Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 30th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 2nd Sept., 1887.
I, ERIK GUSTAF NICOLAUS SALENIUS, of Stortoget No. 1, B, Stockholm, Sweden,
Technologist do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to an arrangement of cartridge magazine for fire arms,
designed to obviate the liability to entry of earth sand and the like which obtains with
such magazines as heretofore usually constructed thus causing cartridges to stick
therein and preventing them from advancing when loading.
According to this invention one of the longer sides or walls of the magazine is
made movable or elastic, so that, when loading, it may be bent or moved outward by
some part of the lock mechanism. Should the cartridges from any cause have
become stuck between the walls of the magazine, they must necessarily become loosened
when the one wall is either entirely or to such an extent as may be necessary for the
purpose moved outwards.
By making the free end of this elastic wall or part thereof curved so as to partly
close the opening, by which the cartridges leave the magazine at the loading operation,
the further advantage is attained of keeping the cartridges in the magazine without
its being necessary for that purpose to employ any loose lid or to apply any other
loose piece to the magazine or to push forward any special stopping device. Hence if
the magazine be removed from the fire arm before all the cartridges have been con-
sumed, those remaining will be automatically retained in the magazine.
In the annexed drawing as an example only and for the purpose of illustrating the
nature of the invention it is shown as adapted to such a magazine as used in magazine
guns such as referred to in my previous application for Letters Patent dated the
ist day of March 1886 No. 2933 wherein the cartridges leave the magazine by
gravity, but this invention may under suitable modifications be adapted to magazines
of other kinds of guns.
Fig. 1 represents a right hand side elevation of the magazine; fig. 2 a left hand
side elevation of the same; fig. 3 an elevation of the rearward end (i.e. the end
further from the barrel); fig. + an elevation of the other end and fig. 5 a plan.
Fig. 6 is a vertical cross section through the magazine mounted on a gun of the kind

page_text: referred to in my prior specification above mentioned. The one long side of the
magazine a is here divided into three parts b, c, d which, the magazine being made of
steel plate, are elastic.
ef are
The free end of the middle part c is here curved over the outlet opening for the
purpose of retaining the cartridges in the magazine. The parts bd are also somewhat
curved so as to be caught by the part of the lock mechanism used to push them out
in the case of the kind of gun indicated, the "transporter" (see fig. 6).
two pieces projecting from the springs bd and which take against the short end parts
of the magazine thus preventing the springs from entering the magazine. g h and i
are portions of the magazine having for object to secure it to the gun. The end of
the part e is in this magazine also curved outward so that when the magazine is to be
filled, the cartridges need only be placed one at a time against the opening and then
pressed inwards when the part c, or corresponding parts will be moved outward thus
permitting the cartridge to enter the magazine. The magazine is provided with
openings at the longer sides (see figs. 1 and 2) whereby the soldier or person
using the gun may easily ascertain the number of the cartridges remaining in the
magazine.
In using such a magazine it is attached to the gun and the elastic part or parts is
or are pushed outward by some part of the lock mechanism (see the dotted position
fig. 6) the cartridges then descend and the lowermost one passes out of the opening
which in this case is turned downward. If the magazine be applied to any gun
with the opening in another direction, for instance upward, then a spring or other
contrivance must as will be readily understood, be used for forcing the cartridges
towards the opening when the spring e or springs has or have been pushed out so as
to release the cartridges.
Dated this 22nd day of November 1886
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per James G. Stokes,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: I, ERIK GUSTAF NICOLAUS SALENIUS, of Stortoget No. 1, B, Stockholm, Sweden,
Technologist, 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 has reference to an arrangement of cartridge magazine for fire-arms
designed to obviate the liability of cartridges to become fast or stick on the entry of
earth, sand, and the like, which obtains with such magazines as heretofore usually
constructed, thus preventing the cartridges from advancing when loading.
According to this invention one of the longer sides or walls of the magazine is
made movable or elastic, so that, when loading, it may be bent or moved outward by
some part of the lock mechanism. Should the cartridges from any cause have
become stuck between the walls of the magazine, they must necessarily become
loosened, when the one wall is either entirely or to such an extent as may be necessary
for the purpose moved outwards.
By making the free end of this elastic wall or part thereof curved so as to partly
close the opening by which the cartridges leave the magazine at the loading operation,
the further advantage is attained of keeping the cartridges in the magazine without
its being necessary for that purpose to employ any loose lid, or to apply any other
loose piece to the magazine, or to push forward any special stopping device. Hence if
the magazine be removed from the fire arm before all the cartridges have been consumed,
those remaining will be automatically retained in the magazine.
In the drawing filed with my provisional specification, the invention is shown as
adapted to such a magazine as used in magazine guns such as referred to in the speci-
fication of my previous Patent dated the 1st day of March 1886, No. 2933, wherein
the cartridges leave the magazine by gravity, but this invention may, under suitable
modifications, be adapted to magazines of other kinds of guns. Referring to such
drawings
Fig. 1'represents a right hand side elevation of the magazine.
Fig. 2 a left hand side elevation of the same.
Fig. 3 an elevation of the rearward end (i.e., the end further from the barrel).
Fig. 4 an elevation of the other end; and
Fig. 5 a plan.
Fig. 6 is a vertical cross section through the magazine mounted on a gun of the
kind referred to in my prior specification above mentioned.
The one long side of the magazine a is here divided into three parts b, c, d which,
the magazine being made of steel plate, are elastic. The free end of the middle
part c is here curved over the outlet opening for the purpose of retaining the cartridges
in the magazine. The parts b, d, are also somewhat curved so as to be caught by the
part of the lock mechanism used to push them out in the case of the kind of gun
indicated, the "transporter" (see Fig. 6). e, f, are two pieces projecting from the

page_text: springs b, d and which take against the short end parts of the magazine thus
preventing the springs from entering the magazine. g, h, and i, are portions of the
magazine having for object to secure it to the gun; other devices for effecting the
same purpose may however be used. The end of the part e is in this magazine also
curved outward so that when the magazine is to be filled, the cartridges need only be
placed one at a time against the opening and then pressed inwards when the part c or
corresponding parts, will be moved outward, thus permitting the cartridge to enter
the magazine. The magazine is provided with openings at the longer sides (see
Figs. 1 and 2) whereby the soldier or person using the gun may easily ascertain the
number of the cartridges remaining in the magazine.
In using such a magazine it is attached to the gun and the clastic part or parts is
or are pushed outward by some part of the lock mechanism (see the dotted position,
Fig. 6); the cartridges then descend, and the lowermost one passes out of the opening
which in this case is turned downward. If the magazine be applied to any gun with
the opening in another direction, for instance upward, then a spring or other. contri-
vance must, as will be readily understood, be used for forcing the cartridges towards
the opening when the spring c, or springs, has or have been pushed out so as to release
the cartridges.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention,
and in what manner it is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A cartridge magazine for fire arms having one long side or wall or the greatest
part of one long side or wall flexible and elastic, and so arranged that when the
magazine is attached to the fire arm, the elastic part at the loading operation may be
bent outwards by some part of the lock mechanism and on the return of such
part of the lock mechanism will again regain its normal position substantially as
described.
2. A cartridge magazine having one side or wall flexible and elastic as set forth in
Claim 1, and also having one or more parts of this long side curved over the outlet
opening of the magazine in order to retain the cartridges in the magazine until the
ends of those parts are at loading bent outwards by some portion of the lock mechanism
substantially as described.
3. In a cartridge magazine with one long side flexible and elastic and one or more
parts thereof having the ends curved over the outlet opening of the magazine as set
forth in the previous Claim, bending the ends of the said parts back in such a manner
as to form a guide and enable a cartridge placed against the said opening and pressed
inwards to push off the ends of the elastic parts, so that the cartridges may be
introduced into the magazine through the same opening, substantially as described.
4. A cartridge magazine for fire arms substantially as described with reference to
the annexed drawings.