As IMPROVED METHOD OF EXTRACTING CARTRIDGES AND CARTRIDGE CASES PROM FIRE- ARMS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Woodward, of 10, Steelhouse Lane, Birming-
ham, Gun Maker, and George Fallows, of Lechfield Street, Birmingham,
Breech-loading Action Filer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Woodward and
George Fallows at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 29th May 1866.
We, THOMAS WOODWARD, of 10, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham, Gun Maker,
and GEORGE FALLOWS, of Lechfield Street, Birmingham, Breech-loading
Action Filer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "As
IMPROVED METHOD OF EXTRACTING CARTRIDGES AND CARTRIDGE CASES PROM FIRE-
ARMS," to be as follows:-
Our Invention refers chiefly to sporting guns using metallic cartridges
containing their own ignition in the centre and fired by means of a piston
passing through a nipple in the rear or false breech of the gun.
Our Invention consists in a new method of forcing the cartridge extractor
from the face of the barrel or barrels in order to facilitate the removal of the
cartridges and cartridge cases, and is especially applicable to that kind of
extractor which is of a semi-annular form and has a rod working in a hole or
socket placed between or under the barrel or barrels.

page_text: Our improvements consist in the Invention of a lever of a semi-annular
form having a tongue or projection at one end. This lever is fitted into a
semi-annular slot or groove cut in the fore end or strap, and in that part in
which is situated the joint of the gun on which the barrel or barrels move, and
in which slot or groove the lever is made to work freely. To effect the removal
of the extractor the lever is so placed that the tongue or projection rests
against the end of the rod of the extractor and the other end of the lever
against the bottom edge of the fore end or joint of the gun. On the falling
of the barrel or barrels by the pressure of the edge of the fore end or joint of
the gun on the end of the lever the latter is forced round the semi-annular
slot or groove in the fore end or joint of the gun and thereby presses the
tongue or projection of the lever against the end of the rod of the extractor,
which is thereby forced backwards, carrying with it the cartridges or
cartridge cases.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Woodward and George Fallows in the Great Seal
Patent Oflice on the 27th November 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, TROмAS
WOODWARD, of 10, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham, Gun Maker, and GEORGE
FELLOWS, of Lichfield Street, Birmingham, Breech-loading Action Filer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Thomas Woodward and George Fellows, Her special licence that we, the
'said Thomas Woodward and George Fellows, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Thomas Woodward and George Fellows,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at 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 "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF EXTRACTING
CARTRIDGES AND CARTRIDGE CASES PROM FIRE-ARMS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Thomas Woodward and George Fellows, our executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or one of our, or

page_text: their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 Thomas Woodward, on behalf of
myself and the said George Fellows, do hereby declare the nature of our
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Our Invention relates chiefly to breech-loading sporting guns made on the
Lefancheux system, using cartridges carrying their own ignition.
Our Invention consists in a new method of forcing the cartridge extractor
from the face of the barrel or barrels in order to facilitate the removal of the
cartridges and cartridge cases, and is especially applicable to that kind of
extractor which is of a semi-annular form, and has a rod working in a hole
or socket placed between or under the barrel or barrels.
Our improvement consists in the Invention of a lever of a semi-annular
form having a tongue or projection at one end; this lever is fitted into a
semi-annular slot or groove cut in the fore end or strap and in that part in
which is situated the joint of the gun on which the barrel or barrels move,
and in which slot or groove the lever is made to work freely. To effect the
removal of the extractor the lever is so placed that the tongue or projection
rests against the end of the rod of the extractor and the other end of the
lever rests against the bottom edge of the fore end or joint of the gun. On
the falling of the barrel or barrels by the pressure of the edge of the fore end
or joint of the gun on the end of the lever the latter is forced round the semi-
annular slot or groove in the fore end or joint of the gun, and thereby presses
the tongue or projection of the lever against the end of the rod of the
extractor, which is thereby forced backwards, carrying with it the cartridges or
cartridge cases.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the gun, shewing the position of extractors

page_text: with tongue or projection B; C is a small slot or groove into which is
inserted a pin to prevent the semi-annular lever falling out of the fore end
or strap when removed from the body of gun, as in Figures 2 and 3; Fig. 5
shews the under side of barrel or barrels with the end of extractor rod A
exposed, against which the tongue or projection on the semi-annular
lever rests.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner.
of carrying the same into effect, we declare that what we claim is, the
Invention of a lever of a semi-annular form affixed in a slot in the fore end
or strap of the joint of the gun, and so placed that on opening the gun to
insert the cartridges or remove them the lever is forced round the joint of the
gun and thereby causing the tongue or projection on the end of semi-annular
lever to press against the end of the rod of the extractor which forces back
the extractor as shewn in Fig. 1, letter A, and on closing the gun the extractor
together with semi-annular lever are moved to their former position previous
to opening the gun.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Woodward, on behalf of myself
and the said George Fellows, bath hereunto set my hand and seal,
this Twenty-sixth day of November, One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-six.
THOMAS WOODWARD. (L.S.)