IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR TURNING AND CLOSING CARTRIDGES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Buttery, of Sheffield, in the County of
York, Manager at Powder Flask Manufactory, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR TURNING AND CLOSING CARTRIDGES."
Sealed the 20th November 1868, and dated the 26th May 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Buttery at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th May 1868.
I, WILLIAM BUTTERY, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Manager at
Powder Flask Manufactory, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR TURNING AND CLOSING
CARTRIDGES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for
turning and closing cartridges. Cartridges for breech-loading fowling
pieces are usually closed by turning the edge of the paper cartridge
case inwards so as to form a stop to retain the wad which encloses

page_text: the shot. This operation is performed by placing the cartridge into a
tube or cylinder having at its end a disc with a conical groove in its
face; this disc is revolved whilst the cartridge is pressed forward against
it and is held so that it cannot turn.
Now my Invention consists in employing to hold and press forward
the cartridge a lever jointed to one side of the tube or cylinder, and
having a projection upon it so placed that when the lever is used to
press forward the cartridge in the tube or cylinder the projection bears
upon one side of the head of the cartridge in the tube or cylinder, holding
it tightly against the interior of the tube or cylinder and so nipping
it that it cannot turn, whilst at the same time the movement of the
lever about its centre carries it up to the closing cone. The tube or
cylinder is notched on one side to allow the projection on the lever to
enter.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
by the said William Buttery in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
26th November 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BUTTERY, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Manager at Powder Flask
Manufactory, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Buttery, Her special licence
that I, the said William Buttery, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said William Buttery, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR TURNING AND CLOSING CARTRIDGES," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said William Buttery, my executors

page_text: or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Buttery, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for
turning and closing cartridges. Cartridges for breech-loading fowling
pieces are usually closed by turning the edge of the paper cartridge
case inwards so as to form a stop to retain the wad which eucloses
the shot. This operation is performed by placing the cartridge into a
tube or cylinder having at its end a disc with a conical groove in its
face; this diso is revolved whilst the cartridge is pressed forward against
it and is held so that it cannot turn.
Now my Invention consists in employing to hold and press forward
the cartridge a lever jointed to one side of the tube or cylinder, and
having a projection upon it so placed that when the lever is used to
press forward the cartridge in the tube or cylinder the projection bears
on one side of the head of the cartridge in the tube or cylinder, holding
it tightly against the interior of the tube or cylinder and so nipping
it that it cannot turn, whilst at the same time the movement of the
lever about its centre carries it up to the closing cone. The tube or
cylinder is notched on one side to allow the projection on the lever to
enter.
T
mehe most fuller undantand and
Figure 1 is a plan, and Figure 2 is a side elevation of the apparatus;
Figure 3 is a horizontal section taken at the line 1, 1, Figure 2.

page_text: a is the holder consisting of a tube or cylinder into which the cartridge
to be turned and closed is placed; it is at and near its mouth of a size
to admit the flange or head of the cartridge freely into it, but further
in the tube or cylinder is contracted by the insertion within it of a
lining tube so that the front end of the cartridge loosely fits it. In
the same piece with the holder a there is cast an arm a¹ carrying a
clamping screw b for fixing the apparatus to a table, the edge of the
table being nipped between the toothed button on the end of the screw
and the roughened surface a² formed below the holder a. At one side
of the holder is the lug a³ in which is fixed a screw pin serving as the
axis of a lever c having at its other end a handle. The lever c also
carries a projection c¹, and this projection when a cartridge is being
turned is made to bear upon the head of the cartridge, as is shown at
Figure 3, in which Figure the dotted lines indicate the cartridge, and
so the projection c¹ serves both to press the cartridge forward against
the turning cone d and to hold it from turning. That the projection c¹
may effectually serve this latter end it is provided with sharp
longitudinal grooves or teeth, as is shown at Figure 4, which is a
transverse section of it. a is a notch in the side of the holder a to
admit of the passage of the projection c¹. The turning cone d is fixed
at the end of an axis e having a crank handle e¹ upon it, and this axis
is carried in a bearing a cast together with the holder a. The turning
cone is made in the usual way; it is a cup with an annular groove at
the bottom, in which are two small rounded projections or rubbers d¹.
f is a pusher sliding through the axis e, which is bored to receive it;
it is used to eject the cartridge when turned and closed from the
holder a.
In working the apparatus the cartridge case being loaded
and a wad inserted over the charge it is placed in the holder and is
pressed forward and held by the lever handle c whilst it is turned and
closed by rotating the cone d by means of the crank handle e'. The
operation being complete the cartridge is pushed out of the holder by
the use of the pusher f.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, I would have it understood that what
I claim is, the constructing apparatus for turning and closing cartridges

page_text: and also to hold it from turning by bearing on the side of the head of
the cartridge and pressing it against the opposite side of the holder.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Buttery, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of November,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.
WILLIAM BUTTERY. (L.S.)
WILLIAM BUTTERY. (L.S.)