US898023A - Trap-gun. - Google Patents

Description

No. 898,023. PATENTED SEPT. 8, 1908.

W. J. WHEELER.

TRAP GUN.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 4, 1907.

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WILLIAM J. WHEELER, OF DULUTH, MINNESOTA.

TRAlD-GUN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 8, 1908.

Application filed November 4, 1907. Serial No. 400,503.

T o all whom it may camera:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. WVHEELER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Duluth, in the county of St. Louis and State of Minnesota,.have invented certain iiew and useful Improveinents in Trap-Guns; 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 artto which it appertains to make and use the saine.

My invention relates to trap guns and has for its object .the improvement of guns whereof the trigger is intended to be pulled by the action of the animal .to be shot.

It consists in the construction, coinbination and arrangements of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1, is a side elevation of one form of iny invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section thereof on the line A-B of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary side elevation of a modified form of my said invention.

In the drawings, 1, is a skeleton frame or stock einbodying a Web 1 and a breech block lb, wliich breech block is reduced as at 1. Said breech block is centrally apertured for the passage of a longitudinally directed firing pin 2. The web 1 is apertured for the passage of the longitudinally directed fii'ing bolt or hammer 3 which hammer also eX- tends loosely through an aperture in the rear end lfi of said stock. Upon said hammer, at a point between said web and said end 1(l of the stock, is Secured a collar 3, and between said collar and the said end 1d of the frame is.

mounted upon said liaininer a coiled eXpanding spring 31) adapted in Operation to project said hammer against said firing pin. Forming part of said frame is a forked depending lug le, between the tines of which is pivoted a quadrantal or bell crank leverl, to the lower end of which is pivotally connected a forwardly directed hook 5. In the form shown in Fig. 1, the upper free end of said trigger is iiotclied as at 411 to engage the nose of the retracted said hammer, and said upper end of said' trigger is, in said form supported by any suitable style of Spring, as 6, bearing at its opposite end upon said skeleton frame. Said breech block is provided in each side near its inner end with recesses 7 containing springs 7 from which recesses slots eXtend forwardly to the end of the thicker portion of the breech block. Within said slots and by means of the vertically directed pins 8 extending through suitable apertures in the breech block are pivoted longitudinally directed looking dogs 9, the noses of which extend forwardly beyond the extreme end of said breech block, and the heels of which eX- tend rearwardly over said springs Ta, which springs tend to force said heels outwardly and thus operate to force the noses of said dogs inwardly. Said dogs are provided at their forward ends with inwardly directed teeth, 9a and said dogs intermediate of` their' pivots and of their forward ends are provided with inwardly directed toes 91). Mounted on the reduced end of said breech block and between said dogs is a barrel 10 which barrel is preferably eX- ternally enlarged at its inner end or breech. The bore of said barrel is enlarged at its inner end so as to form the shoulder 105L against which the forward end of the Cartridge shell 11 abuts; and said bore is further enlarged at its inner end to form the shoulder 10b against which the flange of the said Cartridge shell abuts and also for the purpose of forming a suitable Chamber for the reception of the said reduced end of said breech block. Tlie opposite sides of said barrel are externally slotted and recessed to receive the forwardly projecting ends and toes of said dogs, whereby said barrel is held securely against the thicker portion of said breech block and is also prevented from rotating. To release said barrel from the breech block for loading or shell-extracting purposes, theheels of said dogs are pinched inwardly against their said supporting springs, thus disengaging the teeth and toes of the dogs from the barrel, after which the barrel may be removed longitudinally from the breech block. Said barrel is provided at its forward end with a deformed therein through one or another of which the shank of said hook is directed. To the forked lug of said stock is connected by a horizontal pivot 13 a standard 14 which in turn is mounted by a swivel connection or vertical pivot 15 on a post 16. Thus the gun may tilt vertically or swing horizontally.

In Fig. 3, is sho'ii'n a modified form of the trigger in which the notch 411 is omitted and a modified form of notch as 41) is formed, which notch is adapted to engage the forwardly directed nose of a dog` 17 which dog is pivoted at its heel to the frame or stock and is supported intermediate of its ends by a suitable Spring 18, in which form, either the Spring 6 or the Spring 18 may be omitted, but

pending finger 12, having one or more eyes i not both of them. Said dog 17 is provided with an upwardly directed ear 17 a adapted to engage the forward end of the retracted hamrner. Said hook is adapted to engage a suitable bait, as an apple or a piece of ineat (not shown), in attempting to take which the animal will pull the trigger and release the hammer which will strike the firing pin and eXplode the cartridge.

What I claim is In a tra gun, the combination of a stock having a greech block formed thereon said breech block being reduced in diameter at its forward end and having an a erture formed therein and extending longituldinally thereof, said stock having a depending forked lug at its forward end, a spring operated reci rocating firing bolt mounted in said stoc a firing pin mounted in said aperture in said breech block in alinernent With said hammer, a bell crank trigger pivoted intermediate of its ends to said stock forward of said firing bolt and extending rearwardly, a hook pivvotally connected to the lower arm of said lever and extending forwardly through said 2 forked lug, said trigger being adapted at its upper end in set position to eXtend into the path of said firing bolt, a barrel removably Inounted on said breech block, said barrel having recesses formed in its sides, spring 3 controlled dogs, pivotally Secured to said breech block and extending forwardly and externally overlapping the rearward end of said barrel, said dogs having projections forrned thereon adapted in Operation to en- 3 gage said recesses formed in the sides of said barrel, substantially as described.

In testirnony whereof I hereunto afliX my Signature, in presence of two witnesses. v

WILLIAM J. WHEELER.

Witnesses:

JAMES T. WATsoN, O. T. CRANDALL.

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