Improved Receptacle or Holder for Cartridges and other Articles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 30th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 27th Feb., 1897-Accepted, 29th May, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Receptacle or Holder for Cartridges and other
Articles.
We, JOSEPH PIPAN (of Trieste, Austria) General Agent, 37 St. Mary
Axe E.C. and LOUIS BANGERTER, Watchmaker, of 79 Shaftesbury Avenue W.
London do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention consists in a receptacle or holder made of metal or other suitable
material consisting of two perforated movable plates, locked by one or more slots
and studs or other means, and so arranged that, when one, two or more articles are
placed into the lower plate and the upper plate turned as far as it will go, such
article or articles are held together securely and, by reversing the movement of the
locking plate or plates, the contents can be taken out and the receptacle replenished
or, a fresh receptacle used, as the case needs be.
This receptacle or holder can be circular, polygonal or other suitable shape, and
by virtue of its arrangement, can be used and adapted for various purposes, viz.:
As a cover, whenever it should be expedient to hold in one receptacle, one, two or
more articles, in one, two or more compartments.
When adapted as a holder for cartridges, to quicken the loading and unloading
of firearms and machine guns, the cartridges are held at their bases by the
perforated locking plate or plates so that the whole forms a charge, and in the case
of revolver-type firearms, provided with a central hole for the ratchet wheel, also
for magazine rifles, notches or other devices may be cut or holes punched, as
required.
اليوم
1
3000
JOS. PIPAN.
LOUIS BANGERTER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Receptacle or Holder for Cartridges and other
Articles.
We, JOSEPH PIPAN General Agent, formerly of 37 St. Mary Axe, and now
c/o Messrs. Schenker & Co., 55, Bishopsgate Street E.C., and LOUIS BANGERTER,
Watchmaker, of 79 Shaftesbury Avenue, W., both in the County of London, 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 :-
This invention relates primarily to cartridge holders for repeating firearms, such
as are described in the Specification of Martin's Patent No. 1531 of 1880, but is
applicable also to receptacles for other articles.

page_text: According to the said specification, the rims or heads of the metallic cartridge
shells are held between two metallic plates rivetted together, so that the whole
forms a rigid piece holding as many cartridges as there are barrels or cartridge
chambers in the firearm. In this manner the whole charge of cartridges can be
introduced into the firearm at one operation, and much time is thereby saved in
loading.
The cartridge holders hitherto made possess, however, various defects which
seem to have prevented their extensive adoption. Firstly, the cartridge shells are
frequently not quite parallel with the axis of the revolver chamber, in which case
they cannot be introduced into their respective chambers or withdrawn from the
same without difficulty; secondly, if only some of the cartridges mounted in the
holder have been fired off they cannot be replaced without withdrawing the entire
charge and replacing it by a fresh holder and set of cartridges; and thirdly,
cartridges mounted in annular holders occupy much more space than those stored iu
the ordinary manner.
To avoid these defects we use a receptacle or holder composed of two perforated
movable plates, preferably of metal, said plates being locked together by one or
more slots and studs or other suitable means, and so arranged that if one or more
cartridges be placed with their bases in one of the said plates hereinafter called the
baseplate, and the other plate hereinafter called the locking plate, is then turned
as far as it will go, the said cartridge or cartridges is or are held securely, and
that by subsequently reversing the action of the locking plate, the cartridge or
cartridges will be released, so that it or they can be taken out, and the holder
replenished or a fresh holder put in its place, as the case may be.
The said holder is preferably circular, but may be polygonal or of any other
suitable shape; it is specially designed for use in hand firearms of the revolver
type, in which case an axial hole is left in the holder for the ratchet wheel;
but the invention may be adapted also to other kinds of magazine or repeating
firearms.
The cartridges are held at their bases by the locking plate or plates, so that the
whole forms a charge; and to prevent the locking plate from turning back
accidentally, it may be retained in its locking position by a small spring fixed in a
recess of the baseplate and acting on a stud or projecting pin or edge of the locking
plate.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 is a plan or face view of a cartridge holder embodying our invention, the
holder being designed for a six-chambered revolver.
Fig. 2 shows the same after the locking plate has been turned into the locking
position.
Fig. 3 is a separate view of the baseplate.
Fig. 4 is a separate view of the locking plate.
Fig. 5 is an axial section along line X-X of Fig. 1.
Fig. 6 is a section along line Ÿ-Y of Fig. 2.
Fig. 7 shows a guide pin secured to the locking plate.
Figs. 8 and 9 show a tongue pressed out of the material of the plate and
then bent, so as to serve like a guide pin, Fig. 8 being a section along line Z-Z
of Fig. 9.
Fig. 10 shows one of the guide slots corresponding to the tongue in Fig. 9.
Figs. 11, 12 and 13 show a modification of the cartridge receptacle.
Figs. 14 to 17 represent the application of our invention to multiple receptacles
other than cartridge holders, Fig. 14 being a plan of the open receptacle, Fig. 15
an underside view of the lid, Fig. 16 a section along line W-W of Fig. 14, and
Fig. 17 a side view of the lid.
In Figs. 1 to 6 A. represents the base plate, B the locking plate and C the
cartridge.
The base plate A has 6 holes a corresponding to the cartridge chambers of the
revolver or other firearm, so that when the cartridge receptacle is in its proper

page_text: position for firing, each hole will be situated in the axis of one of the cartridge.
chambers..
Each hole a forms an annular shoulder for the rim of the cartridge and has such.
a diameter, that the cartridge rim will enter the hole, but not pass through the
same, as shown by Figs. 5 and 6.
The holes b in the locking plate B are large enough to allow the cartridge and
rin to pass through the same, so that the cartridge can be introduced into the
plate A through the plate B. The holes b need not form complete circles.
Each of the guide pins 6', of the plate B enters one of the curved guide slots a
formed in the plate A and limits the relative motion of the two plates.
For charging a holder, the plates must be in the position of Fig. 1, where the
holes a and b are exactly co-axial, and the guide pins b' are at the wide end of the
respective guide slots a'. The cartridges are now introduced into the holes 6 and a,
so that the rim of each cartridge rests upon the annular shoulder of the corre-..
sponding hole a, the locking plate B.is turned, until the pins 6' arrive at the opposite
ends of the respective slots a' and the plate B partly covers the cartridges, so as
to prevent the latter from falling out. This position is represented by Fig. 2. As.
the cartridges are fired in this position, the locking plate B has behind the centre
of each cartridge a small hole 62, for allowing the striking pin to reach the
cartridge. This is only, necessary, when the pivotal motion of the locking plate B.
about the axis of the plate A is sufficient to cover the centre of the cartridge, as in
Figs. 1 and 2, but if the cartridges are comparatively large, and the locking
motion short, as in Figs. 11 and 12, the centre of the cartridge remains free, and
no perforation need be made for the striking pin.
The shape of the guide pin b¹ shown in Fig. 7 corresponds to the shape of the
slot a', shown in Fig. 3, and the tongue b', shown in Figs. 8 and 9 corresponds to
the slot shown in Fig. 10.
In the modification represented by Figs. 11, 12 and 13 E is the base plate.
provided with plain circular holes e, and F the locking plate provided with plain.
circular holes f
The two plates are connected by guide pins H provided with washers which.
hold the plates apart by the thickness of the cartridge rim. The latter rests on..
the top of the plate E, and the space between the plates is utilized also for
inserting a retaining spring D, one end of which is fixed to a pin d on the plate E.
and the other to a pin d' on the plate F. The spring tends to hold the plate E in
the locking position, shown by Fig. 12. The retaining spring may, however, be
arranged in different ways, for instance in the underside of the plate E, instead of:
being between the two plates.
In Figs. 14 to 17 M represents the receptacle, m the compartments, N the lid.
provided with holes n, m' are guide slots and n¹ guide studs.
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 :-
1. A cartridge receptacle or holder for firearms of the revolver type, comprising
two loose plates adapted to turn one upon the other within a given angle and
provided with holes corresponding in diameter to a cartridge shell and in number
and arrangement to the cartridge chambers, and means for guiding and securing-
the plates relatively to each other, substantially as described and for the purpose
specified.
2. In a cartridge receptacle or holder for firearms of the revolver type, the
combination of a base-plate adapted to hold as many cartridge shells as there are-
chambers in the fire-arm, with a locking plate movable upon the base-plate, the
locking plate being connected with the base-plate by means of studs and slots, with.
or without a retaining spring, and adapted to lock or release the cartridges by
turning upon the base-plate, substantially as described.
3. The combination of a multiple receptacle having two or more compartments.

page_text: arranged in annular or other suitable form, with a lid composed of two or more
sections adapted to open or close the said compartments simultaneously by turning
the lid on its pivotal axis, substantially as described.
ليكم
1
1000
JOS. PIPAN.
LOUIS BANGERTER..
TER.