Improved Construction or Arrangement of Holders for Car- tridges as Part of or Attached to Rifled Small Armș.
Year: 1885

page_text: Improved Construction or Arrangement of Holders for Car-
tridges as Part of or Attached to Rifled Small Armș.
I JACQUES PHILLIPPE PIERI of St Margarets Mansions, Victoria Street, West-
minster, Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to arrange cartridges in the stock or butt end of
a rifled small arm or in a case which can be attached to the side of the stock of the
arm or at some other convenient part so that the cartridges are within easy reach
of the person using the arm, each cartridge being exposed in succession by a
spring arranged within the case for easy removal; a sliding closing plate or other
appliance can be fitted to cover the opening when desired.
D
100K
H. GARDNER,
Agent for the said J. P. Pieri.

page_text: Improved Construction or Arrangement of Holders for Car-
tridges as Part of or Attached to Rifled Small Arms.
I JACQUES PHILLIPPE PIERI of St Margarets Mansions, Victoria Street, West-
minster, Middlesex Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of my 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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The object of this invention is to arrange cartridges in the stock or butt end of a
rifled small arm or in a case which can be attached to the side of the stock of the
arm or at some other convenient part so that the cartridges are within easy reach
of the person using the arm each cartridge being exposed in succession by a
spring arranged within the case for easy removal, a sliding closing plate or other
appliance can be fitted to cover the opening when desired.
My invention is exemplified substantially by the annexed drawings in which
Figure 1 represents a case A containing five cartridges B these being inverted and
pushed outwards or to one end by springs C C and a plate D fitted to slide within
the case A so to push the cartridges up in succession for the end one to be exposed
and within reach for easy removal, the others following up in succession.
This case can be attached to the side of a stock A¹ as at Figure or inserted partly
within the stock as at Figures 3 and 4 or it may be strapped thereto. Figure 5
represents a cartridge holder as clipped over the barrel and fore-stock A³ with the
flap E slid down clear of the upper cartridge so that said cartridge may be easily
withdrawn for loading purposes.
In the examples shown, rigid cases A are indicated but they may be flexible or
semi-flexible and instead of the cases being left open as at Figures 1 and 3 or have
sliding plates E as at Figures 2 and 5 the cover plates may be hinged to open out.
If necessary when the cartridges are arranged similar to Figures 1. 2. 3 and 4
the cases can be set at an incline the cartridges sliding down to the lower part by
gravitation whereby the springs C could be dispensed with and in other instances
the cases or carriers could be without a cover and each cartridge be in a com-
partment of its own and have sufficient grip therein so that they could be removed
at the expense of a little force.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The cartridge holder or container affixable in or to the stock of a rifle with
means for easy removal of cartridges therefrom as set forth.
D 1 1
1000