tomlinson Bousfield, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARTRIDGES," a com-
munication to him from abroad by Albert Hook, a person resident at New
York, United States of America, upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said George Tomlinson Bousfield, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Tomlinson Bousfield, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:―
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
cartridges. In making ball cartridges I employ a bullet having at its. base an
annular recess, into this recess the end of a paper tube or powder case is
received, and by passing the two together through. a die, or by means of
pressure applied in other convenient manner, the outer flange at the base of
the ball is closed down upon the paper tube or powder case, which thus
becomes secured to the ball.
And in order that the said Invention may be most fully understood and

page_text: The Drawing represents a longitudinal section of a cartridge constructed
according to this Invention. a is the bullet, which may be made of any
desired shape; in the base of it there is made a groove a', a¹; if the bullet be
made by pressure in dies, this ring groove will conveniently be formed by the
dies in making the bullet, or if otherwise it may be made by driving a ring or
hollow punch or cutting tool into the base of the bullet, in either case the
bullet is at the base spread out for a length equal to the depth of the groove a¹,
so as to be somewhat larger than the gauge to which the ball is to be made;
bis a paper tube, at its base end it is closed with thin paper or tissue, of such
substance that the cartridge being put into the gun whole the flash from the
cap or priming may be able to penetrate and fire the charge within the paper
case. The powder case thus formed is charged with powder, and its open end
is then placed in the groove in the base of the ball, and the two together are
forced through a hollow cone with an opening at the end just of the size of
the gauge to which the cartridge is to be made, and thus the portion of the
base of the bullet which was before spread out or larger than the gauge of
the finished ball is flattened down, and the end of the powder case thus
becomes nipped and held securely to the bullet, or the parts may, if preferred,
be put together by a pair of jaws nipping the enlarged part of the base of the
bullet down on to the powder case, or other similar means may be resorted to.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Tomlinson Bousfield, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
GEO. T. BOUSFIELD. (L.s.)