USRE1720E - Improvement in breech-loading fire-arms - Google Patents
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- USRE1720E USRE1720E US RE1720 E USRE1720 E US RE1720E
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- FIG. 1 represents a side view of certain parts of a rifle-gun embodying my invention, with a self-capping attachment applied to it.
- Fig. 2 represents a vertical longitudinal section, showing certain parts of the gun.
- Fig. 3 represents a front view of the slide which closes the breech of the barrel detached from the gun, and
- Fig. 4 represents a side view of the head of the controlling-lever of the, slide which secures the breech.
- the barrel K of this gun is open at the breech, and is counterbored to form a chamber in which the cartridge is to be inserted.
- the receiver A is slotted or mortised transversely to the line of the bore of the barrel, to permit the slide B, which is a movable stopper for closing the open breech of the barrel, to move up and down across the breech, so that when the slide is raised it secures the open breech of the barrel and confines the charge therein.
- the receiver and the stock are so formed in the rear of the bore that the cartridge may be readily moved forward past themin line with the bore, or thereabout, when the gun is to be charged, the part of the receiver A back of the slide B having a roundbottomed groove, a, cutin its upper side, and the portion of the stock I of the gun which is behind the slide B being depressed or cut away.
- the groove a in the receiver is narrower than the slide B, so that a sufficient bearing is left at each side of the slide to sustain it against. the strain resulting from the withdrawing the slide.
- the slide is perforated, as indicated at F, to permit the fire rom the percussion-cap to pass through it nto the chamber of the gun, and it is fitted with a nipple or cone, E, to which the cap is applied.
- the slide B is connected by a link,
- the head of the lever C has two notched shoulders, b, one at each side, and a forked spring, (I, is secured to the receiver A, with its forked ends in such positions that when the controlling-lever C is raised to its highest position they engage in the notches c (at opposite sides of that lever) and hold the lever in its highest position, thereby holding the slide B in its place and preventing the controlling-lever from accidentally dropping and
- the other notch, g, of each of the shoulders is in such a position relatively to the adjacent end of the spring d that when the slide has been withdrawn by the depression of the controlling-lever to a proper position for permitting the introduction of the cartridge into the open breech of the barrel the ends of the spring, engaging in these notches g at opposite sides of the lever,
- the upper forward rim, m, of theslide B is formed into a shearing-edge, which, operating upon the projecting end of the cartridge when the slide is raised, shears off said projection and exposes the charge therein.
- a tube, G attached to the side of the barrel and parallel therewith, some eight or ten inches long, with one end passing through a portion of the receiver and supporter A and half-way across the mortise or slot therein.
- This tube has a cross-hole at the end, which will admit the cap-nipple to pass up sufficiently to carry a cap above the surface of the tube G when the gun is breeched.
- this gun To use this gun, prepare a cartridge by making a paper tube nearly the size of the counterbore of the barrel. Into one end of the tube put a ball with a patch drawn over it. The paper tube may pass over the folds of the patch and be tied with a thread. This paper tube, being then charged with powder, may be closed by tying. Now, by moving the hinder end of the. lever downward, the breech of the barrel will be opened to receive the cartridge. In the meantime a cap will be placed by the follower in the crosshole of the tube G. All that is necessary then is to insert the cartridge and return the lever to its place, whereupon the gun will be loaded and capped.
- the advantages of the gun are, first, that the making of the barrel and receiver in separate pieces and then uniting them by brazing or screwing admit-s of these parts being manufactured economically and put together without danger of distortion of form, while at the same time their attachment to each other is firm and secure; second, that from the construction and relative arrangement of the barrel, slide, receiver, and stock, as described, a cartridge may be inserted in line with the axis of the barrel, or thereabout, whereby time is saved and danger of breaking or bending the cartridge is obviated; third, that the arrangement and combination of the slide and controlling-lever are such that the force: of the discharge or any other power applied to the slide cannot move it whenit fully secures the breech, thereby making the gun safer; fourth, that the controlling-lever.
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