AN IMPROVED PORTABLE SIDE WEAPON, ADAPTED FOR THE USE OF THE ARMY MORE PARTICULARLY
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Carl Severin Möller, of Philpot Lane, in the
City of London, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED PORTABLE
SIDE WEAPON, ADAPTED FOR THE USE OF THE ARMY MORE PARTICULARLY."
-A communication from abroad by Johann Linnemann, of No. 20,
Svanegade, Copenhagen, in the Kingdom of Denmark.
Sealed the 11th September 1868, and dated the 13th March 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Carl Severin Möller,
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 13th March 1868.
I, CARL SEVERIN MÖLLER, of Philpot Lane, in the City of London,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
PORTABLE SIDE WEAPON, ADAPTED FOR THE USE OF THE ARMY MORE PARTI-
CULARLY," a communication from abroad by Johann Linnemann, of
No. 20, Svanegade, Copenhagen, in the Kingdom of Denmark, to be as
follows:-
The novelty of this Invention consists in so constructing a side
weapon that it may be used as a weapon of attack or defence, also
as a spade for entrenching purposes, and as an axe and saw, and if
necessary, in camps as a frying pan.

page_text: The following is an example of the construction of the above-
mentioned weapon or implement. It is proposed to make the blade
or palm of the weapon of the breadth and length of an ordinary garden
spade, and curved or dished slightly towards its sides with an elongation
at its upper end, into which a short haft or handle of wood is to be
fixed; the edges at the sides of the blade may both be sharpened as an
axe, or one edge may be formed as an axe and the other edge as a saw.
By placing the blade part over a fire it will serve as a frying pan.
The above weapon or implement may be made either of steel or steel
and iron, as may be found most desirable in practice, and is intended
to be carried by a soldier or pioneer by passing it through a belt suitably
formed and adjusted to any convenient part of the body.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Carl Severin Möller, in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 11th September 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CARL
SEVERIN MÖLLER, of Philpot Lane, in the City of London, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirtieth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Carl Severin Möller, Her special licence
that I, the said Carl Severin Möller, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Carl Severin Moller, 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 Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN
IMPROVED PORTABLE SIDE WEAPON ADAPTED FOR THE USE OF THE ARMY MORE
PARTICULARLY," a communication from abroad, by Johann Linnemann,
of No. 20, Svanegade, Copenhagen, in the Kingdom of Denmark,
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Carl Severin
Möller, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing

page_text: 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 Carl Severin Möller, 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, that is to say:-
The novelty of this Invention consists in so constructing a side.
weapon that it may be used as a weapon of attack or defence, also
as a spade for entrenching purposes, and as an axe and saw, and if
necessary, in camps as a frying pan.
The following is an example of the construction of the above-
mentioned weapon or implement. It is proposed to make the blade
or palm of the weapon of the breadth and length of an ordinary garden
spade, and curved or dished slightly towards its sides, with an elongation
at its upper end into which a short haft or handle of wood is to be,
fixed; the edges at the sides of the blade may both be sharpened as an;"
axe, or one edge may be formed as an axe and the other edge as a saw.
By placing the blade part over a fire it will serve as a frying pan.
The above weapon or implement may be made either of steel or steel
and iron, as may be found most desirable in practice, and is intended
to be carried by a soldier or pioneer by passing it through a belt
suitably formed and adjusted to any convenient part of the body.
. And in order to explain this Invention as completely as possible I.
now proceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for
carrying, the same into practical effect, reference being had to the
illustrative Sheet of: Drawings accompanying these Presents, and to the
numeral figures and letters of reference marked thereon respectively, as
followe

page_text: to denote corresponding parts, in so far as such parts appear or can
be seen at each of such said Figures respectively.
A, A, marks the palm or blade of the weapon, slightly dished or
curved crosswise and lengthwise; B, a piece of metal rivetted or otherwise
affixed to the blade A; the piece B is intended to receive a wooden
handle C, a portion only of which is shewn by the Drawing; D is a
metal collar to strengthen the part that embraces and holds the wooden
handle. The edges of the blade may either be sharpened to serve the
purpose of an axe, as at Figure 2, or one edge of the said blade may
be made sharp and the other edge with teeth or serrations, as at
Figure 3. A weapon thus constructed may be carried in a belt passed
round the body.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of
this Invention for "An Improved Portable Side Weapon adapted for
the use of the Army more particularly," together with the best means
I am acquainted with for carrying the same into practical effect, I would
remark in conclusion, that I hereby declare this Invention to consist
in and I claim as of the same, the mode above described and set forth
of constructing a portable side weapon, as represented by the Drawing
and for the purposes above stated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Carl Severin Möller, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of August, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.