Improvements in Ammunition for Rifles, Sporting and other Guns, Pistols, or Revolvers, also Applicable to Heavy Ordnance.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Apr., 1887.
Specification Accepted, 13th Jan., 1888
Improvements in Ammunition for Rifles, Sporting and other Guns,
Pistols, or Revolvers, also Applicable to Heavy Ordnance.
I GUILLERNIO ANTONIO FARINI of No. 2 Vernon Place, Bloomsbury in the County
of Middlesex, Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
This Invention relates to certain improvements in ammunition for rifles, sporting
and other guns pistols or revolvers, also applicable to heavy ordnance, the object
being to so construct the cartridge or ammunition that it will ensure quicker loading
and more rapid manipulation of the rifle or other fire arm or ordnance and also
prevent the "jamming" so common with the cartridges at present in use.
In carrying out this Invention I construct the cartridge and bullet of one piece of
metal, one half being hollowed out to receive the powder thus forming the case and
the bullet end is of conical or wedge shape.
The base of the bullet is hollow and is the powder case as shown in Fig. 1 of the
drawings wherein A is the bullet, B the powder chamber, C the cap containing the
fulminating powder, D the base of the cartridge and E the tube which tube E may be
extended up the powder chamber as far as may be desired to conduct the heat of the
detonating cap.
The cap C may be as in Figure 1. In Figure 2 is shown another
method of fixing the cap in the base of the cartridge the base is recessed as at D
and the cap C is fixed in any convenient manner and when desired à quick fuse may
be employed to ignite the powder at the base of the bullet or where convenient. The
cap C being left in the
gun.
Figs. 3 and 4 show in side and end views another construction of my improved
ammunition. The powder chamber B is made in one piece with the bullet but is
provided at the base with two doors F, F¹ as shown in Fig. 4 so that on the powder
being discharged these will open outwards and every particle of powder is consumed
and the case being part of the bullet will go out as well as the doors F, F¹ with the
bullet.
According to the arrangement shown in Fig. 5 the cartridge and bullet will be in
the form of a projectile and the powder in chamber G will be fired by the concussion

page_text: on impact of pin running through the bullet or it could be exploded by a slow fuse
leading from the powder through partition H into chamber G, and to increase the
range of the bullet part of the chamber can be filled with powder as used in rockets
and after the propelling power of the other powder has become exhausted the speed
of the bullet can be accelerated while travelling by the action of the burning of the
slow consuming powder as used in rockets.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature and particulars of
my said Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that
what I claim is :-
Firstly. The improved ammunition wherein the powder chamber and bullet are
formed of a piece and on firing the whole is discharged from the fire arm as herein
described and shown by Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings.
Secondly. The improved ammunition wherein the powder chamber and bullet are
formed of a piece and on firing the whole is discharged from the fire arm with the
exception of a small cap containing the fulminating powder which remains in the gun
as shown in Figs. 1, and 2 of the drawings.
Thirdly. The arrangement of igniting the powder at the base of the bullet or at any
other part of the powder chamber.
Fourthly. The igniting of the powder at the base of the bullet applicable to all
description of cartridges.
Ր A 1007
HUGHES & SON,
5, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,.
Agents.