Method and Means or Accessories for Facilitating Correct Firing of Small Arms.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Oct., 1896
Complete Concification Laft 5th July 1007 Accented
2nd Oct
4807
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Method and Means or Accessories for Facilitating Correct Firing
of Small Arms.
I, EUGENIO CESAR ABELLA, of 39 Victoria Street, Westminster, Colonel in the
Uruguayan Army, and Consul General for Uruguay, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object to enable fire arms to be used with greater
certainty than is the case when they are held to the shoulder and supported by
the hand with the arm outstretched in the ordinary manner. For this purpose
I provide the gun with means whereby it is supported both at the shoulder and
at a point between it and the muzzle and this independently of the user's hands
both of which remain at liberty. According to one arrangement there is at
the butt end of the gun a hinged or pivotted curved arm so arranged that when
the butt end of the gun is in proper position against the shoulder the hinged or
pivotted arm can be closed over the back of the upper part of the arm and
shoulder of the user and so will hold the gun at that end. Between the butt
and the muzzle the gun is supported upon an adjustable rest which in one form
comprises a fork-like spring clip or rest able to swivel and whose stem is formed
or provided with a screw that passes through a nut supported by a telescopic
stand in such wise that by turning the nut one way or the ouer the fork-like
rest can be raised or lowered to suit the range. Thus with a breech loader or
magazine rifle the adjustment for a given range having been effected the gun
can be rapidly loaded and discharged with good effect.
The hinged or pivotted arm on the butt end of the gun when not in use can
be turned on its hinge or pivot into and be secured in a reversed position.
The support or stand can be made very light and portable and when telescopic
will close up into a comparatively small compass.
Bamboo, aluminium and papier mache may in some cases be advantageously
employed in the manufacture according to my invention of light supports or
stands such as above referred to.
Guns with my appliances as above set forth can be used for military, sporting
and other purposes.
Dated this 3rd day of October 1896.

page_text: Method and Means or Accessories for Facilitating Correct Firing
of Small Arms.
I, EUGENIO CESAR ABELLA, of 39 Victoria Street, Westminster, Colonel in the
Uruguayan Army and Consul General for Uruguay, 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:-
My invention has for its object to enable fire arms to be used with greater
certainty than is the case when they are held to the shoulder and supported by
the hand with the arm outstretched in the ordinary manner.
For this purpose
I provide the gun with means whereby it is supported both at the shoulder and
also at a point between the shoulder and the muzzle of the gun, these two points
of support being both obtained quite independently of the user's hands both of
which remain at liberty.
Figs. 1 and 2 of the annexed drawings show in side elevation so much of a
gun as is necessary to illustrate one arrangement according to my invention for
supporting a gun at the shoulder.
In this arrangement there is at the butt end A of the gun a curved arm B
80 arranged that when the butt end of the gun is in proper position against the
shoulder the said arm can be closed over the back of the upper part of the arm
and shoulder of the user and so will hold the gun at that end. In Fig. 1: the
arm B is shown so closed, and the user's shoulder is supposed to be at C.
To retain the butt end of the gun in position and prevent it slipping off the
user's shoulder it and the curved arm are caused to enter a correspondingly
shaped groove or channel formed in a shoulder strap C¹ worn by the user as
shown in Fig. 3, which also shows the gun held in position for use.
The arm B when not in use can be turned on its hinge and pivot into and be
secured in a reversed position, as it is shewn in Fig. 2. To enable the arm B
to assume as required either the position represented in Fig. 1 or that represented
in Fig. 2, the said arm is, in the example, hinged by a pin D to a bifurcated
pivot E which is itself able to be rotated within a socket or eye F fastened to
the butt end or stock A of the gun. At G there is a spring catch of any suitable
description to held the arm B in its respective positions as represented.
As will be evident the arrangement illustrated may be modified without
departing from the essential features of my invention.
Between the butt end A and the muzzle the gun is supported upon an adjust-
able rest. One form of such a rest is represented in Fig. 4 of the annexed
drawings, Fig. 3 shows how it is applied to support a gun. It comprises a fork-
like spring clip or rest H able to swivel about a vertical axis and whose stem is
formed or provided with a screw H¹ that passes through a nut K supported by
a telescopic stand L, L' in such wise that by turning the nut K one way or the
other the fork like rest I can be raised or lowered to suit the range. Then, with
a breech loader or magazine rifle, the adjustment for a given range having been
effected, the gun can be rapidly loaded and discharged with good effect. The
screw H and nut K provide for a finer and more accurate adjustment than can
be readily obtained by the telescopic stand the sliding portion L of which can be
fixed in the lower portion L' by a clamp I.³.
Obviously the details of construction of such a support or stand may be variously
modified. It can be made very light and portable, and when telescopic it will
close up into a comparatively small compass.
Bamboo, aluminium and papier mache, copper, nickel, &c., may in some cases

page_text: be advantageously employed in the manufacture according to my invention of
light supports or stands such as above referred to.
Guns with my appliances, as above set forth, can be used for military, sporting
and other purposes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. The method of using fire arms with greater certainty according to which a
gun is supported both at the shoulder of the user where it is provided with means
for securing it in place and also by a support located at a point between the user's
shoulder and the inuzzle of the gun, substantially as described.
2. Means for supporting fire arms according to the method indicated in the
preceding claim comprising (a) an appliance to the gun stock consisting of an
arm jointed at one end to the gun stock and provided with a catch at or near the
other end, which arm is able to be moved about its joint and adapted to serve
when required as a means of holding the butt end of the gun in its proper place
against the shoulder of the person desiring to use the gun; and (b) a device
adapted to receive and support a part of the gun intermediate between the butt
cnd and the muzzle, the said support being capable of ready adjustment to suit
the height of the user and the range.
3. The construction substantially in the manner described of the appliances
represented in the annexed illustrative drawings for carrying out the method of
using fire arms above indicated in the first claiming clause.
Jared This ard day of IDIV 1897
JALCO THIS OLD day
For the Applicant,
W. LLOYD WISE,
46 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.
For the Applicant,
W. LLOYD WISE,
46 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.