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I once read that Hugo Borchardt designed and patented a machine that would apply paper patches to 25,000 bullets in the then standard ten hour workday.

Do any of the historical minded folks here have any more information? Like, was it built, did it work, and would it be something that could be done nowadays? Maybe on a smaller scale for a custom casting shop.
Sure beats hiring a roomful of women to lick 'em and stick 'em as was usual at the ammo companies then.
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Post by powderburner »

I was reading about that the other day also and am trying to research it further it sounds pretty neat I been wondering if one of then old cigarette rollers could be adapted to patching bullets
on the other hand a roomfull of women wrapping bullets would be a joyus sight as well, will let you know if I find anything
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Post by Lee Stone »

Ah, I just don't know Powderburner. A room full of women wrapping bullets sounds rather dangerous to me. :roll:
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Post by Canoe112 »

Did Borchardt patent the design?

If he did we can get the plans from the US Patent Office. There might be some cost involved if we use al patent service. Maybe not much.

If their are costs those of us that are interested could pitch in and cover.

It's been a while since I've worked in this area, so I don't know the cost of the service off the top of my head.

Hal

PS. Lee, a roomful of women doesn't sound that bad!
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If he was issued a Patent, go to the Patent website at:

http://www.uspto.gov/

The have full page images of all issued Patents going back to 1790.

Best of luck

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Post by Canoe112 »

Mark,

Well your post points out how behind the times I am. I'm used to doing it the "old fashioned' way.

Tried searching for Borchardt. Didn't see it.

Searched for Inventor/Borchardt and Anywhere/paper. Didn't see it.

hmmm?

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I have it on good authority, (see: Church of the Latter Day Saints,Hall of Records, Salt Lake City,) that John M. Browning invented the "Room full of women" and NOT Hugo Borchardt. I do believe that Mssr. Borchardt did invent the" Room full of Midol" though.
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The records before 1976 are stored in a picture format. Very cool for seeing the original pages that were submitted, very bad for searching.

The only way to search these records is by Patent Number or U.S. Classification. Now if we knew the Pat. number we would have been much farther down the road. I am looking into what exactly this Classification stuff is.

So far I can say that Pat. 100,000 was in Feb of 1870. (and is a very nice sun bonnet for horses)
While Pat. 250,000 is from Nov. 1881. (and is a ditching machine)
So the Date of the Patent would help quite a bit.

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Post by Delizar »

This link allows you to type in a word of Phrase and find the U.S. Classification.

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido ... search.htm

For instance the search for "firearm" had eleven results, one of which was "Class 042: Firearms"

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Found It!!!

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Here are all the Pat. Number for Patching Bullets in order.

1873 S.W. Woods #136,352

1875 H. Borchardt #159,749

1877 S.W. Woods #RE7,655

1882 A.C. Hobbs #257,584

1882 Hobbs, Boyden & Richards #257,585

1882 H. Borchardt #258,528

Enjoy!

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