AN IMPROVED MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR LOCKING THE ACTIONS OF SMALL ARMS
Year: 1884

page_text: We HUGH ADAMS SILVER of Sun Court Cornhill Merchant and Manufacturer
and WALTER FLETCHER of the same place Gunsmith do hereby declare the nature
of our said invention for AN IMPROVED MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR LOCKING THE
ACTIONS OF SMALL ARMS to be as follows:-
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The object of this invention is to arrango a sliding bolt or catch under the
action of a spring to set itself over and upon the trigger or triggers or upon the
sear or scars or upon both trigger and sear said bolt or catch having on the outside
of the arm a button or chequered plate which on the arm being gripped at the
desired part a push or a draw back or releasing of the bolt or catch takes place
without requiring actual thought or special inanipulation by the person using the
arm. The bolt or catch reacts under the action of its spring the instant the
pressure is removed and relocks the trigger or triggers or the sear or both whether
the barrel to which such trigger or scar belongs has been discharged or not.
The bolt or catch may have an extension picce to act upon a lever to lock the
hammer or hammers or the tumblers as desired.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
We HUGH ADAMS SILVER of Sun Court, Cornhill, Merchant and Manufacturer,
and WALTER FLETCHER of the same place Gunsmith, do hereby declare the nature
of our said Invention for "AN IMPROVED MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR LOCKING THE
"ACTIONS
OF SMALL ARMS," and in what manner the same is to be performed
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
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The object of this invention is to arrange a sliding bolt or catch under the
action of a spring to set itself over and upon the trigger or triggers or upon the
Bear or sears or upon both trigger and sear said bolt or catch having on the outside

page_text: of the arm a button or chequered plate which on the arm being gripped at the
desired part a push or a draw back or releasing of the bolt or catch takes place
without requiring actual thought or special manipulation by the person using the
arm. The bolt or catch reacts under the action of its spring the instant the
pressure is removed and re-locks the trigger or triggers or the sear or both, whether
the barrel to which such trigger or sear belongs has been discharged or not.
The bolt or catch may have an extension piece to act upon a lever to lock the
hammer or hammers or the tumblers as desired.
Our invention is clearly exemplified by the annexed drawings in which Figure 1
shows a draw back plate or stud A with a bar B whose forward end reaches over
the nose C of the hammer D as a stop to its forward circular movement except
when the bar B is pulled back by the grip of the hand when the gun has to be fired.
The pull back motion of the stud A. puts tension in the spring E which encircles
a stem F of the bar B and when pressure is removed from the plate A the spring
forces the bar forward again.
The same motion of the bar happens during the cocking of the hammer the head
of the hammer then presses the bar backwards until it clears the bar which then
springs forward to lock the hammer.
In this Figuro (1) we have shown a leg G (as part of the bar B) to engage over
the trigger H and also over the sear I, so that in this case neither the hammer, the
trigger nor the scar could be moved except the plate A be pulled back.
-If the gun be a double barrelled one the bar B is spread outwards fork fashion
at its front end as at Figure 2 to secure or to release both hammers at the same
time.
At Figure wo have shown a push forward plate or stud A with a leg. G to
engage over the trigger (or triggers) for locking it or them by the action of the
spring E.
Figuro 4 represents the forward end of the bar B with an incline surfaced notch.
which in the pull back action of the plate A causes a lever J-to-tilt-clear-of-the-
hanner head. The fore end of the lever J otherwise engaging in the head as 3
shown to lock it at full cock.
Figure 5-shows the leg G of a pull back plate-A-engaged-in-a-notch of a safety
-bolt-K-by-which the hammer (or hammers) is locked at the body portion.
-Having now-particularly-described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed We declare that what_3
we claim is :-
The several appliances for locking the actions or moveable parts of actions of
small arms by a spring to prevent accidental discharge said appliances being
otherwise controlled by a push or pull back button or plate on the outside and
acted upon by the natural grip of the person using the gun for shooting purposes 4
as set forth and as shown in the annexed drawings.
The 9th day of October 1884