An Improved Cleaning Stick for Guns.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 8th June, 1892-Accepted, 9th July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cleaning Stick for Guns.
I, CHARLES HUELSER, of the firm of Hualser & Co. of Temple Chambers,
London, International Patent Agency, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion, a communication to me from abroad by the firm of Gebr. Sandberg of
Freystadt, Silesia, in the Empire of Germany, Manufacturers, to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is a stick for cleaning the interior of gun barrels,
which is so arranged that it can also be used for guns of small calibre, while any
injury to the interior of the barrel during cleaning is obviated.
The improved cleaning stick essentially consists of a steel rod covered with a
wood veneer. It having been found impossible to place the veneer wrapper direct
on the steel rod, a narrow linen strip is glued to a veneer plate of suitable size and
both the strip and plate are coated on the inner side with glue; subsequently the
linen strip is wound around the steel rod, and then also the veneer, the windings of
which lay themselves about the rolled-up linen. Thereby the steel rod and veneer
are so intimately united, that the finished cleaning stick can be bent through to the
greatest extent without any peeling off or loosening of the veneer. With the steel
rod is connected at the projecting end a ribbed or notched brass tube round which
the oakum is wound when cleaning the barrel.
Dated this 7th day of September 1891.
HUELSER & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved- Cleaning Stick for Guns.
I, CHARLES HUELSER, Patent Agent, of Temple Chambers, Temple Avenue,
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:—
The subject of this invention is a stick for cleaning the interior of gun barrels,
which is so arranged, that it can also be used for guns of small calibre-and that any
injury to the interior of the barrel during cleaning is obviated.
It
The improved cleaning stick, as illustrated by the accompanying drawings
Figs. 1 to 3, essentially consists of a steel rod covered with'a wood veneer.
having been found impossible, to apply the veneer wrapper directly to the steel rod,
a narrow linen strip d is glued to a veneer plate o of suitable size, and both the
strip and plate are then coated on one side with glue. Subsequently, the linen strip d
is wound around the steel rod a and then also the veneer, the windings of which
lay themselves about the rolled up linen. Thereby the steel rod and veneer are so
intimately united, that the finished cleaning stick can be bent to the greatest extent,
without any peeling off or loosening of the veneer.
With the steel rod a is connected at the projecting end a ribbed or notched brass
tube 6, round which the oakum is wound when cleaning the barrel.
Fig. 2 shows the cleaning stick, after the linen strip d has been wound on.
Fig. 3 shows the same, after the sheet of veneer has been completely wound on,

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A cleaning stick consisting of a metalitube and a veneer coating applied in the
manner substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated this 8th day of June 1892.
HUEDSER & Co.,
Agents for Applicant.