provements in Small Arms
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Oct, 1894-Accepted, 10th Nov. 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION
Improvements in Small Arms
I, CARL STIER of Zella Strasse Blasu, m the Province of Thuringia, Germany,
Sinall Arms Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Fire aims as previously made have been composed of many pieces of different
materials but all the parts of the file arm constituting the subject matter of the
present invention are made of metal, so that the barrel, the lock box and the stock
can be made in one piece. For the introduction of the lock, one half of the stock
and of the loch box is removable.
The hammer and tugger are also made in one piece and are introduced into and
work in a peculiar manner in the lock box.
Refeiring to annexed drawing.
Fig. 1 is a sectional view on the line of Fig. 2, which itself is a top view of
the new fire ain
Fig. 3 18 a view of the same seen from the real.
Fig. 4 shows the removable half part of the stock and the inside of the lock box
portion.
In the improved percussion fire arm the barrel a, reinforced at the part 4, 18 made
of one piece of malleable cast iron, with half of the stock c and half of the lock
box. This being different from auns as made heretofore which are formed of a
cast barrel, a cast chamber, a pressed cover, and a wooden stock and in separato
pieces.
The part of the stock and lock box 18 removable. The hammer e and the
trigger are also in one piece and are actuated by a spring 9 which rests with one
of its extremities in the indent of the hammer e and with the other extremity in a
catch of the stock c, d, said hammer and trigger e, f swing around the pin & that
unites the two halves of the stock.
When uncocked, the hammer e is pressed tightly against the nipple by the
spring g, see Fig. 1.
If cocked, however, that 18, if the hammer has been drawn backward so far that
it touches mand has thus been placed in the position indicated by the dotted lines,
the spring will securely hold the hammer, because its contact point has now
come below the swinging axle k by the drawing back of the hammer, thereby
assuring its perfect fixity.
If on the contrary the hammer is released from the position shown in the dotted
lines, by pulling the trigger f, the spring y will cause the hammer to strike
powerfully upon the nipple 7.
It will be readily understood that by constructing the barrel, the chamber, the
lock box and one half of the stock in one piece and by using a hammer also made in
one piece with the trigger, great simplicity in the manufacturing of fire arms is
secured without impairing their efficiency.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
consider novel and desire to claim is :-
1. A hand fire arm comprising tho bariel a, the part b, the lock box and a
portion of the stock all made in one piece and combined with a removable section
of the stock, substantially as described with reference to the drawings annexed.

page_text: 2. A haud fire arm comprising the barrel a, the part b, the lock box and the
stock portion all made in one piece, substantially as described with reference to the
drawings annexed.
3. In combination in a fire arm, the banel, the stock formed in two pieces, the
pin for holding them together and the hammer jourballed on said pin, substantially
as described.
4 In combination in a fire arın the barrel, the stock, the hammer and trigge
formed in one piece with an indent near the pivot point of the hammer and the
spring in the stock engaging said indent to hold the hammer and trigger in cocked
position or to operate the hammer when the trigger is pulled, substantially as
described with reference to the drawings annexed.
Dated this 4th day of October 1894.
H. D FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.