IMPROVEMENTS IN FIRE-ARMS CALLED REVOLVERS
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Adams, of King William Street, in the City
of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FIRE-ARMS CALLED
REVOLVERS."
Sealed the 20th March 1855, and dated the 15th December 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Adams at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 15th December
1854.
I, ROBERT ADAMS, of King William Street, in the City of London, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FIRE-ARMS
CALLED REVOLVERS" to be as follows:-
These improvements consist, first, of the application of a bolt to fasten and
retain the moveable axis on which the short barrels revolve, and such bolt is
moved into and from a recess in the moveable axis by being formed with an
inclined thread or screw, so that, by the moving an arm or instrument fixed to
the bolt partly round, it securely bolts the moveable axis.
The second improvement consists of the application of a bolt to fasten the
short barrels in such a position that, in the event of the hammer being by
accidental causes moved back, it will not strike either of the nipples.
And the third improvement consists of a peculiar construction and appli-
cation of a lever ramrod to such descriptions of fire-arms. For this purpose,

page_text: on one side of a fire-arm a lever is attached, so as to turn on an axis at its fore
end, and be retained by a spring or other suitable catch at or near the other
end. On this lever there is a fixed projection, which, on moving the lever on
its axis, enters one of the short barrels, and rams the ball which has been
placed therein.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Adams in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
15th June 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
ADAMS, of King William Street, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Robert Adams, Her special licence that I, the said Robert Adams,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Robert
Adams, 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, usc, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FIRE-ARMS CALLED
REVOLVERS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Robert
Adams, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Robert Adams, 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 thereof (that is to say):
These improvements consist, first, of the application of a bolt to fasten and
retain the moveable axis on which the short barrels revolve, and such bolt is
moved into and from a recess in the moveable axis, by being formed with an
inclined thread or screw, so that, by the moving an arm or instrument fixed to
the bolt partly round, it securely bolts the moveable axis.

page_text: to allow the bolt d to slide. h is a lever attached to the fire-arm by a pin
joint . This lever has thereon a projecting rammer h, by which the balls are
rammed into the short barrels. When not in use this lever is out of the way,
close to the side of the fire-arm; but when in the act of ramming in a ball to
one of the short barrels, it is caused to assume the position shown by the red
lines in Figure 1.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, I would have it
understood that what I claim is,―
First, the mode of securing the axis a of the short barrels.
Secondly, the mode of bolting or securing the short barrels.
And, thirdly, the mode of applying the lever rammer.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Adams, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
JNO. ALCOCK.
ROBERT ADAMS. (L.S.)