US197742A

US197742A - Improvement in breech-loading fire-arms

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Publication number: US197742A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1877-12-04
Anticipated expiration: 1894-12-04

Description

J. SGHUDT & J. P. SOHUGH. Breech-Loading Fire-Arm.

0-- 197,742. Patented-Dec. b 1877.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' J OHN SGHU'DT AND JOHANN PHILIPP SOHUOH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y. I

IMDPROWVVIEMENT IN BREECH-LOADING FIRE-ARMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 197,742, dated December 4, 1877; application filed v October 23, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that W6,JOHN ScnUnr and JOHANN PHILIPP SoHUcH, both of New York 'city, in the county and State of New York,

have invented a new and useful Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a longitudinal central section of our improved breech-loading firearm, showing the parts in position ready for firing.

. Fig. 2 is a similar section of same, showing parts in position after firing. Fig. 3 is a detailed bottom viewoflthebreech-block; Fig.

4,21. face view, and Fig. 5 an edge view, on an enlarged scale, of the cartridge-shell extractor. Y I

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts in all the figures.

This inventionrelates to certain improvements on the breech-loading fire-arm described in Letters Patent No. 191,721, granted June 5, 1877, to John Schudt.

The present invention consists in a new arrangement of the breech-block for bringing the'parts that are carried by the'same into more compact connection; also, inan improved combination of the same with the mechanism for-raising. and lowering the breechblock, and for compressing the firing-spring;

ina new manner of actuating the shell-extractor, and new safety-slide for locking the trigger, all as hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanyingdrawing, the letter A represents the stock, and B the barrel, of thetirearm. 0 is the breech-block, pivoted at a in the stock, and made with a concave top .to receive,

the cartridge while loading. The-lower part of the ,breech'block (J is grooved to-receive and contain the sliding firing-pin D, the spring I), that actuates the same, and a downwardlyprojecting nose, 0!, on the firing-pin. The shank of the firing-pin is hollowed, as shown, to receive the front portion of the spring,

. and yetact as a guide during the movements of the pin. The back end of the spring I) bears against a removable pin, j, which is held in the back of .the breech-block. The sliding nose d carries a backwardly-projecting spring catch, 0, which, when the pin D is moved back, catches over a shoulder, f, of the block 0, as in Fig. 3, and holds the pin in position ready for firing. r

The trigger E, when moved to crowd the a new cartridge. F is raised against the stock, the lever G is catch 0 aside, releases the firing-pin, and permits the contracted spring I) to expand and move the firing-pin rapidly forward.

Below the front portion of the breech-block O is pivoted in the stock B, at g, a U-shaped lever, G, which connects rigidly with the trigger-guard F. By swinging said trigger-guard swung forward, and the breech-block elevated to close the breech end of the barrel, as in Fig. 1. The parts are then readyfor firing.

The cartridge-shell extractor H is also U- shaped, as shown in-Fig. 4, and is pivoted by a the same pin, g, which holds the lever G. A

shoulder, h, on the lower part of the extractor is struck by the lever G when the latter has reached its most backward position, and the extractor'is thereby swung back to remove the empty shell just after the block C has been lowered.

I is a safety-slide placed behindthe trigger, and provided with a suitable handle, so that it can be pushed into a notch, i, of the trigger, to lock the same and prevent the accidental discharge of the loaded gun.

. We claim as our invention- 1. The breech-block 0, combined with the sliding firing-pin D, whose shank is madehollow, for receiving the spring I), and with the. Y

nose at on said firing-pin, and. with the springcatch 0, to operate substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The lever rigidly connected with the triggerguard F, and combined with the breech-block O, sliding nose d on the firingpin, and with the spring I) and catch 6, to operate substantially as herein shown and described.

' JOHN SGHUDT.

JOHANN' PHILIPP SGHUGH. Witnesses: a ERNEST G. WEBB,

F. v. BRIEsEN.