Improvements in the Ejector Mechanism of Breech-loading Small-arms.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 29th July, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 29th Apr., 1890-Accepted, 28th June, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Ejector Mechanism of Breech-loading
Small-arms.
I, WILLIAM HENRY BRIGHTON of No. 9 Whitehead Street, Aston New Town, near
the City of Birmingham, Gun Action Maker, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists 1st, of automatic means for retaining or holding back, in a
state of tension, and at full-cock, the ejecting hammers of the said mechanism, on the
fore-end of the fore part of the arm being removed from the gun; and which said
means is particularly applicable to the "Malcham " type of ejector mechanism, that
is, mechanism which is cocked or held in a state of tension, by the discharge of the
arm, and is free, or unconnected with a lock action until the arm has been discharged,
whilst the release of the said hammers is effected by the opening of the arm, after
discharge.
In such guns of the "Maleham " type, the removal of the fore-end allows the
ejecting hammers to fall into an uncocked position, which thus renders it most
difficult to again replace the said fore-end in position.
My invention consists 2ndly, in means for releasing the ejecting hammers of all
ejecting mechanisms.
According to the first part of my invention, I dispose upon the top face, or upper
side of the fore end iron, a split spring, or yielding divided limb, whose rear part, is
shaped fork-like, and with the free extremities thereof provided with inwardly
directed stops, which when the ejecting hammers are cocked, or forced back, take a
state of tension, they come in front of the said stops, and are thereby prevented from
falling. The inside presented tips of the stops may be inclined, so that when a gun
is opened, with the fore end in position, the extractor legs impinge upon the inclines of
the said tips, and force open the free ends of the spring, and stops carried by them,
and thus allow the ejecting hammers to be free to strike the extractor legs, for ejection.
The removal of the fore-end, for stripping the gun, relieves the aforesaid pressure
of the extractor legs, and allows the opened-out legs or limbs of the spring to close
upon each other, and bring the inwardly directed stops at their free ends to come in
juxtaposition and before the ejecting hammers, so as to block them, and keep them in
a lifted or cocked position, until the fore-end or the iron thereof has been again
attached to the gun.
The holding-back, or blocking means, may consist of two separate spring arms,
instead of a split spring or a limb with spring arms.
Or the said device may consist of two jointed and rigid arms normally forced
inwards or home, by independent springs pressing upon their outer sides. Or two
single springs may be employed instead of a split spring as aforesaid.
The opening out of the blocking means may be accomplished by an arm on the
body part of the gun instead of by the ends of the extractor legs.
My invention consists 3rdly in releasing the ejecting hammers, by means of a
movable stop, formed solid with the bend-end of a main spring, or by a rod, slide, er
other limb worked by or taken into, or out of position, by the oscillation of a striking
hammer, or tumbler, of the gun.
In referring to this part of my invention, I will describe the stop in connection
with a main spring, and as the ejecting mechanism of a double gun is alike for both
hammers, I will only describe it in connection with one hammer.
The ejecting hammer, is provided at its lower end, with a wiper arm,
directed

page_text: towards the breech of the gun, and with the fore part underside of the said hammer
impressed upon, by the acting end of an ejecting hammer spring, whilst the top-part
of the hammer, has the leg of an extractor impinging upon it.
The main spring slides to and fro, on the oscillation of the hammer-proper of the
gun and which main spring has a downwardly curved extension at its bend end,
which when the hammer proper is down, the nose end of the said extension protrudes
beyond the knuckle joint of the body part, and comes immediately under the tip of
the wiper-arm, on the ejecting hammer.
The said extended end when in position, or protruding beyond the joint as aforesaid,
constitutes a stop, which on the falling of the barrels of the gun, causes the arm of
the ejecting hammer, to wipe over it, and be then released, on the fully opening of
the barrels.
The passing of the arm beyond and over the nose of the stop, and the compression
of the ejecting hammer spring, allows the full force of the said spring, to freely exert
itself, and rapidly throw the hammer against the end of the extractor leg, and thereby
shoot the extractor back, and expel the spent case from the barrel discharged.
Thus, the opening of the gun after firing, brings the stop under the arm of the
ejecting hammer, created by the angular movement made by the barrels in falling,
suddenly releases the hammer, which is urged forward with great impetus as
aforesaid.
The gun has ordinary accessory ejector parts, whilst the ejector sear may be released
by coming against a shoulder on the joint of the body part."
Dated the 25th day of July 1889.
WILLIAM HENRY BRIGHTON.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Ejector Mechanism of Breeeh-loading
Small-arms.
1, WILLIAM HENRY. BRIGHTON of 9 Whitehead Street Aston New Town, near the
City of Birmingham, Gun Action Maker, 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 1st, to discriminating drop down gun ejecting mechanism
2ndly in automatic means for holding back (cocked) the ejecting strikers of a certain
class of ejecting mechanism on the removal of the fore end, for the stripping of the
gun, as hereinafter fully and particularly described.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents partly in vertical section, and
parily in elevation, a hammerless breech-loading double gun, provided with searless
ejecting mechanism, constructed and arranged according to my invention. The said
view shows the gun cocked, with the lock part of the gun, and also the combined
extracting and ejecting mechanisms, with communicating means, in the positions which
they respectively assume, when the gun is ready for firing.
It will be seen that the nose of the extended bend end of the reciprocating main
spring as hereinafter described, and which is the communicating means between the
hammer, and the ejecting means, is withdrawn to within the joint of the body of the
false breech, and consequently, without the path of the jointed toe, of the foot of
the ejecting striker, so that the ejecting mechanism of the said hammer remains
unaffected, on the simple opening and closing of the barrels without firing.
Figure 2 represents a like view as figure 1, but with the gun fired, and the
oscillating hammer down; and through the instrumentality of the falling of which
said hammer, the reciprocating main spring is operated, and its nose end extended

page_text: The falling of the hammer by the discharge of the gun, urges forward the main
spring e, and takes the nose of its extended fore part, beyond the joint 62 of the
body of the false breech, and under and within the path of the toe it of the foot i³, of
the ejecting striker i, so that as the barrels are broken, the extractor is moved through
an extracting distance, the ejecting striker following the same up to a very limited
extent, when the said striker is retained under tension in its cocked or active
position, by the toe of it resting upon the top side of the nose of the extension of the
spring, as a stop, and remains there until the fully opening of the barrels, which
occasions the said spring and its extended fore part to move rearwardly in obedience
to the rear oscillation or cocking of the hammer, through the intervention of its
lifter. It will be thus seen, that from the commencement of the opening of the
barrels, to just before their fully opening, that the ejecting striker is held practically
quiescent, during such a time, until the extended fore part of the reciprocating main
spring, has been taken from under the said toe, when the striker, being now free, is
urged rearward, and against the end of the leg of the extractor, by the force given
out by the ejecting striker spring, whereby a sudden blow is imparted to the said
extractor, and through its intervention a spent case embraced or partially embraced
by its head, is suddenly flirted or expelled from the chamber of the barrel
discharged.
It will be understood that the extractor is moved through an extracting distance,
by the arm k, on the joint of the body of the false breech, taking into, or engaging
with, the said extractor.
The closing of the arm, takes the extractor back to its normal position, and by its
front end impinging upon the back of the head of the ejecting striker, the said
striker is pushed forward into its active position, its ejecting spring compressed, and
both striker and spring held in such condition and position as aforesaid, so long as the
gun remains closed.

page_text: The pulling of the trigger, again allows the hammer to fall, the spring to be
propelled forward, and in its traverse, taking its nose end under, and within the
path of the ejecting striker, when the operation as aforesaid is again repeated.
The jointed or swinging toe , admits the nose end of the extension of the spring,
to re-pass the same, on the initial closing of the barrels.
It will be understood, that each barrel is provided with lock, extracting, and
ejecting mechanism, alike in construction, to that as described and represented. The
ordinary removable slide lock may be employed if desirable.
Figure 6 represents partly in section, and partly in elevation, the improved means
for holding back, or in their active positions, the ejecting strikers of the striking
mechanism, of that type in which ejection is put on, by a communicating slide, acting
in obedience to the fall of the hammers.
In this class of ejecting mechanism, the strikers become released, on the taking off
of the fore end, which is a great dis-advantage, and the object of this part of my
invention, is to prevent such release, for when the strikers are down, considerable
difficulty is occasioned, in again raising them for the again putting on of the
fore end.
Figure 7 represents a top side plan of the fore end part, showing the extractor legs
impinging upon the heads of the strikers, with the spring holders or arms in neutral
positions, or with their returned ends, removed from the path, and at the back of, the
strikers.
Figure 8 represents a like view as figure 7, but with the strikers shown held in
their active or back positions, by the turned-in ends of the spring holders, coming at
the backs of their heads.
Figure 9 represents an end view of figure 8, but with the addition of a section of
the legs of the extractors, thus showing their tapered undersides, which when a fore
end is placed, and then forcibly pressed in position, the said tapered undersides,
coming between the arms constituting the spring holders, force them asunder into the
positions as seen in figures 7 and 10.
a are the barrels, h² extractor legs, with inclined undersides ³, which normally
pass between the spring arms 12, of the spring holders, whose inwardly directed
ends 13, come at the back of the head is, of the ejecting strikers i, so that when the
fore end e is upon the barrels, the arms of the spring holders are always kept opened
out, by the legs of the extractors lying or coming between them, but immediately the
fore end is removed, then as the holders are taken away from the legs they auto-
matically close behind the rears of the strikers, and hold them in their active or pushed
back positions, which positions are essential to the again placing of the fore end in
its assigned position on the underside of the barrels.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what
claim is :-
:
First Holding or retaining the ejecting strikers of the ejecting mechanism of
breech loading small arms, in their active or striking positions, by means of the
extended fore parts of reciprocating main springs, whereby ordinary holding sears or
detents are dispensed with, substantially as described and set forth in figures 1
to 5.
Secondly -In searless ejecting mechanism, the combination with the ejecting
striker, of the extended fore parts of a reciprocating main spring; and which said
parts are constructed, arranged, act, and re-act, substantially as described and set forth
in figures 1 to 5.
Thirdly The combination with the extracting mechanism, of breech-loading small-
arms, of the kind as described, of combined extracting and communicating mechanism,
as set forth in figures 1 to 5.
Fourthly-Retaining the ejecting strikers of breech-loading small arms, in their

page_text: pushed back or striking position, on the fore end being removed, by means of
automatic closing spring arms, or arms closed by springs, substantially as described
and set forth in figures 6 to 11.
Fifthly-The combination with automatic spring arms, as in the preceding claim,
of chamfers or inclines upon the undersides of the extractor legs, whereby the
removal of the fore end, from the barrels or false breech body part, allows the said
spring arms to close, and when the fore end is placed in position, to be opened out,
substantially as described and set forth.
Dated this 26th day of April 1890
WILLIAM HENRY BRIGHTON.
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.