A Device for the Use of Sportsmen or Hunters, and an Apparatus adapted to be Held thereby for Re-sizing and Turning Over the Edges of Cartridges.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Oct., 1894-Accepted, 24th Nov., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Device for the Use of Sportsmen or Hunters, and an Apparatus
adapted to be Held thereby for Re-sizing and Turning Over the
Edges of Cartridges.
I, PIERRE FARINIE, of 7, Rue Pasquier, Paris, in the Republic of France,
Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:―
My invention relates to a device, for the use of sportsmen or hunters consisting
simply of a flat block or plate preferably of rectangular shape in which are made
recesses adapted to receive various articles necessary for the use of sportsmen or
hunters in the field, such as an apparatus for re-sizing and turning over the edges
of cartridges, a rifle tester, a cleaning rod, a cleaning sponge or mop, a punch and
a screw-driver. It also relates to an apparatus specially adapted to the said device,
ing cartridges and turning over the edges of the same.
oved device is very simple and cheap and by its use the annoyance
ed by sportsmen through forgetting to take with them various articles
they may require for use is avoided and the filling and re-sizing of cartridges
an be effected without requiring the aid of a table for supporting the apparatus.
The said plate or block is advantageously provided with cylindrical cavities in
which cartridges can be placed. Three holes are made in the direction of the
length of the block to receive the cleaning rod in three pieces; if it is required to
hold a rod in two pieces, two holes only would be made for this purpose but these
two holes would be longer and consequently the block would also be longer and
more cumbersome. Other recesses are provided for receiving other articles such
as those first hereinbefore referred to and the openings of the recesses containing
them are closed by means of covers formed of pieces of sheet metal mounted upon
hinges and kept in their closed position by springs.
The apparatus for re-sizing cartridges and turning over the edges of the same is
laid in a recess of corresponding shape and it is secured by a clip but when requiring
to make use of it the clip is turned to allow the. apparatus to be placed vertically
on the block its base being then located in a groove made for this purpose.
The said apparatus consists of a base having three uprights one of which carries
a smoother to which rotary movement can be imparted by a winch handle. Between
the other two uprights is a lever provided with a counteracting spring; through
this lever passes a rod carrying a pusher, the rod. and the lever being connected by
a pin. To re-size the cartridges the pusher is moved inwards by pressing on the
lever. When the lever is released it is drawn back by its spring.
A support for the cartridges is fixed to the base.
Dated the 26th day of January 1894.

page_text: winch handle q. Between the other two uprights n² and n' is a lever ³ provided
with a counteracting spring ; through this lever freely passes a rod t carrying a
pusher u the rod t and the lever n being connected by a pin t¹. To re-size the
cartridges the pusher u is moved inwards towards the smoother p by pressing on
the lever n³, so as to move it towards the fixed arm n' (Figure 6). When after
having re-sized a cartridge and turned over the edge of the same the lever n° is
released it is pushed back by its spring s.
The spring sinay be a spiral spring as shewn in Figures 1 and 6 wound around the
rod t and bearing against the upright ³. Or it may be a flat spring screwed or
rivetted to this upright and having its free end pressing against the lower arm of
the lever n°. The extent of oscillation of the lever n is limited by its lower end
abutting against one of the sides of a hole n* in the base n°.
A support for the cartridges can if required be screwed or rivetted to the frame.
It will be obvious that, by increasing the size of the plate or block a, a larger
number of articles necessary for the use of sportsmen or hunters in the field can be
held thereby, and instead of making the block of rectangular shape it can be of
any other suitable form.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. A device for the use of sportsmen or hunters consisting of a flat plate or block
provided with holes or recesses adapted to receive various articles such as an
apparatus for re-sizing and turning over the edges of cartridges a cleaning sponge
or mop, a cleaning rod in two or three pieces, a screw-driver, an oil-can, a gauge,
and a punch, the said articles being held in their respective recesses by movable
covers and the plate or block being also provided with cylindrical cavities for
bolding the cartridges and also with a recess for holding the re-sizing apparatus
when required for use, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in
Figures 1 to 5, and in Figure 7 of the accompanying drawing.
2. An apparatus for re-sizing and turning over the edges of cartridges consisting
of a base formed with three uprights one of which carries a smoother to which
rotary movement can be imparted by a winch handle, a lever upon which bears
a spring being arranged to work between the other two uprights, the said lever
being for this purpose connected by a pin to the rod of a pusher which can be
caused to advance when moving the apparatus, substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in Figure 6 of the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 2nd dow of October 1901
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.