AN IMPROVED CARTRIDGE OR CARTRIDGE CASE EXTRACTOR. FOR BREECH- LOADING GUNS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Turner, junior, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Gun Manufacturer, and William Siddons, junior,
also of Birmingham, aforesaid, Gun Lock Maker, for the. Invention of
"AN IMPROVED CARTRIDGE OR CARTRIDGE CASE EXTRACTOR. FOR BREECH-
LOADING GUNS."
Sealed the 26th February 1867, and dated the 29th August 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Turner and
William Siddons at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
'their Petition, on the 29th August 1866.
We, THOMAS TURNER, junior, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Gun Manufacturer, and WILLIAM SIDDONS, junior, also of Birmingham,
aforesaid, Gun Lock Maker, do hereby declare the nature of our said Inven
tion for "AN IMPROVED CARTRIDGE OR CARTRIDGE-CASE EXTRACTOR FOR BREECH-
LOADING GUNS," to be as follows (that is to say):-
Our Invention is applicable to the description of breech-loaders, known as
the "Lefaucheux," or to other kinds of breech-loaders where cartridges are
used with metallic or other flanges at their rear ends, and consists in forming
a slot the forward part of the cartridge or cartridge case extractor, into
which slot a projection works formed with or secured to the part technically
known as the "body," so that after relieving the barrel or barrels from the
detent in connection with the body and allowing the barrel or barrels to drop
in their forward end, the action of the projection in the slot of the extractor
will bring the extractor backwards towards the user, and in so doing will
bring out the cartridge or cartridges, or case or cases, so-that it or they may

page_text: be readily removed and after recharging the same action in correcting or
placing the barrel or barrels in position for use will in like manner (by the
action of the projection in the slot before named) carry the extractor forward
in position, without affecting the same by its contact with the breech surface
of the body. The particular kind of flange case cartridges herein-before
mentioned as constructed for central-fire presents no means in themselves for
their extraction, hence the importance of the simple and efficient means
forming the subject of this application.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Turner and William Siddons in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 28th February 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
TURNER, junior, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Gun Manu-
facturer, and WILLIAM SIDDONS, junior, also of Birmingham, aforesaid, Gun
Lock Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Thomas Turner, junior, and William Siddons, junior, Her special license
that we the said Thomas Turner, junior, and William Siddons, junior, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Thomas
Turner, junior, and William Siddons, junior, our executors, administrators,
or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven-
tion for AN IMPROVED CARTRIDGE OR CARTRIDGE CASE EXTRACTOR FOR BREECH-
LOADING GUNS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Thomas
Turner, junior, and William Siddons, junior, by an instrument in writing
under our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of either one of
us, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to
be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Turner, do hereby declare
the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
manner

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say):
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Our Invention is applicable to the description of breech-loaders known as
the "Lefaucheaux" as well as to other modified kinds of the same description
of breech-loaders constructed for using what are commonly called central-
fire cartridges, the cases of which are made with metallic or other flanges at
their rear ends, and our Invention for extracting such cartridges or exploded
cases consists in forming a slot or its equivalent in the forward part of the
cartridge or cartridges case extractor, into or against which a projection works
formed with or secured to the part technically known amongst gun makers in
the construction of such kind of guns as the "body," lying in a recess formed
between the barrels when the barrels and body are in contact, so that after
relieving the barrels from the detent in connection with the body, and allowing
them to drop in their forward end, the action of the projection (before referred to)
working in a radius in or against the inner end of the extractor will bring the
extractor backwards towards the user, and in so doing will bring out the cart-
ridges or cases, so that they may be readily removed, and after re-charging or
applying fresh cartridges the same action for correcting or placing the barrels
in position for use will in like manner (by the action of theo projection working
in the slot before named) carry the extractor forward in position without affect-
ing the same by its contact with the breech surface of the body; notwithstanding
the same object may be effected by the closing contact of the face of the
extractor with that part of the body in contact with it. The particular kind
of flange case cartridges herein-before mentioned as constructed for central-fire
guns presents no means of themselves for their ready and convenient extrac-
tion after explosion or otherwise, hence the importance of the simple but highly
efficient means forming the subject of this our Invention.
But in order that we should be well understood as to the true nature of our
Invention, and the manner in which the same may be carried into effect, I will
further proceed to describe the same, aided by the Drawings hereunto annexed
and by the figures and letters marked thereon (that is to say):-
Fig. 1 is a detached top view of our improved extractor, the parts a, a, forming
segments of a circle the diameter of the flanges of the cartridges used.. The
sides b, b, form guides, as will be hereafter seen, for regulating its action,
whilst the rectangular opening c fits over what is technically called the "lump,"
also hereafter referred to, while the rectangular slot d is for receiving the
projection secured to the body, and by which it is retired or advanced.
Fig. 2 represents a top view of the body A with the lump e as forming
part of the barrels shown in section occupying the longitudinal portion of the

page_text: rectangular opening c in Figure 1, and 9 is a top view of a vertical projection,
shewn in a detached side and edge view at Fig: 3; which may be attached to
the body by tapping and screwing, as here shown, or otherwise; f is also a
part shown in section connected with the barrels, and through the semicircular
part of which at its rear end the pin works that forms the axis of its
motion, which axis is indicated by the dotted lines h, h. The part a, a, of
Figure 1 is in this view in complete contact with the breech face of the body
marked i, i.
Fig. 4 represents a side view of the barrels B and body A connected by
the pin or axis h, and in this view we are enabled to show the projection g,
partly shown in dotted lines, working in the slot d; likewise the recess y
between the barrels in which the projection lies when the body and barrels are
in contact, both of which are shown in dotted lines; the sides of the extractor
clip the lump e, Figure 2, and is held in position by two thin plates secured
on each side of the lump, as seen at j,j, Fig. 5, which is a section of the
barrels B, Figure 4, taken through the dotted lines k, k, and in this view the
sides of the extractor b, b, are also shown in section; and we will now infer
that in use the detent that holds the body and breech of the gun together has
been liberated, thereby allowing the barrels to drop in their forward end,
which has had the effect (by the projection 9 pressing against the back end of
the slot of the extractor in which it works) of bringing the extractor in the
position shown, that is with the face line beyond the face line of the breech
end of the barrels m, thus permitting, for description, the empty or exploded
'cartridge cases to be removed for charged cases to be applied, when the mere
restoring of the parallel position of the breech end of the barrels with the body
for the detent that holds the together to be brought into action; the pro-
jection on the body will have been brought in contact with the front end of
the slot d of the extractor, Figure 1, and thereby carried forward or placed
the extractor in position, so that its face may be perfectly level with the
line m, as before stated, of the barrels, and this position in relation to the
body A is illustrated in Figure 2.
:
As a modification of the foregoing extractor I will state that it is not
absolutely essential that the projection shall be brought into action for
replacing the extractor, as that would be effectually done in the closing of
the parts by the face of the body i coming in contact with the face a of the
extractor, and as there is economy in constructing the extractor on this
principle we have thought it necessary to exhibit the said modifications in
detail in a top view at Fig. 6 and in an end view at Fig. 7, as looking in the
direction of the arrow in the last Figure; the part n is simply a pin tapped

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through the guides o, o, of the extractor, and simply serves for the projection
before described to press against, as will be seen at Fig. 8, which represents
the extractor retired by the contact of the pin n with the projection p.
this case the guides of the extractor, from their being made free and open at
one end, may be placed on the lump q in two grooves filed in the lump to
receive them, and confined in the position by the pin n, thereby dispensing
with the plates j, j, Figure 5, also exhibited at Figure 4.
Fig. 9 is simply a top view of the body with an extractor so constructed
lying on it with the lump q in section; and as a further modification the
extractor may be formed as at Figs. 10 and 11, which are simply side and
end views; the pin r is the one used for advancing the extractor proper by
the action of the body and projection, as represented in a side view of the
body and breech end of the barrels at Fig. 12; the pin r in this case works
clean through a round hole in the lump t, as shown in dotted lines; & is
simply a guide pin working in a small hole drilled between the two barrels to
prevent any lateral action to the extractor, but lateral motion may be pre-
vented by forming the pin r of any other shape than that of round, as here
represented, the square being perhaps the more preferable, and thus I have
exhibited in a side and end view at Figs. 13 and 14.
Having thus given a full description and exhibited as much of the
connecting parts of a gun necessary to illustrate our Invention, I wish it
understood that we claim no novelty in the relative action of the barrels and
the body, nor to the extractor proper, for both are old and extensively known,
but we claim as of our Invention, and wish to protect by these our in part
recited Letters Patent, the means herein described and exhibited for adapting
and actuating the extractor.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Turner, junior, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
THOMAS TURNER, JUNIOR.
(L.S.)
Witness,
WILLIAM LOACH,
Clerk to James S. Cockings,
Patent Agent,
Birminghamı.