CERTAIN IMPROVE- MENTS IN FOWLING PIECES AND OTHER FIRE-ARMS
Year: 1839

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
GEORGE HENRY MANTON, of Dover Street, Piccadilly, in the County of
Middlesex, Gun Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria,
by Her Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Eleventh day of February, in the second year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said George Henry Manton, Her especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said George Henry
Manton, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
George Henry Manton, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN FOWLING PIECES AND OTHER FIRE-ARMS;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said George Henry Manton,
shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention,

page_text: and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her
said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said in part 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 George Henry Manton, do hereby declare that the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed.
are particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
and to the figures and letters marked thereon (that is to say):
My Invention of Certain Improvements in Fowling Pieces and Other
Fire-arms consists in the mode of constructing and applying a circular
magazine, containing a series of copper caps, one of which is constantly
kept at the point of the neck by a spring, as is well understood, to the
lock of a fowling piece or pistol, (single or double,) which lock is so
constructed that in bringing it to the full cock the cap discharged is
removed and its place supplied by another; which movements are
effected by a spring (1) at the back of that part of the cock which
inflames the cap having a projection, which removes the cap above
named, as shewn by the Drawing; and the other cap is placed on the
nipple by a projection (2) on the lower part of the cock acting in a
hollow (3) cut in the top or cover of the magazine, as also shown in the
Drawing, so that the party using the same have no trouble in effecting
an exchange of the cap thus discharged until those contained in the
magazine are all consumed. The cap to be next supplied to the nipple
is kept in its place, and protected from wet in the short neck of the
magazine by a slide (4) pressed outward by a spring (5), and the slide
(4) is removed out of the way by the spring (5) coming against a
projection (6) at the back of the breech.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Heury Manton, have here
unto set my hand and seal, this Second day of August, in the
vear of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.
GEORGE HENRY (L.S.) MANTON.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Second day of August,
in the year of our Lord 1839, the aforesaid George Henry Manton
came before our said Lady the Queen, in Her Chancery, and acknow-
ledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Speci-
fication aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute
made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Third day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.