US23224A - Improvement in breech-loading fire-arms - Google Patents

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BARBER @L REINFRIED. *t BreechLoading Fire-Arm.

No. 23.2.24A Patented Mar. 15, 1859.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JOS. BARBER AND P. O. REINFRIED, OF BRIDESBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BREECH-LOADING FIRE-ARMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 23,224, dated March 15, 1859.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOSEPH BARBER and PETER C. REINERIED, of Bridesburg, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsyl- Vania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms, and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ot' the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specilication, in Which- Figure l is a longitudinal section of the Stock, breech, and part ofthe barrel ot'a rifle with our improvement. Fig. 2 is a bottom view ofthe same. Fig. 3 is a transverse section in the line x x of Figs. l and 2.

Similar letters of reference denote like parts in the several figures.

To enable others to make and use our invention, We will now proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A is the stock of the rilie.

B is a'metal breech-supporter, into which the barrel C is screwed, and which is made with a cavity to receive the chambered breech D, which is attached at its rear by a hingejoint, a, and which iits to the barrel with an oblique or wedge-likejoint, as shown at b b.

c is a beveled catch on the under side of the chambered breech D, formed of the same piece of metal with said breech, or made in a separate piece, and firmly secured thereto. An opening, e, is made in the bottom of the breech-supporter B, for said catch c to passthrough into a cavity, f, provided in the stock uniler the breech-supporter. j is the sliding bolt, consisting of a iiat piece of steel or other metal attached to the bottom of the breechsupporter B vby a slot-and-screw connection, h i, which permits it to slide back and forth within the cavity f, for the purpose of entering and being withdrawn from the catch c, to lock and unlock the breech. This bolt is connected by a pin, g, which passes through a slot, n, in the bottom of the stock, with the front end of a trigger-guard, E, which is made of tempered steel or other suitable metal to constitute a spring to force forward the bolt intov the catch c, to lock the breech when the latter is closed. The same pin, g, serves to connect the bolt with the rear extremity of the toggle 7c k, the front end ofwhich is connected with the stock by a pin or screw, l, the said toggle being arranged to work laterally to the barrel close under the stock, and being furnished with a knob, my at its joint, to serveas abearing for the thumb or linger to press it latermuzzle to a convenient position i'or loading,

said spring being secured to the bottom of the breech and resting, when the breech is closed, upon the bottom ofthe breech-supporter.

To open the breech for loading, it is only necessary to press laterally upon the joint of the toggle in a direction to straighten it with suiii-cient force to overcome the pressure of the spring E and force back the sliding boltj out of the catch c, when the spring s instantly throws up the breech to about the position represented in red outline. To close and lock the breech, it is only necessary to press it downsufticiently hard into the breech-supporter, by which act the bevel on the back of the catch c, coming in contact with the front end ofthe sliding bolt, is caused to force back said bolt till the notch in the catch arrives opposite the bolt and permits the latter to be thrown forward into it.

Vhat we claim as our invention, and desire by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement and combination of the spring trigger-guard E, pin g, toggles kk, sliding bolt j, and catch c, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and described.

JOSEPH BARBER. PETER C. REINFRIED.

Witnesses:

GEORGE ERHER, J oHN W. WARREN.

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