CERTAIN IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARTRIDGE BOTTOMS OR ENTIRE CARTRIDGES COMPOSED ENTIRELY OF THE SAME ELEMENTS." PROAL SP
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Fusnot, of Chaussée de Waterloo, 121, St.
Gilles-lez-Bruxelles, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARTRIDGE BOTTOMS OR ENTIRE CARTRIDGES
COMPOSED ENTIRELY OF THE SAME ELEMENTS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Fusnot at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd October 1863.
I, CHARLES FUSNOT, of Chaussée de Waterloo, 121, St. Gilles-lez-Bruxelles,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARTRIDGE BOTTOMS OR ENTIRE CART.
RIDGES COMPOSED ENTIRELY OF THE SAME ELEMENTS," to be as follows, that is to
say:-
My improvements consist in making cartridges in one piece, in dispensing
with the paper washer or packing ring at the base of the socket of the
cartridge, replacing it with the metal itself, which is made to project in
the interior; I also dispense with the copper cup or recess for receiving
the percussion cap by making an opening for the latter in the metal which
forms a greater resistance than the said copper cup. By these means I can
make the cartridges out of one single piece by stamping or any other suitable
process, and out of any material that can be made to take the desired form
and that will expand, the expansion of the cartridge at the moment of firing

page_text: prevents all escape of gas, and thus keeps the chamber of the fire-arm from
fouling, whilst neither paper or paste being employed in these cartridges they
are not affected by damp; there is also no fear of missing fire either from
damp or from the resistance of the metal on which the percussion cap
detonates, and from the particular form given to that part of the interior of
the cartridge for receiving the cap a larger quantity of powder may be
introduced than usual. These cartridges are applicable for all kinds of breech-
loading fire-arms, and particularly to those known as Lefaucheux's.
The peculiarity of these cartridges may be better understood by reference
to the several Figures of the accompanying Drawing, in which A represents
an external view of a complete cartridge; B represents an external view of
the bottom of a complete cartridge; C and D sections of cartridge without
shewing the pin or peg for striking the percussion cap; E and F sections of
cartridge shewing pin and percussion cap; G, complete cartridge for revolvers;
H, bottom of cartridge; I and J, sections without shewing pin; K and L,
sections shewing the pin and also percussion cap.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Fusnot in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th April 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
FUSNOT, of Chaussee de Waterloo, 121, St. Gilles-lez-Bruxelles, Manufac-
turer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year
of Her reigu, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Charles Fusnot, Her special license that I, the said Charles
Fusnot, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Charles Fusnot, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARTRIDGE BOTTOMS OR ENTIRE CARTRIDGES
COMPOSED ENTIRELY OF THE SAME ELEMENTS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Charles Fusnot, executors or administrators, by an

page_text: instrument in writing under my hand and seal, or under the hand and
seal of one of them, 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 Charles Fusnot, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment, reference being had to the Drawing hereto annexed, and to the figures
and letters marked thereon, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in making cartridges in one piece, in dispensing
with the internal paper washer or packing ring at the bottom of the cartridge,
replacing it by the metal itself, which is made to project in the interior; I
also dispense with the copper cup or recess for receiving the percussion cap
by making an opening for the latter in the metal, which forms a greater
resistance than the said copper cup.
The peculiarity of these cartridges may be better understood by reference
to the several Figures of the accompanying Drawing, in which A represents an
external view of a complete cartridge for guns; B represents an external
view of the bottom of a complete cartridge; C and D, sections of cartridge
without the pin or needle for striking the percussion cap; E and F, sections
of cartridge shewing pin and percussion cap; G, complete cartridge for
revolvers; H, bottom of cartridge; I and J, sections without pin; K and L,
sections shewing the pin and percussion cap. By these improvements I can
make the cartridge out of one single piece by stamping, casting, or other
suitable process, and out of any metal or material that can be made to take
the desired form and that will expand; the expansion of the cartridge at the
moment of firing prevents any escape of gas, and keeps the chamber of the
fire-arm from fouling, whilst neither paper or paste being employed in these
cartridges they are not affected by damp, or from the resistance of the metal
on which the percussion cap detonates, and from the peculiar form given to
the part of the interior of the cartridge for receiving the cap a larger quantity
of powder may be introduced than usual. These cartridges are applicable
for all kinds of breech-loading fire-arms, and particularly for those known as
Lefaucheux's.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that what I
claim and wish to be secured by the herein-before in part recited Letters

page_text: Patent, is, the manufacture of cartridge, bottoms and entire cartridge cases
for breech-loading fire-arms of one single piece of metal or other suitable
material, substantially as herein-before described and represented in the
accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Fusnot, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
Witness,
E. BONNET,
33, Rue du Minimee,
Brussels.
CH. FUSNOT. (L.S.)