AN IMPROVEMENT IN CASES OR MAGAZINES FOR GUNPOWDER, OR OTHER EXPLOSIVE PREPARATIONS OR COMPOUNDS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Shears, of Bankside, Southwark, for. the
Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN CASES OR MAGAZINES FOR GUNPOWDER, OR
OTHER EXPLOSIVE PREPARATIONS OR COMPOUNDS."
Sealed the 25th March 1856,; and dated the 23rd October 1855..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Shears at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 23rd
October 1855.
I, WILLIAM SHEARS, of Bankside, Southwark, do hereby declare the nature
of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN CASES OR MAGAZINES FOR GUNPOWDER,
OR OTHER EXPLOSIVE PREPARATIONS OR COMPOUNDS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the manufacture of cases or magazines for
gunpowder, or other explosive preparations or compounds, with six equal sides,
and consists of the application of corrugated tin, or tin alloyed, or corrugated
copper, brass, or other metal, to the making of the sides of such cases.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Shears in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
23rd April 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
SHEARS, of Bankside, Southwark; send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Shears, Her special licence that I, the said William Shears, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Shears, my executors, administrators, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN CASES OR
MAGAZINES FOR GUNPOWDER, OR OTHER EXPLOSIVE PREPARATIONS OR COMPOUNDS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Shears, 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 per-
formed, 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 William Shears, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in' what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object the manufacture of cases or magazines for
gunpowder, or other explosive preparations or compounds, with six equal sides,
and consists of the application of corrugated tin, or tin alloyed, or corrugated
copper, brass, or other metal, to the making of the sides of such cases.
In place of making the sides plain, as heretofore, I make them of corrugated
metal, to obtain greater stiffness and strength, in which cases the hoops also
jare by preference to be corrugated.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1.shews a front elevation of a magazine with the sides made with
corrugated metal tin; Figure 2 shews a section without hoops, and Figure 3
shews a section with hoops; and Figures 4 and 5 show two plans, one with
the outer cover open, and the other with it shut.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Shears, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
0 Witness,
GEO. T. FINES,
Mercantile Clerk,
27, Bankside, Southwark.
WILLIAM SHEARS. (L.S.)