Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 14th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 16th Aug., 1887.
I, RICHARD MORRIS, of Bennett Park, Blackheath in the County of Kent, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the construction of an improved brush apparatus for
effectually cleansing the cartridge chamber of a gun, and thus preventing the sticking
of the cartridge cases that so frequently occurs owing to the fouling of the chamber.
For this purpose I construct a rod or holder, preferably of wire, on the end of which
is fixed or formed a socket having a hinge joint, and into the front end of the socket I
screw the stem of a brush suited to enter the cartridge chamber. Thus the brush can
be pushed into the chanıber with its stem parallel to the bore of the gun and be
worked backwards and forwards therein in that position while the outer part of the
holder is held at an angle to the brush, which angle may vary as the brush is moved
to and fro. By this means an effectual cleansing of the chamber is insured while the
.stem of the brush is prevented from scraping against and injuring the outer edge of
the chamber, as might be the case when the brush handle is formed of a single piece
of wire.
When the brush is worn out, it is unscrewed from the socket and replaced by a
new one.
This improved brush apparatus also has the advantage that when folded together it
occupies so small a space that it can be put in the soldiers pouch or in the pocket.
1000
ABEL & IMRAY,
28, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, RICHARD MORRIS, of Bennett Park, Blackheath in the County of Kent Engineer,
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 the construction of an improved brush apparatus for
effectually cleaning the cartridge chamber of a gun, and thus preventing the sticking
of the cartridge cases that so frequently occurs, owing to the fouling of the chamber.
For this purpose, I construct a rod or holder preferably of wire, on the end of
which is fixed or formed a socket having a hinge joint and into the front end of the
socket I screw the stem of a brush suited to enter the cartridge chamber.
Thus the brush can be pushed into the chamber with its stem parallel to the bore of
the gun and be worked backwards and forwards therein in that position while the outer
part of the holder is held at an angle to the brush which angle may vary as the brush
is moved to and fro. By this means an effectual cleansing of the chamber is insured
while the stem of the brush is prevented from scraping against and injuring the outer
edge of the chamber, as might be the case when the brush handle is formed of a single
piece of wire.
When the brush is worn out it is unscrewed from the socket and replaced by a
new one.
This improved brush apparatus also has the advantage that when folded together it
occupies so small a space that it can be put in the soldier's pouch or in the pocket.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a side view of a brush according to my
invention as it is applied to cleanse the charge chamber of a rifle. A is the handle or
holder to which is jointed at B a socket. Into this socket is screwed a stem of a
brush C of cylindrical form with a taper or conoidal end. By the fingers applied to
the ring of the handle A the brush can be moved to and fro, and turned round
within the charge chamber, the joint at B permitting the handle to be in an angular
position relatively to the axis of the brush. Fig. 2 shews a modified construction
according to which the handle A is made of two strands of wire twisted together and
forming a loop at B. The stem C of the brush is likewise of twisted wire forming a

page_text: loop at B engaged with the loop of the handle, the bristles of the brush taking a
helical arrangement and held firinly between the convolutions of the wire stem.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
For cleaning the cartridge chamber of a gun, brush apparatus consisting of a taper
ended cylinderical brush adapted to the chamber and having its stem jointed to a
holder or handle, substantially as described.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.