IM- PROVEMENTS IN FIRE-ARMS
Year: 1858

page_text: Scaled the 29th March 1859, and dated the 12th October 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Field Swinburn at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
12th October 1858.
I, JOHN FIELD SWINBURN, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Gun
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN FIRE-ARMS," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to double-barrelled rifles or other double small arms,
and consists in employing a band or clip for connecting the barrels to the
stock instead of the loop and bolt hitherto employed, whereby the necessity of
heating the barrels for the purpose of fixing on the loops is obviated.
In adapting and applying this mode of connecting the barrels to the stock
to double-barrelled arms, I use one or more metal bands or clips of suitable
form to fit tightly round the portions of the barrels above the stock, and also
round the stock below or underneath the barrels, the two ends of the band or
clip being drawn and secured firmly together by means of a screw bolt passed
through them. In order to prevent the slipping of the band or clip along
the barrels, a hollow space is formed in the ordinary rib on the upper part of
the barrels into which the band or clip is fitted, being thereby made to rest

page_text: against a shoulder both in front and at the back, between which two shoulders
it is securely confined when drawn down by screwing the bolt. At the upper
part of the band or clip a recess is formed with two shoulders one at each
side, between which the sight is held and protected from injury when at
rest.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Field Swinburn in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
12th April 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN FIELD
SWINBURN, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Gun Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John Field Swinburn, Her special license that I, the said John Field
Swinburn, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said John Field Swinburn, 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 Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN FIRE-ARMS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said John Field Swinburn, 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 John Field Swinburn, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the
letters and figures marked thercon (that is to say) :-
My Invention of "Improvements in Fire-arms" relates to double-barrelled
rifles or other double small arms, and consists in employing a band or clip
for connecting the barrels to the stock, instead of the loop, and bolt hitherto

page_text: It will be obvious, on reference to Fig. 2, that when the two ends or holding
jaws e, e, of the clip or band d are drawn together by screwing up the bolt f,
the barrels b, b, and the stock a, will become firmly connected and united, the
inner surface of the clip or band being of the requisite form or contour to fit
and clasp the barrels and stock. It will also be obvious that the clip or
band & will be prevented from slipping longitudinally on the barrels, by its
being confined between the two shoulders, one at each end of the recess h.
I would here remark, that although I have only shewn one clip or band,
yet more than one may be applied in cases wherein it is found advisable to
do so, and the precise position of the same may be varied from that represented.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I would have it understood that what
I claim as of my Invention is, the adaptation and application of a clip or
band to the purpose of connecting and uniting the barrels and stocks of
double-barrelled arms.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Field Swinburn, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Eleventh day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
Witness,
D. JARVIS,
Birmingham,
Gun Maker.
J. F. SWINBURN. (L.S.)