IMPROVEMENTS IN BREECH LOADING HAMMERLESS AND OTHER GUNS AND RIFLES
Year: 1884

page_text: I WILLIAM ANSON of Small Heath Birmingham in the County of Warwick Gun
Maker do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN BREECH
LOADING HAMMERLESS AND OTHER GUNS AND RIFLES to be as follows:-
Whereas in the Spécification filed by myself and John Deeley in pursuance of
Letters Patent dated 11th April 1883 N° 1833 relating to the hammerless guns
known as Anson & Deeleys Patent the cocking of the gun is described as being
effected by the dropping of the barrels for charging, by means of a dog or lifter
whose fulcrum is the ordinary joint; the fore-end iron holding the dog or lifter in
position in the act of cocking.
This operation however causes the whole of the strain to fall upon and be
sustained by the fore-end iron and such strain has a tendency to force such iron
away from the joint.
Now the object of my present invention is to dispense with the use of the fore-
end as a means of cocking, and to cock the gun by means of a solid block, or pillar,
which is hereinafter referred to as the "cocking block."
:
I place the cocking block in a portion of the space now occupied by the extractor
lever, in the above patent. Instead of the dog or lifter being held in position by
the fore-end I now inake the dog or lifter take its bearing on the cocking block,
thereby relieving the fore-end iron of all such strain in the act of cocking. The
cocking block bears on its under side against the dog or lifter, and on its upper side
against the barrels.
By the use of the cocking block in lieu of the fore-end for cocking the gun, the
fore-end can be more conveniently removed and replaced.

page_text: I WILLIAM ANSON of Small Heath, Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Gun
Maker do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
BREECH-LOADING HAMMERLESS AND OTHER GUNS AND RIFLES and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
Whereas in the Specification filed by Myself and John Deeley in pursuance of
Letters Patent dated 11th April 1883 No 1833 relating to the hammerless guns
known as Anson & Deeley's Patent, the cocking of the gun is described as being
effected by the dropping of the barrels for charging, by means of a dog or lifter
whose fulcrum is the ordinary joint; the fore-end iron holding the dog or lifter in
position in the act of cocking-This operation however causes the whole of the
strain to fall upon and be sustained by the fore-end iron and the loop, and such
strain has a tendency to force such iron away from the joint, and break off the
loop.
Now the object of my present invention is to dispense with the use of the fore-
end as a means of cocking, and to cock the gun by means of a solid block, or pillar
which is hereinafter referred to as the cocking block."
I place the cocking block in a portion of the space, now occupied by the extractor
lever, in the above patent. Instead of the dog or lifter being held in position by
the fore-end, I now make the dog or lifter take its bearing on the cocking block,
thereby relieving the fore-end iron of all such strain in the act of cocking-The
cocking block bears on its underside against the dog or lifter, and on its upper side
against the barrels.
By the use of the cocking block in lieu of the fore end for cocking the gun the
fore-end can be more conveniently removed and replaced.
And in order that my said invention may be clearly understood, reference is
hereby made to the accompanying drawings in which similar letters of reference
indicate corresponding parts.
Fig: 1. shews a portion of a breech-loading drop-down gun, containing cocking
mechanism constructed according to my invention,-a is the hammer which is
shewn cocked and held in that position by the sear b. c is the cocking lift which
is actuated by the cocking block or pillar d.
this
When the barrels are dropped they carry the cocking block d with them ;
block d causes the cocking lift to rotate on the centre e, the end c¹ operating upon
and raising the hammers at the same time.
The form of the block dis shewn in the figures 2. 3. 4. 6 and 7. Fig: 2 is a back
view Fig 3 is a side view; Fig 4 is a section on the line 1. 2 of Fig: 2.
Fig 5 is a side view of the cocking lift c-Fig. 6 is a side view of the cocking
block with the extractor lift f attached and held in position by the screw g which
is capable of sliding. in the sloth Fig 7 is a back view of Fig. 6 also with the
extractor lift attached.
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 method of cocking guns by means of the cocking block d, substantially as
herein before described and shewn in Figs 1 to 7 of the drawings.

page_text: 2. The method of operating the cocking lift c by means of the cocking block d,
and thereby relieving the fore end iron of strain, substantially as hereinbefore
described and shewn on the drawings.
3. The combination and arrangement of mechanism in breech-loading hammerless
and other guns and rifles, substantially as hereinbefore described and shewn on the
drawings.