US85999A - Improvement in breech-loading- fire-arms - Google Patents

Description

CARTER & EDWARDS.

. Breech Lader.

Patented Jany 19, 1869.'

No. 85,999.I

VVE/V TORS when a cap or cover, E, is removed.

- tridge is inserted, when the bolt or plug Gis drawn back.

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`HENRY'CARTER AND GEORGE HENRY EDWARDS, OFDEMPSEY STREET, 'STEPNEY, ENGLAND.

Letters Patent No. 85,999, elated January 19, *1869.l

M I1VIPROVEMENT IN BREECH-LOADIN G- FIRE-ARMS.

The Behedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

T0 all 'whomt mail 007mm The cap or cover is rounded in form, so that it will Be it known that. we, HENRY CARTER and GEORGE correspond to the breech-piece D and bolt o r plug C, HENRY-EDWARDS, ofDempsey Street, Stepney, in the and it tapers oif at the rear, where it iits on the small county of Middlesex, and Kingdom of England, have of the stock, so as to present a smooth surface thereinvented new and useful Improvements in Breechwith. Y Loading Fire-Arms and we do hereby declare that The cap or cover is secured in position by a screw, the following is a full, clear, and exact description b, passing down through a solid abutment, F, at the thereof, which will enable thoseskilled in the art to` inner side ofthe cap or cover, at. its taper end, and make and use the same, reference being had to the into a tailpiec,e, c, the rear end of which is let into the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specifistock. (See iig. 1.) cation. At the inner side of the cap or cover, near its' front, This invention is chiey applicable to that. class of at each side of its lower part, there isa rib or projecbreech-loading fire-arms which close with a sliding rotion, f. tating bolt, provided with a' projecting hand-lever. These ribs or projections arereceived in longitudinal The invention consists, first, in constructing the bargrooves, g, made in the exterior of the breech-piece, rel of the fire-arm with an open rear end, and also with and serve to connect the cap or cover thereto, Without an open lever-slot, for the' ready vwithdrawal of the bolt, interfering, in the least, with the ready/removal or dewhen required, for cleaning, and in applying a cap or taehment of the cap or cover. r cover tothe hinder part of the shoe of a gun, which This will be fully understood by referring to iig. 3. cap or cover completely covers the groove or opening G (see fig. 6) represents thc trigger', and H, the sere, in which the sliding bolt works, with the exception vof both of which are in one piece, and work on a common theropening necessary for the introduction of the carfulcrum, h. tridge, and for thenecessary traverse of the hand-lever By this arrangement, the lock-action is greatly simof the sliding bolt. pliied and rendered much quicker in its operation. The invention consists, also, in fitting the extractor, The arrangement and application of the sere-spring applied to such guns, so that a dovetail end, fitted into I and hammer K are shown in fig. 1. a recess in the sliding bolt, shall be received in an under- The hammer K, when freed from thesere, is forced out and dovetail recess, when the bolt is drawn backupward by a spring, M, and actsagainst a striker, L, in the bolt or plug when the latter is locked in its ward, so as to prevent its falling from the bolt when it is withdrawn at the breech. forward position, the striker exploding the cap of the In the accompanying sheet of drawingscartridge, shown in red in figs. l and 3. Figure 1 is a side sectional view of our invention, The inclined projecting end, l,-of the bolt or plug O taken in the line `:e x, iig. 3. serves to prevent the hammer K from acting on the Figure 2, a side view of the same. striker L, except-when the bolt or plug O is shoved Figure 3, a plan or top View of the same, partly in forward, and turned or adjusted, ready for the discharge section. of the gun.

Figure 4, a transverse sectionof the same, taken in The projecting end t' also serves to cock the hammer as the b olt or plug is drawn back.

N, iig. 1, is a screw, by which the vstriker L may be the line y y, iig. 3.

Figure 5, a detached perspective view of the sliding readily removed from or introduced in the bolt or plug C, the motion of said striker being limited by they enbolt.

Figure 6, a detached view of the trigger and sere.

largement, j, made thereon, sliding in a recess, k, at the fore end of the bolt or plug.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding The nose of the striker is pushed back by the end parts.

A is the barrel. B, the stock. V of the cartridge, on pushing the bolt or plug forward G, the sliding bolt, or breech-closing plug, provided in the breech-piece, in readiness to be againaoted upon with a lever, D, for the purpose of sliding and turnby the hammer K. ing it. -Q is the extractor, placed at the side of the bolt or This bolt or plug slides in a breech-piece, at the plug O, having its front end provided with a shoulder rear end ofthe barrel, said breech-piece being open at or nib, Z, and its Arear end is provided with a dovetail lip, m, which is fitted in a right-angular slot, n, in the exterior of the bolt or plug C, the sides of which are its rear end, to enable the bolt or plug to be readily withdrawn from the gun, for cleaning or otherwise,

inclined or bevelled, to form a dovetail corresponding with the lip m. (See figs. 3, 4, and 5.)

The lateral portion of the slot u admits of the turning ofthe bolt or plug in the breech-piece without the extractor being turned, while the longitudinal portion This cap or cover E entirely closes the open rear end of the breech-piece D', and also the rear part of a groove, a, in the breech-piece, through which the carofy said slot admits of a certaindegree of longitudinal backward movement of the bolt or plug before the extractor is moved back.v

l? is a spring-'catch, placed in the lower part of the breech-piece D', and having vits upper end terminating in a nib, to t or catch into either of two recesses",- o o', in the exterior of' the bolt or plug, near its rear end.

This spring-catch, in connection with the recesses o o', prevents a casual movement ofthe bolt or plug.

The screw. N, in the bolt'or plug C, may be placed at the rear end, instead of being in the position shown, and the striker introduced from behind, in order to obviate the possible eeet in the screw becoming loosened by the explosion of the cartridge.

The gun is loaded and fired, or discharged, as follows:

The'bolt or plug is drawn l back, the cartridge inserted into the breech-piece in front of the bolt or plug, and the latter then shoved forward, and locked by turning it to the right, at the completion of ,its forward movement, a rib, ax', onthe bolt or plug being turned down in front of .a shoulder, bX, of the breechfpiece. The nib lof the extractor catches over a flange on the 'rear end ofthe cartridge.

The gun is now ready for firing 0r being discharged, the sere H being freed from the hammer K by pulling the trigger G, and the vspring M forcing the hammer upward against the rear end of the striker L, as previously explained. Y d

The lever D of the bolt or plug O is then turned to the left, so that the rib ax will be in line with the slot or opening 1n the top of thebreech-piece, andthe lip m1 at the rear end of the extractor, brought in line with the longtudinal'portion of the -slot fn:

The bolt or plug C is thendrawn back, the extractor VO drawing the shell of the cartridge with it,whenthe the cartridge may be discharged from the breech-piece,

and a succeeding cartridge inserted. We claim as new, and desire to Patentl. The breech-piece D", provided with an open rear l end, in combination with the cap or cover E, andthe sliding bolt or plug C, said parts being arranged sub-l stantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. Connecting the extractor O with the slide or plug O, by means of the dovetail lip m on the former, fitted in a dovetail slot, n, in the latter, substantially as and for the purposeset forth.

3. The combination ofthe bolt or plug O, breech-v piece D', cap or `cover E, extractor O, striker' L, and ham mer K, all arranged to operate in the manner substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

The above specification of our invention signed by us, this 11th dayof November, 1867.

HENRY CARTER.

GEORGE HENRY EDWARDS. Witnesses A". M. CLARK, W. G. E. 4SwrNNooir.

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