Cunningham, Patrick

Name	Street	Town	State	From	To
Cunningham, Patrick		Newark, Essex county	New Jersey	1875

Patent	Date	Remarks
171,553	December 28, 1875	Improvement in Bomb-Lancers, assigned One Half of his Right to Bernard Cogan, Newark view patent

Contract	for

Product
Whaling rifles, see also Herbert W. Chapman The Cunningham & Cogan shoulder gun was designed to fire a combined bomb lance and cartridge patented by Patrick Cunningham in 1875 (U.S. Patent No. 171,553, Dec. 28, 1875). The gun had a one-inch bore and was cast in one piece of cast iron, except the barrel and breechblock. An advertisement for the Cunningham & Cogan gun first appeared in The Whalemen's Shipping List, and merchants' Transcript on April 4, 1876: "These Guns and Lances are pronounced by all who have seen and examined them, to be SUPERIOR to all other brands, and are recommended in the STRONGEST terms. The Superiority of these Guns over all others, is that they can be Loaded and Discharged TEN TIMES A MINUTE. You do not have to carry any Powder, Caps, &c., in the boats. Can be fired as well underwater as above, as water has no effect upon either Gun or Lance."

Product

Whaling rifles, see also Herbert W. Chapman

The Cunningham & Cogan shoulder gun was designed to fire a combined bomb lance and cartridge patented by Patrick Cunningham in 1875 (U.S. Patent No. 171,553, Dec. 28, 1875). The gun had a one-inch bore and was cast in one piece of cast iron, except the barrel and breechblock.

An advertisement for the Cunningham & Cogan gun first appeared in The Whalemen's Shipping List, and merchants' Transcript on April 4, 1876:

"These Guns and Lances are pronounced by all who have seen and examined them, to be SUPERIOR to all other brands, and are recommended in the STRONGEST terms.
The Superiority of these Guns over all others, is that they can be Loaded and Discharged
TEN TIMES A MINUTE.
You do not have to carry any Powder, Caps, &c., in the boats. Can be fired as well underwater as above, as water has no effect upon either Gun or Lance."