SAFETY SHOOTING SHED
Year: 1884

page_text: I, RICHARD MORRIS of Bennett Park, Blackheath in the County of Kent,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for "SAFETY
SHOOTING SHED" to be as follows:
My invention relates to the construction of a shooting shed in such manner as to
ensure that no bullets fired therefrom, and no fragments of broken up bullets can
find their way to any part of the exterior except in the line of fire or within such
limits thereof as correspond with the dimensions of the target or butt aimed at.
For this purpose, I place across the shed a first partition which may be about
30 feet in advance of the marksman, and in this partition I form a rectangular hole
lined with iron plates each converging at about an angle of 70° to the plane of the
partition. About 12 feet in advance I form another partition having through it a
hole somewhat larger than the former. And through a third partition which may
be the end of the shed I form a still larger hole. All these holes are of such widths
that the eye of the marksman can just see through them both sides of the target or
butt. If then he should aim in such a way that the bullet could not strike the
target, the bullet will be arrested by the first partition, and if it should be broken
up by striking the plates of the first hole, its fragments will be reflected in such
directions that they cannot issue from the shed.
In order to provide for the marksman standing, kneeling or lying when he fires
I make several sets of holes through the partitions at heights suitable for these
postures, and I provide doors to cover the holes in the first and last partitions when
they are not in use for firing through.
Several shed such as I have described may be grouped under one roof, by
dividing a single wide shed by longitudinal partitions extending from the last
transverse partition back to include the first.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant,
28, Southampton Buildings,
London, W.C.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I, RICHARD MORRIS of Bennett Park Blackheath in the county of Kent,
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "SAFETY SHOOTING
SHED and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
"
My invention relates to the construction of a shooting shed in such manner as to
ensure that no bullets fired therefrom, and no fragments of broken up bullets can
find their way to any part of the exterior except in the line of fire or within such
limits thereof as correspond with the dimensions of the target or butt aimed at.
For this purpose I place accross the shed a first partition which may be about
30 feet in advance of the marksman and in this partition I form a rectangular hole
lined with iron plates, each converging at about an angle of 70° to the plane of the
partition. About 12 feet in advance I form another partition having through it a
hole somewhat larger than the former. And through a third partition which may
be the end of the shed I form a still larger hole. All these holes are of such widths
that the eye of the marksman can just see through them both sides of the target or
butt. If then he should aim in such a way that the bullet could not strike the
target, the bullet will be arrested by the first partition, and if it should be broken
up by striking the plates of the first hole, its fragments will be reflected in such
.directions that they cannot issue from the shed.
In order to provide for the marksman standing, kneeling or lying when he fires,
I make several sets of holes through the partitions at heights suitable for these
postures, and I provide doors to cover the holes in the first and last partitions when
they are not in use for firing through.
Several sheds such as 1 have described may be grouped under one roof by
dividing a single wide shed by longitudinal partitions extending from the last
transverse partition back to include the first.
Fig 1 of the accompanying drawings is a longitudinal section of a shooting shed
according to my invention; Fig. 2 is a plan shewing four such sheds arranged side
by side under one roof; fig. 3 is a front view of the first partition A, and fig 4 is a
back view to an enlarged scale of the marker's hut. The apertures in the successive
partitions A B and C are of such increasing dimensions that their edges are in lines
such as D E diverging from the markman's eye to the sides of the target T. At
the side of a target or in front of the space between two targets is situated the
hut F of the marker, provided with iron or plated doors S, either of which when
opened conceals a target, as shewn in figs. 2 and 4.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is
The construction of safety shooting shed substantially as herein described and
illustrated by the drawings.
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