US48337A - Improvement in cartridge-retractors for breech-loading fire-arms - Google Patents

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No. 48,337. Y PATENTED JUNE 20, 1865.

. J. GRAY. CARTRIDGE RETRAGTOR FOR BREEGH LOADING FIREARMS.

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- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. 1

' JOSH UA GRAY, or MEDFORD, lnAss, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, H. ELDREDGE,

or BOSTON, Mass, AND s. SiBUOKLIN, or rnovmeson, n. I.

IMPROVEMENT lN CARTlilDGE-RETRACTORS FOB BREECH-LOADING FIRE-ARMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 48,337, datedJune 20, 1865.

. 1 do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the construction'and operation of the same,- reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which-- Figure 1 is alongitudinal central section through a portion of the receiver-in the line in. a: of Fig. 3, representing the breech-pi'nand the other parts to which my improveinentsre late in the pcsiticn assumed bythem when y the rifle is ready to be diseharged. Fig. 2-is a similar view of the same, representing the ",breech-pin drawn back forthe insertion of a ,-.-caf tridge. Fig. 3 is a top view of Fig. 1. Fig. he a plan of one of the inner sides of the reeeiver, showing the slot I in which the guidepins m n of the'breech-pin slide. f Fig.5 is a side elevation of the breech-piu'det'ached. Fig. 6 is a plan of the cartridge-extractor detached, and Fig. 7 is an elevation of the front end of the same.

Like parts are indicated by the same letters v v the breech-pin placed upon it between the front in all the drawings.

' My'present invention isintended more especially for making what are known as the- Spi'ingfieldrifles into breech-loaders; and

its nature consists, first, in the peculiar con} struction andarrangement of the cartridge-extractor Q; second, in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the cartridge guide and expeller B.

To enable others skilled in the art to make "and use my invention, I will nowproceed to describe the construction and'operation of the same.

A is the receiver, the shape and size of which are clearly shown in .the first three figures.

This receiver-slot is of such a nature that it. can by the proper devices be very cheaply and readily made in the common muzzle-loading .Springfield rifle or any other of a similar construction. D is the breech-pin, the size, shape, and construction of which are clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3. Projecting from one side of the breech pin are two guide-pins, m n, (see Fig. 5,) which are intended to slide in the groove I (see Fig.

4) in one side of the receiver, whereby the breech-pin is always kept in adirect line with the barrelH.- These pins m and n are inserted through the hole o (see Fig. 4) in the side'of the receiver.

F is a lever, one end of which is attached to' the back end of the breech-pin by means of the pivot a, as shownin Figs. 2 and 3.

' the receiver in the slot 3 by the pivot d and the other to the leverFby the pin b, as reprelever F are shoulders or abutments to w, which, when the breech-pin is in the position represented in Fig. 1, come in contact with corresponding shoulders in the receiver, by means .of which it is obvious that the breech-pin will be held firmly against the barrel. On the top of the breech-pin is a raised incline, D, for the purpose describedabove.

O is the sliding cartridge-extractor, which consists of a flat strip 'of metal, the frontend of which is turned up at a right angle and pro vided with a semicircular hole, h, the back end having a start, j, while the bottom-is provided laid upon the bottom of the receiver-slot; and

end and the start j. The extractor is thrown forward into the recess t,-- as represented in Fig. 1, by the forwardend-of thebreech-pin, and thrown back into-the position shown in Fig 2 by the lower corner, i, of the breech-pin striking against the start j.

B is a lever, shaped as shown in Figs. 1 and '2, and confined in the slot k in thebottom of the receiver by means of the pivot c. This lever is held in the position represented in Fi ,"2 by the front end of the extractor (l, and when in this positionzits upper edge operates as a guide for the cartridge into the barrel H.

When the breech-pin is driven forward into the position shown in Fig. 1 the guide B is thrown down by the forward end of the extractor-C into the slot it. After a metallic-cased cartridge has been fired the case is withdrawn by the front end of the extractor, being more than half encircled by the semicircular slot h. It is also simultaneously thrown upward and out of the receiver by the sudden rising of the front end of the lever B.

To insert a cartridgelin the barrel H, the

G is a link,'one end of which is attached to sented inFigs. 1 and 2. .On each side of the v with a slot, f. '(See Fig. 6.) This extractor is breech-pin is dravi'n into the position shown in Fig. 2, and the cartridge is laid, right end forward, onto the guide-leverB; when the le-' ver F will be brought down-intp the position shown in Fig. 2, and the cartridge will be driven by the front of the breech-pin into the barrel. Having thus deseribed the nature of niyinvention, what I claim as new, .aliddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The cartridge-extractor 0, provided with the slot f, in combination with'the guide and expeller B, Substantially, as and for the purpose' described.

"QLThe sliding breec'li-bin D, extra'ctorO;

and guide and expeller B, when constructed, combined, and operating substantially as de-

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