AN IMPROVED CARTRIDGE, HOLDER
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the "International Patent.
Office," No. 8, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Consulting Engineer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
CARTRIDGE, HOLDER."-A communication from abroad by Charles Howlett,
Charles Hobby Pond, Jacob Rutser Schuyler, Marcellus Hartley, and
Malcolm Graham, all of the City and State of New York, United States
of America, Merchants.
Sealed the 25th February 1868, and dated the 9th September 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Robert Lake at.
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th September 1867.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the "International Patent Office," No. 8;
Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Con-
sulting Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED CARTRIDGE HOLDER," a communication," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a holder or series of holders or grooved receptacles
which receive the cartridges and maintain them in the order in which they
are arranged until they are removed.
When the said Invention is employed in connection with cartridges having
a flange or projecting rim at the base, the said rim enters and slides in the
groove or grooves formed on the edges of the holders. The said holders are-
made of strips of metal or other suitable material with their edges raised,

page_text: turned up, or grooved to clasp the flange or rim of the cartridges. The latter
are slipped in at the end of the holders and slid along for any desired
distance.
'
In applying these cartridge holders to the ordinary cartridge box the said
holders are rivetted to the back of the box either horizontally (in which case
the cartridge box is arranged to open laterally and the cartridges drawn out at
the sides), or else the holders are placed in a vertical position, the cartridges
being taken out at the top. The cartridges will readily slide along the grooves
which offer practically little or no resistance. By the use of these slides or
holders the cartridges are held in such a manner that the lubricating matter
on the bullet will be preserved perfectly on each, as no abrasion will take
place in consequence of their rubbing together, as they do when the cartridges
are piled in loosely in the box in the ordinary manner. The number of
cartridges can also be adapted with greater certainty to the capacity of the
cartridge box by the use of these slides or holders than without them. The
several holders are fastened to the said box in any suitable manner, as, for
example, by means of rivets or by punching out tongues from the holders,
which tongues are inserted into corresponding, sockets or openings made
in the box, and bent down and clinched so as to lock the holders and box,
together.
By means of this Invention the original shape of the cartridges will be
preserved, as they cannot be bruised by coming in contact with each other.
The liability of displacing the fulminate which often results when cartridges
are carried loosely is also entirely prevented.
Another mode of carrying out my Invention consists in forming the holders
of a plate of brass or other metal with any number of these strips forming
part of the plate itself, or rivetted or otherwise fastened thereon. Wooden
strips will also answer the required purpose.
In applying this Invention to cartridges, which have no, projecting flanges or
rims, the edges. of the holders are made to, embrace the sides of the cartridges,
so as to keep them in their proper places in the, box.

page_text: Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Consulting Engineer
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her. Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Robert Lake, Her special licence that I, the said William Robert
Lake, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Robert Lake, 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 IMPROVED
CARTRIDGE HOLDER," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
William Robert Lake, 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 William Robert Lake, 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, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings forming
a part of this Specification:-
This Invention relates to a holder or series of holders or grooved receptacles
wherein the cartridges are secured and maintained in the order in which they
are arranged until they are removed.
When the said Invention is carried out in connection with cartridges having
a flange or projecting rim, the said flange or rim enters and slides in a groove
or grooves formed on the edges of the holders.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS:
Figure 1 is a side view of my improved holder detached from the cartridge
box; Figure 2 is a cross section thereof; Figure 3 is a perspective view of
the said holder; Figure 4 represents a series of holders set vertically in a
cartridge box; and Figure 5 is a section representing one of the said holders

page_text: A designates a cartridge box containing a series of holders B made of strips
of metal or other suitable material, with edges C raised, turned up, or
grooved to clasp the flange or rim D of the cartridge E. The cartridges are
slipped in at the end of the holders and slid along for any desired distance.
In applying these cartridge holders to the ordinary cartridge box the
holders are rivetted to the back of the box either horizontally (in which case
the cartridge box is arranged to open laterally, and the cartridges drawn out
at the sides), or else the holders are placed in a vertical position, as seen in
Figure 4, the cartridges being taken out at the top. The cartridges will
readily slide along the grooves which offer practically little or no resistance.
By the use of these slides or holders the cartridges are held so that the
lubricating matter on the bullet will be preserved perfectly on each, as no
abrasion will take place in consequence of their rubbing together, as they
do when the cartridges are piled in loosely in the box in the ordinary manner.
A more certain number can also be put in the cartridge box by the use of
these slides or bolders than can be put in without them. The several
holders B are fastened to the said box in any suitable way as (for example)
by means of rivets or by punching out tongues a from the holders, as shown in
Figures 1, 2, and 3, which tongues are inserted into corresponding sockets or
openings made in the box, and bent down and cleiched so as to lock the
holders and box together.
.
By means of this Invention the original shape of the cartridges will be
preserved, as they cannot be bruised by coming in contact with each other.
The liability of displacing the fulminate which often occurs when cartridges
are carried loosely is also entirely prevented.
Another mode of carrying out my Invention consists in forming the holders
of a plate of brass or other metal with any number of these strips forming
part of the plate itself, or rivetted or otherwise fastened thereon. Wooden
strips will also answer the required purpose.
In applying the said Invention to cartridges which have no projecting
flange or rim the edges C of the holders are made to embrace the sides of the
cartridges, so as to keep them in their proper places in the box.
Having thus fully described the said Invention as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondents, and shown how the same may be conveniently and
advantageously carried into practice, I wish it understood that I do not
confine myself to any particular kind of metal from which to make these
holders, nor to any particular form of holder, as the form or shape of the
same may be varied to suit the different kinds of cartridges, but I claim a

page_text: cartridge holder with raised, turned over, or grooved edges, which clasp
the base or sides of the cartridges, substantially as and for the purpose
specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE. (L.S.)
Witness,
THO. N. PALMER,
Clerk to Messrs. Haseltine, Lake, & Co.,
8, Southampton Buildings,
W.C.