Means for Locking and UHOCKING CHO Datory Sporting Guns.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Sept., 1886.
Complete Left, 28th June, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 29th July, 1887.
Means for Locking and UHOCKING CHO Datory
Sporting Guns.
We HUGH ADAMS SILVER of Sun Court, Cornhill, London, Merchant and
Manufacturer, and WALTER FLETCHER of the same place, Gunsmith do hereby
declare the nature of our said invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to render what are termed Safety bolts of Sporting
Guns non-liable to be accidentally acted upon while the gun is away from the
shoulder, the safety bolt being locked by an independent appliance which can only be
released when the butt is resting on the ground or when the butt is in at the
shoulder; should the butt be on the ground although the appliance is released, the
person holding the gun grasps it at such a distance from the safety bolt that no
accidental discharge could take place and should the gun be at the shoulder no release
of the safety bolt can take place until the firer grips or otherwise acts upon the safety
bolt either previously to or simultaneous with the pulling of the trigger; thus the
gun is rendered perfectly safe under all conditions of the ordinary movements of a
sportsman except at the time when taking aim.
To effect the conditions before mentioned we insert within the stock from the butt
end to about where the safety bolt is situated a rod or lever springy in itself or
provided with a spring for returning it to its normal position after a pressure against
its outer end, said end projecting from the hollow of the butt either exposed or covered
by a pad or otherwise. The fore end of the rod or lever is formed as a catch or is
otherwise shaped to prevent the safety bolt or its lever being moved except when
purposely done:
TYÄ HALI 10th dow of Santarber 1886
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said H. A. Silver
and W. Fletcher.

page_text: Means for Locking and Unlocking the Safety Bolts of
Sporting Guns.
We HUGH ADAMS SILVER of Sun Court, Cornhill, London, Merchant and
Manufacturer, and WALTER FLETCHER of the same place, Gunsmith, do hereby
declare the nature of our said 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 this invention is to render what are termed safety bolts of sporting
guns non-liable to be accidentally acted upon while the gun is away from the
shoulder, the safety bolt being locked by an independent appliance which can only be
released when the butt is resting on the ground or when the butt is in at the
shoulder; should the butt be on the ground although the appliance is released the
person holding the gun grasps it at such a distance from the safety bolt that no
accidental discharge could take place and should the gun be at the shoulder no release
of the safety bolt can take place until the firer grips or otherwise acts upon the safety
bolt either previously to or simultaneously pulling the trigger; thus the gun is
rendered perfectly safe under all conditions of the ordinary movements of a sportsman
except at the time when taking aim.
Our invention is represented in the annexed drawings Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 the
stock of the gun being in section.
We insert within the stock A from the butt end B to about where the safety bolt C
is situate a rod D or lever springy in itself or provided with a spring E for returning
it to its normal position after a pressure against its outer end F said end projecting
from the hollow or chamber G formed in the butt. The pad F may be either exposed
as at Figures 1 and 2 or covered by a screen H or otherwise. The fore end of the
rod or lever D has a catch I of any desired shape to prevent the safety bolt C or its
lever J being moved except when purposely done.
Figure 1 shows the arm with the triggers locked, the nose K of the safety bolt
being over and upon the heads L to prevent the triggers moving, the end I of the
rod D being locked by engaging under the bottom plate M, but at Figure 2 the
pad F is shown as pressed into the chamber G which has forced the rod D in
sufficiently far for the pressure of end I to be removed from the under plate N which
rises by its springyness and the inclined projection P to draw the safety bolt C back
clear of the trigger heads ready for firing.

page_text: Figures 3 and 4 show similar action appliances except that the rod D pushes the
safety bolt C and its lever J forwards to set the triggers free.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is:—
Actuating safety bolts of sporting guns from a movable body in the heel of the
butt whether said movable body be exposed or enclosed as described and substantially
as shown.