Improvements in Ejecting Mechanism for Breech Loading Small Arms.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 26th Nov., 1891-Accepted, 2nd Jan., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ejecting Mechanism for Breech Loading
Small Arms.
We, THOMAS PAGE WOOD, of 26 High Street, in the City and County of
Bristol, Gunmaker, and HENRY BOWERMAN, of 7 Heath Street, Eastville, Bristol,
aforesaid, Gunmaker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to double-barrelled breech-loading fowling pieces and
rifles provided with cartridge case extractors, and consists in improvements in such
extractors and in the method of operating the same.
According to this invention the cartridge case extractors are each pivotted to
the "lump at the rear end of the barrels, the pivot pin being passed through one
leg of the extractor.
Another leg of the extractor works in a slot provided in the action. The rear
end of the cocking-bar is recessed so that when the breech is opened and the
barrels are depressed and the hammer has thereby been turned on its pivot to a
given point, the front end of the hammer passes below the upper limb of the
recessed part of the cocking-bar. In the short descent of the hammer thus
occasioned the extractor is struck by the hammer and sharply tilted on its pivot,
the result being the ejection of the fired cartridge case or cases. Lowering of the
barrels being still continued, raising of the hammer, temporarily suspended during
ejection of the cartridge case or cases, is resumed by the lower limb of the recess in
The barrels are
the cocking-bar which brings the hammer to the cocked position.
then closed and the cocking-bar resumes its lowered position, and the extractor is
returned guided by the slots in the action. Each extractor is independent of the
other.
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NICHOLAS WATTS.
Bristol Bank Buildings, Bristol, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ejecting Mechanism for Breech Loading
Small Arms.
We, THOMAS PAGE WOOD, of 26 High Street, in the City and County of
Bristol, Gunmaker, and HENRY BOWERMAN, of 7 Heath Street, Eastville, Bristol,
aforesaid, 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:-
This invention relates to breech-loading small fire-arms, more particularly
fowling-pieces and sporting rifles of the so-called "hammerless" type, with or
without side locks.
Our invention consists in an improved method of and mechanism for ejecting
cartridge cases from such guns after firing.
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According to this invention, which it will be convenient to describe in relation to
one barrel only, (it being understood that with two barrels the mechanism is
duplicated) the cartridge cases are ejected after firing by means of an extractor
lever pivotted in the " lump. This extractor lever is actuated through the
hammer and cocking-bar. That end of the cocking-bar by which the hammer is
raised into cock is checked out or recessed so that it has two branches or limbs.
The hammer carries on one side an arm.

page_text: As hitherto, the act of firing causes the toe of the hammer to be lowered on to
the cocking-bar.
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On opening the breech, the cocking-bar, being in engagement with the "forepart
as usual, rises ou its pivot and raises the toe of the hammer and thereby re-com-
presses the main spring. This continues until the toe of the hammer and the
upper limb of the cocking-bar end pass out of contact. The toe of the hammer
then again falls and is received on the lower limb of the cocking-bar. In
this fall of the hammer, the arm carried on it, as aforesaid, strikes the lower end
of the extractor lever and causes forcible ejection of the cartridge case. The
breech is further opened and the cocking-bar carries by its lower limb the hammer
into full cock.
In a gun fitted with our improved ejector arrangement the lump is not weakened
by being bored as in existing guns fitted with ejectors. The ejectors, as arranged
in accordance with our invention, are actuated directly from the hammers, no
intervening parts being required except the arms by which the ejector levers are
struck.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings,
Fig. 1 represents a sectional view of a so-called "hammerless" gun fitted with
our improved mechanism for ejecting the cartridge cases after firing.
Fig. 2 is a similar section, but shews the breech open.
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The cocking-bar a which, as is usual, engages with a slot in the forepart, is,
according to this invention, so shaped at the end by which the hammer is raised
as to present a pair of limbs and a², as shown, instead of an undivided end as
heretofore. When, by actuating the sear through the medium of the trigger, as
is well understood, the gun is fired, the hammer a, of which a back view is shown
at Fig. 3, turns on its pivot and its toc c' falls on to the upper limb a¹ of the
cocking-bar a. On the breech being thereafter opened, the hammer cis tilted back
by the said upper limb a¹ of the cocking-bar a, and the main spring is thereby
re-compressed. The hammer e continues to tilt back until its toe has passed
clear of the upper limb a¹ of the cocking-bar a which occurs before the hammer is
tilted far enough to engage with the sear. The hammer on clearing the limb a' of
the bar is again forced down by the spring e on to the lower limb a of the cocking-
bar and, in the descent, the nose of the arm, fixed to or formed in one piece with
the hammer, comes into forcible contact with the lower end of the ejector lever g
causing it to tilt and suddenly eject the fired cartridge case. Ejection is timed to
take place when the breech is opened to an extent sufficient to allow the cartridge
case to be shot clear over the face of the action.
At Fig. 4 is represented a view of the breech end of the barrels. The ejector
levers of one of which a detached view is represented at Fig. 5, are hinged on a
pin g fixed in the lump.
Opening of the breech being continued after ejection of the empty cartridge case,
the hammer e is again tilted back by the limb a² of the cocking-bar a and so
returned to the cocked position, as seen at Fig. 2. The gun is then ready for the
insertion of a fresh cartridge. When the breech is closed the extractor levers
occupy the position shewn at Figs. 1 and 4, the heads extending into the ends of
the barrels.
Their position between the barrels is clearly scen at Fig. 4.
The rib is extended, as usual, from the barrels and serves as a guide and
steadying block to the ejector levers which it will be seen are applied to the gun
without necessity of boring the lump horizontally. The lump therefore retains a
solid character. The levers are actuated to eject the cartridge cases by the
hammers without intervening parts except the arm ffixed to or formed in one piece
with the hammer.
A cartridge or cartridge case may be extracted at any time by merely opening
the breech as, when this is donc, the ejector levers are tilted back by contact with
the top of the slot h, Fig. 6, which figure is a view of the face of the action, the
barrels being removed.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is —
1. In a hammerless" fowling-piece or sporting rifle, with or without side locks,
the provision of a cocking-bar such as a recessed at the cocking end and arranged
to act on the hammer in such manner that on opening the breech after firing, the
hammer, in being tilted back, passes clear of the upper limb of the cocking-bar and
falls on to the lower limb thereof and causes sudden and forcible ejection of the
fired cartridge case by means of an arm such as, or the equivalent thereof, carried
on it or actuated by it and acting upon the ejector lever pivotted in the lump,
substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying sheet of
illustrative drawings.
2. The provision in a hammerless fowling-piece or sporting rifle, with or without
side locks, of means, consisting of the hammer and arm, or its equivalent, carried
on or actuated by the hammer, for operating the ejector levers, at the breech end of
the barrels and thereby ejecting the fired cartridge cases, as hereinbefore set forth
with reference to the accompanying drawings.
3. The provision in a double-barrelled ejector hammerless fowling-piece or
sporting rifle, with or without side locks, of an undrilled lump such as i which,
except for the recess formed to receive the ejector levers, is solid, substantially as
described and shown in the drawings.
4. The combination of the recessed-ended cocking-bar a, hammer c and arm ƒ, or
its equivalent, with ejector leversy and guide rib i, constructed, arranged and
operating, substantially as herein before described with reference to the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 25th day of November 1901
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Bristol Bank Buildings, Bristol, Agent.