IMPROVEMENTS IN FIRE ARMS AND RECEPTACLES FOR CARTRIDGES
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Herbert John Haddan, of the Firm of Herbert and
Company, Solicitors of Patents, of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster,
Civil Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FIRE ARMS AND
RECEPTACLES FOR CARTRIDGES." A communication from abroad by Silvester
Krnka, of Prague, Bohemia, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Sealed the 7th October 1879, and dated the 21st April 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Herbert John Haddan at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st April 1879.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert and Company, Solicitors of
Patents, of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer. IMPROVE-
MENTS IN FIRE-ARMS AND RECEPTACLES FOR CARTRIDGES." A communication
from abroad by Silvester Krnka, of Prague, Bohemia, in the Austro-Hungarian
Empire.
The Invention has for its object to increase the speed of firing with breech-
loading arms, and consists in attaching to said arms near their breech, and pre-
ferably at both sides of the stock, holders or receptacles into which a box or
magazine filled with a number of cartridges is to be placed so as to be ready at
hand for loading. The magazine may be made of any suitable material, but most
advantageously of card made waterproof in an alcoholic solution of gum lack, and
to receive the cartridges upright in a row while the magazine holder is preferably
made of elastic sheet metal, and to clip or rest over the stock like a saddle, and to
form an elastic clip or pocket for the magazine. The magazine is made detachable,
and may be applied to any sort of breech-loading fire-arm.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent and of
an Order of the Lord Chancellor filed by the said Herbert John Haddan' in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 30th October 1879.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert and Company, Solicitors of
Patents, of 67; Strand; in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer. IMPROVE-
MENTS IN FIRE ARMS AND RECEPTACLES FOR CARTRIDGES.' A communication
from abroad by Silvester Krnka, of Prague, Bohemia, in the Austro Hungarian
Empire.
The Invention has for its object to increase the speed of firing with breech-
loading arms, and consists in attaching to said arms near their breech, and pre-
ferably at both sides of the stock, holders or receptacles into which a box or
magazine filled with a number of cartridges is to be placed so as to be ready at
hand for loading. The magazine may be made of any suitable material, but most
advantageously of card made waterproof in an alcoholic solution of gum lack, and
to receive the cartridges upright in a row, while the magazine holder is preferably
made of elastic sheet metal, and to clip or rest over the stock like a saddle, and to
form an elastic clip or pocket for the magazine. The magazine is made detachable,
and may be applied to any sort of breech loading fire arm. The accompanying
Drawings, Figs. 1-6, Sheet I., show detail views of the magazine holder, and
Sheet II., the magazine, while Figs. 1-4, of Sheet III., show how the magazine holder
may be attached to a rifle. Fig. 1, Sheet I., gives the shape of a sheet from which
a holder for six cartridges is made; Fig. 2, the shape of a sheet serving to make a
holder for twelve cartridges; Fig. 3 illustrates a side view of a finished holder for a
magazine with six cartridges; Fig. 4, a plan of a finished holder for a magazine
with twelve cartridges; Fig. 5, an end view of a magazine holder; and Fig. 6, an
iron pin to be wrapt in the sheet of the magazine holder, as shown at a, in Fig. 5,
two pins for each sheet. The magazine holder is preferably made of steel, hardened
and sufficiently elastic to be easily opened for attaching it to the rifle from below,
and to clip the cartridge magazine (see Figs. 4 and 3, of Sheet II.). Sheet II.
illustrates the cartridge magazine in detail; Fig. 1 showing the shape of cardboard
for making the external part of a magazine with nine cartridges; Fig. 2, the shape
of paper for making the inner part of the magazine, and having two strings a glued
to it. One half of this paper is glued upon the card of the magazine on the left,
and the other half on the right side, the strings coming exactly into the small pro-
jection c, which is pressed or stamped upon the card of the magazine, Fig. 7; Fig. 3:
shows the size and shape of the steelplate for making the springs d, Figs. 4 and 5,
which are placed inside each magazine, holding firmly the cartridges without
diminishing the facility of loading the rifle. Two such springs are placed in a
magazine of nine cartridges. Figs. 4 and 5 show two views of the finished spring;
Fig. 6 is a piece of card separating the cartridges contained in a magazine, the
number of these pieces placed in one magazine depending upon the number of
cartridges; Fig. 7 shows a complete magazine with nine cartridges, e, e, being a
string which holds the magazine, the spring d, and the piece f together (Figs. 5
and 6); c is a small stamped or pressed projection over which pass the wings of the
magazine holder so as to firmly grasp the magazine in its holder. The cardboard of
the magazine is made waterproof by a solution of 1 part of gum lack (in tablets) in
five parts of alcohol. Fig. 1, of Sheet III., represents a breechloading rifle provided
on the right side with a magazine holder and a magazine for six cartridges ;
Fig. 2, a breechloading rifle provided with a double magazine holder, each side
having a magazine with six cartridges; Fig. 3, a magazine holder applied to both
sides of the rifle stock, but without magazines. The magazine holder is attached
to the rifle by pressing the holder with the right hand so that the rifle stock passes
through the opening between the two sides a a, of the elastic magazine holder, and

page_text: is afterwards firmly grasped by the sides of the latter. By a contrary pressure of
the band the magazine holder can be easily removed from the rifle; Fig. 4 repre-
sents a magazine holder for twelve cartridges attached to a breech loading rifle
(without the cartridges). To facilitate the exchange of an empty magazine for a full
one, the magazine is made narrower at the bottom than at the top, and the injurious
influence of the atmosphere on the magazine holder may be reduced by varnish-
ing or other known process. The cartridge magazines may be made of leather,
caoutchouc, sheet iron, steel, or other suitable material, but the inventor prefers to
make them of card board made waterproof in any suitable manner. The construc-
tion of magazine holder, shown in the Drawings, and adapted by the inventor,
requires no alteration of existing rifles, but the "accelerator," as this contrivance
is termed, may be attached to the rifle by means of screws or in any other suitable
Claim. The accelerator or contrivance for increasing the speed of firing
with breechloading rifles of various calibres and systems, substantially as described
and illustrated.
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