To All Interested;
If I may get us bac on track with the question, ho patented the six flanged, grooved, milled or whatever discription is used to describe the second image with m question.
Pete claims the Blakely patent #1286 as Bakely's patent for this shell when in fact the patent merely describes the rifling for the cannon, it mention of the construcion, design or manufacturer. This is Pete's reference, not mine.
Next we asked to stray from using lpatents as references and to use a modern 1980s book as a reference to idently the projectile. Does this mean that a modedrn document is to be taken over Blakely's own patent?
To my knowledge no patent has surfaced for this projectile.
Regards,
Johno
Patent #1286 follows:
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A.D. 1863, 22nd mAr. N° 1286.
Rifling Guns, &a.
LETTERS PATENT to Theophilus Alexander Blakely, of Montpelier Square-, in the County of Middlesex, late Captain Royal Artillery, for the Inven¬tion of " A NEW METHOD OF RIFLING GUNS, AND OF FORMING PROJECTILES TO CORRESPOND THEREWITH."
Sealed the 18th November 1863, and dated the 22nd May 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Theophilus Alexander Blakely at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 22nd May 1863.
THEOPHILUR ALEXANDER BLAKELY, of Montpelier Square, in the County
5 of Middlesex, late Captain Royal Artillery, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW METHOD OF RIFLING GUNS, AND Or FORMING PRO-JECTILES TO CORRESPOND THEREWITH," to be as follows :
My new method consists in rifling guns and in forming projectiles in such manner that let the turning force come upon whatever point it may of the 10 projectile, it shall exert the same power or influence.
My rifling is formed thus :---I first decide at what distance from the centre of the projectile the turning force shall act, the smaller the bore the nearer the centre should this force act; let a circle be now drawn with a centre in the axis of the barrel, the radius of which circle is this settled distance ; then I form.
15 the rifling of such shape that a line perpendicular to any point of its surface• shall also be a tangent to this circle. I form the projectiles to correspond, and follow the same mathematical rules for determining the shape of the external, surface thereof.
2 A.D. 1863.-N° 1286. Specification.
Blakely's New Method of _Rifling Guns, Ore.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Theophilus Alexander Blakely in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st November 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THEOPHILIIS ALEXANDER BLAKELY, of Montpelier Square, in the County of Middlesex, late 5 Captain Royal Artillery, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her • reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, 10 the said Theophilus Alexander Blakely, Her special licence that I, the said Theophilus Alexander Blakely, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Theophilus Alexander Blakely, 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 ex- 15 pressed, 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 NEW METHOD or RIFLING GUNS, AND or FORMING PROJECTILES TO CORRESPOND THEREWITH," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Theophilus Alexander Blakely, my executors or administrators, 20 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 Inven¬tion, 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. 25
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Theophilus Alexander Blakely, 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 thereof, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, that is to say :— 30
My new method consists in rifling guns and in forming projectiles in such manner that let the turning force come upon whatever point it may of the projectile, it shall exert the same power or influence.
My rifling is formed thus :—I first decide at what distance from the centre of the projectile the turning force shall act, the smaller the bore the nearer the 35 centre should this force act ; let a circle be now drawn with a centre in the axis of the barrel, the radius:of which circle is this settled distance ; then I form the rifling of such, shape that a line perpendicular to any point of its
Specification. A.D. 1863.-N° 1286. 3
Blakely's New Method of Rifling Guns, 4'e.
surface shall also be a tangent to this circle, as shewn in the accompanying Drawing, wherein A B, C D, and E F, are bearing surfaces ; lines perpen¬dicular to any part of these surfaces, as A G, H I, B K, all pass within an equal distance from the centre O. I form the projectiles to correspond, and
5 follow the same mathematical rules for determining the shape of the external surface thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Theophilus Alexander Blakely, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of November, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
10 T. A. BLAKELY. (Ls.)
LONDON :
Printed by GEORGE EDWARD EYRE and WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE,
Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1863.
D.1863. NAT 22. 11?1286. BLAKELY'S SIT CIFICATION SHEET)
The-filed drawing is not colored,. Drawn an Stone -by Malby & Sans
LONDON: Printedby GEORGE EDWARD EIRE and WILLIAM S POTT1SWOODE ,
Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty 1863 ."
