Improved Accoutrements.
Year: 1895

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Accoutrements.
I, PATRICK ALEXANDER WATSON CARNEGY, or Lour in the County of Forfar,
North Britain, Major in the Forfar Light Horse Volunteers, and late Captain,
15th Hussars, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has reference to devices for conveniently carrying arms and
ammunition such as a carbine and cartridges. To a suitable shoulder belt, is
suspended a frame with pad which frame is made with hooks or curved parts
adapted to receive and hold the carbine either muzzle up or muzzle down according
to requirement. To the hooks or bent portions which form what may be called a
cradle for the gun is hinged a cartridge box which normally forms a cover to the
cradle and keeps the gun in place at which time the cartridge box is upside down
and is so held by a bolt or latch. When unfastened the box turns down readily
into position with its top uppermost thus releasing the gun and itself assuming a
position in which its own cover can be readily opened and in which cartridges will
be conveniently accessible to the user. For slinging the arm there is provided a
strap secured to the belt and to the cradle and there is a spring hook swivelled to
a U-frame with transverse pin and antifriction roller which can easily travel along
the strap. Thus the arm can be used without disconnection from the strap and if
let go will hang conveniently. The cartridge box can be hinged to the hooks so
as when closed over the arm to be above the free ends of the hooks or so as when so
closed to be between the frame and the hooks, in which latter case the cover of the
box may rest against the inner surfaces of the hooks. This arrangement may be
found convenient for sporting purposes and where the cradle is adapted to receive
for example a double barrelled breech loader.
Dated this 11th day of September 1895.
I, PATRICK ALEXANDER WATSON CARNEGY, of Lour in the County of Forfar,
North Britain, Major in the Forfar Light Horse Volunteers, and late Captain,
15th Hussars, 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 :-
My invention has reference to devices for conveniently carrying arms and
ammunition such as a carbine and cartridges as I shall now describe with reference
to the accompanying drawings wherein
Fig. is a perspective view showing accoutrements according to this invention

page_text: for carrying a carbine and cartridge box which are represented as being at the side
of the person to which the accoutrements are fitted.
Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the carbine and cartridge holder slung at
the back of the wearer.
Fig. 3 is a similar view to Fig. 2 showing a slightly modified form of my
accoutrements.
Figs. 4 and 5 are respectively side and end views representing to a larger scale
the carbine carrier and cartridge box illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, the cartridge
box being shown in its closed position in which it would secure a carbine previously
placed in the carrier.
Fig. 6 is a plan and Fig. 7 an end view, showing the cartridge box turned into
the open position in which it allows of a carbine being readily inserted in place
within and removed from the carrier, the cover of the cartridge box being shown
open in Fig. 6.
To a suitable shoulder belt 1, is suspended, as by loose metal loops 2, a frame 3
which is provided with a pad 4 to rest against' the wearer and is made with hooks
or curved parts 3ª, 3b (hereinafter called hooks) which are covered' with suitable
material such as leather and are adapted to receive and hold a carbine 5 as shown
in Figs. 1, 2 and 3.
To the free ends of the hooks 3, 3b which form what may be called a cradle for
the, gun, is hinged at 6* a cartridge box which normally forms a cover to the
cradle as shown in Figs. 1 to 5 inclusive and keeps the gun in place at which time
the cartridge box is upside down and is so held by a bolt or latch. This bolt 'or
latch may conveniently be a sliding bolt 6 mounted on the cartridge box 6 so as to
engage with an eye or keeper 7 on the frame 3 and capable of being readily moved
into the locked or unlocked position by a handle 8, aided it may be by a spring, as
well understood. When unfastened, the box 6 can be turned down readily into the
position shown in Fig. 7 with its top uppermost, thus releasing the gun and itself
assuming a position in which its own cover 5* can be readily opened outward as
shown in Fig. 6 and in which cartridges will be conveniently accessible to the user.
If desired the cover of the cradle need not be adapted to hold cartridges which
may be carried by the belt which is then suitably constructed for the purpose as
well understood.
For slinging the arm there is provided a strap 9 secured at one end to the belt 1
and at the other end, as by a strap and buckle 10, to the rearward hook 3b of the
cradle, and to an eye 11 on the arm 5 is attached a spring hook 12 swivelled to a
U frame 13 through which the strap 9 passes and which is provided with a
transverse pin 13ª carrying an antifriction roller that can easily travel along the
said strap. Thus the arm after being removed from the cradle, can be used without
disconnection from the strap, and if let go will hang conveniently.
In the construction of cradle shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and 4 to 7 inclusive, the
rearward hook 3 is made deeper than the forward one so that when the carbine is
slung at the back of the person the muzzle will point downward, the strap 9, if
used, passing under the cartridge box. By making the hook 3* deeper than the
rearward one 3b, the cradle can be adapted to hold the carbine with the butt thereof
to the front so that the muzzle will, as shown in Fig. 3, point downward when the
carbine is slung at the back of the person. In this case the strap 9, if used, is
arranged to pass over the cartridge 'box, in order to perinit of the free use of the
carbine without disconnection from the strap.
The cartridge box 6 can be hinged' to the free ends of the hooks so as when
closed over the arm' to be' above the free bent ends 3 of the hooks, as in the
arrangement shown, or so as when so closed to be between the frame 3 and the
hooks 3º 3b, in which latter case the cover 6* of the box may rest against the inner
surfaces of the hooks. This arrangement may be found couvenient for sporting
purposes and where the cradle is adapted to receive for example a double barrelled
breech loader.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In accoutrements, an arm carrier adapted to be suspended from a belt and
comprising a frame provided with a pad and made with hooks or curved parts.
forming a cradle adapted to receive and hold an arm such as a carbine and provided
with a hinged cover adapted to be held by a suitable bolt or latch in position to
hold the arm within the cradle, substantially as herein described.
2. In accoutrements, a combined arm carrier and cartridge box constructed and
arranged substantially as herein before described with reference to Figs. 4 to 7
inclusive of the accompanying drawings.
3. My improved accoutrements comprising a belt, arm carrier, cartridge box,
strap and spring hook with swivelled U frame, the whole constructed and arranged
for use substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to and shown in the
drawings annexed.
Dated this 15th day of July 1896.
For the Applicant,
W. LLOYD WISE,
46 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.