AN IMPROVED CARTRIDGE FOR SPORTING PURPOSES
Year: 1828

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
EDWARD FORBES ORSON, of Finsbury Square, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the
Fourth, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain,
bearing date at Westminster, the Eighteenth day of September, in the
ninth year of His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Edward Forbes Orson, His especial license
that I, the said Edward Forbes Orson, my executors, adiiors, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Forbes Orson, my execu-
tors, adñors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, my
Invention of "AN IMPROVED CARTRIDGE FOR SPORTING PURPOSES; " in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Edward
Forbes Orson, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
particularly to describe and ascertain, the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to-be-performed, and to cause the same

page_text: to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, 1, the
said Edward Forbes Orson, do hereby declare the nature of my said
Invention to consist in a cartridge so contrived that the charge of
powder may be separated at pleasure from the shot without disturbing
the shots, which are contained in an hexagonal or other many-sided
case, having a circular wadding at both ends somewhat longer than the
case; and the case is divided into two or more portions by a card or
wadding, and so contrived that the case which holds the shot bursts
almost immediately as it leaves the gun and allows the shot to scatter;
and in further compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Edward
Forbes Orson, do hereby describe the manner in which my said Inven-
tion is to be perfornied, by the following description thereof, reference
being had to the Drawing annexed, and to the letters marked thereon
to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, 1, the
said Edward Forbes Orson, do hereby declare the nature of my said
Invention to consist in a cartridge so contrived that the charge of
powder may
be separated at pleasure from the shot without disturbing
the shots, which are contained in an hexagonal or other many-sided
case, having a circular wadding at both ends somewhat longer than the
case; and the case is divided into two or more portions by a card or
wadding, and so contrived that the case which holds the shot bursts
almost immediately as it leaves the gun and allows the shot to scatter;
and in further compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Edward
Forbes Orson, do hereby describe the manner in which my said Inven-
tion is to be perfornied, by the following description thereof, reference
being had to the Drawing annexed, and to the letters marked thereun
(that is to say):
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
A, represents a cylindrial paper case, made of cartridge or other
paper, open at the top, and with a stiftning card at the bottom; P, is
a proper charge of powder poured into the bottom of the case; S, S,
is the charge of shot inclosed also in a case B, made as herein-after
directed, and shewn here in section firmly closed at both ends with
a card or wadding at each end D, and F, and one in the middle E, 'to
divide the charge of shot into two portions. The cylinder which incloses
the shot must be just so much smaller than that which holds the
powder as to slide into it with difficulty when some force is applied for
the purpose. C, is a representation of the cartridge complete; the case
containing the shot being forced into. that containing the powder. In
order to make use of my new cartridge, withdraw the case containing
the shot from the case A, which contains the powder; pour the powder
into the gun barrel and throw away the case A; then drop the case B,
with the shot into the gun barrell and ram it down upon the powder,

page_text: when the gun will be ready to be discharged. By this arrangement of
cartridge once ramming down is sufficient to complete the charge,
while the division in the shot case causes the shot to be carried much
further and in a more direct line. In order to form my said shot case,
I cut a piece of stiff pasteboard in the form shewn at G, or with any
greater number of radiating arms, and force it into a circular mould,
which forms it into the shape marked H. I then paste a piece of thin
paper over the whole of the outside which makes it into a case for the
shots. then firuly glue a circular piece of thick felt, or any such like
substance, somewhat larger than the shot case, to each end of the said
shot case, as shewn by numbers 2, in the Figures B, C, and H. This
circular piece of felt, when the shot case is rammed down, serves as
wadding for the powder, and prevents its escaping by the sides of the
barrel. When filled with shot, of course the pointed ends are bent
Now whereas I claim
down and the said wadding pasted over them.
as my Invention a cartridge formed and arranged as aforesaid, and such
my Invention being, to the best of my knowledge and belief, entirely
new and never before used within that part of II is said Majesty's United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, Elis said Domi-
nion of Wales, or Town of Berwick upon Tweed, I do hereby declare
this to be my Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe
this my said Specification doth comply in all respects, fully and without
reserve or disguise, with the proviso in the said herein-before in part
recited Letters Patent contained; wherefore I do hereby claim to
maintain exclusive right and privilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Forbes Orson, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of
March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred

page_text: contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Specifi-
cation aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made
for that purpose.
Inrolled the Eighteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.