IMPROVEMENTS IN HOOK ATTACHMENTS TO BANDS OF FIRE-ARMS TO FACILITATE THE STACKING THEREOF
Year: 1874

page_text: ETTERS PATENT to Arthur Charles Henderson, of the Firm of A. C.
Henderson and Company, British and Foreign Patent Agents, of
No. 6, Southampton Buildings, Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN HOOK ATTACHMENTS TO BANDS
OF FIRE-ARMS TO FACILITATE THE STACKING THEREOF."-A communication
from abroad by Emerson Gaylord, of Chicopee, Massachusetts, in the
United States of America.
ealed the 21st August 1874, and dated the 17th June 1874.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Arthur Charles Henderson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 17th June 1874, pursuant to the 9th Section of
..the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARTHUR
CHARLES HENDERSON, of the Firm of A. C. Henderson and Company,
British and Foreign Patent Agents, of. No. 6, Southampton Buildings,
Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
Hoox ATTACHMENTS TO BANDS OF FIRE-ARMS TO FACILITATE THE STACKING
THEREOF," and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the
same, and have made solemn Declaration that the same has been com-
municated to me from abroad by Emerson Gaylord, of Chicopee, Massa-
chusetts, in the United States of America.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Arthur Charles Henderson, do
licreby declare that the following Complete Specification under my hand
and seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, in and by the
ollowing statement:-
The object of this Invention is to facilitate stacking arms such as
guns, rifles, carbines, or muskets, with greater speed and more securely
than hitherto, and superseding the use of the triangular bayonet or the
ramrod as is now the common practice. This is effected by means of
hooks of various kinds placed in any convenient part of the upper
portion of the gun so that it may be hooked into the band, ring, or
swivel thereof, or into corresponding hooks on other pieces, in such
manner that the arms are secured together in the form of a tripod, upon :
which other guns may be placed to complete the stack.
.
As already stated the hooks may be of various forms.
Fig. 1 is a plan of a hook of the description embodying my principle.
In this case the hook is made in one piece with the band; Fig. 2 is a
side view of the same; Fig. 3 is a rear view of the same, showing also
the manner of securing the hooks in the rings or swivels in the operation
of stacking three guns together to form the tripod for supporting a
larger number. Fig. 4 shows the swivels and hooks as secured together
for forming the tripod. A represents the band which secures the barrel
to the stock near the muzzle. This band is made in the usual manner, 3
with the ordinary swivel B attached by the screw pin a, but with
the exception that the end of the band where the swivel is secured is
elongated and bent slightly up in the form of a hook, as shown at C.
In the operation of stacking arms three guns are first secured
together by placing the hook of one into the swivel of the next gun in
the position shown by Fig. 3. After two have been so attached their
butts are placed apart and the third is then attached, and the unattached

page_text: hook is brought round and hooked into the unoccupied swivel and the
butts of the guns spread in the form of a triangle. This operation
brings the bands with the hooks and swivels into the position shown,
Fig. 4, in which position, if the bands were in place upon the guns the
latter would form a tripod against which to rest the other guns in the
stacking operation.
Figs. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, show different forms of hooks. In
Fig. 5 the hook is double and independent of the band, that is, it does
not form part thereof, as in Figs. 1 and 8, although working in the
same lug or boss that bears the swivel. This Figure represents the
hook, swivel, and band full size. Fig. 6 is an elevation and plan of a
combined hook and swivel; Fig. 7 is a hook swivel adapted to a carbine;
Fig. 8 is a plan of a band, swivel, and stacking hook half size, and
similar in construction to that of Fig. 1; Fig. 9 is a plan and front view
of a modification of the same principle, as is also Fig. 10; Fig. 11 is a
carbine stacking hook half size. In this case a metal case D is fastened
in the stock of the gun to receive the hook C, shown in detail. E is a
spring for keeping the hook in position. The same letters of reference
indicate like parts in the several Figures.
Having thus described my Invention what I claim is, the hook
devices herein described and illustrated by the accompanying Drawings,
and adapted to the upper parts of fire-arms, such as hercin mentioned, as
and for the purposes herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Charles Henderson, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of June, in
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
the year
four.