AN IMPROVEMENT ON A LOCK TO A MUSQUET, FUSEE, CARBINE, FOWLING PIECE, OR PISTOL
Year: 1803

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I;
JOHN RANDALL PECKHAM, of White Lyon Street, Clerkenwell, in the
County of Middlesex, Watchmaker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Tenth day of Junc now last past, did give
and grant unto me, the said Jolin Randall Peckham, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His said Majesty's special license that I,
the said John Randall Peckham, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick upon Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT ON A
LOCK TO A MUSQUET, FUSEE, CARBINE, FOWLING PIECE, OR PISTOL;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me the said
John Randall Peckham, to describe and ascertain the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and to cause the same
to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within onė
calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the
said John Randall Peckham, do hereby declare that my said Invention
is described and ascertained in manner following, that is to say: -

page_text: A self-priming gun-lock or pistol to be applied to a musquet, fusee
carbine, fowling piece, or pistol, having a box attached to the hainme
of such lock, which box is supplied with powder from a tube made to
attach and detach to the lock and barrel of the gun, and the powder is
conveyed from a tube through a hole into the pan by shutting the
hammer, which hole is stopped by the action of the cock on the main
spring by throwing up a bolt which ents off the communication between
the pan and the box, which is again cutt off from the magazine by
shutting the hammer, and such operation by means of a lever attached
to the box opens the hole or volve in the pan, which hole or volve is
kept open by means of a ketch tooth or keeper, acting upon the bolt
before described, which bolt is thrown up by means of a spring on the
motion of the cock, and if by time or accident any part of the works
constituting this improvement before described become impaired or
useless, such bolt so thrown up as aforesaid, can be there kept by
means of a lever acting by a screw or screws through the plate, whereby
the lock may be made use of upon the old construction of locks now
in use.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Randall Peckham, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-eighth day of June,
in the year of our Lord One thousand oight hundred and throa
JOHN RANDALL (L.s.) PECKHAM.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-eighth
day of June, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid John Randall
Peckham came before our Lord the King, in His Chancery, and ac-
knowledged 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 Statute in that case made
and provided.
Jurolled the same Twenty-eighth day of June, in the year above