A HAMMER ON AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION FOR THE LOCKS OF ALL KIND OF FOWLING PIECES AND SMALL ARMS
Year: 1803

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JOSEPH
MANTON, of Davies Street, Berkeley Square, in the Parish of Saint
George, Hanover Square, in the County of Middlesex, Gun Maker,
sends greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty, by His Royal Letters Patent,
bearing date on or about the Sixth day of July last past, in the forty-
third year of His reign, was graciously pleased to grant to me, the said
Joseph Manton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, the sole
making and vending "A HAMMER ON AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION FOR THE
LOCKS OF ALL KIND OF FOWLING PIECES AND SMALL ARMS," within that part
of His Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called
England, His Dóminion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed,
before the term of fourteen years; in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso for me, the said Joseph Manton, to describe and
ascertain the nature of any said Invention, and in what manner the

page_text: same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing, under my hand
and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation
being thereunto haul, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with and performance of
the said provisoc, I, the said Joseph Manton, do hereby describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed in manner following (that is to say):
On the margin are three views of the inprovement in the hammer;
A, is the part which is next the touch hole, and is hollowed out and
perforated with a small hole, so as to let the air pass through, but not
the powder; B, is the seat of the hammer, which is grooved or hollowed
out from the perforation to the edge C, so as to let the air out of the pan,
but not the powder. Now the intention of this improvement in perfo-
rating the hammer, grooving or hollowing out the seat, is to let the air
out of the barrel and pan; in putting down the wadding the powder in
the barrel, by the air being allowed to pass, is forced into the perforated
receiver A, so that the touchhole is always full of powder, and by these
means fire arms of all kinds are prevented from flashing or hanging
fire. These hammers may be applied to all kind of fire arms, and may
be varied in size, form, shape, and manner of perforation, grooving, or
hollowing, and manner of letting the air out of the barrel and pan.
And I, the said Joseph Manton, do hereby declare and affirm that
particulars above set forth do contain a full, truc, and perfect description
of the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed.
In witness whercof, I, the said Joseph Mauton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Fourth day of August, in the forty-
third year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third,
by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and three.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the sanic Fourth day of
August, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Joseph Manton
came before our Lord the King, in His Chancery, and acknowledged
the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in
form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statuto in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Fourth day of August, in the year above
written.