IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CLOSING CARTRIDGE CASES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Horsley, junior, of York, in the County
of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
CLOSING CARTRIDGE CASES."
Sealed the 17th June 1873, and dated the 17th January 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Horsley, at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th January 1873.
I, THOMAS HORSLEY, junior, of York, in the County of York, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR CLOSING CARTRIDGE CASES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for
closing cartridge cases, and the improvements relate to that class of
apparatus in which the cartridge case to be closed is by a lifting lever or
plunger held up to a revolving tool by which the upper edge of the case
is doubled over.

page_text: In order to hold the cartridge case to prevent its revolving whilst it is
being acted upon by the revolving tool I apply to the lifting lever or
plunger where the base of the cartridge rests upon it a small lever, one
arm of which comes under the base of the cartridge, and is depressed by
it at the time when the cartridge is held up to the revolving tool. When
the small lever is thus turned on its axis it causes a clip to clip the
lower part of the side of the cartridge case. The lever arm may for this
purpose itself be formed into a clip jaw to bear against the side of the
cartridge, or it may be caused to act upon a spring clip, by which the
base of the cartridge is surrounded, and to tighten such clip around the
base.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Horsley, in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 17th July 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
HORSLEY, junior, of York, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-sixth year of Hor reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Horsley, junior, Her special
license that I, the said Thomas Horsley, junior, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas
Horsley, junior, my 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 Islo
of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CLOSING Cartridge
CASES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas
Horsley, junior, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,

page_text: 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 Horsley, junior, do hereby
declare the naturo of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say: :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for
closing cartridge cases, and the improvements relate to that class of
apparatus in which the cartridge case to be closed is by a lifting lever or
plunger held up to a revolving tool by which the upper edge of the case
is doubled over.
In order to hold the cartridge case to prevent its revolving whilst it is
being acted upon by the revolving tool I apply to the lifting lever or
plunger where the base of the cartridge rests upon it a small lever, one
arm of which comes under the base of the cartridge, and is depressed by
it at the time when the cartridge is held up to the revolving tool. When
the small lever is thus turned on its axis it causes a clip to clip the
lower part of the side of the cartridge case. The lever arm may for this
purpose itself be formed into a clip jaw to bear against the side of the
cartridge, or it may be caused to act upon a spring clip by which the
base of the cartridge is surrounded, and to tighten such clip around the
base.
At Figure 1 of the Drawings hereunto annexed I have shewn a side
clevation of an apparatus constructed as above described for closing
cartridge cases. In this apparatus the case is pressed upwards by a
lever against the revolving closing tool whilst the mouth of the cartridge
case is being closed over, and the base of the cartridge is during this
time held by a lever clip, as above described. a is the closing tool,
which can be revolved as usual by the crank handle b; c is the cylin-
drical socket or holder into which the cartridge case to be closed is.
inserted; d is the lever for pressing the cartridge case in the ordinary.
manner up to the closing tool; e is a clamp by which the apparatus may.
be fixed to the edge of a table or bench; and f is a plunger for expelling
the closed cartridges from the apparatus; d' is the projection upon the

page_text: lever d, upon which the base of the cartridge is to rest. Upon it is
formed a jaw d² to bear against the side of the cartridge; g is a lever
lying in a slot in the projection d'; upon it is a small projection g¹ for
the base of the cartridge to rest upon, and on the opposite arm of the
lever is a jaw 9 to bear against its side. When a cartridge case is
pressed upwards against the closing tool by the lever d the base of the
cartridge presses upon the arm g₁ of the lever g, and so causes the
jaw to press against the cartridge case, and to nip it between itself
and the fixed jaw d³, and the cartridge case is thereby held from
revolving during the time the mouth of the cartridge is being closed over
by the revolving closing tool. As before stated the small lever g, in
place of being formed with a jaw to bear against the side of the cartridge,
may be caused to act upon a spring clip surrounding the base of the
cartridge.
At Figure 2 of the Drawings I have shewn such an arrangement
applied to that form of cartridge closing apparatus in which a plunger
is used for pressing the cartridge case up to the closing tool. In this
Figure I have only shewn the plunger and the parts in connection with
it. a is the plunger fitting a hole bored to receive it in the frame b, and
capable of being moved up and down by a lever d in the ordinary
manner; e is the spring clip situated just above the top of the plunger,
and carried by it as shewn; g is the small lever lying in a slot in the
upper part of the plunger, and having a small projection g' upon it for
the base of the cartridge to bear against, whilst the opposite arm g³ of
the lever is formed into a fork to embrace the inclined projections e¹,
which are at the extremities of the two arms of the spring clip e.
When a cartridge case is pressed upwards by the plunger a against
the revolving closing tool its base presses upon the projection g' of
the small lever g, and so turns this lever, and causes its forked arm
to draw together the two extremities of the spring clip; the clip is
thereby tightened around the base of the cartridge, and retains it from
revolving.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that I claim as my
improvements in apparatus for closing cartridge cases, the combination of
a lever g with the lifting lever or plunger of cartridge closing
apparatus, substantially as herein described, to effect the holding of the

page_text: In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Horsley, junior, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this 14th day of July, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
THOMAS HORSLEY, JUN³. (L.8.)