A New or Improved Method of and Means for Registering the Number of Shots Fired from Rifles, Revolvers, Pistols, and other Fire Arms.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left. 9th Jan., 1893-Accepted, 11th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Method of and Means for Registering the
Number of Shots Fired from Rifles, Revolvers, Pistols, and other
Fire Arms.
1, ALEXANDER JAMES ELI, of 76 Chancery Lane, London, W.C. Consulting
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a new or improved method of, and means for, registering
the number of shots fired from rifles, revolvers, pistols, and other fire arms, and
consists in providing in the stock or other convenient part of the rifle, revolver, or
other fire arm, an indicator or indicators for registering the number of shots fired.
The indicator may consist of a dial or dials, or other suitable registering device, on
which are marked numbers from units to tens, hundreds, or thousands; each of the
dials or other registering device being provided with an indicating needle actuated
by any suitable mechanism, such as toothed wheels which may be caused to revolve
by the action of a pawl and set in motion by a spring or lever acted upon either by
the opening or shutting of the breech or the cocking of the hammer, as may be
desired.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Method of and Means for Registering the
Number of Shots Fired from Rifles, Revolvers, Pistols, and other
Fire Arms.
I, ALEXANDER JAMES ELI, of 76 Chancery Lane, London, W.C. Consulting
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 a new or improved method of, and means for, registering
the number of shots fired from rifles, revolvers, pistols, and other fire arms, and
consists in providing in the stock, or other convenient part, of the rifle, revolver, or
other fire arm, an indicator or indicators for registering the number of shots fired,
which indicator or indicators is or are actuated by the act of firing. The indicator
may consist of a dial or dials, or other suitable registering device, on which figures
are marked from units to tens, hundreds, thousands, or more, as may be required or
desired. The dial or dials may be provided with an index finger or fingers caused
to revolve by any convenient means, such as by toothed wheels acted upon by a
pawl, and set in motion by a spring or lever operated by the opening or shutting of
the breech, or the cocking of the hammer, as may be desired. Or, the dials may
themselves be caused to revolve so as to bring the numbers consecutively and
separately opposite a sighting aperture in a covering plate provided, and the figures
may be marked either upon the periphery of the dials, or around and upon the sides
of the same.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect I will now proceed to describe same with reference to the accompanying
drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.
In the figures is illustrated the application of a shot counting and registering
device to a "Marlin" repeating rifle. It will be readily understood from this
drawing that the device is equally applicable to the various other types of rifle,

page_text: whether "Martini," "Remington," "Sneider;" or the ordinary "Saloon" or
"French" rifle, as well as to all types of revolvers and pistols.
Figure 1 is an elevation of the "Marlin" rifle fitted with the shot counting and
registering device, and Figure 2' is a view of the reverse side with a portion of the
stock cut away to shew the mechanism and its action.
In the stock a of the rifle or other fire arm I form a recess in which is fitted the
registering device b. This latter may be formed with as many dials as may be
desired.
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In the drawings 4 dials are shewn which will allow of the apparatus registering
up to 9999. Each dial is marked consecutively from 0 to 9, one dial representing
the units, the second the tens, the third the hundreds, and the fourth the thousands;
other dials may of course be added to represent tens of thousands, hundreds of
thousands, and so on, if requisite. is a connecting rod or wire attached at one end
to the disc crank d actuating the units dial of the counter. The other end of the
connecting rod or wire is free and carries a roller e which is acted upon by the
cocking of the hammer f. A bearing block g is screwed to the frame of the rifle,
through which the connecting rod or wire c passes and is guided. A portion of
this block is cut away and that part of the connecting rod or wire therein is
connected to and enveloped with a spiral spring h. In its normal position the
roller e on the free end of the connecting rod or wire c rests just against the
hammer. When this latter is cocked the rod or wire c is pushed back and
the disc crank d correspondingly actuated, and the dial with which it is in. con-
nection moved a portion of a revolution, and thereby is brought the next figure into
position opposite the sighting aperture i In the movement just described the
spiral spring has been compressed, and when released by the falling of the
hammer upon the rifle being fired brings the connecting rod c with the roller e back
into position.
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Any description of counting device may be employed for the purpose of this
invention, the type used in the rifle shewn however being what is commonly known
as the "jumper," in which the figures are marked upon and around the flat surfaces
of the dials. Upon the dial representing the "units" completing a full revolution
a tooth upon such dial gears with the next dial representing the "tens," and turns
that one tenth of a revolution. That in its turn, upon completing a full revolution,
actuates the next dial for "hundreds," and so on according as to the number it is
required to fix as the maximum to be counted and registered.
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 whati I
claim is:
The method of, and means for, registering the number of shots fired from rifles,
revolvers, pistols, and other fire arms, consisting of indicator dials or other
registering device fitted in the stock or other convenient part of the fire arm,
actuated by the opening or shutting of the breech, or the cocking of the hammer
or striker, by a suitable connecting rod or wire provided, substantially as. herein-
before described and shewn in the drawings.
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