The end of the flask, Fig. 19, is, I have said, the magazine for balls. Fig. 22 is an end view of this magazine, and Fig. 23 a section along its axis. The portion from _f_ to _j_, Figs. 19, 23, and 24, is divided into as many tubular chambers as there are chambers in the receiver--say five. These are open at top and are to be filled with balls, as shown at _k k_ in the section Fig. 23. These tubes are also open at their lower ends, so that the balls may pass from them into a chambered receptacle, _l l_, similar to that for the powder. From this chambered receptacle they are to fall into the chambers of the receiver when the lower end of the flask, Fig. 22, is applied thereto for that purpose, the openings _m m_ in the lower end of the flask being adapted thereto. The rim of the chambered receiver _l l_ is to be turned round to allow the balls to escape through _m m_, as already described in the charging with powder. In Fig. 22, _n n_ are the divisions between the chambers of the chambered receiver, and which retain one set or tier of balls until the rim is turned around so as to cause the chambers to coincide with the openings _m m_. The balls will then pass through. The same motion of the chambered receiver causes the divisions between the tubes and the chambered receiver to pass under and sustain the balls in the magazine. In the case of the powder-magazine the action is the same; but the powder being in fine particles, the apertures at one end of the receptacles must be perfectly closed before those at the other begin to be opened, which is not necessary with the balls. In Fig. 24 a portion of the exterior of the magazine is removed to show how a spring, _o o_, may be placed within it so as to act upon _l l_; but spiral or other springs may be placed in many ways to answer the same purpose. The central part of both the magazines is tubular, as shown at _p p_, said tube fitting onto the arbor C′, Fig. 16, when the barrel is removed therefrom, and the receiver left on for the purpose of being charged, which operation does not require to be further explained. Upon the barrel of this tubular part the chambered receptacles are received and revolve. Figs. 25 and 26 represent a top view and a side view of a part of an improved bullet-mold, which I describe without intending to make any claim thereto, but merely for the purpose of showing the whole of the apparatus employed in a complete and connected series. _a a_ are the two handles of the mold, and _b_ the handle of the knife by which the sprue is cut off. _c_ is one-half of the mold, of which _d d_ is the hinge-joint. _e_ is a plate of steel, through which there is a hole, _f_, for pouring in the lead, the lower edges of which constitute a knife by which the sprue is cut off and the ball left perfect. This knife turns on the joint-pin _g_.