US342509A - Lock for fire-arms - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

0. E. GOO'DWINY LOOK FOR FIRE ARMS;

N0. 342,509. Patented May 25, I886.

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CHARLES E. eoonwm, or SAYBROOK, OHIO. 1

LOOK FOR FIRE-ARMS.

.fiBBCQEIQATIONIorming part of Letters Patent No. 342,509,6ated May 25, 1886. I Application filed March 9, 1886. Serial No. 194,592. (No model.)

, To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES E. GooDWIN,

"of Saybrook, in the county of Ashtabula and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new barrels at once, or one barrel at a time, as

may be desired.

That the construction of the mechanismof the gun for the purpose specified may be fully understood, reference will be made to the drawings making a part .of the following 7, specification, inwhich drawings- Figurel represents a side view of a portion of the breech of a gun and the lock secured thereto. Fig. 2 is an inside view of one of the locks. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the two locks, showing their relation to each other when attaehed to the breech. Said breech is not shown in Fig.3.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views.

The lock above referred to is or may be like an ordinary gun-lock; hence a brief 'description only will be essential for a full understanding of the improvements thereof.

As shown in the drawings, Arepresents the breech of the gun; 'B, the'plate to which the lock mechanism is attached. G is the mainspring; I), the bridle; E, the tumbler; F,

the sear; G, the sear-spring; H, the trigger; I,

- the hammer, all of which parts are substantially the same as ordinary gun-locks, as above remarked. The two locks diii'er from each other only in being right and left handed.

Double-barrelled gunsareprovided withtwo locks adapted to each barrel, and each lock has a trigger for loosening the lock for firing; hence the two barrels cannot conveniently be discharged at once-that is to say, simultaneously-which is. sometimes desirable on the part of the hunter; also, constructing the gun with two locks and with two triggers adds to the expense of the gun, and when each trigger is protected by a guard the guards are much in the way of each other in manipulating the triggers, and if one guard is used to protect both triggers, which is sometimes the case, the guard, necessarily alarge one, gives a clumsy appearance to the gun.

To avoid the expense of providing." each lock with a trigger, and to enable both barrels of the gun to be discharged at once or separately, as the case may be, the locks of the gun'herein described are operated by a single trigger, so that both barrels can be discharged at the same time or singly.

- The operation of the several elements of the looks (as shown in the drawings) for cocking,&c.,'is the same as in ordinary gun-locks, and too well known to need being described in detail in this place. It will be noticed in Fig. 3 of the drawings that the trigger H is arranged midway between the two sears F, which are put in connection with the trigger by the arms J and J, which extend from their respective locks to the. trigger and lap thereon, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3. From the above-described contact of the arms J J with the trigger, it will be obvious that on cooking the two locks they will be operated on by the trigger for firing at the same instant, as the trigger will release the two sears from their respective tumblers simultaneously. On cocking the two locks the scars G and their respective arms are pushed upward by the tumblers and retained half or wholly cocked by the notches in the tumbler,in the ordinary way. It only one of the locks is cooked, and consequently the scar lifted, as indicated by the dotted lines a, alluded to, the other look remains as shown in Fig. 2, with thesear in an unlocked position. Now,on pulling the trigger for loosening the cooked look, its sear is pushed upward, causing the hammer to fall. At the same time the scar of the uncooked look is also pushed upward; but as it is uncocked there can be no further action of its mechanism. Thelock is inoperative at the time while the companion lock is in condition for firing.

From the above it will be apparent that the fire-arm can have the two barrels simultaneously discharged, or either of them singly, and that by the use of one trigger only.

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hat I cle-i ni my invenbion, ahd desire to seeureby Letters Patent, 'is-.

In a doublebzprreled gumandin combination i with the hammeixsthereofltwd sears en gagingrespectiveiy,-the gtumblers 'of the hammers.

bye single pullof the triggerwill fire the tivo baryels eonseeuti-veiy,- substantially as 16 described. In testimo y whereof I affix mysignature in presence of two'witnesses. CHARLES E. GOODWIN- Witnesses: i I

E. WV; BURNETT, 0. K. LATIMER.

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