Improvements in Coin Freed Magazine Shooting Apparatus.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Apr., 1899-Accepted, 27th May, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin Freed Magazine Shooting Apparatus.
I, ANDREW ARCHIBALD, of 46, Cockburn Street, in the County of the City of
Edinburgh, North Britain, Scientific Instrument 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 improvements in coin freed magazine shooting ap-
paratus and is a further development of the invention described in the Specifica-
tion of J. G. Cumming's Patent No. 6190 A.D. 1893, and refers only to the maga-
zine arrangement for carrying and releasing the bullets.
In order that my invention may be properly understood and readily carried
into effect I have hereunto appended one sheet of drawings, of which,
Figure is a part section and part elevation shewing my improvements.
Figure 2 is a similar view of a modification.
Figure 3 is a detached view of a different modification.
In carrying out my invention and referring to Figure 1 I construct the maga-
zine A so that it is capable of containing a number of bullets B. Leading from
the magazine A there is a tube C of sufficient width to allow of the bullets B
passing freely down. At the bottom end of the tube C there is a spring bolt or
slide 1 having a slot or opening E, which, when the bolt or slide D is in its normal
position, is immediately underneath the tube C, as shown in hard lines, Figure
1, so as to enable three or other number of bullets, according to the depth of the
bolt or slide 1, to fall into it, and under the bolt or slide 1) there is a plate F to
prevent the bullets falling out. At the extreme end G of the slide or bolt D there
is a rod H which is carried into the magazine A.
After the coin has been inserted into the slot in the manner described in the
specification of the said J. G. Cumming the spring bolt or slide D is pulled out
by the knob or handle I when the bullets which are in the slot or opening E are
carried with it until they reach the end of the plate F when they are delivered into
the shute J, as shewn in dotted lines Figure 1, and from there into the pistol,
which, of course, forming no part of my invention need not be herein explained.
When the spring bolt or slide D is released it returns to its normal position by
means of the spring ready for the next supply of bullets. As the spring bolt or
slide D is being pulled out the bullets in the magazine A become stirred or dis-
placed by the end of the rod H moving along.
Referring to Figure 2, I provide a disc L in which there are, at suitable dis-
tances apart, slots or openings M into which three or other number of bullets B
pass, according to the depth of the slots M. Fixed on this spring bolt D there
is a spring pawl or catch N, which engages with a small pin O immediately be-
hind each slot or opening M. As the spring bolt or slide D is pulled out by the
knob or handle I, the spring pawl or catch N engaging with the pin next to it
makes the disc L make a partial revolution when the slot M next to the shute
Jis at the end of the plate, when the bullets are delivered into the shute J and
from there to the pistol not shown on the drawings. When the spring bolt or
slide D is released it returns to its normal position by means of the spring K pro-

page_text: vided for the purpose, the spring pawl or catch N also returning and engaging
with the following pin, and so on.
In Figure 3, in place of having the slots or openings M depthwise in the disc
as in Figure 2 I may have them round the circumference of the disc.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. In coin-freed shooting apparatus, the magazine A. with tube C and slot or
opening in the spring bolt or slide D and plate F, all substantially as and for
the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated, Figure 1 of the accompanying
sheet of drawings.
2. In coin-freed shooting apparatus, the rod H with turned-over portion h.
for preventing the bullets from bridging the entrance to the tube C, substantially
as described and illustrated in Figure 1 of the accompanying sheet of drawings.
3. In coin-freed shooting apparatus, the disc L with slots or openings M and
pins O, and spring pawl or catch N and plate F, all operating, substantially in
the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated on Figure
2 of the accompanying sheet of drawings.
4. In coin-freed shooting apparatus, the disc L with slots or openings M, sub-
stantially as described and illustrated on Figure 3 of the accompanying sheet of
drawings.
Dated this 20th day of April 1900
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Patent Agents.