AN INSTRUMENT OR APPARATUS FOR MOISTENING OR LUBRICATING THE INTERIOR OF RIFLE BARRELS WHEN IN USE
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Hunter Finlay, of Govanhill, in the County of
Renfrew, North Britain, for an Invention of "AN INSTRUMENT OR APPARATUS
FOR MOISTENING OR LUBRICATING THE INTERIOR OF RIFLE BARRELS WHEN
IN USE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Hunter Finlay at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd September 1880.
ROBERT HUNTER FINLAY, of Govanhill, in the County of Renfrew, North Britain.
"AN INSTRUMENT OR APPARATUS FOR MOISTENING OR LUBRICATING THE INTERIOR
OF RIFLE BARRELS WHEN IN USE."
Considerable inconvenience is experienced by rifle shooters, especially in hot and
dry weather, by the necessity of having to turn over rifles for the purpose of
bringing the muzzle of the barrel to the mouth in order to blow through the bore
thereof by the breath for moistening or lubricating the same.
The present Invention has for its object to overcome this inconvenience by
enabling the user of the rifle to moisten or lubricate the same by blowing into the
barrel from the breech end, and the instrument or apparatus constituting the
Invention by which the aforesaid object is effected consists of a stopper so shaped
and constructed as to fit into the chamber or breech cavity. To this stopper,
which is hollow, a flexible tube is attached and provided at the other end with n
mouthpiece. After a discharge the breech of the rifle is opened, the stopper
inserted thereinto, and the mouthpiece applied to the mouth of the user of the rifle,
whereby he is enabled to blow into the barrel from the breech end for the purpose
of lubricating and moistening the same.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Robert Hunter Finlay in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th
February 1881.
ROBERT HUNTER FINLAY, of Govanhill, in the County of Renfrew, North Britain.
"AN INSTRUMENT OR APPARATUS FOR MOISTENING OR LUBRICATING THE INTERIOR
OF RIFLE BARRELS WHEN IN USE,"
Considerable inconvenience is experienced by rifle shooters, especially in hot and
dry weather, by the necessity of having to turn over rifles for the purpose of
bringing the muzzle of the barrel to the mouth in order to blow through the
bore thereof by the breath for moistening or lubricating the same.
The present Invention has for its object to overcome this inconvenience by
enabling the user of the rifle to moisten or lubricate the same by blowing into the
barrel from the breech end, and the instrument or apparatus constituting the
Invention by which the aforesaid object is effected consists of a stopper so shaped
and constructed as to fit into the chamber or breech cavity. To this stopper,
which is hollow, a flexible tube is attached, and provided at the other end with a
mouth-piece. After a discharge the breech of the rifle is opened, the stopper inserted
thereinto, and the mouth piece applied to the mouth of the user of the rifle,
whereby he is enabled to blow into the barrel from the breech end for the purpose
of lubricating and moistening the same.
In order that my Invention may be more fully understood I shall now proceed
to describe the same more particularly, and for that purpose I shall refer to the
accompanying Drawing.
In this Drawing a is the stopper consisting of a piece of cork, which is perforated
lengthwise, and into which a small tube bis inserted, made of brass or any other
suitable metal. Upon this tube a shoulder c, consisting of a disk of the same metal
is fixed to keep the stopper from passing beyond, and which stopper is kept in
place by means of a second disk e with a threaded hole, which is screwed upon
the threaded end of the small tube, into the other end of which a tube f, of india
rubber or any other flexible material, is inserted, and the other end of which
tube is provided with the mouth-piece g, made of wood, horn, or any other suitable
material.
After having thus described my Invention, and the manner of carrying it into
effect, I claim, and desire to secure by the said Letters Patent, an instrument or
apparatus for moistening or lubricating the interior of rifle barrels when in use,
consisting of a perforated stopper in combination with a flexible tube provided
with a mouth-piece, the said stopper being intended to be inserted into the breech
of the rifle for blowing into the barrel by means of the mouthpiece, substantially
as above said and shown in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Hunter Finlay, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty fifth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.