IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO PISTOLS, AND THE METHOD OR APPLIANCES FOR USING THE SAME
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Julius Boult, of the Firm of Wm. P. Thompson
and Company, of 323, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, and 6, Lord
Street, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer and Patent Agent,
for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO PISTOLS, AND THE
METHOD OR APPLIANCES FOR USING THE SAME." A communication from
abroad by Myles O'Mahoney, of the City of Toronto, Province of Ontario,
Dominion of Canada.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Julius Boult at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th October 1880.
ALFRED JULIUS BOULT, of the Firm of Wm. P. Thompson and Company, of
323, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, and 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, in
the County of Lancaster, Engineer and Patent Agent. " IMPROVEMENTS IN OR
RELATING TO PISTOLS, AND THE METHOD OR APPLIANCES FOR USING THE SAME."
A communication from abroad by Myles O'Mahoney, of the City of Toronto,
Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada.
It is well known that a good pistol will shoot accurately if steady aim be taken,
and also the difficulty of taking steady aim while holding the pistol off hand in the
usual manner.
Now I propose to get over this difficulty by using a pistol in combination with
an ordinary walking stick.
I employ a suitable clamp or clamps with one or more set screws or equivalent,
so that it or they can be readily applied to the stick and pistol, and the user may
be able to take steady aim by holding the stick like a gun to his shoulder.
The pistol should be fastened at a suitable angle to the stick, the back end being
slightly elevated and the muzzle depressed, thus enabling the eye to readily catch
and follow along both sights on the barrel.
The upper part of the clamp should be grooved or slotteed, so that the fairsight
of the pistol may project above it and the aim be taken along both sights in the
usual manner.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Alfred Julius Boult in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 12th
April 1881.
ALFRED JULIUS BOULT, of the Firm of Wm. P. Thompson and Company, of 323,
High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, and 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, in the
County of Lancaster, Engineer & Patent Agent. "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR
RELATING TO PISTOLS, AND THE METHOD OR APPLIANCES FOR USING THE SAME.”
A communication from abroad by Myles O'Mahoney, of the City of Toronto,
Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada.
It is well known that a good pistol will shoot accurately if steady aim is taken,
the difficulty of taking steady aim while holding the pistol off hand in the usual
manner is also well known.
The object I have in view is to provide a means of clamping a pistol or revolver
to an ordinary walking-stick, so that the user can hold it steadily like a gun to the
shoulder while taking aim and firing.
The revolver is fastened at an angle to the cane, so that the back end is slightly
elevated and the muzzle depressed; this arrangement enables the eye to readily
catch and follow along both sights on the barrel.
Figure 1 is a perspective view showing how a pocket revolver may be clamped
to a walking-stick; Figure 2 is a cross section.
A represents an ordinary pocket revolver, and B a walking-stick; C, C, are
two metal plates curved to fit over and under the stick, and the barrel of the
revolver which are clamped together in the relative position shown by the screw a
tapped through the central part of the plates C, C. The upper plate C is notched
or slotted to let the fairsight of the pistol project above it, so that the aim may be
taken along both sights in the usual manner.
Having now described this Invention, and the method of performing the same,
I wish it to be understood that what I believe to be new and desire to protect
under the herein before in part recited Letters Patent is,-
The combination with the revolver A and walking-stick B of the curved plates
C, C, and screw a, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Julius Boult, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
ALDEN T POULT
ALFRED J. BOULT
(L.S.)