AN IMPROVEMENT IN PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Eley, of 38, Broad Street, Golden Square,
in the County of Middlesex; 'for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Eley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,. on the 24th
November 1854.
I, WILLIAM, ELEY, of 38, Broad Street, Golden Square, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the-nature-of-the-Invention for "AN. IMPROVE-
MENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BALL CARTRIDGES" to be as follows:-
This Invention. consists of a mode of fixing flexible cases (for receiving.
charges of powder) to. balls, particularly conical ones; for which purpose; a
projecting tang is cast or formed on each ball, and on such tang a paper or
flexible-case is fixed, by means of a perforated disc placed on the tang, in such
manner as to shut the end of the case between the disc and the ball when the
tang is subjected to pressure, so as to upset its end, & thus to fix the case and
the disc to the hall

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Eley, Her special licence that I, the said William Eley, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Eley, 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 THE MANU-
FACTURE OF BALL CARTRIDGES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said William Eley, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
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 William Eley, 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 consists of a mode of fixing flexible cases (for receiving
charges of powder) to balls, particularly conical ones; for which purpose, a
projecting tang is cast or formed on-each-ball, and on such tang a paper or
flexible case is fixed, by means of a perforated disc placed on the tang, in such
manner as to shut the end of the case between the disc and the ball when the
tang is subjected to pressure, so as to upset its end, and thus to fix the case
and the disc to the ball.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will proceed to describe
-the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows a ball cartridge constructed according to my Invention;
Figure 2 is a ball cartridge constructed according to my Invention, the outer
case being shown in section; Figure 3 shows a longitudinal section of a ball
cartridge made according to my Invention. The other Figures of the Draw-

page_text: put:
employed. The balls are each made with a tang or projection b, to receive a
wad, and for affixing the case of the cartridge to the ball. I would state
that I do not claim the making of balls with projections, similar to b, or the
affixing of a wad to a ball by such means, when the same is unaccompanied
by a case for receiving, the powder. This case is fixed to the ball a and wad d,
as shown. The ward d I prefer to be of felt, though other wads may be used.
e is a metal disc, which retains the case to the wad and ball when the end of
the projection 6 is upset. In putting the parts together, the wad d is first
on the projection 6 of the ball, then the case, and then the disc e; the end of
the part 6 is then to be upset by a punch or ram. The charge of powder is
next put into the case c, and the end of the case is folded over, as shown in
Figure 2, and the ball cartridge is complete. But as I prefer to make the
case c of thin and weak paper, rendered waterproof by collodion or varnish, I.
usually enclose a ball cartridge, made as described, in an outer case f; and to
facilitate the removal of the outer case f, I fix on the interior a piece of tape g,
in such manner that the outer end projects, as shown, whilst the inner end of
the tape is cemented to the end of the outer case f, as shown; hence, by
holding the cartridge and pulling the tape in a direction away from the side
of the cartridge, the paper of the case will split from end to end, and allow of
the ball cartridge being removed therefrom.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself
to the details shown and described, nor do I claim any of the parts separately;
but what I claim is, the manufacture of ball cartridges by combining the parts
as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Eley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
CHARLES WHITEHEAD,
of 14, Trinidad Place, Islington.
WILLIAM ELEY. (L.S.).