IMPROVEMENTS IN CARTRIDGE POUCHES OR CARRIERS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Henry Daw, of Threadneedle Street, in
the City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARTRIDGE
POUCHES OR CARRIERS."-A communication from abroad by Clarence
Blake, residing at Boston, United States of America.
Sealed the 14th January 1868, and dated the 17th July 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Henry Daw
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th July 1867.
I, GEORGE HENRY DAW, of Threadneedle Street, in the City of London,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CARTRIDGE POUCHES OR CARRIERS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in cartridge pouches or
carriers.
In constructing cartridge pouches or carriers I employ a flexible pipe of
leather or other material connected at its two ends with a metal mouth piece;
this mouth piece consists of a central tube having upon it on opposite sides
two short branches inclining upwards, and to these branches the ends of the
flexible pipe are adapted. Within the central tube is another tube with an
opening on one side, which by turning the interior tube partly round can be
brought to correspond with one or other of the branches of the outer tube.
The lower end of the interior tube projects from the outer tube, and has
jointed to it on opposite sides two lever catches; on the outside of this tube

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over these catches is a slide, also of tubular form, with projections upon it,
which by moving the slide on its tube may be brought in contact with the lever
catches on one or other side of these centres or axes, so as to cause them to
rock thereon. There is a helical spring which tends constantly to draw the
slide upwards, and then the upper ends of the catches project within the tube;
but when the slide is drawn down the catches are caused to tip on their
centres, and the upper ends of the catches are withdrawn, whilst the lower
are caused to project into the tube. The apparatus is worn like a cross belt
over one shoulder, with the mouth piece by the side of the wearer.
cartridges, which are supposed to be those of a breech-loading arm with flanges
at the back, are fitted into the flexible pipes through suitable openings left for
the purpose, and they tend to descend by their own weight towards the mouth
piece and on the side on which the side opening of the interior tube corre-
sponds with the branch forming a continuation of the flexible, pipe; the lowest
cartridge passes down into the interior tube until its flange is caught by the
upper ends of the lever catches, and it is there held until by moving the slide
down the upper ends of the lever catches are drawn back, and the cartridge
then falls until its flange comes against the lower ends of the same catches,
where it is held until the slide is allowed to rise by the action of its spring,
and then the lower ends of the lever catches being drawn back this cartridge
falls out into the hand of the operator, whilst the cartridge next above descends
until its flange is stopped by the upper ends of the lever catches, which now
again project, and so 'this cartridge is held ready to be discharged when the
slide is next moved. When one side of the flexible pipe is discharged
the inner tube is turned half round to bring its opening to correspond with
the branch with which the other side of the flexibe pipe is in connection. It
is evident that in a similar way the mouth piece may be supplied by more than
two flexible reservoir pipes if desired.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of 'the conditions of the Letters Patent, (filed
by the said George Henry Daw in the Great Seal Patent Office on s
the 17th January 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HENRY DAW, of Threadneedle Street, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of July, in the year of our 3
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year

page_text: of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said George Henry Daw, Her special licence, that I, the said
George Henry Daw, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said George Henry Daw, 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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CARTRIDGE POUCHES OR CARRIERS," a communication to me
from abroad by Clarence Blake, a person resident at Boston, United States
of America, upon the condition (amongst others). that I, the said George
Henry Daw, my executors 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 George Henry Daw, 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 cartridge pouches or
carriers.
In constructing cartridge pouches or carriers I employ a flexible pipe of
leather or other material connected at its two ends with a metal mouth piece.
This mouth piece consists of a central tube having upon it on opposite sides
two short branches inclining upwards, and to these branches the ends of the
flexible pipe are adapted. Within the central tube is another tube with an
opening on one side, which by turning the interior tube partly round can be
brought to correspond with one or other of the branches of the outer tube.
The lower end of the interior tube projects from the outer tube and has
jointed to it on opposite sides two lever catches; on the outside of this tube
over these catches is a slide also of a tubular form with projections upon it,
which by moving the slide on its tube may be brought in contact with the
lever catches on one or other side of these centres or axes so as to cause them
to rock thereon. There is a helical spring, which tends constantly to draw the
slide upwards, and then the upper ends of the catches project within the tube,
but when the slide is drawn down the catches are caused to tip on these
centres and the upper ends of the catches are withdrawn, whilst the lower

page_text: are caused to project into the tube. The apparatus is worn like a cross belt
The
over one shoulder with the mouth piece by the side of the wearer.
cartridges, which are supposed to be those of a breech-loading arm with
flanges at the back, are filled into the flexible pipe through suitable openings
left for the purpose, and they tend to descend by their own weight towards the
mouth piece, and on the side on which the side opening of the interior tube
corresponds with the branch forming a continuation of the flexible pipe, the
lowest cartridge passes down into the interior tube until its flange is caught
by the upper ends of the lever catches, and it is there held until by moving
the slide down the upper ends of the lever catches are drawn back, and the
cartridge then falls until its flange comes against the lower ends of the same
catches where it is held until the slide is allowed to rise by the action of its
spring, and then the lower ends of the lever catches being drawn back this
cartridge falls out into the hand of the operator, whilst the cartridge next
above descends until its flange is stopped by the upper ends of the lever
catches which now again project, and so this cartridge is held ready to be
discharged when the slide is next moved. When one side of the flexible pipe
is discharged the inner tube is turned half round to bring its opening to cor-
respond with the branch with which the other side of the flexible pipe is in
connection. It is evident that in a similar way the mouth-piece may be
supplied by more than two flexible reservoir pipes if desired.
And in order that the said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto

page_text: strap A; 6 is a tube fitting within the tube a, and having a hole on one side,
which by turning the tube 6 round may be brought opposite to one or other
of the branches a¹ so that the cartridges may descend into ; 61, 61, are lever
catches jointed to the tube, and which by their upper ends stop the escape of
the cartridges when the apparatus is at rest, and this they do by catching
under the flange at the base of the lowest cartridge, as is shown at Figure 4.
c is a tubular slide fitted on to the lower end of the tube b, which is flanged
to receive it; d is a spiral spring, which being enclosed between a flange on
the tube b, and another flange on the slide c presses the slide upwards into a
socket at the bottom of the tube a and the tube b downwards, as far as a stud
or pin fixed on the tube a near its upper end will admit; the edge of the
cap 6, which is fixed by a screw on to the upper end of the tube 6 bearing
against this pin. The tube 6 is turned round when required by means of this
cap, and there are inclined notches in the edge of the cap, into which the pin
drops when the tube b is correctly placed either on the one side or the other.
c', c', are pins screwed into the slide c; their ends project and enter recesses
in the back of the lever catches 61, 6¹. When the slide c is in its position of
rest, as it is shown at Figure 4, then the ends of the pins c¹ press upon the
catches b¹ above their centres, and move their upper ends inwards so as to
come in the path of the cartridges down the tube b and stop them. When,
however, the delivery of a cartridge is required and the slide c is drawn down
by hand until the pins c¹ are brought to the other ends of the recesses in the
catches b', and are stopped thereby, the catches 6' are caused to rock on their
centres, and in doing so their upper ends release the flange of the cartridge
they previously retained and let it fall into the position in which it is shown
at Figure 5, where it is stopped by the lower ends of the catches b', which are
then protruded forward into the tube b. When the slide c is allowed to return
by the action of its spring the catches 6¹ return to their first position and
allow the lower cartridge to fall out into the hand of the user, whilst the
following cartridge is retained by the upper ends of the catches, as before.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Henry Daw, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
GEORGE HENRY DAW. (L.S.)