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Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK W. TIE'SING AND SAMUEL V. KENNEDY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONN.

MAGAZl'N EFlRE-AR-M.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,664, dated March 16, 1880. Application filed February 2, 1880. I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it"known that we, FRANK W.T1nsme and SAMUEL V. KENNEDY, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Magazine Fire-Arms; and we do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and-exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-.-

a Figure '1, side view; Fig. 2, longitudinal section with the parts in their normal condition; Fig. 3, longitudinal section, illustrating the operation of the parts Figs, 4., 5, and 6, detached views.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of magaZIn'e-armsin wh'icli the magazine is arranged longitudinally beneatli the barrel, and in which a longitudinally moving breech-piece and the carrier are both operatedby means of a lever from below, the principal object of this. invention being to charge the magazine through the frame when the operative parts arein their normal condition; and it consists in the construction, as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claims.

A represents the receiver, to the forward endof which the barrel Bis attached in the usual manner, and beneath the barrel the mag azine O is attached in like manner, and provided with the usual spring and follower.

.D is the longitudinally-moving breech-piece or bolt carrying the firing-pin a, arranged in similar manner to the firing-pin in'bolt-guns, and so that when the breechpiece D has been thrown back and again moved forward the firin g-pin will be engaged by the trigger b in the usual manner for this class of firing-pins, too well known to require further description ,in this specification.

E isthe operating-lever, hungv upon a pivot, d, one arm serving as the trigger-guard, the othra'rm', F, extending up into the receiver,

and so thatwhen the breech pieceis in its closed position and the lever returned to its place, the end of the arm. F comesdown in rear of a shoulder, F, on the breech-piece to lock the breech-piecein place and hold it against recoil, as seen in Figs. 2 and 4..

()nthe side of the breech-piece a cam-link, G, is pivoted, as at c, and so as to move back and forth with the-breech-piece. In one face of the cam-link G is a groove, as indicated in the edge of the cam g. The shape of the groove in the link, as shown, is such that the link may turn until the arm F of the lever has -.Passed away from. the shoulder F on the breech-piece; and during this movement of the link the cam y bears against the projection h on the firing-pin, and starts it back, as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 2; then the arm F, being free'from the shoulder F, permits the breech-piece to begin to move at the same time. The link G continues its turning until the shoulder ithereon strikes a corresponding shoulder, l, on the breech-piece, as seen inFig.

3, at which time the projection h falls offfronr and against the shoulder m of the cam, so as to securely lock the link between the shoulder l of the breech-piece and the projection h on the firing-pin; From this point the lever acts on the link as if it vere a rigid part of the breech-piece, and throws the. breech-piece'to its extreme rear position, as seen in brokenlines, Fig. 3. Then, when the lever is turned in the opposite direction to close the breechpiece, the link will be still heldnn'til the' notch n on the firing-pin engages the shoulder on the trigger in like manner as the firing-pin or hammer of such arms engages the trigger. The firing-pin being thus held, the breech-piece will continue itsmovement. The shoulder m of the cam passes off from the firing-pin at the time when the breech-piece is so far closed as to permit the end of the arm to come down behind the shoulder F, and this last movement of the arm F brings the link G back to its position, as seen in Fig. 1.

It will thus be seen that shouldithe trigger too fail to catch the firing-pin the link cannot suitable device." It is also provided with the Well-known spring-extractor 1-, so as to engage the flange of the cartridge when the breechpiece is closed, andldraw it out when the breech-piece is drawn back, in the usual man- The carrier-H is hung upon the same pivot d as the lever E, and when the-breech-piece is closed lies'in rear of andbelowthe magazine 0, as seen in Figs.'-2 and 3, so thatjif permitted, the rear cartridge, L, in the magazine will pass onto the. carrier, its head striking an abutment, "El, when it has entirely passed from. the magazine, and is in position to be transferred to the barrel.

Atv the hub of the lever E a shoulder, s, is formed on the lever, andia like shou1der,'t, on the carrier, but distant from the shoulder s, as seen in Fig. 2, so that the shoulder s of the lever does not strike the shouldert of the carrier until the breech-piece approaches its ex tremc rear position. 'Then,-during the last part of the movement of the lever E and breechpiece,the shoulders s and t being engaged, the carrier will be raised, as seen in broken lines, Fig. 3, and transfer the cartridge to a position between the forward end of the breechpiece and the rear open end of the barrel, as seen in broken lines, and so that when the breech-piece is again moved forward, as before described, the cartridge will be moved forward from off the carrier into the barrel, and during the last part of the forward movement of the lever the arm ,F strikes a shoulder, u, onthe carrier and returns it to itsnormal posit-ion, ready for a second cartridge. in the magazine.

To hold the carrier up while the lever is coming forward a spring, N, is arranged to catch into a notch, 0, inthe hub of the carrier, as seen in Fig. 3, but so that when the arm F strikes the shoulder a it will easily turn the carrier from the hold of the spring N.

The magazine is charged through an opening, M, in the ,side of the receiver, the said opening being closed by a spring-cover, P,

which also serves as a guide for introducing the cartridges in similar manner to other sidecharging magazines.

To prevent the return of the cartridges aftcr they have been introduced in the magazine until the proper time, a lever,- t, is hung in-the receiver at one side of the carrier upon a pivot, 00, its forward end, y, standing directly in rear of the head of the last cartridge,

Consequently the firingpin' fully inserted in the magazine, and is provided with a spring, T, which holds the forward end, 1 up in that position, but permits'the lever to turnfdownward on. its pivot, .as seen in brokenlines, Fig. 2, so as to escape from'the head of the cartridge; home, 'When the cartridges are introduced in the magazine theirdheads will successively pass over the end y of thel-everlt and come in front of it, as seen in Fig. 3, and will be held in that position by the lever 1t until,'in the rear movement ofthe breech-piece, a projection, a, thereon strikes an'i'nclinqbflon the lever It, as seen in Fig. 3, and depresses the lever, as seen in broken lines, Fig. 2, so as to free the cartridge,

breech-piece, and thence following the breechpiece until its head strikes the abutment H on the carrier, as before described. The projection a on the breech-piece passes off from theincline I) on the lever B before "the cartridge has entirely left the magazine; hence the lever will be thrown upward, so as to be in position to come in rear of the next cartridge, and there will stand until again released. As the projection a on the breechpiece passes over the same point I) in its forward movement as, it did in its rear movement, the same depression of the lever occurs; but to prevent therear movement of the cartridge wlreusuch depression occurs the carrier begins its descent before the end 3 of the lever B passes oii' from the head of the cartridge, and in so doing the downward projection d on the forward end of the carrier comes in front of the head of the cartridge, and thus thelever R is returning.

, To eject the cartridge-shell, or cartridge, if it be not fired, it is first drawn out by the extractor on the breech-piece eugagingthe head on one side, as seen in Fig. 5, until near the extreme rearnnovement of the breech-piece, when the rear of the opposite edge of the head strikes 'a'stationary shoulder or stud, f, on that side of the receiver; then, as the breechpiece completes its movement, one side of the cartridge rests against the shoulder f, while the other is held to the breech-piece by the extractor T, which throws the cartridge transversely through-an opening, A, in the frame, immediately over the loadingopening, and-as seen in Fig. 5. A groove, n, is made in the side of the breech-piece, to pass over the stud or projection f.

To prevent'the possibility of the cartridge, which is presented in front of the breech-piece by the. movement "of the carrier, accidentally passing out through the opening A, the end of the carrier has an upward-projecting lip, h, onthat side next the opening, and so that when it is up and the cartridge resting upon it, as seen in Fig. 6, also in broken lines Fig. 3, the lip h lies between the forward end of the cartridge and the opening, while the extractor has a similar position at the rear holds it while the carrier ispassing down and IIO end; hence, while the carrier is up and the cartridge upon it, it cannot by any possibility turn outward through the opening A. The

said opening Apermits the barrel to be loaded directly therethrough, instead of from the magazine, so that the magazine-cartridges may be held in reserve and the armused as a breech-loader.

The arrangement of the link G with the breech-piece-and operating-lever may be used in a breech-loading arm without the magazine and carrier.

1 claim- 1. llhe combination, with the longitudinallymoving breech-piece and a firing-pin or hammer arranged therein, of the grooved link G, pivoted to the breech-piece, constructed with the cam g upon'its edge, and the operating-lever, substantially as and for the purpose described.

7 2. The combination, with the longitudinallymoving breech-piece and a firing-pin or hammer arranged therein, of the grooved link Gr, pivot-ed'to the breech-piece, constructed with the cam 9 upon its edge, and the operatingdescribed, to engage the breech-piece and said lever, whereby said lever is depressedby the rear movement of the breech-piece, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

4. In a magazine fire-arm having the magazine arranged longitudinally beneath the barrel, the receiver constructed with an opening in its side for charging the magazine, with the lever It, arranged to catch and 1 hold the cartridges as they are introddced into the magazine, and mechanism, substantially such as described, to engage the breech-piece and said lever, whereby said lever is depressed by the rear movement of the breech'-piece,'so as to permit the rear cartridge of the magazine to pass onto the carrier, and the carrier H, hung in its side for charging the magazine, with the lever B, arranged to catch and holdthecar tridges as theyare introduced into the magazine, and a connection between the breech-piece and said lever, whereby the cartridges: are released by the rear movement of the breechpiece,'.so as to permitthe rear cartridge of the magazine to pass onto 'the carrier, and the carrier lI-L'hun g upon a pivot of theoperatinglever and shoulders thereon, so that the carrier is raised during the last part of the rear movement of the breech-piece, and dropped during the last part of the forward movement of the breech-piece, with a lip, h,-on the ejecting side of the carrier, substantially as described.

6. In a magazine fire-arm having the magazine arranged longitudilially beneath the barrel, the receiver constructed with an opening iii its side for chargingthe magazine, with-the lever B, arranged to catch and hold the car- .tridges as they are introduced into the magazine, and a connection between the breech-.

piece and said lever whereby the cartridges are released by the rear movement of'the breech-piece, so as to permit the rear cartridge of the magazine to pass onto the carrier, and

the carrier H, hung upon a pivot of the oper- 1 ating-lever and shoulders thereon, so that the carrier is raised during the last part of the rear movement of the breech-piece and dropped 'duringthe last part of the forward movement of the breech pie'ce, with a lip, h, on the ejecting side of the carrier, and a downward projection, a, on the forward end of the carrier. substantially as described.

' FRANK W. TIESING.

SAMUEL V. KENNEDY.

Witnesses: JOHN E. EARL'E, J 0s. .0. EARLE.