AN IMPROVEMENT IN PROJECTILES FOR RIFLES to be as follows:-
Year: 1885

page_text: I, RICHARD MORRIS of Bennetts Park, Blackheath in the County of Kent,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
PROJECTILES FOR RIFLES to be as follows:-
"
My invention relates to a construction of projectile for rifles, particularly
applicable when the projectile is required to be light so as to be fired by a small
charge over a short range. The principal object which I have in view is to avoid
fouling of the bore of the rifle which often is occasioned by deposit of lead from
a bullet fired with a small charge.
I make the projectile of lead or alloy in the form of a rivet with a head; that
may be conoidal, and a stem, preferably countersunk at its end. On the stem
I place an annular greased wad and I then burr or rivet the end of the stem over
the wad which is thus held firmly on the stem. In firing, the wad, being of some-
what yielding material, takes the rifling, while the head, being somewhat smaller
than the bore, does not foul it.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant,
28, Southampton Buildings,
London, W.C;

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Projectiles for Rifles.
I, RICHARD MORRIS of Bennetts Park Blackheath in the County of Kent do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
My invention relates to a construction of projectile for rifles, particularly
applicable when the projectile is required to be light so as to be fired by a small
charge over a short range. The principal object which I have in view is to avoid
fouling of the bore of the rifle which often is occasioned by deposit of lead from
a bullet fired with a small charge.
I make the projectile of lead or alloy in the form of a rivet with a head, that
may be conoidal, and a stem preferably countersunk at its end. On the stem
I place an annular greased wad and I then burr or rivet the end of the stein over
the wad which is thus held firmly on the stem. In firing, the wad, being of some-
what yielding material, takes the rifling, while the head, being somewhat smaller
than the bore, does not foul it.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a longitudinal section of a projectile
according to my invention. A a is the rivet of lead or alloy, which may have
a conical head as indicated at A. On its stem is placed the annular wad B, and
the end a of the stem is burred or rivetted over the wad. A thin washer C of
metal, as shewn in Fig. 2, may be placed over the wad B to receive the burr of the
rivet. Or a screw thread being cut on the stem of the rivet the wad B may be
screwed on to the stem as shewn in Fig. 3. The ammunition for firing the projectile
may be in the form of a disc of explosive, as shewn at Fig. 2, gummed or otherwise
cemented on the base of the projectile.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The construction of projectile for rifles, consisting of a rivet of lead or alloy
having an annular wad secured on its stem, substantially as and for the purpose
herein set forth.