US790385A - Carrier for repeating rifles. - Google Patents

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No. 790,385. PATENTED MAY 23, 1905. H. B. BUYER, DEOD.

M. NELSON, ADMINISTRATOB.

CARRIER FOR BEPEATING RIFLES APPLIGATION FILED we. 26, 1902.

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CARRIER FOR REPEATING RIFLES.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 26, 1902.

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MARTIN NELSON, OF EMERSON, IOWA, ADMINISTRATOR OF HENRY B. BOYER, DECEASED.

CARRIER FOR REPEATING RIFLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 790,385, dated May 23, 1905.

Application filed August 26, 1902. Serial No. 121,023.

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Be it known that I, MARTIN NELSON, administrator of the estate of HENRY B. BOYER, deceased, residing at Emerson, in the county of Mills and State of Iowa, do hereby declare that said HENRY B. BOYER, deceased, did invent certain useful Improvements in Carriers for Repeating Rifles; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in carriers for repeating rifles.

The aim of the invention is to provide a cartridge-carrier in a breech-block so constructed that the carrier may be set to receive a short cartridge, a medium cartridge, or a long cartridge, as the operator may desire.

In the accompanying drawings is shown, in Figure 1, a side view with portions removed of. the Winchester repeating rifle embodying the invention. Fig. 2 shows a central sectional view of the breech-block and carrier embodying'the invention, disclosing a long cartridge in position. Fig. 3 shows a broken enlarged detail of a breech-block and carrier embodying the invention. Fig. 4 shows a top view of a breech-block constructed according to the ideas of the inventor. Fig. 5 shows a front view of a breech-block provided with the adjustable follower. Fig. 6 shows a central sectional view of the follower and connected set-screw, while Fig. 7 discloses a broken portion of a magazine and a breech-block and carrier of an ordinary Winchester rifle provided with the improvement.

In the accompanying drawings is shown, in Fig. 1, a broken portion of a Winchester rifle in which the wooden stock is marked A and is provided with the usual breech-frame B, provided below with the trigger-guard B, as shown. Passing through the breech-frame B is the screw C, by means of which the barrel is secured to the breech-frame, and this breechframe Bis provided with the usual pivotallyheld carrier 1, provided at its forward end with the receiver 1, having a chamber adapted to receive the cartridge, the receiver being transversely slotted, as is shown in Figs. 1 and 3. Held within the chamber of the carrier is a movable stop E, a front view of which is shown in Fig. 6, and this movable stop is slotted at 7, so as to register with the slot 18 in the carrier. The carrier herewith shown and the connected mechanisms are such as are used in a WVinchester rifle, and the invention is herewith shown as applied to the rifle of that make, a view of the magazine and breechblock and carrier of the same being shown in Fig. 7.

In Winchester rifles as ordinarily constructed the cartridges known as 22 long cannot be discharged in a gun constructed for cartridges known as 22 medium or short. The aim of this invention is to provide a carrier so constructed that an ordinary VVinchester rifle or rifles of that class may be provided with a carrier having an adjustable stop, so that the rifle may be set to receive and discharge short, medium, or long cartridges. The stop that is adjustably held within the receiver of the carrier is secured by means of a screw F, having an enlarged head 5, and this head rests within the chamfered or bevsled-edge slot 4, as is shown in Fig. 4, and this slot 4 is so constructed that when the screw-head is in its foremost position, as is shown in Fig. 4, the carrier is set to receive short cartridges, while if this set-screw 5 is set backward into its extreme position in an opposite direction, as is disclosed in Fig. 2, the carrier is set to receive long cartridges, as is illustrated in Fig. 2. WVhen the screwhead is positioned intermediate of the ends and opposite the graduation shown at b in Fig. 4, cartridges of a medium length may be discharged. For the sake of convenience three graduations are shown in Fig. 4 to represent the position of the screw-head when short, medium, or long cartridges are used.

In the accompanying drawings the hammer f, the carrier-lever D, held by the pin 14, and the spring 15, held by the screw 16, are shown as used in a Winchester rifle. The upper portion of the carrier (marked 2) is shown as provided with the bevel edge 17 and the rear flat portion 19 and the depending lip 12. The adjustable stop E is held in position by means of the screw F, and this screw can be readily adjusted, as the barrel may be removed from the stock by unthreading the screw C.

Having thus described the said invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by United States Letters Patent, is

In a rifle of the class described, the combination with the carrier, the upper portion of which is provided with'a slot, of an adjustable stop within said carrier, and a screw passing through said slot and into said adjustable stop, all arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

V MARTIN NELSON, Administrator of the estate 0 f flew-Ty I).

Bowl/e7, deceased. Witnesses:

JAMES R. SooT'r, ISAAC MULHoLLAND.

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