Improvements in Sporting Cartridges.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 8th July, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 8th Apr., 1890-Accepted, 17th May, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sporting Cartridges.
We MARK WILLSHAW, of Wiverton Hall, near Nottingham, Butler, and WILLIAM
HAYNES, Radcliffe-on-Trent, near Nottingham, Ironmonger, do hereby declare the
nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
Our improvements consist in forming cartridges which may be employed for short
and long distance shooting, or for long distance shooting.
For short and long distance shooting we construct each cartridge with an outer
metal and paper case or a metal case closed at one end and provided with a cap, the
other end being closed with a wad when charged, above the cap the requisite quantity
of gunpowder is placed, the gunpowder is retained in position by the wads usually
employed, above the wads about half the usual quantity of loose shot is placed, above
which is placed a cylindrical case of the same diameter as the interior of the outer case
before described.
The interior cylindrical case is closed at the lower end and after being filled with
the remainder of the charge of loose shot, the case is retained in the outer cartridge
case by a common wad being pressed into the upper end of the outer case.
The upper cylindrical case may he made of flannel, canvas or other suitable material
having the upper half prepared by dipping it in a mixture of wax and tallow which
stiffens the upper half, thus causing the case to retain the shot for a considerable
distance when fired from the gun. Or the interior cylindrical case may be made of
copper, tin, or other suitable metal.
When a metal case is employed it is closed at the lower end and the edge of the
upper open end is turned inwards towards the centre for a distance of one sixteenth of
an inch more or less according to gauge of cartridge.
In cartridges constructed as above described, the lower loose shot contained in the
outer case above the cap and powder, when fired will kill up to about thirty yards,
and the shot contained in the upper cylindrical case will kill up to seventy yards or
more.
For long distance shooting, we employ cartridges each having an outer metal and
paper case or a metal case, closed at the lower end and provided with a cap above
which is placed the necessary quantity of powder retained in position by the wads
usually employed, above which is placed an interior cylindrical metal case of the same
diameter as the interior of the outer case, the interior case is filled with shot, and has
the edge of the upper open end turned inwards towards the centre for a distance of one
sixteenth of an inch more or less according to the gauge of the cartridge, the inner
case and shot being retained in position in the outer case by a common wad being
pressed into the end of the outer case, we also attach a wad to the cap end of each case.
In cartridges constructed as above described the shot contained in the inner case
will kill up to eighty yards or more when fired from a gun.
Dated this 6th day of July 1889.
H. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
A gent
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sporting Cartridges.
We MARK WILLSHAW of Wiverton Hall, near Nottingham, Butler, and WILLIAM
5 HAYNES, Radcliffe-on-Trent, near Nottingham, Ironmonger, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
The drawing shows a side view partly in section of one of our improved cartridges.
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page_text: Each cartridge consists of a metal and paper or cardboard case, the metal part A
being closed at one end and provided with a cap in the usual way, the paper or
cardboard case B above the cap is provided with the requisite quantity of gun-
powder retained in position by a wad D above which is placed a felt wad E
one end of which enters one end of a paper or cardboard case F, within the outer
case which with the remainder of the length of the outer case is nearly filled with
shot of the size required, over which is placed a paper or cardboard wad G onto
which the end of the outer case B is turned down all round at H. The felt
wad E attached to the inner case F keeps it and the charge of shot within it in a
direct course.
In cartridges constructed as above described the shot contained in the outer
case, above the case F, when fired will kill up to thirty or forty yards, and the
shot contained in the case F, will kill up to eighty or ninety yards or more.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
The construction of sporting cartridges substantially as described and illustrated in
the Drawings annexed.
H. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
Agent.