US297907A

US297907A - anson

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Publication number: US297907A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1884-04-29
Anticipated expiration: 1901-04-29

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W. ANSON & J. DEELEY.

BRBEGH LOADING FIRE ARM.

' No. 297,907. Patented Apr. 29, 1884.

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WVILLIAM ANSON AND JOHN DEELEY, OF BIRMINGHAM, COUNTY OF WAR- ICK, ENGLAND.

BREECH-LOADING FlRE-ARM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 297,907, dated April 29, 1884-.

Application filed Nm'eniber 7, 15-83.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM Anson and JOHN DEELEY, subjects of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Birmingham, in the county 5 of \Varwick, England, gun-makers, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Breech-Loading Hammerless and other Guns and Rifles, (for which we have obtained a patent in Great Britain, No. 1,833, hearing date April 11, 1883,) of which the following is a specification.

The object of our invention is to effect certain improvements in the well-known hammerless or drop-down gun patented by us, and called Anson and Deeleys patent, dated May 11, 187 5, No. 1,756, in which the cooking of the gun is effected by the dropping of the barrels for charging, by means of two dogs or lifters, the fulcrum of which is concentric with the center of the ordinary joint, the dogs or lifters passing through the joint of the breechaction, and also passing through the back or joint part of the fore end.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of devices hereinafter described and claimed; and in order that our said invention may be clearly understood, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Figure 1 is an elevation of so much of the breech of a double-barreled drop-down gun as is requisite to explain our improvements. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation on the line a a of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation on the line b b of Fig. 2, representing the gun as it appears after discharge. Fig. 5 is a view of the under side of Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 6 is a separate plan view of the double lifter. Fig. 7 is a side view of the same, and Fig. 8 a section on the line 0 c of Fig. 6. Fig. 9 is a separate perspective view of the lower bolt, (1, (shown also in Fig. 3,) and Fig. 10 is a plan view of the upper bolt, 0. Fig. 11 represents the gun cocked by the dropping of the barrels and ready for loading, on the line b Z) of Fig. 2;

and Fig. 12 is a X0 model.) Patented in England April 11, 1583. No.1,933.

detail side view showing a modified arrangement of spring for throwing the upper and lower bolts forward by acting on the hand-lever.

The lifters f f are formed of one piece of metal, the two lifters being united by the crosspiece 9, which forms a bridge across the slot in the breech-action near the joint-pin h. The bridge also spans over the lump of the barrels. lVhen the barrels are dropped, the portion marked 73 of the fore-end lever presses the lifters ff backward by its contact with g, and consequently their inner ends rise in a radial line with the center It, as shown in Fig. 11. The innor ends of the lifters being in contact with the tail ends of the hammers k, the latter are lifted to the position of cock. As also shown in Fig. 11, the lump does not form any part of the cocking arrangement, but merely turns on the joint-pin, as in ordinary guns.

It is obvious that the liftcrf f, by a slight modification, can be adapted to single-barrel drop-down guns.

The lower bolt, (1, has an opening, (2, through which one of the lugs 1 passes and enters the lugs at Z Z and the upper bolt, 0, also enters the recess cut out at 0, thereby holding the barrels down during discharge. The upper bolt, 0, and lower bolt, d, are simultaneously withdrawn, in order to let the barrels drop, by pushing aside the hand-lever m. This hand lever is pivoted at m, Fig. 2, to the upper bolt, 0; but the hand-lever is also pivoted at W to a fixed center. This arrangement causes the pivot at m to recede when the hand-lever is pushed aside, and this receding movement causes the upper and lower bolts to release the barrels. The connection between the actuat ing mechanism of the upper and lower bolts is effected by means of the angle-piece n, the mode of connection being behind instead of in front of the breech-pin, as is clearly shown in the drawings, Figs. 3 and 4. The bolts are pressed forward, by means of the spring 0, between the provision p and thrust-block q,- but instead of this spring we sometimes substitute the side spring, 1', (shown in Fig. 12,) which operates upon the hand-lever m, as shown.

By the foregoing arrangements there is an increased simplicity in the working parts. The strength is also increased, and the wood is not cut away in front of the breech-pin.

Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we claim 1. In a breech-loading fire-arm, the combination of the drop-barrel having the lug Z, provided with front and rear recesses, Z Z", and the recess 6 at the upper portion of the breech end, the lower bolt, (1, having the slot d and anglepiece n, the upper bolt, (2, the lever on, swinging on a fixed pivot, m", at the upper side of the breech, a pivot, m, connecting the upper bolt with the lever at one side of its pivot m and a connection between the rear end'of the upper bolt and the rear end of the angle-piece n 011 the lower bolt, substantially as described.

2. In a breech-loading fire-arm, the combination of the drop-barrel having on its under side the projection 17, the separated lifters f f, rigidly connected by the transverse bridgepiece or bar 9, a single pivot-pin, on which both the lifters are j ournaled above their connecting-bar, said pivot-pin being concentric with the joint of the barrel and breech, and the pivoted hammers It, the said projection on the barrel, when the latter is dropped, acting on the bridge-piece or bar to simultaneously swing the connected lifters and cook the hammers, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have hereto set our hands this 22d day of October, 1883.

\VILLIAM ANSON. JOHN DEELEY.