US161480A - Improvement in magazine-flfte-arm-s - Google Patents

Description

'R..'S. GHAFFEE. Magazae Fim-Arm.

Pater-ned Mar'ch so, 1875.

No. mman.

. WITNESSES:

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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 16h-ASQ, dated :March 30,1875; applfeationled v February 9,1875. Y Y 'I To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, REUBEN S. Charnan,-

'of Springfield, illinois', have invented an Improvement 1n Revolving Magazine" Fire-Arm,

'of whichA the following is' a specification:

The'object of my invention is the perfection of a breech-loading lire-arm, with a revolving .magazine of large capacity inclosed in its hollow stock, and having a reeiprocatin g or post' tive motion, which is light, simple in its use,

Y and admits of greatirapidity in tiring, and

The description of myrv invention is illus-- tratedin detail by the drawings hereto annexed, in which Figure l is a side elevation of the gun, with the cap and plate removed to show the mechanism; Fig. 2, a detail of the breech-block and its attachments5Fig. 3, a detail ot' the loading-bar and its attachments; Fig. 4, a detail of the cartridge! extractor, showing its relation to the breech-block and the cartridge; Fig. 5, a detail of the eut-ofi', and Fig. 6, a detail of the hammer, its spring, and the trigger.

In thehollow met-al stock of the gun, exhibited by the letters A A in the drawing, is placed the revolving magazine, consisting of six tubes, 'marked B. These tubes contain each a cartridge-driver, C, which is held in position by their notched openings, marked l). rlhe cartridge -drivers have springs attached to them to force them into the notched openings of the tubes, but in large guns such springs will not be required. The number of -tubcs in the magazine may be more or less than six. Corresponding tothe number of vthe tubes are placed at the lower end of the magazine pins marked E, which aid in turning it. At the lower end, and outside of the stock, is a clasp-pin, marked U, which serves to hold the magazine in position, and by turning which it is unfastencd.A Below the ,maga zine lies what I denominate the loading-bar ll, on which are' arranged lugs l, for carrying forward the cartridge drivers. back end of this loading-bar is the stop-plate Gr, in which .is the spring cam marked Thcse,'wi'tli the pins E, both serve to turn and Toward the stop the revolving ef: the magazine. the forward end of the loading-bar is attached an independent hook, marked-il, and .under the lneck of the gan-stock works, inY its partly-circular groove, the breechblock marked jl P,

containing notches niarkedl( K, and as the breech-block' is Amoved. forward andl back by its lever Slthese notches strike the hook J,

. which impartsa-correspondingv moti-on to the loading-bar, and it, in turn, by means ot the pins E and Aspringcznn F, to :the magazine, causing it to revolve. To the front ot the breech-block is attacheda linger, marked L, for the purposelof holding'inposition the cartridge as itis p'ushed'forward into-the barrel. Said nger isprovided with a stud, y', which works in a slot, w', and which strikes against the hook J when the breechblock is pushed backward, for the purpose ot' propelling the linger L to the front part or" its slot w', and in position to receive the cartridge from the cutoli N. In the neck oi' the stock, immediately in front of the magazine-chamber, is another but smaller chamber, containing the cut-oit marked N, with spring S and cam X', to di- .reet the cartridge in its passage downward and forward ofthe breech-block. The spring S causes the cut-off to close the communica-- tion with the revolving magazine, audits cam X causes it to be lifted up by the forward movement of the breech-block to reopen the communication, and receive beneath its concave face the cartridge pushed out by the loading-bar. M is a stud for moving the linger L out of position to allow the shell of the Acartridge to be expelled by the extractor V, in connection with which works also the springcateh marked 0, Q is the hammer, inelosed by a spiral spring, and R is the trigger. T shows the point where the breech-block is locked..

lo work the gun, open the cap of the magazine-chamber, and, by turning the clasp-pin U a quarter up and pushing it backward, the magazine is unfastened. To load it, run the cartridge-drivers C down the tubes, and till the latter with cartridges, putting one first iu the opening under the concave face of the eutolil N. Replace the loadedmagazine, lock the clasp-pin, and the gun is ready to be discharged. To do this, throw forward the lever t full stroke. Now, in the passage of `the breech-block back by means of the lever, the hook J moves the finger L into position; the loading-bar slides down; the spring-cam F comes incontact with the pins E, causing the magazine to revolve till the stop-plate arrests it, when the loading-bar, with its lugs behind the drivers, carries forward the' cartridge,4 whichis forced downward by the cut-olf N before the breech-block, where the ngerrIl holds it inposition until 1t enters the barrel; when, by pulling the trigger, lthe hammer,4A

strikes the/cartridge, and the -gun is dis charged, As the cartridge enters' the barrel, the stud M throws the finger L back of the extractor V and out of the yvay of the empty shell, which, in extraction, strikes the springcatch- O, working in connectionwith the extractor, and is caused to ily out; andI thus,

,while thel cartridges in the magazine last, 'the gun may be fired as rapidly as the lever can be worked back and forth and the trigger pulled, and this without removing it fromV the shoulder. l v

In throwing ont the lever the hammer may be full or half set, according asthe former is thrown `forward to full or half stroke.

vI claim as my inventionl. The pins E of the revolving magazine, in

combination with the spring-cam F and the loading-bar H, operating as described,fo'r the purpose of turning the said magazine.

2. The tubes B, having notched openings -D, in combination with the cartridge-driver C,

provided with springs, substantially as and for the purpose described.'

'3. The loading-bar H, with its lugs I, its stop-plate G, the spring-cam F, and its hook J, all combined and arranged substantially as shown, and for the Ipurpose described.

f 4. The hollow breech-block P P, having shoulders K K, its finger L, trigger R; hammer Q, and extractor Y, all arranged substantially as and for 'the purpose described.

l5. -The cut-oN, with its cam and spring, in combination with the revolving magazine and the ;breechhlock, substantially as and for the'

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