Improvements relating to Military Equipments and Accoutrements.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Apr, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 17th Jan., 1896-Accepted, 7th Mar.,
1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Military Equipments and Accoutrements.
A communication to me from JENS ZINN, of No. 9, Havnegade, Copenhagen, in
the Kingdom of Denmark, Architect.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the Firm of Edwards and Co., Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 65 and 66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a combination of the several articles ordinarily used
in the service equipment or knapsack of soldiers, packed together in such manner
that they may be made to serve as a safety shield, which, during an advance, can
be worn upon the breast or upon one of the arms, whilst during a retreat, they
are carried on the back, and in action under fire can be placed upright in front
of the soldier so as both to serve as a shield and also as a rest for his rifle.
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The separate parts can be made of the ordinary materials used for the purpose,
the metal parts, for instance, of aluminium, or aluminium alloy, aluminium steel,
or the like.
In the accompanying drawing are shewn, first the several objects which, when
put together form the shield, Figures 1 to 8; secondly, the complete shield,
Figures 9 to 12. It should be remarked that, the number and kind of the separate
articles of equipment which go to form the shield, may be varied more or less, as
desired without departing from the principle of the invention.
The
Figure 1 shews a spade, one edge of the blade of which forms a saw, whilst its
edge can also be used as an axe if the blade is turned round upon the pin at the
end of a hollow shaft d upon which it fits into the positions Figures 2 and 8.
A pick e, Figure 3, can be screwed into the socket of the spade as shewn in
Figure 2, so that the spade can now be used either as a pick or as an axe.
hollow shaft d may serve as a receptacle for gun-cotton cartridges, binding
material, and the like. The handle of the shaft is provided with a screw spanner,
and can, when the spade or the shaft is stuck in the ground, serve as a support for
the rifle. Figures 4 and 5 shew a double portable flask a which can be fitted into
a rectangular frying-pan c, Figures 6 and 7; the blade of the spade b is arranged
with its socket upward, behind the flask a, Figures 9, 10, and 11, and the pick and
the spade shaft against the end of the latter in the pan c, which then, together
with its contents, is inserted into an open-topped deep, rectangular, box-shaped
boiling vessel f, Figures 9, 10 and 11. Finally, the several articles, packed
together in the way described, are enclosed in a case g, Figure 12, and the shield
is complete.
The improved shield does not weigh more than the ordinary equipment, as it is
formed of the articles which form such equipment, which are all fitted together as
described; it can be carried on the back, on the breast, or on the arm, or, it can
be arranged upon the ground in front of the soldier, and then serves as a shield as
well as forming a rest for his rifle, as it obviously constitutes a shield and protection
against weapons of all kinds, not only projectiles, but also, against sword strokes,
lance thrusts, and arrows.
Dated this 90th dor of Anril 1895

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Military Equipments and Accoutrements.
A communication to me from JENS ZINN, of No. 9, Havnegade, Copenhagen, in
the Kingdom of Denmark, Architect.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the Firm of Edwards and Co., Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 65 and 66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described in and by the following statement and
accompanying drawing, that is to say :-
This invention relates to a combination of the several articles ordinarily used in
the service equipment or knapsack of soldiers, packed together in such manner
that they may be made to serve as a safety or shot-proof shield, which, during an
advance, can be worn upon the breast or upon one of the arms, whilst during a
retreat, they are carried on the back, and in action under fire can be placed
upright in front of the soldier so as both to serve as a shield and also as a rest for
his rifle.
The separate parts can be made of the ordinary materials used for the purpose,
the metal parts, for instance, of aluminiu:n, or aluminium alloy, aluminium steel,
or the like.
In the drawing accompanying my Provisional Specification are shewn, first
the several objects which, when put together form the shield, Figures 1 to 8,
secondly, the complete shield, Figures 9 to 12. It should be remarked that, the
number and kind of the separate articles of equipment which go to form the shield,
may be varied more or less as desired without departing from the principle of the
invention.
The
Figure 1 shews a spade, one edge of the blade of which forms a saw, whilst its
edge can also be used as an axe if the blade is turned round upon the pin at the
end of a hollow shaft d upon which it fits into the positions Figures 2 and 8.
A pick e, Figure 3, can be screwed into the socket of the spade as shewn in
Figure 2, so that the spade can now be used either as a pick or as an axe.
hollow shaft d may serve as a receptacle for gun cotton cartridges, binding
material, and the like. The handle of the shaft is provided with a screw spanner,
Figures 1 and 2, and can, when the spade or the shaft is stuck in the ground, serve
as a support for the rifle. Figures 4 and 5 shew a double portable flask a which
can be fitted into a rectangular frying-pan c, Figures 6 and 7; the blade of the
spade is arranged with its socket upward, behind the flask a, Figures 9, 10,
and 11, and the pick and the spade shaft against the end of the latter in the pan c.
which then, together with its contents, is inserted into an open-topped deep,
rectangular, box-shaped boiling vessel f, Figures 9, 10 and 11. Finally, the several
articles, packed together in the way described are enclosed in a case g, Figure 12,
and the shield is complete.
The improved shield does not weigh more than the ordinary equipment, as it is
formed of the articles which form such equipment, which are all fitted together as
described; it can be carried on the back, ou the breast, or on the arm, or, it can be
arranged upon the ground in front of the soldier, and then serves as a shield as
well as forming a rest for his rifle, as it obviously constitutes a shield and protection
against weapons of all kinds, not only projectiles, but also, against sword strokes,
lance thrusts, and arrows.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A shot-proof shield formed by the combination
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page_text: articles ordinarily used in the service equipment or knapsack of soldiers and so
arranged that it can be carried on the back, the breast, or the arm, or that it can
be used as a shield in front of the soldier in such manner that it also serves as a
rest for his rifle.
2. The shield described in Claim 1, consisting of a spade blade, which can be
used as a spade, axe, and pick, a hollow shaft to this blade, the handle of which
forms a universal screw spanner, a pick head which can be screwed into the spade
blade and a double field flask, which parts are packed all together in a frying pan
which is then inserted into a deep rectangular boiling vessel which is then fitted in
a case provided with carrying straps; all substantially as and for the purpose shewn
and described.
Dated this 17th day of January 1896.
EDWARDS & Co.,
65 and 66, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.