Year: 1889

page_text: I, ANDREW HOWLAND RUSSELL, Captain of Ordnance, of 8, Ashburton Place, in the
City of Boston, county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, United States of
America, 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 :-
This invention is an improvement on the well-known fire-arm of which the Lee
Magazine Gun is a type.
Figure 1 of the drawings is a longitudinal central section of so much of a magazine
gun resembling the well-known "Lee" magazine gun, as is required to show the
relative arrangement of parts with my improvements added.
Figure 2 is a cross-section, about on line x-x, Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a perspective of receiver showing feed box stop.
Figure 4 is an oblique longitudinal section about on the line y-y, of Figure 2, of
the receiver and of the loading case in position.
Figure 5 is a perspective of receiver with bolt and magazine removed.
Figure 6 is a cross-section showing a double magazine swung to one side.
Figure 7 is a sectional diagram and broken side view showing intermediate position
of double magazine which slides sidewise to loading position.
Figure 8 is a detached view of feeder for cartridge magazine, and Figures 9 and 10
are modifications thereof.
The numeral 1 indicates the gun barrel, 2 the bolt, and 3 the receiver, of substan-
tially the construction known in the Iee gun. The frame has a bar 4 at one or
both sides, forming an open bottomed chamber under which the mouth of the
magazine may be moved from its feeding position under the receiver.
The magazine 5 may be either permanently attached to the gun or removable
therefrom. It is generally held in place under the receiver by pivots 6 and 7, one
of which may be a removable pivot, as shown in Figure 1. The magazine will be
provided with a spring follower, as usual in this class of magazines.
This spring follower forces the cartridge sidewise in the magazine, and when the
magazine is in feeding position will pass the cartridges into the receiver, (when the
breech mechanism is properly manipulated) without an intervening carrier.
The frame may have a spring stop 9, at one or both sides, to prevent the
cartridge from rising out of the magazine.

page_text: The magazine slides or is swung to one side to be filled. The cartridges may be
fed in one by one, but preferably they will be fed from my magazine feed case, 20,
Figures 8, 9, and 10. This case is a pastboard or thin metallic case (preferably
the latter) with a slot 21 in one side and the top, and a cartridge retaining catch 22
at the open bottom. The bottom of the feed case 20 is placed over the mouth of
the magazine when swung into loading position, Figure 2, and the cartridges are
pressed down by the thumb or finger passing through slot 21. The loading case
may be provided with guide flanges 23, which enter the grooves 12 in the frame or
casing of the magazine, so as to retain and guide the loading case while charging the
magazine, or as shown at 12x. Figure 2, hooks may be provided to receive the
catches 23 of the magazine. The magazine mouth may have a stop or abutment, as
at 100, against which the feed case is pressed for loading, when the guide flange on
the loading case may be omitted.
The magazine may generally be swung back to vertical position as soon as loaded;
and will be held in upright position by frictional contact. The cartridges will then
feed to the receiver in the same manner as in the well known Lee gun.
When swung
part way the magazine will not feed, and the gun may be used as a single loader.
partial movement serves as a cut-off for the magazine at any time.
This
When a double magazine is used, as in Figure 6, one magazine may be in loading
position while the other feeds the receiver. Swung into intermediate position the
double magazine will not feed, but by swinging the double magazine side-wise
either magazine can be brought to feeding or loading position as desired. The
double magazine can be made to swing far enough to load both chambers at one
side of the gun.
The modification, Figure 7, shows how the same result may be attained by a
magazine which slides sidewise in the frame of the gun, to a position for loading or
feeding.
Of course it is apparent that the magazine may have more than two cartridge
receptacles, but at the expense of some loss of symmetry and inconvenience in loading.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. A magazine gun having an opening into the receiver, and a side feeding
magazine movable attached to the gun so that the mouth of the magazine may be
moved to loading position at the side of the gun, or to feed the receiver without
detachment from the gun, substantially as described.
2. A magazine gun having an opening below the receiver, and a side feeding or box
magazine hung on pivots below the receiver.
3. The combination with the receiver, of a magazine having a side movement
relatively thereto, and a feed case guide at the side of the receiver substantially in line
with the magazine when the same is swung to loading position.
4. A feed case guide on a magazine gun having a rest or guiding abutment
projecting into position to stop the feed case when the same is placed in position
to load the magazine, substantially as described.
5. The combination with the receiver of a magazine gun of a side feeding or
box magazine having a plurality of chambers, said magazine movably attached
to the gun so as to present a loading opening at either side of the receiver as the
magazine is moved, substantially as described.
Doted this 20th dor of Tenu 1000
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.