Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Oct., 1890-Accepted, 31st Jan., 1891
nereby 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:-
In the annexed drawing
:-
Fig. 1 is an elevation of the magazine detached, as shown in Fig. 4, viewed from
right to left.
Fig. 2 is a detached view of the spring or carrier contained in the magazine.
Fig. 3 is a cross section of Fig. 4 on the line 1, 1.
Fig. 4 is a longitudinal elevation in section.
Fig. 5 is a top view of a portion of the magazine & connected parts shown in
Fig. 4.
Fig. 6 is a detached view of the extractor.
Fig. 7 is a top view of the extractor & parts to which it is fitted.
The magazine is intended to contain the cartridges and the carrying spring; and
the outer and inner dimensions thereof correspond to the size and quantity of the
cartridges which are to be employed. It is made of steel and is provided at each
end with lugs or projections by which it is secured to the shoe and to the barrel
respectively.
The side walls of the magazine extend into the thickness of the wood somewhat
below the breech; at their upper ends, the said walls are each divided by vertical
saw-cuts into four tongues. The two middle tongues are inclined towards each
other and act as a spring for the purpose of keeping the cartridges within the
magazine, and to impart to the same the necessary inclination for their easy intro-
duction into the chamber.
The said walls of the magazine are struck up or stamped, so that at the rear part
of the magazine, and within the latter, a groove C is formed, in which travel the
rims of the cartridges. This arrangement allows of the cartridges rising
regularly.
The cartridges are raised by means of a particularly shaped spring f, which, at
the point at which it is fastened, is curved so as to equal about of a circle.
The spring is permanently held at the bottom of the magazine by means of a
pin G, Figs. 3 & 4, inserted through the magazine and the carrying spring f at the
point marked H.
In converting Chassepot rifles or similar bolt action rifles, the trigger spring is.
modified. First it is shortened, then it is bent up and extended through the shoe
until it reaches the part marked t, where it ends in a point acting as an ejector. A
screw secures the trigger spring together with one of the aforesaid lugs or pro-
jections of the magazine to the shoe.
The magazine is charged from the top through the shoe, the cartridges being
pushed in one after the other under the tongues A A & B B of the magazine. On
pushing the bolt forward, it strikes the rim of the uppermost cartridge; the
cartridge then slides upon the inclined plane formed on the parts D D of the
magazine and is then pushed out of the latter.
Before leaving the magazine, the cartridge enters the chamber, and by continuing
the forward motion of the bolt, the forward end of the cartridge slides along the
incline J formed in the breech and penetrates within the chamber, its rim being
engaged by the hook o of the extractor. When the bolt is withdrawn, the rim of
the fired cartridge being engaged by the extractor hook o, the cartridge is brought
against the point t of the ejector hereinbefore described, and is thrown out.

page_text: The extractor hereinbefore referred to is as follows:
The extractor is lodged into a cavity formed in the bolt; it is formed of a
bent spring having two branches s, of which the lower one s ends in a hook o,
whilst the other branch is provided with a projection or stud u, which fits into
a corresponding opening formed in the bolt, thus securing the extractor in
place, Figs. 4, 6 & 7. As the extractor is fastened to the bolt, it consequently
follows all motions of the latter, and the extractor works or travels in a groove n,
see Figs. 3 & 5.
In order that the gun as hereinbefore described as a repeating fire-arm, may
be employed as a single loader, the extractor may, by means of the notch or
cavity m in the upper portion of the shoe, pass over the rim of a cartridge
situated in the chamber.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. In the conversion of single loading bolt action guns, into repeating guns, the
adaption of a magazine the side walls of which extending into an opening of the
wood of the gun are divided vertically into tongues, the middle ones of which are
curved and act as springs, whilst the rear tongue is cut off in an inclined plane.
2. In the conversion of single loading bolt action guns into repeating guns, a
carrying spring, having three branches, placed within the magazine without being
fixed, and held in place by means of a pin G, which passes through the walls of the
magazine, into the inside of the annular portion of the spring, the latter bearing on
the bottom of the magazine and against the breech or shoe.
3. In the conversion of single loading bolt action guns into repeating guns, the
herein before described ejector formed by the point t, of the bent end of the trigger
spring, as described.
4. In the conversion of single loading bolt action guns into repeating guns, the
herein before described extractor formed of a spring having two branches, the said
spring being situated in an axial cavity of the cylindrical portion of the bolt, and
being fixed by the projection or stud u adapted on one of its branches, and entering
a corresponding cavity of the said bolt.
5. In the conversion of single loading bolt action guns into repeating guns, the
arrangement of the extractor directly inside the bolt, in combination with an
annular groove formed in the breech end of the barrel and in the shoe.
6. The conversion of single loading bolt action guns into repeating guns; by the
addition of a magazine and a spring or carrier, as hereinbefore described.
Doted this 23rd day of October 1890
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.