CLARK COLLEGE
WORCESTER, MASS.

                                                                                                December 15, 1916.

Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution,
                              Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir;

I am sending a copy of a patent just issued, which it might be well to put with the other copies that I sent with the manuscript.

This patent was taken out chiefly with the idea of covering a magazine of the cartridge-belt type; and is of importance in that it describes a device for making the loading of the cartridge perfectly positive.

                                                                                Very truly yours,
                                                                                [signed]Robert H. Goddard

[Front of patent]

1,206,837.                                                                                                Patented Dec. 5, 1916.                                                                                                                   3 sheets-sheet 1.

[Written on back of patent]

#1,206,837.

Movable-chamber-and-fixed-breach-block type of reloading mechanism.

Magazine of the cartridge-belt type.

In this patent, attention is called to the mechanism (parts 50--54, Figs. 2, 3, 16) by which the operation of loading the cartridge is made absolutely positive.

This device can also be applied to the mechanisms described in the previous patents.