US339149A - Revolver - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

G. W. GI'LLEY. REVOLVER. N0.339,149. Patented Apr. 6, 1886.

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GEORGE W. CILLEY, OF NORWICH, CONNECTICUT.

REVOLVER.

EJPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 339,1flt9, dated April 6, 1886.

Application filed February 20, 1886. Serial No. 192,710. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. GILLEY, of Norwich, in the county of New London and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fire-Arms.

of which the following, taken in connection and the hammer, thus allowing the pistol to' be used in the usual manner-that is, by pulling the hammer back by hand and allowing the trigger to engage, then releasing the hammer by pulling the triggeralso to be used, when it is desired to fire rapidly, by drawing the trigger clear back and then firmly holding it, while the other hand may be used in drawing back the hammer and allowing it to fall without engaging at all with the trigger, which action can be repeated with great rapidity. These objects I obtain by the mechanism shown in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a sectional view showing the operating parts in elevation. Fig. 2 is an elevation taken from the opposite side from that of Fig. 1, parts being broken out to show details. Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the trigger and the stop-lever. Figs. 4 and 5 are elevations showing details, and Fig. 6 is 2. diagram to represent the action of the revolverlever. A in the drawings represents the stock; C,

.the revolver-chamber; B, the revolver-axle,

and D the hammer. The hammer Dis acted upon by the mainspring D in the usual manner, and has pivoted to its front lower part the revolver-lever K, as indicated at D Fig. 1. The trigger E, Figs. 1 and 3, is pivoted at e, and is acted upon by the spring E. 'This trigger, in addition to its pawl-point Ff, hasa shoulder, E. This shoulder E serves to act upon the point H of the stoplever H, the stop-lever H being pivoted at h, and is provided with a stop-boss, h, (see Figs. 1, 2, and 3,) so that when the trigger is in a certain positionthat is, when holding the hammer at half-cock-it, acting through the shoulder E and the point H of the stop-lever H, will release the revolver-cyli nder. The stopiever H has an upward-projecting arm, H, the upper end of which is so bent that it engages with the projection D (see Fig. 2) on the rear side of the hammer, so that as the hammer is drawn back it, acting through the projection D and the arm H", will draw the stoplever H out of place and release the revolvercylinder C. Thus I have two distinct mechanisms for op erating the stop-lever. hammer is formed in a peculiar manner for a purpose which I will now explain.

In Fig. 1 the pawl-point E is held by a rest ing-point on the hammer D, as shown near the safety-notch d. The safety-notch d is, as usual, quite near the resting'point, and the half-cock notch d is but a short distance from the safety notch d, as shown in Figs. 1, 4, and 5; but it will be observed that the full-cock notch d is comparatively remote from the other notches, so that the hammer has a long sweep in the moving from half-cock to full-cookthat is, this movement alone is sufficient, acting through the revolver-lever K, to make atull movement of the revolver chamber. arrangement I can have and maintain the revolver-chamber fastened or locked during the whole movement of the hammer from its firing-point to half-cock, so that there is no danger of the revolver'chamber getting out of place during the act of half-cocking. An other advantage of this construction is that the movement of the revolver-lever K through the full swing of the hammer from full-cock to the firing-pointwill be more than one notch of the revolver-ratchet. This is illustrated in the diagram, Fig. 6, in which the lever K, (indicated by dotted lines,) is in contact with the notch K when the hammer is at full-cock, and is considerably below the next notch K, as is indicated by the lever K, (in full lines,) when the hammer is at the firing-point. It is to be observed that the lever K always moves when the hammer moves, but it being so much below the notch K the hammer may move from the firing-point to half-cock before the end of the lever K will engage with the notch By this The lower part of the K Thus during the movement of the hammer from the firing-point to halfeock the revolverchamber may remain locked, and precisely-at this point. When the revolver-chamber is released, the revolver-lever K comes into contact with a notch, thus preventing the revolverchamber from moving at all in the wrong direction.

I claim 1. In a fire-arm, the combination of the revolver-chamber O, revolver-lever K,its ratchet and hammer D, said hammer having upon'its lower limb a safety-notch, d, half-coclr notch d, and a fu1l-cock notch, d, all soplaced that the hammer may move from the firingpoint' to half-cookwithout causing any movement of the revolver-cylinder, and that the movement of the hammer from half-cock to full cock will give the revolver-lever K sufficient motion to operate the revolver-chamber, with the trigger E, having a shoulder, E", and a stop-lever, H, all operating together, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a fire-arm, the combination of the trigger E, having a shoulder, E and the stoplever I-I, having an arm, H, with the projection D on the rear of the hammer D, all operating together substantially.as described, and for the purpose set forth.

GEORGE W. CILLEY. Witnesses:

HUGH MoINNnss, WILLIAM H. JENNINGS, Jr.

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