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United States Patent Office Application-Improvement in Fire-Arms

Samuel Colt

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .SAMUEL COLT, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.
IMPROVEMENT IN FIRE-ARMS AND IN THE APPARATUS USED THEREWITH.
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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1,304, dated August 29, 1839.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Samuel Colt, of Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, did obtain Letters Patent of the United States for an Improvement in Fire-Arms, which Letters Patent bear date on the 25th day of February, in the year 1836, and that I have made certain improvements in the construction of the said fire-arms, and also in the apparatus for loading and priming the same; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of my said improvements.

My first improvements appertain to rifles, guns, and pistols; my second to the construction of a cap-primer for containing the percussion-caps and . . . Read More