IMPROVEMENTS IN PER
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Auguste Edouard Loradoux Bellford, of 32, Essex
Street, Strand, London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PER-
A communication from Comte Pierre Beltrami. of
LETTERS PATENT to Auguste Edouard Loradoux Bellford, of 32, Essex
Street, Strand, London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PER-
CUSSION GUNS." A communication from Comte Pierre Beltrami. of
Paris
CUSSION GUNG." A communication from Comte Pierre Beltrami. of
Paris
Sealed the 22nd February 1856, and dated the 27th August 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Auguste Edouard Loradoux
Bellford at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 27th August 1855.
I, AUGUSTE EDOUARD LORADOUX BELLFORD, of 32, Essex Street, Strand,
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PERCUSSION GUNS," a communication from Comte Pierre
Beltrami, of Paris, to be as follows; and consists in a cap tube, disposed
along the right side of the gun barrel, fixed into the stock before the nipple
up to the first ring, which serves to stop and cover it hermetically; also, in a
rocking priming case, fixed by a screw at one end of a perpendicular rod, and
which, resting on a ball and socket, turns round and receives behind the nipple
the priming sliding out of the cap tube; also, in a semicircle, taking rise at
the lower part of the trigger guard, to which it is fixed by a screw, and which
semicircle, ending with a button, receives the rod of the priming case at the
upper end of the trigger guard, and down the right side of the gun; also, in a
spring, disposed in the inside of the trigger guard, for the purpose of bringing
back the priming case, by pressing the lower part of the semicircle after the
priming is laid on the nipple; and also, in a small lever moderator, laid
between the cap tube and the priming case, in order to regulate the issuing of

page_text: the priming, and prevent any obstruction in the priming case. The priming
box is covered by a plate distinct from the hammer; this plate is kept close to
an inside groove, into which the ball and socket moves whilst the priming case
is working, and the priming will be effected by the mere pressure of the con-
necting button. The said priming box lays the cap without withdrawing it
when once laid, for the rocking of the priming case will yield as soon as the
pressure on the button ceases. Fixed screws are substituted for the movable
screws for the screw plates, which are made of four pieces, and thus the
hammer is sheltered against any breaking in its various parts, and even secure
from any derangement in the whole system.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
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by the said Auguste Edouard Loradoux Bellford in the Great Seal-Patent
. Office on the 22nd February 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, AUGUSTE
EDOUARD LORADOUX BELLFORD, of 32, Essex Street; Strand, London, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of August,. in the year' of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and, grant unto me, the
said Auguste Edouard Loradoux Bellford, Her special licence that I, the said
Auguste Edouard Loradoux Bellford, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Auguste Edouard Loradoux Bellford, my exe-
cutors, 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 PERCUSSION GUNS," a
communication from Comte Pierre. Beltrami, of Paris, upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Auguste Edouard Loradoux Bellford, my
executors 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 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 Auguste Edouard Loradoux Bellford, 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:-
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These improvements consist, 1st, in a cap tube d, fitted along the right side
of the gun barrel A, adjusted in the stock, from upward the nipple to the first
ring B, which serves to stop it, at the same time covering it hermetically.
2d, in a rocking prime case a, which is secured by a screw at the extreme
end of a perpendicular rod b, and which, resting on a ball & socket, admits at
the back side of the nipple D the prime that slides out of, the cap tube d.
3d, in a semicircle b', rising from the lower part of the trigger guard, where
it is secured by a screw x, and having at the other end a knob y, for admitting
the rod 6 of the prime case a.
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4th, in a spring z, fitted at the inner part of the trigger guard, and which
brings back the prime case to rest, by forcing on the lower part of the semi-
circle 6 after the prime is laid on-the nipple..
5th, in a small lever or moderator c, fitted between the cap tube and the
prime case, in order to regulate the issuing of the caps, and prevent any
obstruction in the prime case.
On the annexed Drawings, Fig. 1 is a longitudinal elevation of a gun, pro-
vided with the improved cap tube and prime case, the latter being concealed
by the plate h; Fig. 2 is an internal view of the plate i, which contains the
trigger; Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section through the cap tube and the prime
case; Fig. 4 is an elevation, like Fig. 1, but in which the plates h & i are
taken off, to show the working of the prime case when laying a prime or cap
on the nipple. Figs. 5 & 6 are separate views of the prime case. The prime
case is hid by a plate distinct from the hammer, said plate being nearly close
to an inside groove, in which the ball & socket move whilst the prime case
is working. The priming is at once effected merely by a pressure on the con-
necting knob. The prime case lays the cap, never withdrawing it when once
laid, for the rocking of the prime case will yield as soon as the pressure on
the knob ceases. In this system of gun there is nothing apparent beside the
rod and the semicircle, which are parallel to, and, as it were, blended with the
trigger guard. Instead of movable screws, screws upon pivots are also used in
the setting of the gun locks, made of four pieces; the hammer is thereby secure
from being broken or impaired.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which
the same is or may be carried into effect, I wish it to be distinctly understood

page_text: that what I claim as novel, and being secured to me by the herein-before in
parts recited Letters Patent, is,―
First, the cap tube fitted in the gun stock.
Second, the rocking prime case, which receives the cap from the cap tube
at the back side of the nipple.
Third, the semicircle at the lower part of the trigger guard, which gets
hold of the rod.
Fourth, the spring of the trigger guard, which brings back the prime case
to rest.
Fifth, the lever moderator, operating in the manner I have described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Auguste Edouard Loradoux Bellford, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
A. E. LORADOUX BELLFORD.
(L.S.)