DRAWING THE CARTRIDGE CASE FROM THE BARREL OF A BREECH-LOADING GUN
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Isaac Hammond, of the City of Winchester, Gun
Maker, for the Invention of "DRAWING THE CARTRIDGE CASE FROM THE
BARREL OF A BREECH-LOADING GUN."
Sealed the 24th December 1858, and dated the 28th June 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Isaac Hammond at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
28th June 1858.
I, ISAAC HAMMOND, of the City of Winchester, Gun Maker, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "DRAWING THE CARTRIDGE CASE
FROM THE BARREL OF A BREECH-LOADING GUN," to be as follows:-
The barrels secured by a tumbler seated in the breech in the front of a lump
on the barrels at the breech end, and connected by a pin in the fore part of
the breech; a lever attached to the tumbler under the gun in front of the
trigger guard, by being turned a quarter of a circle, the barrels immediately.
fall down in a position for loading, at the same time the empty cartridge
cases are withdrawn from the barrels by a self-acting spring lever sliding

page_text: through the lump under and between the barrels, one end clipping the brass
end of the cartridge, the other end being acted upon by an inner pin attached
to the breech.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Isaac Hammond in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 28th December 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ISAAC
HAMMOND, of the City of Winchester, in the County of Southampton, Gun
Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Isaac Hammond, Her special licence that I, the said Isaac Hammond,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Isaac
Hammond, 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 "A SELF-ACTING CARTRIDGE
CASE DRAWER FOR A BREECH-LOADING GUN," upon the condition, (amongst
others,) that I, the said Isaac Hammond, my executors, or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their bands 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 Isaac Hammond, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The barrels secured by a tumbler seated in the breech in front of a lump on
the barrels at the breech end, and connected by a pin through the fore part of
the breech; a lever attached to the tumbler under the gun in front of the
trigger guard by being turned a quarter of a circle, the barrels immediately

page_text: fall down in a position for loading, at the same tine the empty cartridge cases
are withdrawn from the barrels by a self-acting spring lever sliding through
the lump under and between the barrels, one end clipping the brass end of
the cartridge cases, the other end being acted upon by an inner pin attached
5 to the breech.
In witness whereof, I, the said Isaac Hammond, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Signed, sealed, and delivered in the
presence of
JOHN HAMMOND,
Winchester,
AUGUSTUS FLIGHT,
Winchester.
ISAAC (L.S.) HAMMOND.