CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURING CARTRIDGES OR CASES FOR CONTAINING CHARGES FOR FIRE- ARMS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jules Joseph Imbs, Merchant, of Brumath, Town of
the French Empire, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
MANUFACTURING CARTRIDGES OR CASES FOR CONTAINING CHARGES FOR FIRE-
ARMS." A communication.
Sealed the 26th October 1855, and dated the 8th May 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jules Joseph Imbs at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 8th
May 1855.
I, JULES JOSEPH IMBS, Merchant, of Brumath, Town of the French Empire,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN MANUFACTURING CARTRIDGES OR CASES FOR CONTAINING CHARGES FOR FIRE-ARMS,"
(communicated to me from abroad,) to be as follows:-
The Invention consists in manufacturing cartridges or cartridge cases from
a cloth made of floss silk, silk waste, &c., prepared in the following manner :—.
The material after being submitted to beaters undergoes two or three cardings,
according to its quality; it is then spun directly, or is passed through a roving
frame previous to being spun. The threads are next woven into a cloth either
by hand or power weaving. The cloth is washed in warm water to take the
size off from the warp, next passed through a soap bath more or less strong

page_text: in order to remove all smell, and, if need be, to bleach it, and then hot-pressed,
or, still better, hot-calendered. The pressure should be as strong as possible
to render the cloth as compact as may be; the result is, that the gummy
matter contained in the silk spreads over the surface of the cloth, and thus
makes it more compact and proof against damp. When long fibres are used,
instead of being first carded they may be combed and otherwise prepared.
The cloth manufactured as aforesaid is cut up into pieces of suitable size,
and the edges sewn or cemented together, to form cases for the reception of
the powder and ball.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Jules Joseph Imbs in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
27th October 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JULES
JOSEPH INDS, Merchant, of Brumath, Town of the French Empire, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of May, 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 Jules Joseph Imbs, Her special licence that I, the said Jules
Joseph Imbs, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Jules Joseph Imbs, 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 "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURING CARTRIDGES OR CASES FOR CONTAINING CHARGES
FOR FIRE-ARMS," (communicated to me by a foreigner residing abroad,) upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Jules Joseph Imbs, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, und 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Jules Joseph Imbs, 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:-
The Invention consists in manufacturing cartridges or cartridge cases from
a cloth made of floss silk, silk waste, &c., prepared in the following manner :-
The material after being submitted to beaters undergoes two or three cardings,
according to its quality; it is then spun directly, or is passed through a roving
frame previous to being spun. The threads are next woven into a cloth either
by hand or power weaving. The cloth is washed in warm water to take the
size off from the warp, next passed through a soap bath more or less strong,
in order to remove all smell, and, if need be, to bleach it, and then hot-pressed,
or, still better, hot-calendered. The pressure should be as strong as possible
to render the cloth as compact as may be; the result is, that the gummy
matter contained in the silk spreads over the surface of the cloth, and thus
makes it more compact and proof against damp. When long fibres are used,
instead of being first carded they may be combed and otherwise prepared.
The cloth manufactured as aforesaid is cut up into pieces of suitable size,
and the edges sewn or cemented together, to form cases for the reception of the
powder and ball.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as of my said
Invention, the manufacturing of cartridges or cases for containing charges for
fire-arms, of the material and in the manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jules Joseph Imbs, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Tenth day of October, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-five..
0
JULES JOSEPH IMBS. (L.s.)
Witness,
CH. ARMENGAUD, Ing³ Civil,
6, Rue Filles du Calvaire, à Paris.