US160192A - Improvement in revolving fire-arms - Google Patents

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FREEMAN \V. HOOD, OF NORWICH, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE HOOD FIRE-ARMS COMPANY, OF SAMEVPLAOE."

IMPROVEMENT in REVOLVING Fina-Anlaws.v

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 160,192, dated February 23, 1875 applicationfiled December 9, 1874.

To an whom it may concern: Be it known that I, FREEMAN Norwich, in the county of New London-and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fire-Arms termed Revolvers, and do hereby'declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of whicha p v Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Fig-2 a longitudinal section, of a revolver provided with my invention. Fig. 3 is a side view of the magazine pivot-pin. v Inearryin g outmy improvement, I combine with the stock and rotary cylinder or magazine a-mechanism to bear against the front end of the magazine, with friction sufllcientto maintain in alignment with the barrel any of 'the bores or chambers of the magazine, preparatory to and during discharge of the load of such chamber, such mechanism as shown being the magazine pivot-pin, retainer, or latch, so constructed and applied as to be borne, by the actuating-spring of such latch, against the said front end of the magazine, the retainer or latch being thus made to perform two functions, viz., that of holding the pin in place inthe stock, and that of a friction-brake to the magazine.

' By the use of such a friction mechanism or brake, I am enabled to dispense with the usual spring retaining-pawl and series of recessesarranged in the rearend of the magazine,-and thus materially cheapen the construction of the fire arm, and obtain advantage in other respects.

In the the stock; and O, the magazinamade and ar-'. ranged as is usual in I revolvers, except that W. H001), of

draw1ngs;A denotesthe barrel; B,

the rear end of the magazine is without any recesses or teeth to operate with a retainingpawl, though having the ordinary ratchet a, for the impeding-pawl b to act with in efl'ectin g the intermittent rotation of the magazine.

. rillhe pivot-pin of the magazine is shown at D,

it being provided with a groove, 0, going lat erallywaround it, to receive the holding projection of the lever-latch E, such latch being generally of the common form, and provided, as usual, with an actuating-spring, d. The latch, arranged in the stock and in front of the magazine, turns freely on a pivot, e, and has an auxiliary head or projection, f, to' bear directly a \ainst the magazine;

as to bear against the magazine, the object of my invention being to ha\-'ethe said latch perform. the-two functions, as hereinbefore stated. To this end, the groove in the piyotpin should be deep enough to properly receiveglthe latch without it bearing upon thliiibotto'm of the groove, so as to prevent it tithe latch) from suitably pressing against the magazine.

I do not claim, in coinbinati'on ..\vith the stock and magazine, and-its pivot-finer a revolver, alatch ormechanism operating simply to hold the pivot-pin in place in the stock. -I'claim I In combination with the'rotary magazine and its pivot-pin ofla revolver, a mechanism or latch, E, substantially-as described,. 'to-hold the pin in place and operate as africtionbrake to themagazine, all as specified.

FREEMAN w. H0on. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY,

i J It. Snow.

The latch may be otherwise constructed so

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