Improvements in Small Arms.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 18th July, 1895-Accepted, 24th Aug., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Small Arms.
I, HARRY MIDDLETON of College Road, New Oscott, near Sutton Coldfield in
the County of Warwick, Gun Action Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to that class of breech loading gun in which the locking
and the cocking mechanism are contained within the body of the action, and the
object of my invention is to allow of such bodies being manufactured in a cheaper
manner than hitherto and also to manufacture them in such a way that the parts to
be contained within them can be inserted more readily than hitherto.
I make my bodies with a loose side wall, instead of with a cover plate, and attach
this loose side wall to the body by means of pins or screws. By making my bodies
in this manner they can be cast instead of having to be forged, as hitherto, and
further the bodies of the attachment pins or screws may serve as pivots on which
the parts forming the locking and cocking mechanism can turn.
Birmingham, 17th October 1894.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
improvements in Small Arms.
I, HARRY MIDDLETON of College Road, New Oscott, near Sutton Coldfield, in
the County of Warwick, Gun Action Maker, 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 :-
My invention relates to that class of breech loading gun in which the locking
and the cocking mechanism are contained within the body of the action, and the
object of my invention is to allow of such bodies being manufactured in a cheaper
manner than hitherto, and also to manufacture them in such a way that the
parts to be contained within them can be inserted more readily than hitherto.
I make my bodies with a loose or removable side wall, instead of with a cover
plate, and attach this loose or removable side wall to the body by means of
pins or screws. By making my bodies in this manner they can, if manufactured
out of cast metal, instead of wrought metal, have a greater portion of the metal
left out of their interior, whilst being cast, than what has hitherto been the case
when bodies with a cover plate were cast.
Further the bodies of the attachment
pins or screws may if desired serve as pivots on which the parts forming the
focking and cocking mechanism can turn.
In order that my invention may be fully understood I have annexed hereto a
sheet of drawings Fig. 1 on which shows a side view of a gun body constructed
according to my invention with the side wall removed, a a form ledges on which
the side plate, shewn in Fig. 2, rests, bare the holes for the attachment pins or
screws. Fig. 3 is a view on the line of Fig. 1, but in this view the body is
shown with the side wall fitted to it.

page_text: My invention will be found particularly suitable to what are known as rook rifles,
but it can also be employed for the bodies of all other kinds of breech loading guns
whether single or double.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I wish to state that I am aware
of guns being made with side locks having the mechanism attached to plates
and then such locks being fitted to the bodies of such guns, being known as side lock
hammerless guns, but I in nowise desire to claim such. I consider it an entirely
different gun to mine as in mine the loose and removable side wall has none of the
interior parts whatsoever attached to it, it is to be quite an independent part to be
fitted on to the body after the interior parts have been fitted therein in their proper
position, but I declare that what I claim is :-
The improvements in small arms hereinbefore set forth consisting in having the
small arms fitted with a loose or removable side wall (instead of with a cover plate)
for the purposes specified.
Birmingham. July 17th 1895.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.