IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CASES OR RECEPTACLES FOR OIL, FUSES, AND OTHER ARTICLES USED IN THE MILITARY AND NAVAL SERVICES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Warner, of Threadneedle Street, in the City
of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
CASES OR RECEPTACLES FOR OIL, FUSES, AND OTHER ARTICLES USED IN THE
MILITARY AND NAVAL SERVICES."
Sealed the 13th June 1862, and dated 28th December 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Warner at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 28th
December 1861.
I, ARTHUR WARNER, of Threadneedle Street, in the City of London, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF CASES OR RECEPTACLES FOR OIL, FUSES, AND OTHER ARTICLES USED
IN THE MILITARY AND NAVAL SERVICES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists, first, in manufacturing hollow, cylindrical, or other
forms, with a bottom thereto from discs or flat pieces of zinc or tinned zinc,
each of such hollow forms being raised or produced from one piece of zinc or
tinned zinc by any of the well-known processes for stamping, raising, pressing,
or spinning metals. These hollow forms of zinc or tinned zinc thus produced

page_text: may be made up into oil bottles for military purposes, by closing the upper
part and applying a suitable stopper thereto, as is well understood in the
manufacture of such oil bottles made from tin plate or other metal, the parts
of which have hitherto been soldered or brazed together. Hollow forms made
according to this part of my Invention may be sunk in dies or spun into forms
suitable for the tops and bottoms of fuse boxes for time, concussion, and per-
cussion fuses. The bodies of pouch boxes, boxes for containing blacking for
military and sea service, and tube pouches for "Colt's" and other revolvers
may also be manufactured as previously described under this part of my
Invention.
The second part of my Invention consists in manufacturing boxes for con-
taining the fuse employed for the use of artillery, from paper lined or otherwise
with lead or tinfoil. Heretofore it has been usual to cover or enclose the fuse
in a paper wrapper pasted thereon, to prevent the access of moisture to the
fuse; such method, however, has been found to be clumsy and objectionable
in other respects, and this part of my Invention consists in the manufacture of
a suitable box for receiving the fuse from paper or paper pulp, lined or other-
wise with lead or tinfoil, into which the fuse is placed when filled with the
combustible materials, the joint of the box being closed by cementing a strip
of paper around it. The fuse thus prepared may then be enclosed in a metal
box, as heretofore.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Arthur Warner in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 28th
June 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARTHUR
WARNER, of Threadneedle Street, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Arthur Warner, Her special licence, that I, the said Arthur Warner,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Arthur
Warner, 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

page_text: vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
.Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OP CASES OR RECEPTACLES POR OIL, FUSES, AND OTHER ARTICLES USED IN THE
MILITARY AND NAVAL SERVICES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Arthur Warner, 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, 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 Arthur Warner, do hereby declare
the nature 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:
My Invention consists, first, in manufacturing hollow, cylindrical, or other
forms with a bottom thereto, from discs or flat pieces of zinc or tinned zinc,
each of such hollow forms being raised or produced from one piece of zinc or
tinned zinc by any of the well-known processes for stamping, raising, pressing,
or "spinning" metals employed in the manufacture of hollow metal articles
for other purposes. These hollow forms of zinc or tinned zinc thus pro-
duced may be made up into oil bottles for military purposes by closing the
upper part and applying a suitable stopper thereto, screwed or otherwise
secured thereon, as is well understood in the manufacture of such oil bottles
made from tin plate or other metal, the parts of which have hitherto been
soldered or brazed together. Hollow forms made according to this part of my
Invention, may be sunk in dies or "spun" into forms suitable for the tops and
bottoms of fuse boxes for time, concussion, and percussion fuses. The bodies of
pouch boxes, boxes for containing blacking for military and sea service, and
tube pouches for Colt's and other revolvers may also be manufactured as
previously described under this part of my Invention.
The second part of my Invention consists in manufacturing boxes for con-
taining the fuse employed for the use of artillery from paper lined or otherwise
with lead or tinfoil. Heretofore it has been usual to cover or enclose the fuse
in a paper wrapper pasted thereon, to prevent the access of moisture to the
fuse; such method, however, has been found to be clumsy and objectionable
in other respects, and this part of my Invention consists in the manufacture of
a suitable box for receiving the fuse from paper or paper pulp, lined or other-
wise with lead or tinfoil, into which the fuse is placed when filled with the

page_text: combustible materials, the joint of the box being closed by cementing a strip of
paper around it. The fuse thus prepared may then be enclosed in a metal box
as heretofore.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Warner, have hereunto set my
hand and seal this Twenty-third day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
ARTHUR WARNER. (L.S.)
Witness,
J. G. TONGUE,
Patent Agent,
34, Southampton Buildgs., W.C.