Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 20th June, 1887.
Specification Accepted, 22nd July, 1887.
I, WILLIAM FORD, of 23, Loveday Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Gunmaker, 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 consists of an improved method of cocking hammerless guns and of
utilizing the improved cocking mechanism to actuate ejector mechanism; the said
ejector mechanism also forming part of my invention.
My invention will be best understood by reference to the drawing accompanying
this specification.
The drawing shews all the limbs necessary for illustrating the cocking and ejecting
actions, and so much of the barrels and breech-block as required to shew the positions
occupied by the said limbs.
The tumbler a is cocked by the rocking-piece in the following manner.
When the barrels are pressed down in opening the gun, the sliding-piece c is moved
by the curved block d attached to the foreend iron.
It will be noticed that d has two recesses e and f, and two prominent parts g and h.
These recesses and prominent parts perform important functions in the actions of
cocking and ejecting.
The drawing shews the gun as cocked, the prominent part h, of the curved block d,
having raised the tumbler a far enough for the scear i to enter the bent.
When the gun is closed the recess e comes opposite the sliding-piece c, and no
resistance is offered to the firing mechanism when the scear is withdrawn from the
bent of the tumbler for the discharge of the gun.
Of course, in double-barrelled guns, the mechanism described is in duplicate.
The above described cocking mechanism actuates ejector mechanism in such a way
as only to eject empty or misfire cartridge cases.
This is effected by the following mechanism and in the following manner.
Supposing that the gun has just been fired, the tumbler a will be down, and the
sliding-piece c will be partly within the recess e.
As the gun is then opened the following actions take place. The prominence g
forces c back against the rocking-piece b, and so causes to raise the tumbler a com-

page_text: pressing the main-spring. But the prominence g is not high enough to raise the
tumbler to the point where the scear i can enter the bent.
Hence, as the opening motion proceeds, the sliding-piece slips into the next
recess f, and the tumbler falls by reason of the release of c and the pressure of the
mainspring.
In contact with the rocking-piece is the lever k, and one end of k enters the slot /
in the extractor l.
At the instant when the sliding-piece centers the recess f, the fall of the tumbler
causes a smart blow to be given to the extractor I by the lever k.
Therefore the extractor, which has previously been moved some distance in the
ordinary way, is very smartly driven somewhat further, and the cartridge case is
ejected.
So long as the tumbler is held at cock by the scear, this action of ejection does not
take place.
For double-barrelled guns the mechanism is in duplicate.
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. The cocking mechanism described and illustrated.
2. The ejecting mechanism described and illustrated.
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3. The combination of the said cocking and ejecting mechanisms as described and
illustrated.