Five tin measures, containing two and a half drams.
Five tin funnels. A large knife.
An iron straight edge for cutting the paper.
Five cylindrical mandrels of hard wood, to roll the cartridge.
A former, to make the hollow in the inner case, to receive the point of the bullet.
A set of tin patterns for shaping the paper.
Cartridge paper and fine white paper.
Bullets and gunpowder.
To construct the Cartridge.—Cut the paper according to the patterns, place the rectangle ([fig. 9]) on the little trapezium ([fig. 10]), the sides A B C of the rectangle coinciding with the sides A B C of the trapezium, lay the mandrel on the rectangle, parallel to the side B C, the base of the mandrel even with the side C D of the rectangle; roll the whole tightly on the mandrel; place it vertically, and fold the remainder of the trapezium paper into the hollow in the base of the mandrel; commencing with the acute angle of the trapezium, make use of the point of the former to close the folds; examine the bottom of the inner case thus formed, to see that there remains no hole for the escape of the powder when charged; introduce the point of the bullet into the aperture at the base of the mandrel; take the trapezium envelope ([fig. 11]), place the mandrel and bullet parallel to the side F G, the base of the bullet at half an inch from the base F H, of the envelope; press up the point of the bullet into the cavity; roll the envelope tightly on the bullet and on the mandrel; fold the remainder of the envelope on the base of the bullet, commencing with the acute angle; place the base of the cartridge on the table; withdraw the mandrel, squeezing the case of the cartridge with the left hand, and raising up the mandrel with the right hand.