Improvements in Boxes or Cases for Containing Cartridges.
Year: 1888

page_text: Improvements in Boxes or Cases for Containing Cartridges.
I, JAMES GEORGE ACCLES of 41 Craven Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to boxes or cases for containing cartridges and from which
they can readily be extracted, either by hand or by the mechanism of a machine or
magazine gun. The cartridges lie side by side in grooves in a slide inside the box.
By drawing out the slide the cartridges are pulled forward together and are delivered
one by one at the mouth of the box.
One of the sides of the box is provided, at one end, with a slot or slots through
which a feeding wheel, claws or other mechanism of a machine gun, can be inserted
to take hold of the cartridges in succession as they come beneath it, and thus draw out
the slide with the cartridges outwards. The lid of the box is provided with a flap by
which it can be readily torn off. In order to prevent the slide with the cartridges
from falling out when this has been done, a thin strip or strips sufficiently strong for
the purpose are fastened across the mouth but in such a way as not to present any
serious impediment to the slide being drawn out by hand or mechanical means as
above described. I provide guides on one side of the box to ensure that the slide shall
run straight.
In some cases I make the slides double carrying cartridges on both sides or one box
may contain two slides.
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page_text: Improvements in Boxes or Cases for Containing Cartridges.
I, JAMES GEORGE ACCLES of 41 Craven Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer, 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 boxes or cases for containing cartridges and from which
they can readily be extracted, either by hand or by the mechanism of a machine
magazine or rapid fire gun. The cartridges lie side by side in grooves or recesses in
a slide inside the box. By drawing out the slide the cartridges are pulled forward
together and are delivered one by one at the mouth of the box.
One of the sides of the box is provided, with a slot or slots through which the
fingers or a feeding wheel, claws or other mechanism of the gun can be inserted to
take hold of the cartridges in succession as they come beneath it, and thus draw out
the slide with the cartridges. The lid of the box is provided with a flap by which it
can be readily torn off. In order to prevent the slide with the cartridges from falling
out when this has been done a thin strip or strips sufficiently strong for the purpose are
fastened across the mouth but in such a way as not to present any serious impediment
to the slide being drawn out by hand or mechanical means as above described, or a
spring catch may be employed. I provide guides on one side of the box to ensure
that the slide shall run straight-one box may contain two slides. For machine guns
such as the Gardner and Nordenfelt and 10 Barrelled guns I employ boxes or cases
with compartments one for each barrel with a slide in each compartment.
In order that my said invention may be more fully understood and readily carried
into effect I will proceed to describe the drawings hereunto annexed.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a plan of a cartridge box constructed according to my invention with
the lid torn off.
Figure 2 is a transverse section.
Figure 3 is a longitudinal section.
Figure 4 is a side view of the slide.
Figure 5 is a plan of the same.
Figure 6 is an underside view of the box with the lid torn off.
Figure 7 is an end view and
Figure 8 is a perspective view showing the lid and flap.
Figures 9 to 11 show a double box.
Figure 9 is a plan with the lid removed.
Figure 10 is a transverse section and
Figure 11 is a side view of the same.
Figures 12 to 18 show a modified form of box and slide.

page_text: Figure 12 is a plan.
Figure 13 a transverse section.
Figure 14 a longitudinal section.
Figure 15 a plan of the slide.
Figure 16 an end view of the same.
Figure 17 is a plan of the box without the slide.
Figure 18 is an end view of the same.
Figures 19 to 24 show a modified form of a double box and slide.
Figure 19 is a plan.
Figure 20 is an end view.
Figure 21 is a longitudinal section.
Figure 22 is an end view of the box with the slide removed.
Figure 23 is a plan of the slide and
Figure 24 is an end view of the same.
In these figures a is the box and b the slide. In figures 1 to 11, these are made of
cardboard and in figures 12 to 24 of metal. cc are grooves in which the slide b runs.
In figures 1 to 8 it is formed by pasting two pieces of cardboard dd to the side of
the box. In figures 9 to 11 it is formed of four pieces of cardboard pasted to the
central partition e.
In figures 12 to 24 it is formed in the metal sides of the box. ff are slots to
allow the cartridges to be taken hold of by the fingers or by the feeding mechanism
of the gun.
In figures 1 to 11 g is a strip to prevent the cartridges from dropping out when the
cover figure 7 is taken off.
In figures 12 to 24 a spring catch is substituted for this strip.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. A box or case provided with a slide or slides in which there are grooves or
recesses in which the cartridges are received substantially as described.
2. The strip g or the spring catch j for preventing the cartridges from dropping out
when the cover is torn off substantially as described.
3. The slot or slots for allowing the cartridges to be taken hold of substantially as
described.
4. My improved boxes or cases for containing cartridges substantially as described.
Dated this 8th day of December 1888.