IMPROVEMENTS IN REPEATING FIRE-ARMS
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, &
Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for the Invention of
IMPROVEMENTS IN REPEATING FIRE-ARMS." A communication from abroad
by George Van Valmisberg, of Neuhäusel, in the Kingdom of Hungary, Senior
Lieutenant of the Imperial Royal Sixth Regiment of Hussars.
Sealed the 2nd May 1879, and dated the 7th November 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Robert Lake at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th November 1878.
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WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London. IMPROVEMENTS IN REPEATING FIRE-ARMS."
[A communication from abroad by George Van Valmisberg, of Neuhäusel, in the
Kingdom of Hungary, Senior Lieutenant of the Imperial Royal Sixth Regiment of
Hussars.]
This Invention relates to arms of that class termed repeating fire-arms, and is
designed to provide the same with an appliance for successively lifting cartridges
from that part of the fire-arm where they are stored, and for bringing them in
front of the breech-end of the barrel, and is intended especially for that class of
fire-arms in which the breech is closed by a breech-block moveable forwards and
backwards in a line with the axis of the barrel.
The said appliance consists of a cartridge-lifting piece pivoted or hinged in the
plane of the axis of the barrel, and provided with a partly straight and partly
curved groove, into which fits a stud or pin formed on the sliding breech-block.
The arrangement is such that on drawing the breech-block back away from the
breech-end of the barrel the stud on the breech-block will by its sliding in the
curved groove or cam-way formed on the further end of the aforesaid cartridge-
lifting piece, cause the same to turn downwards past the end of the first of a series
of cartridges situated in the cartridge-holder arranged beneath the barrel of the

page_text: fire-arm, and a cartridge will then by the pressure of a spring in the cartridge-
holder be forced on the said lifting piece. On the breech-block being now slid
towards the breech end of the barrel the hinged lifting piece will be raised by the
said stud sliding back in the said curved cam groove, until the hinged piece has
lifted the cartridge so far as to bring it in a line with the barrel. The breech-
block can then when pushed farther forwards force the cartridge into the breecli-
end of the barrel in the usual manner.
The said Invention is illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Robert Lake in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 7th
May 1879.
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WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London. IMPROVEMENTS IN REPEATING FIRE-ARMS."
A communication from abroad by George Van Valmisberg, of Neuhäusel, in the
Kingdom of Hungary, Senior Lieutenant of the Imperial Royal Sixth Regiment of
Hussars.
This Invention relates to arms of that class termed repeating fire-arms, and is
designed to provide the same with an appliance for successively lifting cartridges
from that part of the fire-arm wherein they are stored, and for bringing them in
front of the breech end of the barrel; and the said Invention is intended especially
for that class of fire-arms in which the breech is closed by a breech-block moveable
forward and backward in a line with the axis of the barrel.
In the accompanying Drawing,-
Figure 1 is a side view, and
Figure 2. a transverse section of the breech of a fire-arm, shewing the same open.
Figure 3 is a side view, and .
Figure 4 a transverse section of the same, shewing the breech closed.
Figures 5 and 6 shew in side view and transverse section the cartridge-lifting-
piece, and
Figure 7 shews the breech-block.
The cartridge-lifting piece A is pivoted or hinged in the plane of the axis of the
barrel, and provided with a groove a, a¹, into which fits a stud or pin 6 formed on
the sliding breech-block B.
The arrangement is such that on drawing the said breech-block B back or away
from the breech-end of the barrel the stud b will by sliding in the curved part a¹
of the groove or cam-way formed on the aforesaid cartridge-lifting piece cause the
same to turn downward past the end of the first of a series of cartridges placed in
the cartridge-holder arranged beneath the barrel of the fire-arm, the cartridge C.
will then by the pressure of the spring usually arranged in the cartridge-holder of
a repeating fire-arm be forced upon the lifting-piece A

page_text: When the breech-block B is now moved towards the breech end of the barrel
the hinged lifting piece A will be raised by the said stud b as the same slides back
in the curved part a¹ of the groove, until this hinged piece A has lifted the cart-
ridge c so far as to bring it in a line with the barrel. Then the breech block B
when pushed farther forwards can force the cartridge C into the breech end of the
barrel in the usual manner, while the stud b finds an uninterrupted passage along
the straight part a of the groove.
Having thus fully described the said Invention as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent, and the manner of performing the same, I wish it understood
that I claim,
First. The construction and arrangement of the parts constituting the appliance
for lifting the cartridge, and bringing it in front of the breech-end of the barrel,
substantially as described and as shewn in the Drawing.
Second. The cartridge lifting piece, having the slot in combination with the stud
arranged on the breech-block, for the purpose specified.
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In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.
W. ROB LAKE. (L.S.)