US711989A

US711989A - Magazine for firearms.

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Publication number: US711989A
Application number: US8656901A
Authority: US
Inventors: Albert D Marble
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1901-12-19
Filing date: 1901-12-19
Publication date: 1902-10-28
Anticipated expiration: 1919-10-28

Description

Patenied Oct. 28, |902.

No. 7i!,989.

an. MARBLE. MAGZIME FR FMEA-RMS (Application led Dec. 19, 1901.)

(No model.)

UnTTnn STrrTns FnTnNT @Trient ALBERT D. MARBLE, OF YALE, OKLAHOMA lllRRl'IORfv Macaznns .son riassunte.

SEEGIFXGATION forming part of Letters Patent No., 711,989, dated October 28, 1902.

Application iiled December 19, 1901. Serial No. 86.569. (N mdel-l !'0 @ZZ infront if; rtcty concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT D. MARBLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Yale,

'in the county of Payne, Territory of Oklaboina, have invented a new and useful Magazine for Target-Rides, dro., of which the following is a specification. rEhe invention relates target-rides and the like.

The object of the presentl invention is to provide for target-rifles of small caliber a magazine designed to be applied to the stock of a ride and adapted to hold a number of artridges in convenient position to enable them4 to be readily inserted in the rifle and capable of enabling such cartridges to be carried about without liability of falling freni the magazine should the rifle be inverted.

The invention consists in the construct/ion and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in. the accompanying drawings, and pointed to a magazine for f, out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure is a perspective view of a portionof the stock of a rifle provided with a magazine constructed in accordance with this invention.` Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig.

. of the 3 is a transverse view. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of a portion of the magazine, the top plate being separated from the body portion. Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view illustratinga slight modifica-tion of the invention.

Lilie numerals of reference designate corresponding partsin all the figures of the drawings. l

l designates a plate forming the top of the magazine and designed t0 be secured tothe top of the stock 2 of a rifle, as illustrated in Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings, and provided at intervals with circular openings 3, adapted to receive cartridges 4, and the rims of the latter extend beyond the openings Sand rest upon or lit against the outer face ate l, whereby the cartridges are prevented from passing entirely through the openings. The plate is let into thestocl: and is provided at opposite sides with perforated cars 5 for the reception of screws or other .suitable fastening devices for securing the magazine place.

The magazine is provided with a series of cartridge-receiving tubes 6, soldered or otherwise secured to the inner face of thc plate and preferably formed by a single continuous strip of sheet metal,whicn is rolled at the center to'forni the tube at one end of the series" and which is crimped at each side to form the remaining tubes, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 4 of the accompanying drawings. Instead, however, of constructing the series of cartridge-receiving tubes of a single piece of sheet metal, as shown in the accompanying drawings, they may be constructed in any other Way and may be secured to the inner face of the top plate in any desired manner.

The cartridge receiving tubes G are of greater diameter than the openings 3 and are provided with an elastic lining 7, of felt or other suitable material, which is slightly cornpressed by the cartridges when the latter are introduced into the magazine, whereby they will be held therein and prevented from falling out should the rifle be inverted in carrying or otherwise handlingI the same. The felt lining also prevents the magazine from scraping the lubricant from the cartridges 'from the said magazine.

In Fig. 5 ci the accompanying drawings is illustrated a slight modification of the invention, in which the plate S is raised above the stock instead of being recessed or mortised in the same, as illustrated in Fig. 3; but the plate may be of any other desired configuration. The stock is provided With a suitable recess/or inortise to receive the body portion of the magazine, and it may be recessed to receive the plate, or the latter may project beyond the stock.

It will be seen that the magazine is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it is adapted to be readily applied toa ride, and that it is capable of holding a number of cartridges within easy reach, so that they may be quickly placed in .the rifle. It Will also be apparent that the magazine is adapted to prevent the cartridges from falling out when the rifle is inverted and that it will nctscrape the lubricant from the saidcartridges. a

Various changes in the form, proportion, size, and the minor details of construction ICO Within the scope of the appended claims may be resorted 'to Without departing from the spiritor sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention, sneh as varying the configuration of the top plate and the construction of the cartridge-reeeiving tubes or sockets.

iVliat l olaiin is- Y l. A inegazine comprisinga face-plete designed Lo be mounted ou stock with its outer face approximately flush with the adjacent faces of the stool: and provided with a series of cartridge-receiving openings, and a Series of sockets arranged at the inner face of the plate and concealed within the stock; said face-plate being adapted to hold the rims of cartridges at 'the surface of the stock, subsiantially as described.

:3. A magazine comprising a face-plate designed to be arranged on The exterior of a stoel: and provided with a series oi' openings, and aseries of omtridge-reoeiving tubes fixed to theplate, substantially as described.

3. A magazine comprising a face-plate flesigned to be arranged on the exterior of a stock and provided with a series of openings, and a series oi cartridge-receiving tubes fixe-cl to the plate and consist-ing of a single strip of sheet metal doubled between its ends and crimped at each side, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own l have hereto ifiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

Y ALBERT D. MARBLE; l Witnesses:

T. G. MOFFATT, W. W. GRAVES.