Year: 1881

page_text: magazine.
Figure 2
being a plan of same..
Figure 3 (Sheet 2) is a cross section through line A, A, Fig. 1, Sheet 1.
Figure 4
Figure 5,
Figure 6,
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is a cross section through line B, B, Figure 1, Sheet 1.
end view of magazine and spring m; and
side view of levert and handle s.
Hitherto the charge-lid B on the magazine A has been kept closed by means of
the breech-bolt handle, and has opened as soon as the receiver was opened. Thus
the cartridge contained in the charge-lid was pushed towards the receiver before the
breech-bolt was quite drawn back, and before the shell of the preceeding cartridge
was thrown out, occaisoning collisions between the empty shell and the following
cartridge, whereby the firing might be obstructed, inasmuch as it was to be feared
that the empty shell in being thrown out might take the new cartridge with it.

page_text: To remedy this defect, a system of springs has been provided at the back part of
the said magazine, which works as follows:-The charge-lid is kept closed by a
pin or stud actuated by a spring m (Figures 2, 3, 5, and 6), even when the receiver
has been opened by means of the breech-bolt. As this breech-bolt is drawn back,
the empty shell is simultaneously pulled back by the extractor and thrown out of
the receiver previously to the breech-bolt reaching its extréme backward position,
but upon the breech-bolt being completely forced back, a hook.p screwed thereupon
catches hold of the aforesaid spring m and forces it back together with its pin or
stud ; the charge-lid is then released, opens-by pressure of the main spiral spring f
and so sends the cartridge it contains into the receiver., Now if the gun be closed
again, when of course the cartridge is pushed into the barrel, the charge-lid is
simultaneously forced down and closed,, thereby the latter passes the said pin or
stud which is beveled upwards correspondingly, the pin is thrown forward and
holds down the charge-lid, which will then have received a fresh cartridge; the same
manipulation may be then recommenced, and so on.
When the magazine has been emptied, and it is necessary to refill it, this is done
in the following manner, which differs from that hitherto used.
The above mentioned spring system m, m³, is slid to the right until it strikes
against an offset or stop g formed by the prolongation of the axle of the charge-lid.
This can only be effected when by means of a handle s on one of the springs (m²)
it has been drawn out of a stop formed by a pin r, and a corresponding hole cut in
the back part of the magazine 1. After the spring system has been slid into its
extreme position to the right, the charge-lid may be opened and new cartridges be
fed into the magazine. It will be observed that the mainspring is no longer
compressed as formerly by a collar pushed back by means of a knob worked in a
-recess cut in the outer surface of the magazine; in the present arrangement the
said recess is dispensed with, and thereby the. magazine is protected from the
entrance of any dust.
Cartridges have to be placed into the magazine one by one, thereby compressing
the said spring.
To prevent cartridges being thrown out on the charge-lid being open, a spring is
provided ending in a nose or projection v' which passes into the inner space of the
magazine in such a manner as to hold down cartridges placed therein. The said
nose or projection being beveled upwards, new cartridges may be pushed-in without
permitting any of those already in place to pass out.
The magazine being filled, a cartridge is placed in the charge-lid which is clapped
.down and closed by sliding to the left a safety collar w on the fore part of the said
magazine. Then the spring system m,. m³, is slid into its former extreme position
to the left, the stopping pin r passes through the hole 1. in the back of the
magazine, and so gives the position of the spring system, the magazine- being
ready for use, that is to say, the charge-lid is closed by the aforesaid pin l. It is to
be observed that the spring system m, m³, is worked simultaneously by means of
a levert and an axle which ends in an excentric u, passing underneath the nose
spring v, and thereby raises or lowers it accordingly as the spring system is slid to
the right or to the left. Owing to these devices the nose of the spring v will enter
into the inner magazine space on the charge-lid being open, and leave it on the
charge lid being closed and, the magazine ready for firing. On the magazine then
being required to work, it is only necessary to slide the safety-collar to its
extreme position on the right.
• To prevent the aforesaid collar and the main spiral spring ƒ being thrown out
of the magazine on this latter becoming empty and the charge-lid open, a hook i is
fitted to the collar h catching against a plate k.
The said magazine is attached to the gun-stock in the following manner, which
differs from the method previously used.
Upon the inner surface of the said magazine is fitted or screwed by a screw a in
connection with a tube Ca hook b, shaped like a dovetailed prisma. In the said tube

page_text: is worked a moveable hook d which a spiral spring tends to force outward. Both
hooks engage into corresponding recesses cut in the trigger-plate e, e¹, and thereby
hold the magazine on to the stock.
To detach the magazine, the last mentioned hook d is pulled back and unhooked.
On drawing back the magazine, the dovetailed prisma shaped hook b leaves the
recess e and the magazine become detached. It is to be observed that the spring
system m, m', must then be made to assume its extreme position on the right.