US86723A - Improvement in magazine fire-arms - Google Patents

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UNITED S'I'A'IES PATENT OFFICE.

S. G. BAYES, OF WAUSEON, OHIO.

Specification forming pa1t of Letters Patent N0. 86,723, daterl February 9, 1869.

T0 all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, S. G. BAYES, of Wanseon, in the county 0f Fulton and State 0f Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fire-Arms; and I d0 hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which Will enable those skilled in the art t0 make and use the same, reference being had t0 the accompanying drawings, forming part 0f this specification.

This invention relates t0 a new and useful improvement in that dass of fire-arms which are known as magazine-guns, the same being provided with a eharnber. to oontain a plurality 0f eartridges, (those with metallic shells being used,) which, by a suitable meehanism, are conveyed, one at a time, from the magazine and deposited into the breech or rear end 0f the barrel 0f the pieee to be disoharged, the metall ic sh ells of the exploded cartridges bein g thrown through an opening in the t0p of a chamber at the rear of the barrel, in which chamber the greater portion 0f the mechanism above alluded to is plaeed.

In eonnection with the sliding breech-pin 0f tl1is class of fire-arms, a slide 0r cover is provided f01 the opening through whicl1 the metallic shells 0f the exploded cartridges a1e cast out, so that said openingwill be kept covered 0r closed, except at such tinne when the mechanism is ready t0 ejeet the shell, when it is opened, and after the expulsion 0f the shell elosed by the operation of the gnard-lever.

My invention eonsists in the peculiar C011- strnction 0f this slide, whereby it is adapted t0 be moved fbrward t0 cover the opening in a line parallel With the axis 0f the barrel.

I am aware that a flat spring has been attached t0 the breechpin and movecl forward with it t0 elose the opening in the chamber; but the success of this arrangement depends npon the elasticity 0f the spring, whose outer end must be raised by the carrier before the opening can be closed, and then spring into position upon the chamber when the carrier has been thrown down.

The eontinued nse 0f this spring will have a tendency t0 weaken lt, and therefore render the cover imperfect.

By my invention this diffieulty is avoided,

as the cover is non-elastic and mmes forward in line parallel witl1 the axis 0f the ba1rel. In order to accomplish tl1is result, it is grooved upon its under surfaee in such a manner as t0 slide easily over the projecting ribs upon the earrier, which ribs are employed f01' expelling the shell of the exploded cartridge.

In the accompanying sheet ofdrawings, Fignre 1 is a side view 0f the breech portion 0f a magazine-gun, a portion 0f the side neariast the eye beingrmoved in Order t0 sh0w theworking parts; Fig. 2, a transverse section of the san1e, taken in the line 00 x, Fig. l.

Similar letters 0f r'eference indieate '001responding parts.

A represents a portion of the rear or breech encl 0f the barrel 0f a fire-arm; B, a portion 0f the stoek, which is of metal, and adjoins the metallic chamber 0 at the rear o1- breech end 0f the barrel. D is the carrier, which raises the eartridges fron1 the magazine E, underneath the harre], up t0 the rear end 0f the barrel; and F is the sliding breeeh-pin, by which the cartridges are shoved into the barrel. The ca-1rier and breech-pin are operated by a lever, G, conneoted by suitable mechanism 130 them. H is the plunger, against Whi0h the hammer I strikes t0 explode the cartridge.

The front end of the plunger works in the rear part of the breeeh-pin F, andat the rear end 0f the breech-pin obere is a block, a, t0 which one arm 0f a toggle, J :is pivoted, the toggle being; eonnected witl1 the lever G.

'lhe pa1ts above referrecl t0 am all old and well known, and therefore (10 n0t require a special description.

In the top 0f the chamber G there is made an opening, b, as usual, through. wl1ich themetallic shells 0f the exploded cartriclges are thrown out eacl1 time the carrier D rises. 'Il1is opening b, in fire-arms of this class, is 1n0st generally open, n0 cover being provldecl f0r lt, and the few covers that have been applied have been fonncl defective, although some 0f then1 have been operated by the breech-pin. My invention obviates this difficulty.

The cover consists of a slide, J, provided at its under side With a longitudinal dovetail rib, K, which is fitted and allowed t0 slide 01 work freely in a corresponding-shaped groove in the 1:0p of the chamber O.

113 will be seen thaf the carrier D is provided with two projecting ribs, by Which the cartridge-shell is raised and diseharged from the opening, and in order to permit ehe non-elastie s1ide J t0 move forward, it is grooved upon its under side 1:0 a sufficient depth to permit its passage over the 1ibs of the carrier.

Apin, c, extends up from the block a ab the re2u of the breech-pin F, said pin passing through an oblong slot, d, in the t0p of the chamber O, 2u1d into a mortise in 1:-he under side of t1 1e rib K, as shown clezmrly in Fig. l.

By this arrangement it will be seen (hat the S1'1de 01" cover J will be moved With ohe breechpin, und eaoh time the breech-pin is moved forw-ard to shove the cartridge into the barrel tl1e slide J Will be also inoved and n1ade 130 c0ver the opening b, and when the breeqh-pin is drawn back and the carrier rises the slide S. G. BAYES.

Witnesses: V

FRANK BLOOKLEY, ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

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