US1228505A

US1228505A - Loading-pack for revolvers.

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Publication number: US1228505A
Application number: US12141116A
Authority: US
Inventors: Joseph H Wesson
Original assignee: Smith and Wesson Corp
Current assignee: Smith and Wesson Brands Inc
Priority date: 1916-09-21
Filing date: 1916-09-21
Publication date: 1917-06-05
Anticipated expiration: 1934-06-05

Description

l. 'H. WESSON.

LOADING PACK FOR BEVOLVERS,

APPLICATION FILED SEPT-21. me.

- 1,228,505. Patented June 5, 1917.

INVENTOR By Attorneys,

WITNESSES;

g V I W W JOSEPH H. WESSON, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T SMITH & WESSON,

0F SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, A VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION.

- To all whom it may concern:

LOADING-PACK FOR REVOLVERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 5, 191?.

Application filed September 21, 1916. Serial No. 121,411.

peated several times. 1

' Short-arm firing has been found very effective in repelling bayonet attacks, and at such times it is extremely important that no unnecessary time be lost in reloading the revolver. My invention is especially adapted for use in such emergencies, as it enables the user to fill all the chambersin the cylinder of the revolver in the time ordinarily required to insert a single cartridge, and to repeat this reloading opera-- tion as many times as the capacity ofthe loading pack will permit.

,In the accompanying draWings,-

Figure 1 is an elevation of a revolver with its cylinder swung out to the reloading position, and with the cartridge pack or carrier, which is shown in elevation, in the act ofbeing presented to the cylinder;

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal mid-section through the cylinder of the revolver and the loading pack on a larger scale, showing the parts immediately after the reloading operation;

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the loading pack showing three of its magazine cham bers empty and three containing cartridges;

Fig. t is a cross-section on the line H in Fig. 6, the cartridges being omitted;

Fig. 5 is. a rear elevation;

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary longitudinal section of the front portion of the loading pack showing the parts in normal position.

Referring 'to Fig. 1, A is the revolver as a Whole and B is its cylinder, which is swung out to the position for ejecting-the spent shells and reloading the cylinder. In

this figure C is the loading pack or carrier, which is shown in the act of being presented against the rear of the cylinder.-

The loading pack or cartridge carrier is constructed with a group of longitudinal cartridge chambers or magazines D, D

which are tubular. and adapted to receive a suitable number of cartridges end to end. The arrangement of these chambers in a transverse plane is symmetrical and agrees with the number and arrangement of cartridge-receiving chambers in the cylinder of the revolver. In the example shown in the drawings, the revolver has a six-chamberedcylinder, and the loading pack consequently has six tubular cartridge chambers or magazines. Each magazine has fastened in its rear end a spring E, being preferably a long helical spring of open coils against which in loading the pack the cartridges are pushed back. The pack is loaded by pushing the cartridges rearwardly into the. open front ends of the cartridge chambers. The compression of the springs thereby occasioned would tend to cause the cartridges to fiy v outwardly, and to prevent this the cartridge chambers are provided with retaining means adapted to normally engage the expulsive tendency. In the preferred construction shown the retaining means consists of a spring catch (1 having a beveled head or latch 12 which engagesthe usual groove or neck at the base of the cartridge. In the construction shown the A spring catches a, or, are made as leaf springs,

riveted or otherwise united to the tubes forming the cartridge chambers and projecting thence forward, so that their latches b are at their front cnds. These latches work through slots in the sides of the tubes forming the cartridge chambers. v

For simultaneously spring catches so that the cartridges may be released in the actof loading the cylinder, a suitable means is provided for drawing the catches inwardly when the cartridge pack is pressed against the cylinder in the act of loading. For this purpose in F is provided having a rod 0 and pressed outermost cartridge and hold it against the disengaging the i the preferred construction a central plunger forward by a spring 03 until arrested by a v a nut or head e on the rear end of the rod, which comes against an abutment fixed within the cartridge carrier. The'plunger F hasat its rear side a beveled flange g which engages the outer beveled faces of the latches, and, as it is pressed back, moves these'simultane-ously inward or toward the center so as to disengage them from the cartridge necks. i

In operation the cartridge pack or carrier is first loaded, preferably to its full capacity, by inserting the cartridges one by one into the respective cartridge chambers D, D. When thus loaded the outermost cartridges project to the extent shown in Fig. 6. When the revolver requires reloading the marksman first swings open the cylinder and ejects the spent shells in the usual manner. He then brings the cartridge pack 'or carrier to the position shown in Fig. 1,

with its protruding cartridges alined with the chambers in the cylinder, and after inserting these protruding ends of the car tridges into the chambers he pushes the cartri'dge carrier forward until its plunger F abuts against the ratchet k of the cylinder or anv other projecting part of the latter, and is thereby pushed back to the position shown in Fig. 2, so that it retracts the spring catches engaging the cartridges and permits the latter to be forced into the chambers of the cylinder, the succeeding cartridges being caught by the spring catches when the pressure upon the carrier is removed. This reloading operation may be repeated until the supply of cartridges in the carrier is exhausted. The present invention, as will thus be seen, provides a means for repeatedly reloading the chambers of a revolver with cartridges as fast as the spent shells can be ejected.

While I have shown and described the best manner of constructing my invention, it will be understood that I do not wish to be limited thereto, since various changes may be made therein without departmg from the spirit of the invention.

What I claim is \1. A loading pack for revolvers comprising a cartridge carrier having a plurality of elongated cartridge chambers grouped to correspond with the chambers in the cylinder of the revolver, springs for pressing the cartridges forward, and retaining means for normally holding the cartridges adapted to coact with the cylinder whereby to be automatically released upon introducing the cartridges into the chambers of the cylinder.

2. A loading pack for revolvers comprising a cartridge carrier having a plurality of elongated cartridge chambers grouped to correspond with the chambers in the cylinder of the revolver, springs for pressing the cartridges forward,-retaining means for normally holding the cartridges comprising spring catches, and releasing means comprising a 1 art displaced by engagement with the cylinder of the revolver and engaging said catches' to retract them.

3. A loading pack for revolvers comprising a cartridge carrier having a plurality of elongated cartridge 'chambers grouped to correspond with the chambers in the cylinder of the revolver, springs for pressing thecartridges forward, spring catches for normally holding the cartridges, and a springpressed plunger engaging said catches to retract them when displaced by contact with the cylinder of the revolver.

4. A loading pack for revolvers compris JOSEPH H. WESSON.

Witnesses:

JOHN R. GILMORE, CARLE'roN D. LIVERMORE.