IMPROVEMENTS IN PROJECTILES
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles William Lancaster, of New Bond Street,
in the County of Middlesex, Gun Manufacturer, for the Invention of.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PROJECTILES."
Sealed the 3rd February 1865, and dated the 6th August 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles William Lancaster
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
6th August 1864.
I, CHARLES WILLIAM LANCASTER, of New Bond Street, in the County of
Middlesex, Gun Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PROJECTILES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in manufacturing compound projectiles, that, is,.
projectiles formed of iron and steel. I make the rear of the projectile of iron,
and weld thereto a face of steel. The shape and depth of the face may vary.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles William Lancaster in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 6th February 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
WILLIAM LANCASTER, of New Bond Street, in the County of Middlesex, Gun
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Charles William Lancaster, Her special licence that I, the said Charles
William Lancaster, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Charles William Lancaster, 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 PROJECTILES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Charles William Lancaster, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles William Lancaster, do hereby
declare the nature of my 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:-
My Invention consists in manufacturing compound projectiles, that is,
projectiles formed of iron and steel. I make the rear of the projectile of
wrought iron, and weld thereto a face of steel. Or I form the body of the
projectile of cast iron, and screw or otherwise fix a face of steel thereon or
thereto. The shape and depth of the face may vary according to require-

page_text: ment, but should generally be equal in depth to one-fourth the length of the
projectile. The projectile may be subsequently hardened and tempered.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles William Lancaster, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of February, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
CHARLES W. LANCASTER. (L.S.)