Improved Means of Adapting Magazine Rifles for Practice with Miniature Ammunition.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 23rd July, 1891-Accepted, 29th Aug.,
1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means of Adapting Magazine Rifles for Practice with
Miniature Ammunition.
I, RICHARD MORRIS of Bennett Park, Blackheath, in the County of Kent,
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to means of adapting magazine rifles for practice with
miniature ammunition.
For this purpose, I fix in the existing magazine of the rifle or in the space
occupied by it, a small magazine adapted for miniature cartridges, which are
pressed up by a spring and fed by the bolt of the rifle in the same way as the
service cartridges.
In the charge chamber of the rifle I fit a breech piece or tube such as is
described in my Specification No. 285 of 1885 or No. 1160 of 1885, this breech
piece or tube having its bore suited to receive the miniature cartridges, and, as a
convenient way of fixing it in the charge chamber, I make it with a tail projecting
down between the miniature magazine and the front end of chase in which the
magazine is fitted. The miniature cartridges may have flanges large enough to
suit the service extractor as described in my Specification No. 2111 of 1883, or
the bolt of the rifle may be fitted with a special extractor to suit the miniature
cartridges, or a special bolt head or complete bolt may be employed.
Dated this 23rd day of October 1890.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means of Adapting Magazine Rifles for Practice with
Miniature Ammunition.
I, RICHARD MORRIS, of Bennett Park, Blackheath, in the County of Kent,
Engineer, 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 means of adapting magazine rifles for practice with
miniature ammunition.
For this purpose, I fix in the existing magazine of the rifle or in the space
occupied by it, a small magazine adapted for miniature cartridges, which are
pressed up by a spring and fed by the bolt of the rifle in the same way as the
service cartridges.
In the charge chamber of the rifle I fit a breech piece or tube such as is
described in my Specification No. 285, of 1885 or No. 1160 of 1885, this breech
piece or tube having its bore suited to receive the miniature cartridges, and, as a
convenient way of fixing it in the charge chamber, I make it with a tail projecting
down between the miniature magazine and the front end of chase in which the
magazine is fitted. The miniature cartridges may have flanges large enough to
suit the service extractor as described in my Specification No. 2111 of 1883, or
the bolt of the rifle may be fitted with a special extractor to suit the miniature
cartridges, or a special bolt head, or complete bolt may be employed.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a longitudinal and Fig. 2 is a transverse
section, shewing the magazine and breech tube for miniature ammunition applied
according to my invention to a magazine rifle.

page_text: Fig. 3 is a side elevation and Fig. 4 an end elevation of the breech tube B
which is held in position by its tail & projecting down in front of the magazine M.
This magazine occupies the same position as the ordinary magazine and is held
there in the same way, but it has in frent a portion parted off to form the
miniature magazine m in which the small cartridges C are pushed up by a spring S
so that the uppermost cartridge bears against the inwardly projecting lips L ready
to be thrust forwards by the advance of the bolt A. To this bolt I fit a head H
containing the striker, this head having joid to it an extractor C suited to the
flange of the miniature cartridge as shewn in Figs. 5 and 6.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
For adapting magazine rifles for practice with miniature ammunition the com-
bination of a magazine with front compartment, breech tube with tail piece; and
bolt head with special extractor, substantially as described.
Dated this 23rd day of July 1801
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.