AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN REVOLVING OR REPEATING FIRE-ARMS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Brazier, of Wolverhampton, in the County
of Stafford, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OR
IMPROVEMENTS IN REVOLVING OR REPEATING FIRE-ARMS"
Sealed the 5th June 1855, and dated the 5th April 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Brazier at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 5th
April 1855.
I, JOSEPH BRAZIER, of Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVE-
MENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN REVOLVING OR REPEATING FIRE-ARMS
follows:-
My Invention consists in charging the revolving chambers of revolving or
repeating fire-arms by means of a ramrod actuated in the manner illustrated
in the Drawing. a is the ramrod, working in a slide 6 on the fixed barrel c;
d is an arm turning upon the joint e; in the end d' of the arm d is a curved
slot f, in which said slot the pin g engages. When the parts are in the
positions represented, the end a' of the ramrod a is external to the barrel h of
the revolving chamber. When a charge has been introduced into the said
barrel h, the arm d is raised into the position indicated in dotted lines at i.
The several moving parts assume the positions indicated by dotted lines, and
the end a¹ of the ramrod a forces the charge into the barrel h. When not in
use the arm d is held in its place by a spring catch k.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Brazier in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
2nd October 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
BRAZIER, of Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Joseph Brazier, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph Brazier, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph
Brazier, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any tinie 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS
IN REVOLVING OR REPEATING FIRE-ARMS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Joseph Brazier, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and causé 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 Joseph Brazier, 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):-
My Invention consists in attaching to revolving or repeating fire-arms
the mechanism herein-after particularly described, and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawing, for the purpose of charging or loading the said
fire-arms.
Figure 1 represents, in side elevation, a revolving or repeating pistol con-
structed according to my Invention; and Figure 2 represents a plan of a
portion of the same. a, a', is the ramrod, which said ramrod works in a slide
or guide b, fixed to the barrel c; d, d', is an arm which turns upon a joint e on
the barrel c; in the end is a curved slot f; in the said slot fa pin g engages,
the said pin g being fixed to the end a of the ramrod a, a¹. When the several
parts described are in the positions represented in the Drawing, the end a' of

page_text: the ramrod is external to the barrel (indicated in dotted lines) of the
revolving chamber. When a charge has been introduced into the said revolving
barrel h, the arm d is raised into the position represented by dotted lines at i.
The end of the arm d and the ramrod a, a, also assume the positions
indicated by dotted lines in Figure 1, and the end a¹ of the ramrod forces the
charge into the barrel h. By bringing the arm d into the position represented,
the ramrod is withdrawn from the barrel h, and the other barrels of the
revolving chamber may be charged by the method described with regard to
the barrel h. When the arm d is not in use it is held in its place by a spring
catch k, engaging in a notch 1, represented in the raised arm i, Figure 1.
Although I prefer placing the arm d, d', and ramrod a, a', in the positions
represented, yet the said arm and ramrod may be placed underneath the
barrel c, or in any other convenient position. Although I have only herein
described and represented in the accompanying Drawing a pistol with the
improvement or improvements constituting my Invention, yet my said Inven-
tion is applicable to all kinds of revolving and repeating fire-arms, and I
believe my said Invention will be fully understood by the description I have
given.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the saine into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise details herein described, as the same may be varied
without departing from the nature of my said Invention; but I claim as my
Invention the improvement or improvements in revolving or repeating fire-
arms herein described, and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing; that is to
say, actuating the ramrods of the said fire-arms by the raising and lowering of
an arm, with which said arm the ramrod is made to engage, by a pin on the
end of the said ramrod entering a curved slot in the end of the said arm.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Brazier, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
WILLIAM SHOOLBRED.
JOSEPH BRAZIER. (L.B.)