An Appliance for use with Hammerless Guns and Rifles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left. 12th Nov.. 1889-Accepted. 14th Dec.. 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance for use with Hammerless Guns and Rifles.
I, JAMES WILLIAM SMALLMAN, of Nuneaton, in the County of Warwick, and
Brixton, in the County of Surrey, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
1
This invention consists of an appliance for use with hammerless guns and rifles for
enabling the locks to be liberated without injury when the gun or rifle is taken apart;
such appliance serving, moreover, to remind the user to pull the triggers before the
gun or rifle is put away in its case.
In carrying out this invention, I prefer to employ a pair of metal plungers
surrounded by spiral springs and mounted in a block of wood, vulcanite, or metal,
so that, when the block aforesaid is placed in the action between the break-off und
the joint-pin, the plungers are opposito the striker-holes. The plungers are urged
backward by the spiral springs, and serve to break the fall of the tumblers; injury to
the locks being thus avoided.
Inasmuch as the distance between the joint-pin and the face of the break-off
varies in different guns, that part of the block which fits in the slot in the
action-body and bears against the joint-pin may, if preferred, be made
adjustable.
Dated the 12th day of February 1009.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance for use with Hammerless Guns and Rifles.
I, JAMES WILLIAM SMALLMAN, of Nuneaton, in the County of Warwick, and
Mostyn Road, Brixton, in the County of Surrey, Engineer, 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 consists of an appliance for use with hammerless guns and rifles
for saving the main-springs by enabling the locks to be liberated without injury after
the gun or rifle has been taken apart-that is, after the barrels have been separated
from the stock; such appliance serving, moreover, to keep dirt out of the
action-body and to remind the user to pull the triggers before placing the gun
or rifle in its case.
In carrying out this invention, I prefer to employ a pair of metal, vulcanite, or
boxwood plungers surrounded by spiral springs and mounted in a block of wood,
vulcanite, or metal, so that, when the block is placed in the action-body between
the break-off and the joint-pin, the plungers are opposite the striker-holes.
The plungers are urged backward by the spiral springs, and serve, instead of
cartridges, to break the fall of the tumblers; injury to the locks being thus
avoided.
In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 represents in side elevation an appliance
constructed in accordance with the present invention; Fig. 2 being a corre-
sponding end elevation. Fig. 3 is a view partly in section and partly in
side elevation shewing the application of the invention to a sporting gun
or rifle.
A is a metal block furnished with two plungers a and a¹; the latter being pressed
backward against the face of the break-off by spiral springs. The movements of the
plungers are controlled by a transverso pin a passing through the block and through
a slot in each plunger. The block is secured to the action-body by means of two

page_text: lumps B and B, with which the barrel-fastening-that is, the double under bolt-
engages. The back lump B₁ may, however, bo dispensed with. In Fig. 3,
the tumbler C of the lock is shown as having fallen against and driven forward
the plunger a.
Inasmuch as the distance between the joint-pin and the face of the break-off varies
in different guns, the means employed for securing the block to the action-body may,
if preferred, be mado adjustablo.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invon-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, declare that what I
claim is :-
The appliance for use with hammerless sporting guns and rifles constructed or
operating substantially as set forth.
Doted this 10th 110n
JAMES W. SMALLMAN.