AN IMPROVED METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SHOE OR BREECH PIECE FOR BREECH-LOADING FIRE-ARMS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Remington, of Ilion, New York, United
States of America, now of No. 8, Southampton Buildings, Chancery
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SHOE OR BREECH PIECE FOR
BREECH-LOADING FIRE-ARMS."
Scaled the 15th June 1869, and dated the 18th December 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Remington at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 18th December 1868.
I, SAMUEL REMINGTON, of Ilion, New York, United States of America,
now of No. 8, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SHOE OR BREECH PIECE FOR
BREECH-LOADING FIRE-ARMS," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to the manufacture of the metal piece or shoe
in which the barrel is secured, and which in that class of fire-arms
known as "bolt guns" receives the sliding bolt, whereby the breech is

page_text: closed. In constructing such breech shoes according to the ordinary
system hitherto adopted each shoe is separately forged into the required
form, and drilled or bored to receive the sliding bolt.
In my method of manufacture I take a tube of sufficient length to
form two or more shoes and of the proper diameter and calibre. The
tube may be formed by any of the present known methods of making
metallic tubing; the said tube is then bored throughout its entire length
to the proper size to receive the breech bolt, and is also turned on its
exterior; I then cut the said tube into pieces or sections of the required
length to form the shoes. Apertures may be made in the shoe for
admitting the cartridges, and for allowing the handle and other pro-
jections of the bolt to move in the required directions, and the end of
the shoe may have a screw thread cut in it to secure the end of the
barrel in the ordinary manner. The tail or tang of the shoe may also..
be shaped and adjusted to the stock, and to the breech mechanism-as
required. Projections on the exterior of the shoe for the purpose of
resisting the recoil of the barrel or for any other purpose can be readily
attached to the same if required either by welding, brazing, soldering,
or screwing.
By my improved method of manufacture I am enabled to produce the
breech shoes for bolt guns in a much more expeditious and economical
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Remington in the Great Scal Patent Office
on the 17th June 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL.
REMINGTON, of Ilion, New York, United States of America, now of
No. 8, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-cight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Remington, Her special licence
that I, the said Samuel Remington, my executors, administrators, and 3
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page_text: assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel Remington, 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 "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF
MANUFACTURING THE SHOE OR BREECH PIECE FOR BREECH-LOADING FIRE-ARMS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Samuel Reming-
ton, my exccutors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner tho same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar montlis next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Remington, 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:—
My Invention relates to the manufacture of the metal piece or shoe
in which the barrel is secured, and which in that class of fire-arms
known as "bolt guns' "receives the sliding bolt, whereby the breechi
is closed. In constructing such breech shoes according to the ordinary
system hitherto adopted, each shoe is separately forged into the required
form and drilled or bored to received the sliding bolt.
In my method of manufacture I take a tube of sufficient length to
form two or more shoes and of the proper diameter and calibre. The
tube may be formed by any of the present known methods of making
metallic tubing; the said tube is then bored throughout its entire length
to the proper size to receive the breech bolt, and is also turned on its
exterior; I then cut the said tube into pieces or sections of the required
length to form the shoes. Apertures may be made in the shoe for
admitting the cartridges and for allowing the handle and other pro-
jections of the bolt to move in the required directions, and the end of
the shoe may have a screw thread cut in it to secure the end of the
barrel in the ordinary manner. The tail or tang of the shoe may also
be shaped and adapted to the stock and to the breech mechanism as
required. Projections on the exterior of the shoe for the purpose of
resisting the recoil of the barrel or for any other purpose can be readily

page_text: attached to the same if required either by welding, brazing, soldering,
or screwing.
By my improved method of manufacture I am enabled to produce the
breech shoes for bolt guns in a much more expeditious and economical
manner than has hitherto been found practicable.
Having thus particularly described the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I claim the
method of manufacturing the shocs or breech pieces of breech-loading
fire-arms, substantially as herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Remington, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Eleventh day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.