A PATENT OR NEW INVENTED HAMMER FOR GUNS AND PISTOL LOCKS, WHICH CONTAINS THE PRIME, AND EFFECTUALLY PRESERVES IT FROM DAMP AND RAINY WEATHER
Year: 1802

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOSEPH HALL, of Pitt Street, in the Parish of Saint Mary, Newington,
in the County of Surrey, Lock Filer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
did, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bear-
ing date at Westminster, the Sixteenth day of January, in the forty-
second year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Hall,
on His especial licence, that I, the said Joseph Hall, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned,
should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, my Invention, of which
I call "A PATENT OR NEW INVENTED HAMMER FOR GUNS AND PISTOL LOCKS,
WHICH CONTAINS THE PRIME, AND EFFECTUALLY PRESERVES IT FROM DAMP AND
RAINY WEATHER;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso, obliging me, the said Joseph Hall, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature
of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one
calendar month after the date of the said recited Letters.Patent, as in

page_text: and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the
said Joseph Hall, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described
in manner following, that is to say:
A new invented hammer for guns and pistol locks. The hammer
contains the prime in a chamber perpendicular with the pan; the
chamber is formed in the back of the hammer, by being drilled, bored,
and filed out the prime is prevented falling
g into the pan (till wanted)
by the bottom of the hammer seat, being ground out by a turning tool,
and a round plate (part of which is filed away) fitted in with a shank
passing through the hammer seat (in the same manner as a tumbler acts
in a lock plate) with a square at the top of the seat of the hammer,
and a key filed to fit the square with a screw on the top of the square
to hold the work together; on turning the key that part of the plate
under the seat of the hammer Wh
which is filed away corresponds with
the chamber, and the prime. immediately, falls into the centre of the
pan. The key is on the outer side of the hammer, and acts against.a
spring on the opposite side, which spring is secured by a small screw..
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Hall, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of February, in the year
of our Lord. One thousand eight hundred and two
JOSEPH HALL. (L:s.):
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Eleventh day of
February, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Joseph Hall
came before our Lord the King, in His Chancery, and acknowledged
the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing herein contained,; in
form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid, was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute in that case made-and-provided.
Inrolled the same Eleventh day of February, in the year above
written: