DISCHARGE DOUBLE-BARREL GUNS AND PISTOLS BY MEANS OF ONE TRIGGER ONLY, WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF DISCHARGING BOTH BARRELS AT THE SAME ΤΟ
Year: 1789

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JAMES
TEMPLEMAN, of Salisbury, in the County of Wilts, Gun Maker, sends
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
His Royal Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain.
bearing date at Westminster, the Sixth day of November, One thousand
seven hundred and eighty-nine, upon the petition of the said James
Templeman, did give and grant unto him, the said James Templeman,
his exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that he, the said James Templeman, his exors,
admors, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or
by his and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others
as he, the said James Templeman, his exors, admors, or assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of His
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and
"MAKING LOCKS TO
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, his Invention for
DISCHARGE DOUBLE-BARREL GUNS AND PISTOLS BY MEANS OF ONE TRIGGER
ONLY, WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF DISCHARGING BOTH BARRELS AT THE SAME
ΤΟ

page_text: INSTANT, BUT WHEREBY THE ONE MAY BE DISCHARGED IN IMMEDIATE SUCCES-
SION TO OR AT ANY DISTANT PERIOD FROM THE OTHER," in such manner as to
him, the said James Templeman, his exors, admors, or assigns, or any of
them, should in his or their discretion seem meet; and that he, the said
James Templeman, his exors, admors, and assigns, should and lawfully
might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage
from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of
his said Invention, for and during the term of years therein mentioned.
And it is by the said in part recited Letters' Patent, amongst other
provisoes therein, provided, that if the said James Templeman should
not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in
writing er his hand and seal, and cause the same to be enrolled in
His Majesties High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the
said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby
granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, any thing
therein contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
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NOW KNOW YE, that the said James Templeman, in compliance
with and in performance of the condition in the said provisoc contained,
doth hereby declare that the nature of his said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and
ascertained by the Drawings hereunto annexed, and by the explanations
thereof herein-after given and contained in which Drawings Fig. 1,
represents a right-hand lock compleat with two sears and their springs;
Fig. 2, a section of the right-hand lock. In this section A represents
a sear which solely acts for the right-hand lock; B, a sear which acts
solely to throw the action over the left-hand lock; C, is a catch which,
by help of a spring D, holds fast the sear B; E, is the upper sear
spring; F, is the lower sear spring; G, is a bent or notch in the
tumbler to hold fast the sear B, when the right-hand lock is upon the
half cock; H, is the bent or notch which holds the sear A, when
the lock is on full cock. Fig. 3, a front view of a trigger and its two
levers, on which A is the trigger; and Fig. 4, is the side view, &c.;
B, is a double lever which acts upon the left-hand lock when the

page_text: sear B, is fast in the bents C, or G, of the right-hand lock; C, is a
crooked leaver which acts upon the sear A, when in the bent H, and
hath a solid bearing on the left side at D; E, is a small regulating
screw; F, is a screw that the two leavers work upon; G, is a small spring
to keep the trigger to its proper bearing; H, H, are the two checks
the trigger works in; I, is a notch in the trigger wherein the spring G
worketh. Fig. 2, is a section of the lock when upon the cock, in which
A, is the sear, which falls into the bent or notch H of the tumbler, at
the same time the sear B being at liberty and out of the way when the
lever C in the trigger. Fig. 3, is forced up against the sear A, which
forces it out of the bent H, and at the same time rises up to the scar B,
and keeps it in its present position until the lock is fired; then, by
letting go the finger, the sear B falls into the bent or catch C, as is
represented (Fig. 5), which holds the sear B fast so as to throw the-
bearing of the double lever B at the trigger over to the left-hand lock.
which is the same in (Fig. 7) when upon half cock. As to the right-
hand lock it will act the same without the left hand lock as with it, by
reason of the lever C bearing on the left-hand side upon a staple D,
with a screw E to regulate its action, so as to make it have a proper
bearing upon the sear A. Fig. 8, is a section of a left-hand lock, in
which section (1) is a notch in the sear; (2) is an additional sear,
which, when the lock is cocked, falls into the notch of the acting sear
at (1), which locks it intirely fast, so that it is not possible for the left-
hand lock to go off by any accident whatever, nor until the action of the
lever B is thrown over by the right-hand lock to act upon the sear (2),
which disengages it from the notch at (1), and at the same time moves
the acting sear so as to discharge the piece; (3) is a slider which is fast
to the sear (2), and slides over a part of the tumbler to keep it out of
the notch when at half cock; (4) and (5) are the two sear springs.
Locks made on the above construction, and conformable to the fore-
going directions, cannot possibly discharge both barrels together, but will
compleatly remove that defect which has attended all other locks ever
yet invented for discharging by means of one trigger only double barrel
guns or pistols. But locks right and left, made as Fig. 8, will act with
the lever B, and they may, if required, by the addition of a slider in

page_text: the left-hand lock to keep the sear (2) out of the notch (1) when at
cock, be made to discharge both barrels at once as effectually as any
common locks.
In witness whereof, the said James Templeman hath hereunto
set his hand and seal, this First day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.
ELDERTON, Extra.
Stampt, in uno preschoo
JOHN Goss, of Salisbury.
CLEM. MILLER, jun", of Salisbury.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the First day of December,
in the year of our Lord 1789, the aforesaid James Templeman came
before our said Lord the King, in His Chancery, and acknowledged
the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained
and specified, in form above written. And also the Specification afore-
said was stampt according to the tenor of the Statutes made for that
Durpose.
ELDERTON, Extra.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the First day of December,
in the year of our Lord 1789, the aforesaid James Templeman came
before our said Lord the King, in His Chancery, and acknowledged
the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained
and specified, in form above written. And also the Specification afore-
said was stampt according to the tenor of the Statutes made for that
purpose.
Inrolled the Fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JAMES
TEMPLEMAN. of Salisbury, in the County of Wilts. Gun Maker, sends
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
His Royal Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain,
bearing date at Westminster, the Sixth day of November. One thousand
seven hundred and eighty-nine, upon the petition of the said James
Templeman, did give and grant unto him, the said James Templeman,
his exors, admors, and assigns. His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority. that he, the said James Templeman, his exors,
admors, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or
by his and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others
as he, the said James Templeman, his exors, admors, or assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of His
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, his Invention for "MAKING LOCKS TO
DISCHARGE DOUBLE-BARREL GUNS AND PISTOLS BY MEANS OF ONE TRIGGER
ONLY, WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF DISCHARGING BOTH BARRELS AT THE SAME

page_text: INSTANT, BUT WHEREBY THE ONE MAY BE DISCHARGED IN IMMEDIATE SUCCES-
SION TO OR AT ANY DISTANT PERIOD FROM THE OTHER," in such manner as to
him, the said James Templeman, his exors, admors, or assigns, or any of
them, should in his or their discretion seem meet; and that he, the said
James Templeman, his exors, admors, and assigns, should and lawfully
might have and enjoy the whole profit. benefit, commodity, and advantage
from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of
his said Invention, for and during the term of years therein mentioned.
And it is by the said in part recited Letters Patent, amongst other
provisoes therein, provided, that if the said James Templeman should
not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in
writing under his hand and scal, and cause the same to be enrolled in
His Majesties High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the
said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby
granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, any thing
therein contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
NOW KNOW YE, that the said James Templeman. in compliance
with and in performance of the condition in the said provisoe contained,
doth hereby declare that the nature of his said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and
ascertained by the Drawings hereunto annexed, and by the explanations
thereof herein-after given and contained; in which Drawings Fig. 1.
represents a right-hand lock compleat with two sears and their springs;
Fig. 2, a section of the right-hand lock. In this section A represents
a sear which solely acts for the right-hand lock: B, a sear which acts
solely to throw the action over the left-hand lock; C, is a catch which,
by help of a spring D, holds fast the sear B; E. is the upper sear
spring; F, is the lower sear spring; G, is a bent or notch in the
tumbler to hold fast the sear B, when the right-hand lock is upon the
half cock; H, is the bent or notch which holds the sear A, when
the lock is on full cock. Fig. 3, a front view of a trigger and its two
levers, on which A is the trigger; and Fig. 4. is the side view, &c.;
B, is a double lever which acts upon the left-hand lock when the

page_text: sear B, is fast in the bents C, or G, of the right-hand lock: C. is a
crooked leaver which acts upon the sear A. when in the bent H, and
hath a solid bearing on the left side at D: E, is a small regulating
screw; F. is a screw that the two leavers work upon: G, is a small spring
to keep the trigger to its proper bearing; H. H. are the two checks
the trigger works in: I. is a notch in the trigger wherein the spring G
worketh. Fig. 2. is a section of the lock when upon the cock, in which
A, is the sear, which falls into the bent or notch H of the tumbler, at
the same time the sear B being at liberty and out of the way when the
lever C in the trigger. Fig. 3, is forced up against the sear A, which
forces it out of the bent H, and at the same time rises up to the scar B,
and keeps it in its present position until the lock is fired; then, by
letting go the finger, the sear B falls into the bent or catch C, as is
represented (Fig. 5), which holds the sear B fast so as to throw the
bearing of the double lever B at the trigger over to the left-hand lock,
which is the same in (Fig. 7) when upon half cock. As to the right-
hand lock it will act the same without the left hand lock as with it, by
reason of the lever C bearing on the left-hand side upon a staple D,
with a screw E to regulate its action, so as to make it have a proper
bearing upon the scar A. Fig. 8, is a section of a left-hand lock, in
which section (1) is a notch in the sear; (2) is an additional sear,
which, when the lock is cocked, falls into the notch of the acting sear
at (1), which locks it intirely fast, so that it is not possible for the left-
hand lock to go off by any accident whatever, nor until the action of the
lever B is thrown over by the right-hand lock to act upon the sear (2),
which disengages it from the notch at (1), and at the same time moves
the acting sear so as to discharge the piece; (3) is a slider which is fast
to the sear (2), and slides over a part of the tumbler to keep it out of
the notch when at half cock; (4) and (5) are the two sear springs.
Locks made on the above construction, and conformable to the fore-
going directions, cannot possibly discharge both barrels together, but will
compleatly remove that defect which has attended all other locks ever
yet invented for discharging by means of one trigger only double barrel
guns or pistols. But locks right and left, made as Fig. 8, will act with
he lever B, and they may, if required, by the addition of a slider in

page_text: the left-hand lock to keep the sear (2) out of the notch (1) when at
cock, be made to discharge both barrels at once as effectually as any
common locks.
In witness whereof, the said James Templeman hath hereunto
set his hand and seal. this First day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.
ELDERTON, Extra.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the First day of December,
in the year of our Lord 1789, the aforesaid James Templeman came
before our said Lord the King, in His Chancery, and acknowledged
the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained
and specified, in form above written. And also the Specification afore-
said was stampt according to the tenor of the Statutes made for that
purpose.
Imrolled the Fourth day of December,
One thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.
the year of our JOTU

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JAMES
TEMPLEMAN, of Salisbury, in the County of Wilts. Gun Maker, sends
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
His Royal Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain,
bearing date at Westminster, the Sixth day of November. One thousand
seven hundred and eighty-nine, upon the petition of the said James
Templeman, did give and grant unto him, the said James Templeman,
his exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority. that he, the said James Templeman, his exors,
admors, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or
by his and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others
as he, the said James Templeman, his exors, admors. or assigns, should'
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of His
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and
MAKING LOCKS TO
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, his Invention for
DISCHARGE DOUBLE-BARREL GUNS AND PISTOLS BY MEANS OF ONE TRIGGER
ONLY, WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF DISCHARGING BOTH BARRELS AT THE SAME

page_text: INSTANT, BUT WHEREBY THE ONE MAY BE DISCHARGED IN IMMEDIATE SUCCES-
SION TO OR AT ANY DISTANT PERIOD FROM THE OTHER," in such manner as to
him, the said James Templeman, his exors, admors, or assigns, or any of
them, should in his or their discretion seem meet; and that he, the said
James Templeman, his exors, admors, and assigns, should and lawfully
might have and enjoy the whole profit, bencfit, commodity, and advantage
from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of
his said Invention, for and during the term of years therein mentioned.
And it is by the said in part recited Letters Patent, amongst other
provisoes therein, provided, that if the said James Templeman should
not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in
writing under his hand and seal, and cause the same to be enrolled in
His Majesties High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the
said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby
granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, any thing
therein contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
NOW KNOW YE, that the said James Templeman, in compliance
with and in performance of the condition in the said provisoe contained,
doth hereby declare that the nature of his said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and
ascertained by the Drawings hereunto annexed, and by the explanations
thereof herein-after given and contained in which Drawings Fig. 1.
represents a right-hand lock compleat with two sears and their springs;
Fig. 2, a section of the right-hand lock. In this section A represents
a sear which solely acts for the right-hand lock; B, a sear which acts
solely to throw the action over the left-hand lock; C, is a catch which,
by help of a spring D, holds fast the sear B; E. is the upper sear
spring; F, is the lower sear spring; G, is a bent or notch in the
tumbler to hold fast the sear B, when the right-hand lock is upon the
half cock; H, is the bent or notch which holds the sear A, when
the lock is on full cock. Fig. 3, a front view of a trigger and its two
levers, on which A is the trigger; and Fig. 4, is the side view, &c.;
B, is a double lever which acts upon the left-hand lock when the

page_text: sear B, is fast in the bents C, or G. of the right-hand lock: C. is a
crooked leaver which acts upon the sear A, when in the bent H, and
hath a solid bearing on the left side at D: E, is a small regulating
screw; F. is a screw that the two leavers work upon: G. is a small spring
to keep the trigger to its proper bearing; H. H. are the two checks
the trigger works in: 1. is a notch in the trigger wherein the spring G
worketh. Fig. 2, is a section of the lock when upon the cock. in which
A, is the sear, which falls into the bent or notch H of the tumbler, at
the same time the sear B being at liberty and out of the way when the
lever C in the trigger. Fig. 3. is forced up against the sear A, which
forces it out of the bent H, and at the same time rises up to the sear L,
and keeps it in its present position until the lock is fired; then, by
letting go the finger, the sear B falls into the bent or catch C, as is
represented (Fig. 5), which holds the sear B fast so as to throw th
bearing of the double lever B at the trigger over to the left-hand lock,
which is the same in (Fig. 7) when upon half cock. As to the right-
hand lock it will act the same without the left hand lock as with it, by
reason of the lever C bearing on the left-hand side upon a staple D,
with a screw E to regulate its action, so as to make it have a proper
bearing upon the sear A. Fig. 8, is a section of a left-hand lock, in
which section (1) is a notch in the sear; (2) is an additional sear,
which, when the lock is cocked, falls into the notch of the acting scar
at (1), which locks it intirely fast, so that it is not possible for the left-
hand lock to go off by any accident whatever, nor until the action of the
lever B is thrown over by the right-hand lock to act upon the sear (2),
which disengages it from the notch at (1), and at the same time moves
the acting sear so as to discharge the piece; (3) is a slider which is fast
to the sear (2), and slides over a part of the tumbler to keep it out of
the notch when at half cock; (4) and (5) are the two sear springs.
Locks made on the above construction, and conformable to the fore-
going directions, cannot possibly discharge both barrels together, but will
compleatly remove that defect which has attended all other locks ever
yet invented for discharging by means of one trigger only double barrel
guns or pistols. But locks right and left, made as Fig. 8, will act with
the lever B, and they may, if required, by the addition of a slider in

page_text: the left-hand lock to keep the sear (2) out of the notch (1) when at
cock, be made to discharge both barrels at once as effectually as any
common locks.
In witness whereof, the said James Templeman hath hereunto
set his hand and seal, this First day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.