US567358A

US567358A - Henry pieper

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Publication number: US567358A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-09-08
Anticipated expiration: 1913-09-08

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T m M HP B we m .R A G a d O M 0 w No. 567,358. Patented Sept. 8, 1896.

.01. QZJWML UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY PIE ER, or LIEGE, BELGIUM.

CARTRdDGE-PACK ET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 567,358, dated September 8, 1896. Application fil d June 17, 1896. Serial No. 595,895. (No model.) Patented in Belgium November 6, 1895, No. 118,262.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY PIEPER, a subject of the King of Belgium, residing at Liege, Belgium, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oartridge-Feeding Devices for Firearms, (for which I have obtained a patent in Belgium, No. 118,262, dated November 6, 1895;) and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of the present invention is a feeding device for cartridges, serving to receive a certain number of cartridges in one package, so that the introduction into the magazine of a firearm of the same is greatly facilitated. The cartridgefeeders can be divided into two classes, those that are introduced into the magazine with the cartridges and those out of which the cartridges are removed in order to be placed into the magazine, so that the feeder remains outside of the latter. The present invention relates to this latter class of cartridge-feeders. In the same the cartridges are assembled in such a way that by a simple pressure on the upper cartridge they cannot be charged into the gun;

but it is necessary to make a certain motion in order to withdraw the spring holding the cartridges. In placing the feeder into the receiver over the magazine and by giving a pressure on the uppercartridge this pressure, cooperating with the inclined plane or the notch with inclined sides cut into the receiver, will produce a retraction of the retainin g-sprin g and the cartridges will pass without other resistance into the gun. In the feeders made heretofore the groove serving to guide the cartridges is formed by one fixed side and by a spring forming the other side, while in the present feeder a groove is formed by two fixed sides and aspring acting against the rear of the cartridges. This feeder when provided with cartridges forms a solid pack ,age from which the cartridges cannot come loose during transportation.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 2 show end views in the cartridge-feeder with the cartridges inserted therein. Figs. 3, 4, 4E, and 5 show the spring in side elevation, front elevation, and end view. Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section through the feeder, showing the spring therein and indicating the position of cartridges in dotted lines. Fig. 7 is a side elevation. Fig. 8 shows the feeder placed over the receiver of a gun, and Fig. 9 is a cross-section through the feeder without spring and cartridges.

The feeder a is made of sheet metal, preferably stc el, which is bent by suitable tools into a channel of the form indicated in crosssection by Fig. 9. The two sides, as can be seen from said figure, have an inner rib 12, forming with the bottom of the channel a fixed slide into which the rear ends of the cartridges can be freely inserted and wherein they are held by a spring 0, having the ends 0 or a slightly curved, as in Fig. 3, or curved inwardly, as in Fig. 4. This spring is provided with suitable holes in its middle part and is secured by rivets or other similar means either inside of the channel a or outside of the same, as shown in the figures. In one or the other case the spring presses only by its ends on the lower cartridge and on the upper cartridge, and it forms no part of the means serving to guide the cartridges. The latter are therefore firmly retained in the feeder, and at the ends the retaining-spring secures the lowerand upper cartridge against falling out by clamping with the ends do over the same. In order to free the cartridge, it is necessary to press the end of the spring back, which can be effected in different ways. For instance, the spring can be provided with lateral projections 61, as shown in Fig. 4, which project laterally from the guide or channel a, as shown in Figs. 7 and S. If now the breech of the gun is provided with a notch 19, having slanting sides wherein the projections d d can engage, it is sufficient to press the cartridges, with the feeder, slightly A point of attack to withdraw the described manner. A small pressure on the upper cartridge would be suflicient to allow the lower cartridge to slip out into the gun, I

and the feeder would do the same service as those employed heretofore. i

Having thus described my invention, claim A cartridge-feeder composed of a channel to guide the cartridges, bent of metal and having in its lateral portions projecting ribs b, b, in combination of a spring secured to the bottom of said channel and having lateral In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY PIERER.

Witnesses:

ALEXANDER SoHRIcK, J. Gnoss.