IMPROVEMENTS IN AMORCES OR PRIMINGS FOR FIRE-ARMS, TOY ARMS, OR DETONATING TOYs
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Germain Canouil, of Paris, France, Chemist, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN AMORCES OR PRIMINGS FOR FIRE-ARMS,
TOY ARMS, OR DETONATING TOYs."
Sealed the 15th January 1867, and dated the 21st July 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Germain Canouil at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 21st
July 1866.
I, GERMAIN CANOUIL, of Paris, France, Chemist, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN AMORCES OR PRIMINGS FOR
FIRE-ARMS, TOY ARMS, OR DETONATING TOYS," to be as follows:-
These improvements in amorces or primings for fire-arms, toy arms, and
detonating toys relate to a description of amorces which replace the metal
percussion caps, and which being made of paper, thin tissue, or other similar
light material, instead of metal, I call harmless non-metallic amorces.
The Invention consists in providing a sheet of paper, tissue, or other similar
suitable thin material, with a number of dots, small portions of little heaps of
any suitable fulminating composition, the said dots, heaps, or portions being
situated at such distance apart that the explosion or detonating of one of them
cannot spontaneously set fire to the remainder ones, whilst in order to prevent
their detonating by mere rubbing or handling they are covered with any suitable
varnish or with another sheet of paper or tissue caused to adhere to the first
sheet by gluing or by the interposition of any suitable cement.
The sheet or
sheets are then divided into strips, rounds, squares, or other suitable forms,

page_text: but by preference into strips, each of them containing two or more of the
portions of the fulminating composition, each of which portion is to serve as
priming either for fire-arms, toy arms, or detonating toys. I call these strips
Canouil's harmless repeating amorces or primings.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Germain Canouil in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st
January 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GERMAIN
CANOUIL, of Paris, France, Chemist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of July; in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her beirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Germain Canouil, Her special licence that I, the said Germain Canouil, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Germain
Canouil, 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 AMORCES OR
PRIMINGS FOR FIRE-ARMS, TOY ARMS, OR DETONATING TOYS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Germain Canouil, my executors or ad-
ministrators, 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 Germain Canouil, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed; to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
These improvements in amorces or primings for fire-arms, toy arms, or
detonating toys, relate to a description of amorces which are intended to
..replace the metal percussion caps, and which being made of paper, thin
tissue, or other similar light material, I call barmless non-metallic amorces

page_text: or primings: Hitherto my harmless non-metallic amorces were made single
viz., each of them formed an entirely separate amorce.
My present Invention consists in providing a sheet or sheets of paper, tissue,
or other similar suitable thin material with a number of dots or small portions
or heaps of any suitable fulminating composition, the said dots, heaps, or
portions being situated at such, distances apart from each other so as to prevent
the exploding or detonating of one of them to set fire spontaneously to the next
or remaining ones, whilst in order to prevent their detonating taking place by
mere rubbing or handling they are covered with any suitable protecting varnish
or with another sheet of paper, tissue, or other similar suitable light material,
which is caused to adhere to the first sheet by means of glue or other suitable
cement, after which the sheet or sheets of amorces thus obtained are divided
or cut into strips, rounds, squares, or other suitable portions of any suitable
form, but by preference into strips, each of these latter containing two, three,
or more of the said anorces, each of which latter is to serve at its turn as a
priming for fire-arms, toy arms, or detonating toys, to which the said strips or
other portions of the sheets are applied, by which means the said strips, rounds,
squares, or other suitable portions will form repeating primings, and for which
reason I give to the said strips or other portions the name of Canouil's harmless
repeating amorces or primings.
Having thus described and particularly ascertained the nature of my
Invention, and the manner in which is or may be put into effect, I declare
that I do not intend to limit or restrict myself to any particular shape or
form to be given to my strips, rounds, squares, or other forms of repeating
amorces or primings, or to any particular fulminating composition, or to
any particular tissue, paper, or other similar light material of which my
said repeating amorces or primings are to be manufactured; but what
I consider to be novel and original, and therefor claim as the Invention
secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,
manufacturing what I denominate Canouil's harmless repeating amorces
or primings for fire-arms, toy arnis, or detonating toys by providing a sheet
or sheets of paper, tissue, or other similar suitable light material with any
suitable number of small heaps, dots, or portions of any suitable detonating or
fulminating compound, each of which portions, heaps, or dots forming a
priming, and which are situated at the required distances apart from each other
for preventing the explosion of one of them of setting fire to the remainder
ones, and dividing the sheet or sheets of amorces into strips, squares, rounds,
or other suitable parts, each of them provided with two or more of the said
amorces or fulminating portions, the sheet or sheets having been provided

page_text: with a suitable protecting varnish or with a sheet of paper, tissue, or other
similar light material suitably glued or cemented to the first sheet previously
to its being divided into strips or other portions.
In witness whereof, I, the said Germain Canonil, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
. thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
GN. CANOUIL. (L.S.)