US409188A - Means for attaching fore-end stocks to gun-barrels - Google Patents

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J. E. GAGE. MEANS POR ATTAGHING PURE END STOCKS T0 GUN BARRBLS.

No. 409,188. Patented Aug. 20, 1889.

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PATENT OFFICEc JAMES E. GAGE, OF CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

MEANS FOR ATTACHING FORE-END STOCKS TO GUN-BARRELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 409,188, dated August 20, 1889.

Application filed November 24, 1888. Serial No. 291,790x (No model.)

T0 a/ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMES E. GAGE, of Concord, county of Merrimae, State of New Hampshire, have invented an Improvementin Breech-Loading Guns, of which the following description, in connect-ion with the accompanying drawings, is a specication, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to improve that class of breech-loading guns in which the barrel of the gun is retained in position on the stock by means of a hand-piece applied to the under side of the barrel. ln this class of guns, so far as I am aware, the barrel cannot be detached from the stock to pack or clean the gun except after the removal of the handpiece from the barrel. The detaching of the hand-piece prior to removing the barrel from the stock and the application of the handpiece to the barrel when the gun is to be assembled, besides being inconvenient, frequently cause the loss ot' valuable time, and frequently the hand-piece is dropped and sometimes lost. To obviate this trouble, I have so constructed the hand-piece that it may be permanently attached to the barrel, and so that the hand-piece needs only to be slid longitudinally when it is desired to remove the barrel from the stock, or vice versa.

My invention consists in the combination, with a barrel and stock and a shoe attached to the barrel, of a sliding hand-piece and a locking device consisting of spring-arms at.- tached to the said hand-piece to engage the said shoe to retain the said hand-piece upon the barrel when the barrel is removed from the stock, and the releasing device to act on the said spring-arms, substantially as will be described.

Figure 1 in elevation and section shows a suicient portion of a double-barrel gun to enable my invention to be understood. Fig. 2 is an under side view of the hand-piece and the metallic bar attached thereto, the handpiece being shown in dotted lines; Fig. 3, a transverse sect-ion of the entire gun, the section being on line xm, Fig. 2, the barrel being in tiring position; Fig. 4, a similar transverse section on the line y y. Fig. 5 shows separately the guide projection or shoe attached to the under side of the barrel and co-operating with the sprin g-j aws, to be described, attached to the metal bar secured to the sliding handpiecel Fig. 6 shows the locking device by itself. Fig. 7 shows the push-button detached.

The stock A, provided with a gun-lock, and the barrel a3, having the lugs CL4 a5, each provided with a recess, the recess in the lug a4 to be engaged by a dog o', actuated by the lever a2 on the breech-block, while the recess of the lug a5 engages a round pin ctx of the breechblock, are and may be all as usual in breechloading guns.

My invention is shown as embodied in a double-barreled gun.

The hand-piece b2 has connected to it, as by screw b', a slotted metallic bar b, having at its end next the breech a concaved head bx, wliichLwhen the barrel is in tiring position, engages the eonvexed end h4 of the breech. The under side of the barrel a short distance in advance of the lug c5 has fixed to it a guideblock b, having a web or shoe c4, provided with a heel c, the edge of the said web farthest from the breech being beveled or made thin to easily enter between and spread apart the spring-arms c of the locking device secured by the screw c3 to the metallic bar b. The inner sides of the spring-arms of the locking device are so shaped as to leave a space h, shoulders 7L h,`with a narrower space between, two locking projections h2 h2, and beveled iingers h3 h3.

The hand-piece is applied to the barrel when the barrel is detached from the stock, the portion b5 of the slot in the metallic bar b being then slipped down over the shoe c4, leaving the heel CG of the shoe just in front of the projections h2.

The hand-piece having been so placed in position, is moved slightly forward until the projections h2 come above the heel c, which prevents the hand-piece from dropping off the shoe.

The hand-piece, as shown, has a push-button d. (See Figs. Li and '7.) This push-button has a shoulder 12 to prevent it from dropping through the hole in the hand-piece, in which hole it is iitted loosely, 'and the said button has two beveled prongs d d, which, when the button is pushed in toward the barrel, act upon the beveled inner faces of the fingers h3, thus spreading the spring-arms of IOO L l 4U the locking device, and then the hand-piece V is further moved toward the outer end of the barrel until the shoe referred to passes into the large space h between the spring-arms of the locking device and strikes the end of the slot in the metallic bar b nearest the breech.

`In this condition the hand-piece is securely locked to the barrel, and the barrel may be applied to the stock in usual manner and be secured to the stock by sliding the hand-piece toward the breech far enough to cause thev concaved head b to meet the convexed face b4. In this position of the hand-piece the heel c6 of the shoe overlaps the lo cking projections h2.

To detach the barrel from the stock, the operator Will press upon the push-button, spread apart the spring-arms of the locking device, and push the hand-piece toward the outer end of the barrel until the beveled end of the shoe stands in the narrow space of the jaws. In this condition the hand-piece is left securelyV held upon the barrel.

If it be desired to remove the hand-piece from the barrel after removing the barrel from the stock, the hand-piece will be moved longitudinally backward as far as possibletoward the rear end of the barrels, or until the projections h2 pass the heel c6 of the shoe, the hand-piece at such time-being free to bc removed.

I claim- 1. In a breech-loading gun comprising a barrel and a stock, the combination, with a shoe b, secured to the barrel, of a sliding handpiece provided with a locking device consisting of spring-arms permanently attached to the hand-piece to engage the said shoe and secure the hand-piece to the barrel, and a releasing device, substantially as described, to operate upon the spring-arms and disengage them from the said shoe, substantially as and for the purpose speciiied.

2. In a breech-loading gun comprising a barrel and a stock, the combination, with a shoe 56, of a hand-piece provided with a locking device consisting of` spring-arms to cngage the said shoe and lock the hand-piece to the barrel, and a releasing device consisting of the thumb-piece d', provided with the .beveled arms d, tof engage the spring-arms, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

" JAMES E. GAGE.

Witnesses:

J. H. ALBIN, JAMES H. MORRIS.

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