IM- PROVEMENTS IN FIRE-ARMS, AND IN APPARATUS TO BE USED THEREWITH
Year: 1840

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
MOSES POOLE, of Lincoln's Jau, in the County of Middlesex, Gentle-
man, 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 Eighteenth day of July, in the fourth year of
Her reign, did, for Ierself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Moses Poole, Her especial license, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said Moses Poole, my exors, aduiors,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Moses Poole, my exors, 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, the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN FIRE-ARMS, AND IN APPARATUS TO BE USED THEREWITH,"
communicated to me by a certain foreigner residing abroad; in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said Moses Poole,
shall cause a particular description of the nature of the said Invention,
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

page_text: 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, I, the
said Moses Poole, do hereby declare that the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof,
reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the
figures and letters marked thereon (that is to say):
The Invention relates to improvements in fire-arms and apparatus
to be used therewith, whereby in discharging the charge by detonating
caps, there is a peculiar apparatus which at once acts as a protection to
prevent the caps coming off, and also is the means of discharging the
cap when the cock or hammer gives the requisite blow to the said
apparatus.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, represents a longitudinal section of a pistol having the
Invention applied thereto; Figure 2, is a plan thereof; and the other
Figures of the Drawing represent the separate parts of the lock I
prefer to use. And I may remark that although the Invention is shewn
only applied to a pistol, it will be evident that the improvements may
be applied to other fire-arms which differ principally in the nature of
the stocks employed.
On the outside of the breach is formed a projection at u, through
which a hole is drilled to receive the axis of the peculiar formed appa-
ratus b, which consists of a lever b, moving on an axis c.
This lever is
capable of being thrown back when a cap is being applied, and then to
be shut down at the back of the breech, and thus prevent the cap
coming off; and it will be seen, on examining the Drawing, that there
is a recess formed in the face of the apparatus or lever b, in which the
cap is contained when the lever b, is shut down. And it will also be
seen that the cock or hammer does not strike the cap, but strikes the
lever b, and by that means gives the necessary impact to the detonating
powder in the cap to discharge it.

page_text: The various parts being shown separately as well as combined, in the
Drawing, the nature of their form and construction and mode of
action will readily be traced, and therefore will require no further
description.
In witness whereof, I, the said Moses Poole, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of January, in the
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-one.
year of