Ax IMPROVED METHOD OF LOADING AND TURNING OVER THE SHELLS OF CARTRIDGES, AND IN THE MACHINE USED FOR THE SAME.
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Gibson Bussey, of Dunn's Passage Factory,
485, New Oxford Street, London, W.C., for the Invention of "Ax
IMPROVED METHOD OF LOADING AND TURNING OVER THE SHELLS OF CARTRIDGES,
AND IN THE MACHINE USED FOR THE SAME.
Sealed the 21st November 1865, and dated the 27th May 1865.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said George Gibson Bussey at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th May 1865, pursuant to the 9th Section of the Patent Law Amend-
ment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
GIBSON BUSSEY, of Dunn's Passage Factory, 485, New Oxford Street,
London, W.C., send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD
OF LOADING AND TURNING OVER THE SHELLS OF CARTRIDGES, AND IN THE MACHINE
USED FOR THE SAME," 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 I am the true and first
Inventor thereof.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Gibson Bussey, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification under my hand and seal, fully

page_text: describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, in and by the following statement:-
This Invention has for its object the more easily and rapidly loading and
making ready for use the cartridges used for breech-loading guns. Whereas
by the methods and machines now in use much time is lost by having to
place in the machine one shell at a time and operate only on that one, my
improvement consists in making a machine in two separate and distinct parts
in the manner following:-The part hereafter to be called the cartridge
holder consists of a series of tubes (of a diameter suitable for the cartridge)
fixed together, or of holes drilled out of a solid piece, so that any number of
cartridges (by preference six to twelve) when inserted into these tubes or holes
are made to stand side by side about one-eighth of an inch apart. They are
prevented from falling out by a plate or lid made to hinge on the solid part of
the holder (either end or side). The other end of the machine consists of a
frame which fixes to a table by screws, cramps, or any other means.
frame is provided with a space that will exactly admit of the cartridge passing
through, and has at one end a screw or spindle with crank handle, the end of
şaid screw or spindle being cupped out, as is usual for the purpose of coiling
down cartridges. I sometimes substitute lever or spring pressure instead of
the screw, but the variation does not affect the principle of my Invention. It
is of very little importance whether the frame be fixed to the table in a
horizontal or vertical position, but I prefer the horizontal as being more
convenient and giving the operator more command over his work; and though
I prefer both the holder and frame made of metal, wood or other rigid
material will do.
This
The operation of filling and coiling the cartridges with this machine is per-
formed as follows:-First fill the holder with empty shells and close down the
lid to prevent them falling out, then set it on end, the open end of the cartridges
being upwards; now put into each cartridge shell a charge of powder and a
wad and ram home, repeating in like manner with the shot. The cartridges
being in the holder are now ready to slide through the frame, and as each is
brought opposite the coiler the handle is turned and the coiling or turning
over takes place. It will now be seen that by this plan the time required
to insert and withdraw each separate shell, as in other machines, is saved,
and that six or any other number of cartridges are loaded, rammed, and
turned at one operation. To make this operation the more complete I some-.
times fix to the frame a plunger for the purpose of rapidly ramming the
cartridges, but this I do not claim as forming a part of my Invention.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in

page_text: which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be distinctly understood that
what I claim as an improvement is the making that part of the machine
which I call the holder quite detached or separate from the frame part, and
which holder is useful, first, to hold the cartridges in a convenient position
whilst being loaded; and, second, enables the operator to submit any
convenient number of cartridges to the process of coiling or turning down.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Gibson Bussey, have hereunto
my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
GEO. G. BUSSEY. (L.S.)