Improved Shotmoulds and Apparatus Connected therewith for Making Buckshot, Wildfowl Shot, and Bullets for Rifles.
Year: 1888

page_text: Improved Shotmoulds and Apparatus Connected therewith for
Making Buckshot, Wildfowl Shot, and Bullets for Rifles.
THEODOR CORDES 31 Exeter street Gateshead on Tyne county of Durham
Manager, "Abbey Patent Hard Shot Co. Ld." Gateshead on Tyne. I Theodor
Cordes, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The improved shotmoulds are made circular in shape, and consist of three or more
circular plates, one on the top of each other, having several holes and dies, regular
and different in size and shape, according to the sizes and shape of Buckshot,
Wildfowl shot, and bullets for Rifles.
The circular bottom and middle plates are connected on one side with a hinge, and
on the opposite side with two handles so as to open the moulds.
The circular topplate has a spindle in the centre, and is in contact with two toothed-
wheels, connected with the middle plate: -
The spindle in the centre of the topplate is screwed into the centre of the middle
plate, so as to complete those improved shotmoulds, having a nut on the top for
regulating the topplate, and for removing the same from the middle plate, when
cleaning is necessary.
There is a circular apparatus having several holes of regulated size "according to
the size of the several holes in the moulds" for dividing the molten lead into the holes
and dies of the moulds.
They are slung on the circular overhead rail (Patent 9524. 23 July 1886) for
continuous casting.
The continuous flow of molted lead, regulated by cutting door on
Patent Boiler
9524 23 July 1886" passes; quite free from all impurity through the apparatus
into the moulds; forms, "in one process" in the bottom mould; or in the bottom and
middle plates; the spherical shot, and in the topplate the bullets for Rifles.
Immediately after casting, the apparatus is removed; the toothed wheels revolve the
topplate around its spindle, so as to cut the spherical shot from the bullets for Rifles
in one process.

page_text: The moulds are immediately opened and the shot runs automatically between
finishing tables or plates, "which are continuously revolving" quite perfect into the
polishers.
My invention is a great improvement on the shot moulds, and mills now in use, as
a considerable greater quantity of shot, of two and more different sizes and shapes are
performed, in one process.
The moulds now in use, are oblong, square, and only one kind of shot is cast in one
mould, by the use of ladles by which the impure lead is taken out of the top of the
boiler, from which the few pellets are cast, one after the other in proportion of the
small quantity of lead in the ladle.
The buckshot, wildfowl shot, and bullets, made by the mills now in use, undergo
four processes, viz. :
1st. process casting short square pigs by ladles, from impure. lead out the top of
the boiler.
2nd process passing those pigs through the rollers for making wire.
3rd process cutting this wire into pieces.
4th process: those pieces into the mill for more than 24 hours running, and by
which processes, a great quantity is made imperfect.
Therefore my invention is a greater improvement over the processes already
mentioned, as all the sizes of shot named in this application are made perfect, and more
pure in one process automatically.
Dated this 17th day of March 1888.

page_text: Improved Shotmoulds and Apparatus Connected therewith for
Making Buckshot, Wildfowl Shot, and Bullets for Rifles.
THEODOR CORDES 15 Denmark street (late 31 Exeter street) Gateshead on Tyne
in the county of Durham Manager Abbey Patent Hard Shot Co. Ld. Gateshead on
Tyne. I 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 :-
The drawing. bereunto annexed illustrates my invention.
Fig. 1. is a sectional elevation of the circular mould, through the line A. B. fig. 2.
Fig. 2. is a plan of the mould.
The improved shotmoulds are circular in shape and consist of three or more
circular plates one on the top of each other, having several holes and dies according to
the several dies and shapes of buckshot, wildfowlshot, and bullets for rifles.
The bottom plate a. and middleplate b. are connected on one side with a hinge c
and on the opposite they are provided with two handles d. d. for opening the
mould.
The topplate E. has a spindle f. in the centre, and is attached to one or more toothed
wheels G. gearing with a rack formed on the middleplate b.
The spindle f. in the centre of the topplate E is screwed into the centre of the
middleplate b. so as to complete those improved shotmoulds, having a nut H on the
top for regulating the topplate and for removing the same from the middleplate when
cleaning is necessary.
There is a circular apparatus having several holes of regulated size according to the
size of the several holes in the moulds, for deviding the molten lead into the holes and
dies of the moulds.
They are slung on the circular overhead rail, “Patent 9524 23 July 1886," for
continuous casting.
The continuous flow of molten lead, regulated by cutting door on "Patent Boiler
9524 23 July 1886" passes quite free from all impurity through the apparatus into
the moulds forms in one process in the bottom and middleplates, the spherical shot, and
in the topplate the bullets for rifles.
Immediately after casting the apparatus is removed, the toothed wheels revolve the
topplate around its spindle, so as to cut the bullets for rifles from the spherical shot in
one process.
The moulds are immidiately opened and the shot runs automatically between
finishing tables or plates, which are continuously revolving, quite perfect into the
polishers.
My invention is a great improvement on the shot moulds, mills, and punching
machinery now in use, as a considerably greater quantity of shot, of several sizes and
shapes are performed in one process.

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The moulds now in use are oblong square, and only one kind of shot, of one size, is
cast in one mould, by the use of ladles by which the impure lead is taken out of the
top of the boiler, from which the few pellets are cast, one after the other, in proportion
to the small quantity of lead in the ladle.
The buckshot, wildfowlshot, and bullets made by mills now in use, undergo four
processes, viz. :
I. Casting shortpigs by the use of ladles from impure lead out of the top of the
boiler.
.
II. Those pigs passing through the rollers for making wire.
III. Cutting this wire into pieces.
IV. Those pieces put into the mills for not less than 24 hours running by which
processes a great quantity is made imperfect.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is;
1st. That the moulds be circular in shape instead of oblong and square.
2nd. That by making several kinds of shot in the same moulds in one process.
3rd. That the circular topplate, can be removed, regulated, to perform different sizes
of shot, and by revolving the same around its spindle; is acting as a cutting machine.
4th. That by the use of a circular apparatus, the lead is equal divided through its
holes direct into holes and dies of the moulds, and that the several and different
sizes of shot are performed automatically in one process, instead of using ladles, to
avoid delay and labour.
5th. That by using the purified lead direct from the patent boiler can produce a
better quality of shot, under "registered" name of Improved Chilled shot.
6th. That by the automatic arrangement in contact with the patent boiler, circular
apparatus, overheadrail, and revolving tables, this shot is made perfect at much
less cost.