A NEW SYSTEM OF PACKING OF CARTRIDGE CASES AND CARTRIDGES be as follows:
Year: 1885

page_text: I, LOUIS GEORGES BACHMANN, Cartridge Manufacturer, of 15, Rue Royale,
Brussels, in the Kingdom of Belgium, do hereby declare the nature of my Inven-
tion for "A NEW SYSTEM OF PACKING OF CARTRIDGE CASES AND CARTRIDGES
be as follows:-
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This Invention relates to an improved case or receptacle which will be equally
available for use for packing cartridge cases as for filled or charged cartridges.
The boxes, cases or receptacles hitherto used for packing cartridge cases have not
been usable for packing the same when filled or charged, as, on account of their
being then shortened by the setting of the top edge, they were no longer tight
between the lid and bottom of the box and were shaken about in transit. Boxes
of different heights were therefore requisite for the proper packing of empty
cartridge cases, and of the same when filled or charged. This resulted in consider-
able waste, inasmuch as those boxes which had conveyed empty cartridge cases
could not be made use of for despatching cartridges in, (unless, however, cut
afresh,) they were thrown on one side, and fresh ones were made for filled
cartridges. I am not referring here to cardboard packings, the defects of which
are well known.
The improved box, case, or receptacle, the subject of the present improvements,
obviates all these disadvantages; its construction is exceedingly simple; the same
box can be made use of for the packing of empty cartridge cases as well as for the
same cartridges when loaded: the articles being in both cases tight between the
bottom of the box and its lid, and this without the dimensions of the box having
to be modified in the least.
To this purpose, the present improvements consist in making such a box of
square horizontal section and of suitable size internally to contain the required
number of cartridge cases. In order to give a readily intelligible idea, let it be
supposed that the box is to contain 100 cartridges, and that its inside capacity is a
square of 20 centimetres each side, the thickness of the boards being of 5 milli-
metres, and that the cartridges to be packed are of 24 inches in length. Two of
the opposite sides of the box are made as much lower than the two other opposite
siles as the quantity by which the length of the cartridge case will be lessened by
the setting which serves to close the loaded cartridge.

page_text: To close the box, I employ a lid formed of a simple small board forming a
quadrilateral, one dimension of which is that of the outside of the box, and the
other dimension of which is that of the inside of the box. In the example herein-
before given, the lid will be 21 centimetres in length, and 20 in width. When the
box is fitted with empty cartridge cases, the lid is placed in such a way as to rest
upon the two higher sides of the box; and when the latter contains loaded
cartridges, the lid is turned round by a quarter of a complete turn, and it is then
rested upon the two lower sides of the box.
In the first case, the box is entirely closed on two sides, whereas, on the two
other sides, there remains a space of about 4 millimetres between the sides and the
lid in the second case, the box is entirely closed on all sides.
To prevent the box of cartridge cases being damaged on opening, I dispense with
the usual nailing down of the lid, and for the purpose of securing the lid when it
has been placed upon the two higher sides of the box, and thus presses down the
empty cartridge cases, I affix on each side of the box a strong band or label pasted
simultaneously to the top of the box and upon the side; the said space is by this
means partly enclosed. The part of the band or label corresponding to the space
available can be perforated across to afford facility of easily opening the box.
When the latter is filled with loaded cartridges, the lid fits down between the two
higher sides, and rests upon the two lower ones, and can then be suitably secured.
A modification of the foregoing may be used when the box cannot be square.
According to such modification there may be affixed in any suitable way inside one
of the lower sides of the box, a piece of rough linen with a wooden lath, thereon a
board, and underneath a second lath. Boxes thus made are always closed on four
sides, whether they contain empty or loaded cartridges.
The features of novelty peculiar to the present improvements, are:-
A box arranged in such a way as to serve equally well for the packing of empty
cartridge cases, and of loaded cartridges, the differences of height being obtained as
herein before described; a square box two opposite sides of which are higher than
the two other opposite sides, in combination with a lid the length of which is equal
to the outward dimension of the box; and the width thereof to that of the inside of
the box; so that if the box is arranged so that the cover rests upon the higher sides
thereof, it is sufficient to move it round one quarter of a complete turn, to enable it
to rest upon the lower sides thereof; In combination with the box and its lid, two
perforated labels keeping the box closed; The application of this box to the packing
of cartridge cases and loaded cartridges; The modification lastly referred to, and
which consists in closing the lid by two or three small boards glued upon a piece of
linen attached to one of the lower sides of the box, the small lath acting as a
vertical side in the case of empty cartridge cases, and as a lid in the case of loaded
cartridges.
Dated this 7th day of April 1885
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: A New System of Packing of Cartridge Cases and Cartridges. .
I, LOUIS GEORGES BACHMANN, Cartridge Manufacturer, of 15, Rue Royale,
Brussels, in the Kingdom of Belgium, 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:-
Boxes cases or receptacles hitherto used for packing cartridge cases have not be
usable for packing the same when filled or charged, as, on account of their being
then shortened by the setting of the top edge, they were no longer tight between
the lid and bottom of the box and were shaken about in transit. Boxes of different
heights were therefore requisite for the proper packing of empty cartridge cases,
and of the same when filled or charged. This resulted in considerable waste,
inasmuch as those boxes which had conveyed empty cartridge cases could not be
made use of for despatching charged cartridges in, (unless, however, cut afresh,)
they were thrown on one side, and fresh ones were made for filled cartridges. I am
not referring here to cardboard packings, the defects of which are well known.
The present Invention has for its object an improved box case or receptacle
which will be equally available for use for packing cartridge cases, as for packing
filled or charged cartridges, and consists essentially of a box of which the interior
capacity can have two different depths or heights, the one corresponding to the
height or length of the empty cartridge cases, and the other corresponding to that
of the charged cartridges, the articles being in both cases tight between the
bottoin of the box and its lid, and by such means all such disadvantages as are
herein before referred to are obviated.
It is obvious that this principle of construction can be carried into effect in a
variety of ways, and in order that the principle of my Invention may be well.
understood I will hereinafter describe various systems of construction characteristic
thereof, such systems being represented on the annexed drawings.
Figs. 1, 2, and 3, represent one modification of my Invention in which the box
is made of a square horizontal section of suitable size internally to contain the
required number of cartridge cases.
:
In order to give a readily intelligible idea, let it be supposed that the box is to
contain 100 cartridges, and that its inside capacity is a square of 21 centimetres
ench side, the thickness of the boards being 5 millimetres. Two of the opposite
sides, 1, of the box are made as much higher than the two other opposite sides, 2,
as the difference in the length of the cartridge cases when empty and filled.
To close the box, I employ a lid, 3, formed of a simple board forming a quadri-
lateral, one dimension of which is that of the outside of the box, and the other
dimension of which is that of the inside of the box. In the example herein before
given, the lid will be 22 centimetres in length, and 21 in width. When the box is
fitted with empty cartridge cases, the lid is placed in such a way as to rest upon
the two higher sides, 1, of the box as shown in Figure 2; and when the latter
contains loaded cartridges, the lid is turned a quarter of a complete turn, and is
then placed upon the two lower sides, 2, of the box, as shown in Fig. 3.

page_text: In the first case, the box is closed on two sides, there remaining a space, 4,
between the lid and each of the other sides;-in the second case, the box is entirely
closed on all sides. In either case the lid may be secured by means of a strong
band of paper or other suitable material placed round and pasted or secured to the
.box and carrying any suitable inscription. If desired the openings, 4, existing
when the box contains the cartridge cases may be closed by means of two small
laths, which will not be needed when the box contains charged cartridges.
Another form of my 'Invention is represented in perspective in Figs. 4, and 5.
In this box two opposite sides are formed with grooves at D, D¹, of which the one
is made at the height of the cartridge case, and the other at the height of the
charged cartridges. The lid, B, is composed of a simple board of wood of
which one side only is bevilled of a shape to fit in the one or the other of the
grooves, D, D. Thus in accordance as the box contains cartridge cases or charged
cartridges, the bevilled part of the lid will be inserted in the one or the other of
the grooves, D, D¹. The lid having exactly the dimension of the interior of the
box, the latter will be completely closed in either case. As suitable means of
closure I use a bolt, E, as shown in the drawing, or I can equally well introduce
into the opposite side to that which is formed with the groove in use a simple iron
or metal pin. I can also use but a single groove, and invert the lid so as to
compensate and allow for the difference of height required.
Fig. 6, shows in perspective another arrangement of the Invention. In this
modification the lid is fitted to slide in the inner sides of the box, and is so formed
as that when in the position represented on the drawings it covers the charged
cartridges. If the box contains cartridge cases it suffices to turn under the upper
side of the lid and the small lath, X, serves to close the opening left in the under
side of the box, and which in the position represented permits of the passage of
the thickness of the lid. I would remark that the parts of the lid forming side
ribs are formed by prolongations of the face of the lid which carries the lath, X,
and that the thickness of the narrowed part of the lid is equal to the difference of
height of the cartridge cases and of the charged cartridges.
Figs. 7, to 11, show other arrangements of boxes of two heights of which the lids
are formed of two or of three pieces in such a manner as that by the suppression
of one piece or by different arrangements of the pieces the smaller dimension can
be given to the lid so that it can support itself on the ends of the cartridges.
Reference to the drawings will sufficiently explain such arrangements.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim, is
.
1. Constructing boxes cases or receptacles so as to serve equally well for packing
cartridge cases and charged cartridges in such a manner as that their interiors can
have two different depths or heights given to them at will by means of: different
placements of the lid substantially as herein before described.
2. The particular formations of such boxes herein before described.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
Agents for the Applicant.