Firearms.
Year: 1888

page_text: Firearms.
We, WILLIAM FORD, of 23, Loveday Street, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Gunmaker, and JAMES CLIFFORD, of 6, Greaves Place, Moland Street,
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, 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 :-
The object of our invention is to provide ejector mechanism, of improved construction,
applicable to various types of breechloading firearms, and to provide simple means for
throwing such ejector mechanism into, and out of, action.
Our invention will be clearly understood by reference to the accompanying
drawings.
Fig. I shews a double-barrelled firearm with our ejector mechanism. The tumbler
is shown in the discharged position.
Fig. II shews the same firearm with the breech open, ready for charging, and the
position of the ejector mechanism after the right barrel has been discharged, but the
left not.
We provide each barrel with a separate extractor a, a, sliding side by side. For
the ordinary extracting motion the extractors are moved through a short distance by
the cam b, in the usual way.
This extracting motion takes place with each extractor every time the gun is opened,
whether the right and left barrels, or one, or neither, has been discharged.
The ejecting action only affects the extractor or extractors of the barrel or barrels
discharged before opening the gun.
In the means used for ensuring this lies the essence of our invention.

page_text: Forward of the leg e of each extractor is a sliding rod d, acted upon by a spring e.
When the gun is closed, the extractors being pushed home, the lege thrusts back tho
sliding rod d, and compresses the spring e. When this takes place the scear +
of which there is one to each extractor-engages with a bent in the sliding rod a of
that extractor.
A secondary scear y lies ready to engage with the bent in either sliding rod d,
whenever the first seear is disengaged; or, if both sears he disengaged, the scoar y
will engage with both the sliding rods d.
The lever which is in duplicate in a double-barrelled gun-is for actuating the
scear; and this lever is itself actuated by the limb i, in a manner to be described.
We will proceed to describe the action of a double barrelled gun fitted with our
improvements, on the supposition that the gun is opened after discharging the right
barrel only, as shown in Fig. II.
When the tumbler j fulls in the act of discharge, the toe of the tumbler strikes
the limb, and causes its forward end i to project sufficiently through the knuckle of
the joint on which the barrels turn to operate upon the lever has the gun is
opened. Therefore, as the gun is opened, the piece of the limb nets on the lover
and causes to move the scenr out of bent.
The sliding rod then moves slightly, but is arrested by the secondary secar g.
This release of the scour takes place only with regard to the discharged barrel-
namely the right-the seear of the left barrel, remaining in gear, as the left tumbler
has not fallen.
The next step is to open the gun. This causes the following motions.
The cam moves both extractors a short distance in the usual way. As soon as the
barrels clear the standing breech, the cam & nets upon the secondary soonry and raises
it out of bent. The scear of the right barrel ejector being already out of gear,
and the sliding rod d held by the secondary scour 9 only, the lifting of the said
secondary scear out of hent by the cam 6 causes the right extractor to receive a
smart blow which effects the ejorting action.
The actions described have affected only the right burrel.
The extractor of the left remains locked by the scear f
It will be understood that if the left barrel be discharged the movements will be
exactly as with the right barrel, as described; and that this extractor mechanism
will act on both, either, or neither of the extractors according as the tumblers be at
cock or discharged.
The breech action in Figs. I and II is that shown in Ford's Specification No. 2622,
A.D. 1888.
In Figs. III and IV we shew the application of our invention to a different type
of brooch action.
In this action the tumblers are cocked by a lever in a manner well understood.
Each lover & carries a secondary limb 7. This limb has a slightly elongated hole
to admit of a sliding motion. The fall of the tumbler causes the toe of the said tumbler
to strike the incline l, and so affect the forward movement of into a position to act
on the extractor mechanism.
The lever, before described, is dispensed with, and the limb acts directly upon
the scour f
The functions of the scear, secondary scear g, sliding rod d, spring e, cum b and
the oxtractors are us before described.
The screw m is for the purpose of throwing the scear g out of bent when required,
and so converting the gun into an ordinary non-ejecting extractor gun.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner tho same is to bo porformed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The ejector mechanism having a spring sliding rod, first and second sucars and
the releasing lavar 4 ne doseribed and illustrated in Fius. I and II.

page_text: 2. The ejector mechanism having a spring sliding rod, first and second scears, but
without the releasing lever h, as described and illustrated in Figs. III and IV.
3. Acting upon the secondary scear by means of the extractor cam b.
4. Putting the ejector mechanism out of gear by pressure upon the secondary
scear g, as, for instance by the screw m.
5. The whole combination of parts in Figs. I and II, so far as affecting the ejecting
action.
6. The whole combination of parts in Figs. III and IV, so far as affecting the
ejecting action.