IMPROVEMENTS IN GUN WADS
Year: 1885

page_text: I JAMES CHARLES SCOTT of the firm of W. and C. Scott and Son of Lancaster
Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick gun Manufacturers do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN GUN WADS" to bo
as follows:
This invention consists of the improvements herein after described in gun wads.
Gun wads are ordinarily made of thick discs of felt flat on their ends or faces
and smooth on their rims or cylindrical surfaces.
According to this invention gun wads are made by preference of light or
uncompressed papier mâché the ends or faces of the wads being dished or made
concave the depth of each concavity being equal to one third more or less of the
marginal portion of the wad. In the rim or cylindrical surface of the wad four or
other number of ring like grooves or cannelures are made the said cannelures
having by preference a V shape in section.
These cannelures are filled with a lubricant composed of tallow or wax but
other lubricant may be used.
Wads made according to this invention may either be used in cartridges or may
be used as ordinary wads are used in muzzle loading guns.
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page_text: I JAMES CHARLES SCOTT of the firm of W. and C. Scott and Son of Lancaster
Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick Gun Manufacturers 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:
This invention consists of the improvements herein after described in gun wads.
Gun wads are ordinarily made of thick discs of felt flat on their ends or faces
and smooth on their rims or cylindrical surfaces.
According to this invention gun wads are made of papier mâché the ends or faces
of the wads being dished or made concave the depth of each concavity being equal
to one third more or less of the marginal portion of the wad. In the rim or
cylindrical surface of the wad, four or other number of ring like grooves or
cannelures are made, the said cannelures having by preference a V shape in section.
These cannelures are filled with a lubricant composed of tallow and wax but
other lubricant may be used.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in vertical section, a shot
cartridge containing a gun wad constructed according to this invention and
Figure 2 represents in elevation, section and plan the gun wad-detached..
a is the gun wad made of papier mâché by preference of light or uncompressed
papier mâché, that is, the papier mâché has such a consistency that it is somewhat
elastic; b, b are the dished or concave ends of the gun wad having preferably the
depth represented in the Drawing; c, c, care the ring like grooves or cannelures
made in the rim or cylindrical surface of the gun wad the said grooves or cannelures
being V shape in section and filled with a lubricant such as a compound of tallow
and wax of a consistency capable of resisting the heat of the climate in which the
wad is to be used.
By the use of gun wads constructed according to the said invention accuracy
of fire and the production of good "patterns on targets together with great
penetrating power is secured.
Wads made according to this invention may either be used in cartridges or may
be used as ordinary wads are used in muzzle loading guns.
Having now particularly.described and ascertained the nature of this Invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is ;-
Making gun wads of papier mâché preferably of light or uncompressed papier
mâché dished or concave at their ends and having on their rims or cylindrical
surfaces a series of ring like grooves or cannelures filled with a lubricant
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
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