CHANGING A BREECH-LOADING SHOT GUN INTO A BREECH- LOADING RIFLE
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Friedrich Wohlgemuth, of the City and County
and State of New York, in the United States of America, for the
Invention of "CHANGING A BREECH-LOADING SHOT GUN INTO A BREECH-
LOADING RIFLE."
Scaled the 17th December 1869, and dated the 26th June 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Friedrich Wohlgemuth
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 26th June 1869.
I, FRIEDRICH WOHLGEMUTH, of the City and County and State of
New York, in the United States of America, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "CHANGING A BREECH-LOADING SHOT GUN
INTO A BREECH-LOADING RIFLE," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in combining with what is known as a "break-
down" breech-loading shot gun (fitted with a suitable barrel lock to
hold the barrel firmly in the stock against the breech piece) a breech.

page_text: loading rifle barrel made to slip in the end of the shot barrel in the
same manner as the shot cartridge, the said rifle barrel being made
about half the length of the shot barrel, so that it can be conveniently
carried on the person of the sportsman or soldier in a small sack or
sling in the same manner as a bayonet of an ordinary musket. A
"break-down" breech-loading shot gun is so well known that no
description of it is necessary here, and it only remains for me to say
that the rifle barrel should be made to slip easily into the shot barrel
and to fit it snugly at its rear end to insure accuracy in firing, while
at the same time it must not be made to fit so closely as to prevent its
falling out readily when the barrel is unlocked and shaken slightly
with the hand to start it from its scat.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters l'atent,
filed by the said Friedrich Wohlgemuth in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 24th December 1809.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, T, FRIEDRICH
WOHLGEMUTH, of the City and County and State of New York, in the
United States of America, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Friedrich Wohlgemuth, Her special licence
that I, the said Friedrich Wohlgemuth, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Friedrich Wohlgemuth, 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
"CHANGING A BREECH-LOADING SHOT GUN INTO A BREECH-LOADING RIFLE," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Friedrich Wohlgemuth,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe

page_text: 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 Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Friedrich Wohlgemuth, 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, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawing forming a part of this Specification :-
My Invention consists in combining with what is known as a "break-
down" breech-loading shot gun (fitted with a suitable barrel lock to
hold the barrel firmly in the stock against the breech picce) a breech-
loading rifle barrel made to slip in the end of the shot barrel in the
same manner as the shot cartridge, the said rifle barrel being made
about half the length of the shot barrel, so that it can be conveniently
carried on the person of the sportsman or soldier in a small sack or sling
in the same manner as a bayonet of an ordinary musket. A "break-
down "breech-loading shot gun is so well known that no description of
it is necessary here, and it only remains for me to say that the rifle
barrel should be made to slip easily into the shot barrel and to fit it
snugly at its rear end to insure accuracy in firing, while at the same
time it must not be made to fit so closely as to prevent its falling out
readily when the barrel is unlocked and shaken slightly with the hand
to start it from its seat.

page_text: bining with a "break-down" breech-loading shot gun (fitted with a
suitable barrel lock to hold the barrel firmly in the 'stock and against
the breech piece) a breech-loading rifle barrel by which the shot gun
can be at once converted into a rifle.
In witness whereof, I, the said Friedrich Wohlgemuth, have here-
unto set my hand and scal, this Eleventh day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
FRIEDRICH WOHLGEMUTH. (L.S.)