IMPROVEMENTS IN REVOLVING FIRE-ARMS AND CANNON
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Wright Gardener Treeby, of 1, Westbourne
Terrace Villa, Westbourne Terrace North, Paddington, for the Invention
of IMPROVEMENTS REALING TO ADMO
Scaled the 10th January 1856, and dated the 11th July 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Wright Gardener
Treeby at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 11th July 1855.
I, THOMAS WRIGHT GARDENER TREEBY, of 1, Westbourne Terrace Villa,
Westbourne Terrace North, Paddington, do hereby declare the nature of the
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN REVOLVING FIRE-ARMS AND CANNON " to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists in substituting an endless chain of chambers for the
revolving cylinder of chambers used ordinarily in revolving fire-arms. The
endless chain of chambers is formed by hinging the single chambers to each
other, side by side, and when in use the chambers are brought up in suc-
cession to be fired in the same manner as the chambers of ordinary revolving
fire-arms are in succession brought up.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Wright Gardener Treeby in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 11th January 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
WRIGHT GARDENER TREEBY, of 1, Westbourne Terrace Villa,- Westbourne
Terrace North, Paddington, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Thomas Wright Gardener Treeby, Her special licence that J, the said Thomas
Wright Gardener Treeby, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Thomas Wright Gardener Treeby, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 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 REVOLVING FIRE-ARMS AND CANNON," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Wright Gardener Treeby,
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 Thomas Wright Gardener Treeby, 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, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in substituting an endless chain of chambers for the
revolving cylinder of chambers used ordinarily in revolving fire-arms. The
endless chain of chambers is formed by hinging the single chambers to each
other side by side, and when in use the chambers are brought up in succession
to be fired in the same manner as the chambers of ordinary revolving fire-arms
are in succession brought up.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed to describe
the Drawings hereunto annexed.

page_text: No. 1, longitudinal section of gun cut through the centre. A is an iron
frame, with a screw cut on the end, with hole to allow the gun barrel to pass
through to chamber B, which is to contain the charge; C is the gun barrel,
showing the end locked back to chamber B, with a screw a little way from tho
end on the outside of barrel; D is a nut with lever or arm that works over
the nose of iron frame and gun barrel, which forms. a nut to lock the chamber.
and barrel together, the screw being cut right and left handed, so when the
handle L is moved it will throw the gun barrel forward and the iron frame
backward, thus relieving the chamber B; H is a link or strap attached
to the end of the hammer below the centre on which the hammer works..
This link is shewn, by dotted lines leading to M, screwed to the key N of
gun barrel, which works in a slot in D, No. 7 section; the key N, being a
fixture to the gun barrel, prevents the barrel from turning with the nut.
When the handle L is lifted, the barrel moves forward M, N, and H, strap
or link, moves with it and cocks the hammer; the strap H will prevent
the hammer moving towards the cap until the barrel is locked back to
chamber B. At the end of the strap H is a slot S, which works through
another slot in the hammer a little below the centre or pin on which the
hammer moves. This slot may be cut out of the hammer, or cut out, of.a
plate screwed on to the hammer. On the hammer there is a screw or pin.
which passes through the slot S, so when the strap or link is moved forward,
it moves and cocks the hammer. At the end of the chamber A, thero
is a ring cupped out to receive the end of the barrel C. P is vulcanized
india-rubber. The end of the chamber is coned, and the end of the barrel
made to fit it, as at R; so when the barrel is pressed home by means of
the nut D, the chamber and barrel being a tight iron joint, and the external
edge of the barrel fitting into the, cup pressing on the vulcanized india-rubber,
prevents all escape of gas. E is an axletree; F, F, are two wheels, as is shewn
in C, of No. 5 section; G is a ratchet; I, shewn in dotted lines, is a lifter,
attached to the hammer, which lifts the ratchet and brings each chamber in a
direct line with the barrel.
No. 5 is a transverse section, cut through No. 1 at K, K; I, I, showing
the whole of chambers and chain as they hang on the wheel C; any number
may be put on, as any number will hang the same, as shewn in this
section in B, B, B, B. The chain may be put together by screws or rivets,
and by means of pin No. 10 the discharged chain of chambers may be
unlinked, taken out of the iron frame in plate 1, and a loaded chain replaced
in its stead alternately, or any number may be put together and fired off

page_text: in succession one after another; they are loaded, and the charge pressed
home by a ramrod.
No. 10 is a turned pin, with a shoulder at C and A, D; to the shoulder A
the pin is parallel. D is first put into the chain or hole of chain, and pressed
up sufliciently to allow C to enter, as shewn by a dotted line A, No. 2. B is a 5
spring to keep the pin from dropping out.
No. 2 shows the way the endless chain of chambers hangs. B is a plate
to secure and fix works of lock; the right-hand one has a shoulder for the
chamber to butt against when the charge is pressed home. These plates are
screwed to the iron frame that the chamber passes through; they are also
screwed to a top and bottom iron strap. These straps are for fixing the stock
of gun.
No. 3 shows the way the endless chain of chambers hangs in pistol, with
side plates, top and bottom straps, same as No. 2.
No. 4 shows the way the endless chain of chambers hang in cannon. The
longitudinal section, No. 1, and transverse section, No. 5, explain No. 2, No. 3,
and No. 4, with the exception in No. 4. A represents a strong iron guide for
barrel of cannon to pass through, and No. 11 shows a stronger nut than No. 6,
with a portable lever.
No. 6 shews a transverse section of nut in D, No. 1.
6, the lever.
A is the nut; and
No. 7 is the transverse section, cut through N in No. 1 section, with slot,
pin, and key shewn. A is the key; B, the gun barrel; C, the pin; D, the
slot.
No. 8 is the link or strap, shewn in No. 1, H, M, that lifts the hammer.
A, the slot; D, the pin that connects the link to key N in No. 1.
No. 9 is the transverse section of No. 8; No. 11 being a strong nut with
socket for lever.
No. 12 is the lever and nut for cannon.
No. 13 shows the ramrod and lever, as shewn in No. 3. B, D, is the lever;
C is the ramrod which has sent the charge home; D, on No. 3, is a small
ball joint, which allows the lever to be turned back under the barrel on a
catch which is fixed to the barrel, or it may hang down when out of use, as
shewn, the ramrod being twisted round out of the way. A shews the joint
or screw.
No. 15 shews the lever with ball in socket, which allows the lever to move
in any direction. I further explain this by calling the joints at D, shewn in
No. 3, ball joints, as they are better understood by that name.

page_text: I have in the above description explained my present Invention in combina-
tion with further improvements, for which other Letters Patent have since
been granted to me, in order that my Invention may be shewn in the most
perfect condition; but I wish it to be understood that under the present
Letters Patent, I only claim arranging the short barrels into a chain, and
causing them to be in succession brought opposite the stationary barrel, as
herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Wright Gardener Treeby, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.
T. W. G. TREEBY. (L.S.)