Improvements in or relating to Walking-stick Guns.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 9th June, 1897
Complete Sponification 1 oft 8th Mar 1898-Accepted. 28th May, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Walking-stick Guns.
I, ERIC HERMAN ERICSON, of Köpmansgatan, 301, City of Oscarshamn, Sweden,
Mechanic, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to breech-loading gun-canes, and the object of the inven-
tion is to provide a gun-cane so constructed that the handle shall be firmly fixed
in its normal position so as to prevent all risk of opening by chance or accident.
The handle is also so fixed that it may be turned so as to facilitate the loading of
the barrel and also render the same available for use as field-glass by the inser-
tion of suitable lenses in place of the cartridge.
In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 shows a longitudinal section of the
handle-end of a gun-cane according to this invention, with the breech-piece closed,
and Fig. 2 shows the same when open. Fig. 3 is an end view.
At the handle end of the barrel (the powder-chamber) a socket a is fastened,
which socket is provided with a side-projection b. This projection is provided
with an oblong hole, or slot, in which runs a pin d, or the like, going through
Behind the barrel the socket a is open
the said slot and fastened to the handle c.
towards the handle, while at the inner surface of its three other sides there is a
groove a¹, in which a corresponding edge or guide of the handle fits in such
a manner that the handle is movable to and from the barrel at about a right angle,
thus forming the breech-piece of the gun. The length of the slot 61 is such that,
when the handle has been moved so far from the barrel that the pin d has come
to the outer end of the slot 61, the guide c¹ has come out of gear with the corre-
sponding slot a¹ in the socket a, in which case the handle can be turned about
the pin & so as to take up the position shown in Fig. 2 by dots and dashes. The
extractor is in the form of a two-armed lever and pivoted in a groove in the said
projection bin such a manner that, when the handle is turned about the pin d,
the end of one of the lever arms of the said extractor catches the edge of the
empty cartridge, while the other arm is so arranged that it will be pressed down
by a shoulder c provided at the handle or at the breech-piece. The first mentioned
arm of the extractor will thus draw out the empty cartridge. The end of the
lever-arm on which the shoulder works, acts as a spring. When the handle
is drawn outwards this spring rubs against the wall of the handle and thus pro-
duces a certain resistance to the moving of the handle.
The cock and the trigger g co-operate in such manner that the former cannot
be released except when fully raised. The free end of the former is formed as a
hook f, which grips about a corresponding projection a² at the socket a, so that
the cock in its closed position prevents the handle from being drawn to the side.
A. pin or plug (not shown in the drawing) prevents the raising of the cock until
the former has been drawn out.
Amongst the advantages realized by the gun-cane set forth one is that the handle
is quite out of the way when it is brought into the position parallel to the barrel,

page_text: in consequence of which the barrel can be used as a telescope, when suitable lenses
have been placed in it.
Dated this Ninth day of June 1897.
J. G. LORRAIN, M.I.E.E., M.I. Mech. E.
Norfolk House, Victoria Embankment, London, W.C.,
Chartered Patent Agent.
OFFICE alking-stick Guns.
I, ERIC HERMAN ERICSON, of Köpmansgatan, 301, City of Oscarshamn, Sweden,
Mechanic, 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 gun-canes, and the object of the inven-
tion is to provide a gun-cane so constructed that the handle shall be firmly fixed
in its normal position so as to prevent all risk of opening by chance or accident.
The handle is also so fixed that it may be turned so as to facilitate the loading of
the barrel and also render the same available for use as a field-glass by the inser-
tion of suitable lenses in place of the cartridge.
In the drawing left with the Provisional Specification, Figure 1 shows a longi-
tudinal section of the handle-end of a gun-cane according to this invention, with
the breech-piece closed, and Fig. 2 shows the same when open. Fig. 3 is an end
view.
At the handle end of the barrel (the powder-chamber) a socket a is fastened,
which socket is provided with a side-projection b. This projection 6 is provided
with an oblong hole, or slot, in which runs a pin d, or the like, going through the
said slot and fastened to the handle c. Behind the barrel the socket a is open
towards the handle, while at the inner surface of its three other sides there is a
groove a¹, in which a corresponding edge or guide el of the handle fits in such a
manner that the handle is movable to and from the barrel at about a right
angle, thus fórming the breech-piece of the gun. The length of the slot is
such that, when the handle has been moved so far from the barrel that the pin d
has come to the outer end of the slot 6', the guide c¹ has come out of engagement
with the corresponding slot a¹ in the socket a, in which case the handle can be
turned about the pin d so as to take up the position shown in Fig. 2 by dots and
dashes. The extractor e is in the form of a two-armed lever and pivoted in a groove
in the said projection in such a manner that, when the handle is turned about
the pin d, the end of one of the lever arms of the said extractor catches the edge
of the empty cartridge, while the other arm is so arranged that it will be pressed
down by a shoulder provided at the handle or at the breech-piece. The first
mentioned arm of the extractor will thus draw out the empty cartridge. The end
of the lever-arm on which the shoulder c² works, acts as a spring. When the
handle is drawn outwards this spring rubs against the wall of the handle and thus
produces a certain resistance to the moving of the handle.
The cock and the trigger g co-operate in such manner that the former cannot
be released except when fully raised. The free end of the former is formed as a
hook f, which grips about a corresponding projection a2 at the socket a, so that
the cock in its closed position prevents the handle from being drawn to the side.
A pin or plug (not shown in the drawing) prevents the raising of the cock until
the former has been drawn out.
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page_text: Amongst the advantages realized by the gun cane set forth one is that the handle
is quite out of the way when it is brought into the position parallel to the barrel,
in consequence of which the barrel can be used as a telescope, when suitable lenses
have been placed in it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. In a gun-cane, a handle and breech-piece fastened to the barrel by means
of a pin or the like running in a slot or the like in a part of the handle fixed to
the barrel, and capable of being turned parallel with the barrel, a cartridge-extrac-
tor shaped as a two-armed lever pivoted to the said fixed part of the handle, and
a shoulder adapted to engage with one end of the said cartridge-extractor when
the handle and breech-piece are turned alongside the barrel, substantially as set
forth.
2. The combination with a gun-cane, of a handle and breech-piece fastened to
the barrel by means of a pin running in a slot in a part of the handle fixed to the
barrel, so as to be slid away from the barrel and turned alongside the same, a
cartridge-extractor pivoted to the said fixed part of the handle and shaped as a two-
armed lever, the outside lever arm, being springy and adapted to press against the
movable part of the handle, and a shoulder on the movable part of the handle
adapted to engage with the springy part of the extractor when the handle is turned
alongside the barrel, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. -
Dated this 8th day of March 1808