IMPROVEMENTS IN SHOT POUCHES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Haseltine, of the "International Patent
Office," Southampton Buildings, London, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SHOT POUCHES."-A communication from abroad
by Albert Francis Allen, of Providence, Rhode Island, United States
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Haseltine at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 18th January 1871.
I, GEORGE HASELTINE, of the "International Patent Office," South-
ampton Buildings, London, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHOT POUCHES," a communication, to be
as follows: -
The said Invention consists in constructing a shot pouch with a
number of separate compartments for containing different sizes of shot,
and a shifting gate by means of which communication is opened between

page_text: either compartment and the charger which receives and delivers the
requisite quantity of shot from the pouch, so that several sizes of shot
may be carried in and drawn from one pouch either in assorted or mixed
charges as may be desired. The pouch is made of leather in two parts
sewed together at the edges in the usual way. A partition of leather or
other material extends through the middle of the pouch and divides it
into two compartments, the said partition being sewed into the edges of
the pouch. In the neck of the pouch a metal tube is secured by screws.
within which tube there is fitted another tube closed to the extent of
half its area at the bottom by the gate which covers also the entrance to
one of the compartments, leaving the other open and communicating
with the charger. This gate is shifted to open one entrance and close
the other by turning the last mentioned tube half round, and the said
tube is held in either position by a spring stud passing through both the
outer tube and inner tube. In like manner the shot pouch may be
divided into four separate compartments by extending another partition
at right angles with the partition described and making the said gate to
cover three-arters of the area of the turning tube leaving the other
quarter open to communicate with one of the said compartments and
allow the shot to pass therefrom into the charger.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patents,
filed by the said George Haseltine in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 12th July 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HASELTINE, of the "International Patent Office," Southampton Buildings,
London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said George Haseltine, Her special
licence that I, the said George Haseltine, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George Haseltine,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter

page_text: 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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SHOT POUCHES,” a communication to me from abroad by
Albert Francis Allen, of Providence, Rhode Island, United States of
America, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George
Haseltine, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describes 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 George Haseltine, 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 Drawing
forming a part of this Specification:-
The said Invention consists in constructing a shot pouch with a
number of separate compartments for containing different sizes of shot
and a shifting gate by means of which communication is opened between
either compartment and the charger which receives and delivers the
requisite quantity of shot from the pouch so that soveral sizes of shot
may be carried in and drawn from one pouch either in assorted or mixed
charces as may be desired

page_text: the entrance g and close entranced by turning the tube f half round,
and said tube is held in either position by means of a spring stud 8,
passing through both the outer tube h and inner tube f. In like manner
the shot pouch may be divided into four separate compartments by
extending another partition at right angles with partition P, and making
the said gate to cover three-quarters of the area of the tube f leaving the
other quarter open to communicate with one of the said compartments
and allow the shot to pass therefrom into the charger. Other forms of
gates may also be devised for opening communication with one com-
partment while others remain closed.
Having thus fully described the said Invention as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, I claim, the combination of a gate with
a many chambered shot pouch and charger, whereby the mouths of all
but one of the chambers are closed and either of them opened at will
by means of the movable neck or charger and spring catch substantially
as specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Haseltine, have hereunto set
my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
GEORGE HASELTINE. (L.S.)
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Witness,
W. J. LOWE.