Powder horn

Claim 2

In the art of musketry, means for capping a device adapted to serve as a container for powder, including a plug body, magazine receptacle means in said plug body providing separated areas of containment for lead balls and explosive caps, and means for separately and individually dispensing said balls sand said caps from said receptacle means.

Claim 3

Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized by said capping means including a cap member installed on said plug body to close said receptacle means, and said cap member providing dispensing means for said balls and caps.

Claim 4

Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said dispensing means includes a cap member mounted on and for index-ing movements relatively to said plug body in a rotary sense and has a dispenser opening, the receptacle means in said plug body providing circumferentially spaced cavities with which the dispenser opening in said cap member selectively aligns.

Claim 5

Apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said receptacle means in said plug body includes means defining a centrally positioning recess and an arcuately disposing wall means in a rimming relation to said centrally positioning recess, said recess having an offset bore portion defining, in respect thereto, an entrance-exit opening, and said dispenser opening being adapted to align with said offset bore portion and with separated areas of containment provided in said wall means.

Claim 6

Apparatus according to claim 2, wherein a plurality of individual, circumferentially spaced apart recesses a portion of which are sized to receive individual balls and another portion of which receives caps comprise said separated areas of containment which are arranged to selectively communicate with the dispensing means provided by said cap member.

Claim 7

Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized by said dispensing means including means mounted to said plug body for indexing movements relatively thereto in a rotary sense, said mounted means positioning for the dispensing of balls and caps in different indexing positions and having a neutral position in which the dispensing is blocked.

Claim 8

Apparatus according to claim 6, wherein there are means for attaching a shoulder strap to said mounted means, including a handle joining at an inner end to said mounted means and projecting substantially radially from said plug body and conveniently accessible at an outer end for manual adjustment of said mounted means to different indexing positions.

Claim 9

Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said magazine receptacle means includes a recess in said plug body, and a sleeve rotatable in said recess, said sleeve forming an area of containment for a supply of lead balls, said body and said sleeve having lateral openings aligned by an appropriate rotary adjustment of said sleeve to form a discharge pas-sage for the dispensing of said balls.

Claim 10

Apparatus according to claim 8, characterized by a tubular means mounted to said sleeve to rotate therewith and forming an area of containment for a supply of explosive caps in a segregated relation to the supply of lead balls, said tubular means and said sleeve having aligning openings to form a discharge passage for the dispensing of caps, said plug body having a lateral opening with which said cap discharge passage is communicated by an appropriate rotary adjustment of said sleeve.

Claim 11

Apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said pLug body has two lateral openings, one for dispensing of the lead balls and another for dispensing of the explosive caps, said openings being relatively widely spaced from one another in a circumferential sense, the sleeve opening through which said balls and caps respectively discharge being more closely spaced in a circumferential sense and said sleeve having a neutral position in which both said sleeve openings are closed and being movable angularly therefrom for selective dispensing of balls and caps.

Claim 12

Apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said plug body has a single lateral dispenser opening, the sleeve openings through which said balls and caps respectively discharge being circumferentially spaced apart, said sleeve having a neutral rotary position of adjustment in which an imperforate portion of said sleeve intermediate said openings therein aligns with said single body opening, said sleeve being angularly adjustable from neutral for selective dispensing of balls and caps.

Claim 13

Apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the lateral opening in said sleeve has side edges turned in toward the sleeve axis in a separating divergent fashion for a controlled access of the contained lead balls to this lateral opening.

Claim 14

Apparatus according to claim 9, characterized in that said tubular means has a spiral configuration and the opening therein aligning with an opening in said sleeve being adjacent the lower end of said tubular means.

Claim 15

Apparatus according to claim 1, constituting a kit to be custom fit to a powder horn, wherein said plug body is a block of material adapted to be form fit into the large end of a powder horn, said block having a principal area of containment formed in one face and including a central recess, a screw post mounted in the bottom of said recess centrally thereof and projecting upwardly through and beyond the plane of said face, a cap member apertured to fit over said screw post and seat on said face in closing relation to said recess, retention means on said screw post to hold said cap member seated on said block, said block and said cap member forming said capping means, and said means for separately and individually dispensing said lead balls and said explosive caps being provided in one of said block and cap member.

Claim 16

Apparatus according to claim 1, constituting a kit to be custom fit to a powder horn, wherein said plug body is a block of material adapted to be form fit into the large end of a powder horn, said block having means defining a recessed upper face having therein separated areas of containment for balls and percussion caps, said capping means further including a cap member adapted to seat to said upper face in a closing relation to said areas of containment therein, and aperture means in said cap member brought by relatively adjusting movements of said cap member into alignment with selected areas of containment in said upper face for the selective dispensing of balls and caps, and means for mounting said cap member to said block with freedom of relative adjustment.

Claim 17

Body means according to claim 1, wherein said plug body has an upper face in which separate sets of recesses respectively accommodate balls and caps, said sets of recesses being in circumferentially offset relation, a cap member for the recesses in said plug body and a dispenser opening in said cap member having a configuration to include both sets of recesses in its reach.