USX5656I1 - Improvement in guns - Google Patents

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S. L FARIES. 5 5 L Machine Gun Patented Oct 10,

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SAMUEL L. FARRIES, OF MIDDLETOWN, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN GUNS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent dated October 10, 1829.

To all whom it may mum-n.-

Be it; known that I, SAMUEL L. FARBIES, of the town of hliddletowlnin the county of But.-

ler and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Making Guns to be named and called the Eight-Barreled Percussion-Gun, to be applied as well to cannon as small-arms; and I do hereby declare that: the following is a. full and exact description of horizontally between thetwolowerbars and the tw o upper bars, the axles or gadgeons E E to be cast in connection with the long barrel, in such proportion as that the weight of thelong barrel from E B may be about one-third of the weight of the whole piece in connection the extreme butt A, being cast also in connection with the main piece, to be of suflicieut substance to receive a large screw, 0, to force up the follower 1? against the end of one of the short barrels, so that the fore end of the opposite barrel may be closely and firmly kept to the binder end of the long barrel when fixed; and when a tire takes place, then give the screw one turn, and bymeans of a slider placed across the twounder bars and the two upper bars the eight. short barrels will recede a little,when oneother ofthe barrels may he turned in and fire as before; the eight barrelsB B to be cast in one piece by a pattern and each bored out directly toward the center, as deep as to c e e e, which are the touch-holes. The center D is a strong screw-head, and which passes directly downward to the slider aforesaid, (Marked G in Fig. II.)

Fig. II presents a. side view of the cannon, to which is appended a. lock, the cock to be placed on the inside of the side piece, and the mainspring tumbler, dog, and dog-spring are placed on the out or right-hand side of the side piece or bar, as aforesaid. The point or fore and of the cock is perforated, or has a suitable hole therein, and to strike overa pereussion-cap.

Fig. III represents a rifle or small-arm, being a side view; B E, the long barrel, which may be of any suitable length and bore to suit the maker. The frameoropcu pieee,(markedA A A A,) in which the eight barrels revolve and to which the lock is appended, should be of brass, and east with a sufiicient opening at the fore end to receive the barrel E E, and to be fastened byscrcws, as atA, and at the opposite side, the breech of the rifle to be connected to the brass frame at c by means of a strong screw to pass through the butt of the brass frame at A, so that when screwed up to its place it will move forward the follower F against the end of one of the eight shortbarrels, and will firmly confine the whole until it be tired, when the great brcechscrew will be turned half-round, and then turn in one other of the eight barrels until the whole be fired.

The lock is formed on the same plan and principle as is the lock for which I heretofore obtained a patent, a finished model of which is lodged in the Patent Oflice, with thisdifleronce only: In this the cock stands on the left of the lock, and the point or foreend of the cock is perforated so as to strike over a pereussion-cap, as directed for the cannon lock in Fig. II.

The short barrels, for either great or small arms, should bebntlittle more than snfliciently long to receive the cartridge or load. The ends of the sh: :t barrels, as well of the cannon asof the small-arms, should bedressed curred, eomporting with a circle described from the center D, Fig. I, and the hinder end of the long barrel and the inside of the follower F to be curred dressed suitable thereto.

September 12, 1829.

SAMUEL L FARRIES.

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