A NEW OR IMPROVED BLANK CARTRIDGE
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Denton Abel of No: 28 Southampton Buildings.
Chancery Lane in the county of Middlesex for an Invention of A NEW OR
IMPROVED BLANK CARTRIDGE communicated to him from abroad by Wilhelm
Lorenz of Carlsruhe Baden, in the Gorman Empire
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Denton Abel at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th June 1883.
CHARLES DENTON ABEL of N° 28 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex "A NEW OR IMPROVED BLANK CARTRIDGE" [communicated
to him from abroad by Wilhelm Lorenz of Carlsruhe Baden, in the German Empire]
The present invention has for its object the manufacture of blank cartridges
which shall give a loud report on firing. For this purpose, the cartridge case,
which is of ordinary construction, is closed at its front end by a projectile, similar
in configuration to an ordinary ogival headed bullet or projectile, but formed with
a deep recess at its rear end, and constructed of some friable or easily breakable
material, such as wood, wood fibre or paper material.
This projectile, on firing, will offer sufficient resistance to the explosion on passing
up the bore of the gun to produce a loud report, but it will at the same time be
shattered to small fragments before it issues from the muzzle and these fragments
will consequently fall down harmless.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Charles Denton Abel in the Great Soal Patent Office on the
4th December 1883.
CHARLES DENTON ABEL of N° 28 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane in the
County of Middlesex "A NEW OR IMPROVED BLANK CARTRIDGE A communi-
cation to me from abroad by Wilhelm Lorenz of Carlsruhe Baden, in the German
Empire
The present invention has for its object the manufacture of blank cartridges
which shall give a loud report on firing. For this purpose, the cartridge case,
which is of ordinary construction, is closed at its front end by a projectile, similar
in configuration to an ordinary ogival headed bullet or projectile, but formed with
In deep recess at its rear end, and constructed of some friable or easily breakable
inaterial, such as wood, wood fibre or paper material.
This projectile, on firing, will offer sufficient resistance to the explosion on
passing up the bore of the gun to produce a loud report, but it will at the same
time be shattered to small fragments before it issues from the muzzle and these
fragments will consequently fall down harmless.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawing shews a vertical section, and Fig. 2 an
elevation of a blank cartridge constructed according to the before described
invention. A is the hollow projectile open at the rear end and formed of a
friable-or easily breakable material; B-is a cartridge-case of ordinary construction.
Figs. 3 and 4 shew a section and elevation of a similar construction of smaller
dimensions.
The invention is more particularly applicable for firing salutes and for the
manoeuvres of troops.
Having thus described the nature of the said invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, I
clain the herein before described construction of blank cartridges with projectiles
having a deep recess at the rear end and formed of a friable or easily breakable
material.
In Witness whereof I the said Charles Denton Abel have hereunto set my
hand and seal this fourth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty three.