The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-17

! granted in October, 1879. Browning
| Bros. manufactured about 500 of the
guns when it fell under the observa-
ton Of the Winchester Arms company.
who sent their president out to buy
the patent, which he succeeded in do
! ing for the paltry sum of $1,000 This
was in 1884. The gun is still being
sold, and more than 5000 of them have
been manufactured.
Mr.. Browning turned his attention
to repeating arms. He took out a sec
ond patent about 1884 which he des-
Scribes as not being worth much His
third patent was the gun known as the
Winchester Model of 1885, the features
OF which We're greater safety and SYM
metry and more compactness. The lock
was improved SO that a. longer cart
ridge could be Inserted with less length
in the lock. Nearly 1000 of these
guns have been sold. It was this gun
that had the locking device, which is
now a feature of every gun made by
the great arms company Nineteen tbs
OF the guns now made by the Winches-
ter company, are made from the
Browning patents, and the success at
tanned by Utah's great inventor may
be understood when it is known that
although dozens, even hundreds of new
gun models have been submitted to
that company within the last ten years
the only new guns accepted and man
ufactured by them since 1854 have been
the Browning guns.
Mr.. Browning has taken out over 30
patents in all, among which, in addi-
ton to those mentioned, was a lever
shot gun, in 1886, and a sliding fore
arm gun in 1890 OF the lever shot gun.
shot gun, and was the first shot gun
made by that company, nearly 10000
have been sold. It was the first lever
shot gun made and will shoot as many
as six shots. 1t is a most successful
gun on account of its rapidity. simple
ity and strength and durability. The
gun patented in 1890 is known as the
Winchester Model of 1885 These two
models are the only shot guns made By
the company.
Mr.. Browning has patented a re.
not submitted in the contest which led
to the adoption of the -Jorgensen
for the United States army
He has not made any inventions in
pistols.
The Winchester company has bought
number of these patents at figures
that approximate their real value and
it may be set down as certain that
while they have made a great deal
vi lHOilCy OuI VI NIL DEOWlllIlS ) invent
i've genius the latter has also made a
comfortable fortune through his intel,
ligent perseverance. The Winchester
people never allow the inventors name
to be used in designating their inven-
tions.
Mr.. Browning is always hard at work
on new schemes and his patents now
number from two to eight year. The
rapid firing gun, the remarkable exc
cution of which is recorded above, has
not yet been sold. 1t is of course a
military and naval weapon and will be
manufactured and sold to all corners
unless the government should see fit
to buy the patent 1t certainly comes
nearer to raining lead than any death
dealing implement yet invented. It
is automatic in that the explosive force
of one discharge loads the gun and
again discharges it.
There are few people among the in
habitants of Utah who have had a
really adequate idea of the debt that
sportsmen owe to the inventive talent
of John NJ. Browning, Utah's modest
inventor