IMPROVEMENTS IN BREECH-LOADING ARMS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BREECH-LOADING ARMS.”—A communication from abroad by Cosme
Connie Soon of Madrid Sunin
Sealed the 21st December 1863, and dated the 23rd June 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Broonan at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 23rd June 1863.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BREECH-LOADING ARMS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in forging in a piece with or in screwing on to the
rear of the barrels of fire-arms a breech chamber made to contain a cylindrical
charge holder for receiving an ordinary cartridge. An aperture at top allows
of the insertion of the charge into the holder, a button moving in a slot, and
connected to the charge holder, is drawn forward in the slot, closes the
aperture, and brings the cartridge in a line with the bore of the arm. The
back of the breech chamber is divided by a saw cut or otherwise, and a bolt
plain at top and threaded at bottom unites the parts so divided. A tail lever.
is fixed to the bolt, and lies on the top of the stock. By turning this lever
from left to right the parts are separated, and the charge holder is easily
moved in the breech chamber. After a charge has been inserted and been-
moved by the button into a line with the bore the lever is turned back, the
divided parts of the chamber are brought forcibly together, and the breech
rendered gas-tight.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 23rd December 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in. the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her beirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators; and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and law-
fully 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 BREECH-LOADING ARMS," (communicated to me from
abroad by Cosine Garcia Saez, of Madrid, Spain,) upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the. said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe 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 Richard Archibald Brooman, 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 thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto.
annexed, that is to say :-
⚫ This Invention consists in forging in a piece with or in screwing on to the
rear of the barrels of fire-arms a breech chamber made to contain a cylindrical.
charge holder for receiving an ordinary cartridge. An aperture at top allows
of the insertion of the charge into the holder; a button moving in a slot and
connected to the charge holder is drawn forward in the slot, closes the
aperture, and brings the cartridge in a line with the bore of the arm. The
back of the breech chamber is divided by a saw cut or otherwise, and a bolt

page_text: plain at top and threaded at bottom unites the parts so divided. A tail lever
is fixed to the bolt and lies on the top of the stock. By turning this lever
from left to right the parts are separated, and the charge holder is easily.
moved in the breech chamber. After a charge has been inserted and been
moved by the button into a line with the bore the lever is turned back, the
divided parts of the chamber are brought forcibly together, and the breech
rendered gas-tight.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a view of a gun constructed
according to this Invention; Figure 2 is a side view and Figure 3 a plan of
those parts to which this Invention refers.
a is a breech chamber forged in a piece with or screwed on to the barrel k,
and containing a cylindrical charge holder b, for receiving a cartridge; 7 is an
aperture through which the charge is inserted into the holder b; c is a button
moving in a slot, and connected to the charge holder; it is drawn forward in
the slot, closes the aperture l, and brings the cartridge in a line with the bore
of the gun; d is a saw cut dividing the back of the breech chamber; and 9 is
a bolt, plain at top and threaded at bottom, and uniting the parts so divided;
e is a tail lever fixed to the bolt. g, and lying on the top of the stock. By
turning the lever e from left to right the paris are separated, and by drawing
back the button c in the slot the charge holder is moved in the breech
chamber into position for the insertion of a charge through the opening 1.
After the charge has been inserted the button c is moved forward to bring the
charge into a line with the bore; the lever is turned back, and brings
the divided parts of the chamber forcibly together, and the breech is rendered
gas-tight.
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And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, constructing
breech-loading arms substantially as herein-before described and illustrated
in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of December, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
K. A. BROOMAN.
(L.S.)