IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED. FOR RENDERING CARTRIDGES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Thomas Eley, of the Firm of Eley Brothers;
of Gray's Inn Road, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED. FOR RENDERING CARTRIDGES OR
Sealed the 11th February 1868, and dated the 12th August 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Thomas Eley
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition.
on the 12th August 1867.
1. WILLIAM THOMAS ELEY, of the Firm of Eley Brothers, of Gray's Inn
Road, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED FOR RENDERING
CARTRIDGES OR CARTRIDGE CASES FOR FIRE-ARMS WATERPROOF," to be as
follows:-
Various means have been previously suggested and employed for rendering
cartridges and their cases waterproof; but in practice such means have not
proved so advantageous as could be desired.
The improved means which employ for this purpose according to my
Invention-consists in coating cartridges-when-made-up (or-paper-cartridge
cases) with wax, stearine, paraffin, or other like substance dissolved in coal
tar or other suitable solvent, the cartridges or their paper cases being dipped
or immersed in a cold solution of the above-mentioned compound, from which
they are taken and allowed to. dry, and when the spirit has evaporated they
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Thomas Eley in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th February 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
THOMAS ELEY, of the Firm of Eley Brothers, of Gray's Inn Road, in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of, August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Thomas Eley, Her special licence that I, the said William Thomas
Eley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Thomas Eley, 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 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 THE MEANS EMPLOYED FOR RENDERING CARTRIDGES OR CARTRIDGE CASES FOR
FIRE ARMS WATERPROOF," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
William Thomas Eley, my executors or administrators, by. an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should parti-
cularly 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 Oflice within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Thomas Eley, 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:-
Various means have been previously suggested and employed for rendering
cartridges and their cases waterproof; but in practice such means have not
proved so advantageous as could be desired.
The improved means which I employ for the purpose according to my
Invention consists in coating cartridges when. made up (or in coating the

page_text: paper cartridge cases previous to being filled or charged) with wax, stearine,
paraffine, or other like substance dissolved in coal tar or other suitable spirit or
solvent in such proportions as to remain fluid or semi-fluid when cold. The
cartridges or their paper cases are dipped or immersed in a cold solution of
the above-named compound or materials, from which they are taken and
allowed to dry, and when the spirit or solvent has evaporated the paper cases
or cartridges will be coated with a thin coating of the wax, stearine, or other
like substance contained in the solution employed, by which means they will
be rendered waterproof in accordance with my improvements.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Thomas Eley, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Tenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
Witness,
J. G. TONGUE,
Patent Agent,
WILLIAM THOMAS ELEY. (L.S.)
34, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane, W.C.