AN IMPROVED TOOL OR IMPLEMENT FOR SECURING THE CAPS OR PRIMERS AND BULLETS IN CARTRIDGES FOR FIRE-ARMS, AND FOR REMOVING EXPLODED OR USED CAPS OR PRIMERS FROM CARTRIDGE SHELLS
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Robert Lake at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th July 1876. A communication from
abroad by E. Remington and Sons, of Ilion, New York, United States of
America.
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London. "AN IMPROVED TOOL OR IMPLEMENT FOR
SECURING THE CAPS OR PRIMERS AND BULLETS IN CARTRIDGES FOR FIRE-ARMS,
AND FOR REMOVING EXPLODED OR USED CAPS OR PRIMERS FROM CARTRIDGE
SHELLS." A communication.
My Invention relates to a tool or implement of peculiar construction for loading
and capping cartridges, and for removing the caps or primers of cartridge shells.
The object of the said Invention is the production of a simple, cheap, and
efficient implement that may be used for loading a cartridge shell, and for capping
or priming the same, and also for removing the exploded cap or primer from the
same.
The
The said improved tool or implement has two metal arms jointed or pivoted
together at one end. One arm is so curved near the joint or pivot that the latter
instead of being midway between the two arms is at one side of the horizontal
plane of the said arms. This curved arm has in it two semicircular recesses of the
proper size and form to receive a cartridge shell therein. One of these recesses is
formed with a groove for the rim of the cartridge to rest in, and it also has a flange
for the head of the shell to rest upon when the shell is inserted in this recess.
rear wall of the latter is inclined backward to permit the shell to be tipped or
inclined therein. The said arm at the point where the other recess is formed is
inclined on its upper surface; the other arm has its rear end curved to form
a convenient handle, and it has inserted through a hole therein a steel pointed
screw so arranged as to project into the said first-named recess in the above-
described arms. The said screw is so arranged and inclined that its point will
be exactly opposite the centre of the said recess when the two arms are closed or
brought together. The cartridge shell from which a cap or primer is to be removed
or extracted is placed in this recess, and the said pointed screw by the closing of
the two arms has its point forced into the said cap, and the latter is pushed out of
its cavity. The arm which has the handle is also provided with another screw or
plunger central with the second recess in the first-named arm.

page_text: When a cap or primer is to be put in a cartridge shell the latter is placed in this
last-named recess, and the plunger is brought down upon it, thereby forcing it into
its place in the head of the shell.
This implement may also be used for placing bullets or projectiles in cartridge
shells. For this purpose the handle is made hollow or with a cavity whose inner
end corresponds in form and size with the bullets to be used. The outer end of
the cavity in the said handle is adjusted to the diameter of the open end of the
cartridge shell, so that as the same is placed and pushed over the shell it will slide
thereon, and the bullet will be concentric with the said shell, and will be placed
properly in the same. A small hole should be drilled in the small end of the said
cavity to permit the escape and entrance of the air.