CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON GUNS, PISTOLS, AND OTHER SIMILAR FIRE-ARMS, AND WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO CANNON AND OTHER LARGE GUNS
Year: 1809

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
THOMAS NOON, of Burton upon Trent, in the County of Stafford.
Watchmaker, do send. greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
His Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Fourth day of
May now last past, did give and grant unto me, the said Thomas
Noon, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His special licence,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Thomas Noon,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, during the terni of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, and
in all His Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Invention of "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS ON GUNS, PISTOLS, AND OTHER SIMILAR FIRE-ARMS, AND
WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO CANNON AND OTHER LARGE GUNS;"
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, obliging me, the

page_text: the said Thomas Noon, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately
after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by
the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the
said Thomas Noon, do hereby declare that my said Invention is fully
described and ascertained by the Drawings in the margin of these
Presents, and by the following description thereof (that is to say):
Figure 1, is a view of the inside of the gun lock. The pan, the
hammer, and plate are the only parts of the lock that vary from the
usual construction. Figure 2, is a transverse section of the hammer,
the pan, and gun barrel or breech; a, b, the hammer; c, the pan; d, e,
the barrel or breech. The parts chambered out of the hammer and pan
next the barrel or breech at the touch hole are made to receive a swell
or bulge left on the barrel or breech, as represented by the dark shaded
part f,i, opposite to the chamber, and the barrel or breech is hollowed
out round the swell or bulge at the letters k, k; at the bottom of the
chamber is a hole f, g, through the plate under the pan.
When the lock and barrel are put together it is evident that any
water which may insinuate itself between them will run down the pro-
jection f, i, to the hollow in the barrel or breech k, k, and from thence
escape through the hole f, g, without touching the powder in the pan,
provided the chamber and this projection be made to fit close.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Noon, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Twenty-ninth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and nine.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-ninth day of
May, in the forty-ninth year of the reign of His Majesty King George
the Third, the said Thomas Noon came before our said Lord the King,
in His Chancery, and acknowledged the instrument aforesaid, and all
and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the instrument aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor
of the Statute made in the forty-eighth year of His said Majesty's
reign
Inrolled the Third day of June, One thousand eight hundred and
nine.