IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FIRE-ARMS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Winiwarter, of Red Lion Square, in
the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FIRE-ARMS."
Sealed the 20th August 1853, and dated the 22d February 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Winiwarter
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 22d February 1853.
I, GEORGE WINIWARTER, of Red Lion Square, in the County of
Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FIRE-ARMS" to
be as follows:-
I substitute for the ordinary wooden stock, stocks made from sheet
iron, wrought into the required shape, or from cast iron, covered or
not with gutta percha, board made from straw pulp, or other similar
mouldable material. The breech may form part of the stock, as well as
some of the working parts of the lock.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Winiwarter in the Great Seal Patent
Office, on the 22d August 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
GEORGE WINIWARTER, of Red Lion Square, in the County of Middle-
sex, Civil Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of February in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in
the sixteenth year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said George Winiwarter, Her
special licence that I, the said George Winiwarter, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
Winiwater, 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FIRE-ARMS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Winiwarter, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 George Winiwarter, 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 substituting for the ordinary wooden stock,
stocks made from sheet iron, wrought into the required shape, or from
cast iron, covered or not with gutta percha, or with board made from
straw pulp, or with some other similar material capable of being
moulded into the required shape. Or I form the stock from a plate

page_text: of sheet iron, cut or stamped to the proper shape, and attach on each
side of it similar shapes of gutta percha, or other suitable material, so
as to give to the stock its requisite form and substance. The moveable
parts of the lock may be attached to the central plate of the stock,
whereby they will be rendered less liable to become disarranged than
in the ordinary method of attachment. In some cases it may be found
desirable to prolong the breech of the gun, so as to form part of the
stock, as well as some of the working parts of the lock.
By these arrangements the stock is made of greater strength, without
materially increasing its weight.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the
construction of the stocks of fire-arms of metal alone, or in com-
bination with gutta percha, board made from straw pulp, or other
suitable material capable of being moulded into the required form, as
herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Winiwarter, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of August One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
GEORGE WINIWARTER. (L.S.)