Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Apr., 1886.
Complete Left, 26th Jan., 1887. .
Complete Accepted, 1st Mar., 1887.
1 JOHN MARK of 3 Government Row Enfield Lock in the county of Middlesex
Mechanical Tool and Gun maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
My invention relates to fire arms provided with magazines at the side of the breech-
shoe or body.
In such an arm, according to my invention, the magazine or cartridge holder (or it
may be each of two, one at each side of the arm) is arranged to work up and down at
or on the side of the breech-shoe or body in such a manner that the magazine or
holder may be carried full of cartridges with perfect safety in such a position that it
will be impossible for a cartridge to leave the magazine or holder and enter the breech;
but that by a momentary action of the operator it may be brought into such a position
that the cartridges contained therein, or as many of them as may be required, can be
fired as rapidly as the arm will permit.
Means are provided for retaining the magazine in its raised and lowered positions
respectively. When the magazine is in the lowered position, the arm can be used as
an ordinary breech or single-loader, or providing the magazine be empty, the arm
may be used as a single loader, even when the magazine is in its raised or working
position.
My invention is applicable to breech-loading fire arms of various kinds, and
particularly to rifles in which the bolt or block is withdrawn the length of the
cartridge from the face of the barrel.
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Magazine or Repeating Fire-arms.
I, JOHN MARK, of 3 Government Row, Enfield Lock, in the County of Middlesex,
Mechanical Tool and Gun maker, 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 relates to fire-arms provided with magazines at the side of the breech
shoe or body.
In such an arm according to my invention the magazine or cartridge holder (or it
may be each of two, one at each side of the arm) is arranged to work up and down at
or on the side of the breech-shoe or body in such a manner that the magazine or
holder may be carried full of cartridges with perfect safety in such a position that it
will be impossible for a cartridge to leave the magazine or holder and enter the
breech; but that by a momentary action of the operator it may be brought into such a
position that the cartridges contained therein or as many of them as may be required,
can be fired as rapidly as the arm will permit.
Means are provided for retaining the magazine in its raised and lowered positions
respectively. When the magazine is in the lowered position, the arm can be used as
an ordinary breech or single loader; or providing the magazine be empty, the arm
may be used as a single loader, even when the magazine is in its raised or firing
position and loading may then take place either directly or through the magazine.
My invention is applicable to breech loading fire-arms of various kinds and
particularly to rifles in which the bolt or block is withdrawn the length of the
cartridge from the face of the barrel.
;
In the accompanying two sheets of drawing Figs. 1 to 10' sheet 1 illustrate my
invention applied to a gun of the kind known as the "Enfield repeating rifle" or
"Enfield Lee as submitted by me (under the provisions of sub section 12 of
section 44 of the Patents Designs and Trade Marks Act 1883) to the special.
Committee on small arms at the Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield Lock in the
'year 1885.
Figs. 11 to 17 illustrate another application of my invention subsequently submitted
to the said special committee on small arms in the same year (1885), that is to say, my
magazine adapted by me to a gun of a kind of which Mr. Owen Jones claims to be the
inventor, the said magazine being provided with a feeder such as described in the
specification of the said Mr. Owen Jones application for Letters Patent No. 395
dated 9 January 1886.
On sheet 1, Figs. 1 and 2, are side elevations shewing respectively the magazine in
its highest or firing position, and in its lowest or safety position, on the side of the
breech shoe or body. Fig. 3 is a plan or top view. Fig. 4 is an end elevation, partly
in transverse section through the breech shoe or body and adjacent lower part of the
magazine, which is shown in its raised position, with a cartridge in the breech shoe or
body, and another ready to enter the same. Fig. 5 is an end elevation, partly in

page_text: transverse section, showing the magazine in its lowest or safety position on the breech
shoe or body, with means for retaining it there. Fig. 6 is an elevation of that side of
the magazine which adjoins the breech shoe or body when in use. Fig. 7 is a plan or
top view of the magazine with its cover turned back. Figs. 8, 9 and 10 are detail
views, illustrating an alternative means for retaining the magazine in its raised and
lowered positions respectively. I is the magazine or cartridge holder, open at top for
the insertion of cartridges, and provided with an opening 2 at the lower part of that
side that is next the breech shoe or body when the magazine is applied thereto.
Through this opening cartridges can pass to the breech shoe or body 3, by gravity, as
shown in Fig. 4. 4 is a cover on an arm 4 a pivotted at 5. The arm 4a is provided
with a boss or enlargement 6, which, by the spring of the arm, is caused to enter a
hole 7 in the end of the magazine J., when the cover arrives over the magazine, as
represented in Figs. 1, 2 and 3; thus holding the cover in place, but so, nevertheless,
as to admit of its being turned aside as shown in Figs. 4 and 7, to allow of the
insertion of fresh cartridges. The magazine is provided with projections or flanges 8. S.
arranged to slide upward and downward in corresponding grooves in the side of the
brecchi shoe or body 3; the upward movement is limited by a removable catch or
stop 9 that engages with the upper part of a recess 10 in the breech shoe or body and
the downward movement by projections 11, of the slide faces 12. 13 is a pin
arranged to work in a hole or recess in a bracket 14; it is arranged to take into one
or other of the recesses 15 and 16 in the side of the breech shoe or body corresponding
respectively to the raised and lowered positions of the magazine, by the action of a
spring 17, the arrangement being such that the magazine will be firmly retained in
cither position but will admit of it being moved from one position to the other by
pressure exerted with the hand. When the magazine is in its highest position the
opening 2 will be brought opposite an opening 18 in the breech shoe or body 3 so that
cartridges may pass thereto from the magazine; whereas, when the magazine is in its
lowered position, the opening 2 will be opposite a solid part of the breech shoe or
body, and cartridges will be prevented from entering the same, thus permitting the
rifle to be carried with safety. 19 is an opening in the side of the magazine, to
enable the number of cartridges therein to he readily ascertained. The interior of the
magazine as seen in plan approximates in form to that of the cartridges to be
employed, being enlarged at 20 for the rims or heads of the cartridges, which are
securely retained in the magazine by the cover 4.
In the modified arrangement shown in Figs. 8, 9 and 10,-21 is a flat spring,
secured within a recess 22 in the side of the breech shoe or body 3; it is provided
with a pin or projection 23, arranged to work in a suitable recess or groove 24, in an
extension 25 of the magazine. 26 and 27 are two holes or recesses in the extension 25,
for the reception of the pin or projection 23, to retain the magazine when it is in its
raised and lowered positions respectively. The hole or recess 26 is made deeper than
the hole or recess 27, so that when the pin or projection 23 is in it, the magazine
cannot be lowered until the spring 21, with pin or projection 23, has been forced back
by pressure (say of the thumb or finger) on its chequered or roughened part 28. The
ends of the recess or groove 24 serve as stops for limiting the vertical movements of
the magazine.
Referring to sheet 2; Figs. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 are similar views to
Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 on sheet 1, but showing the sliding magazine adapted to
the Owen Jones rifle hereinbefore referred to, and provided with a cartridge feeder ;
which, however, I do not claim herein. The arrangement of magazine or holder 1 is
similar to that hereinbefore described, and is similarly figured but a different
arrangement for retaining the magazine in position is shown. This arrangement
comprises a bent spring plate 29 arranged within a recess 22 in the breech shoe or
body, the said bent spring being furnished with a projecting part 30 that takes into
one or other of the recesses 31 or 32, in the side of the magazine or cartridge holder,
when this is in its raised or lowered positions respectively. The cartridge feeder
comprises two levers 33 and 34, pivotted at 35 and 86 respectively, and interlocked
at 37, as shown in Figs. 16 and 17. The lever 33 is provided with a notched

page_text: extension 38, into which takes a projection 39 that is operated at the required times
for feeding a cartridge to the breech shoe or body 3, by the lock mechanism of the
gun, as shown and described in the specification of the said Owen Jones' No. 395
of 1886.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :—
1. A magazine or cartridge holder adapted to slide at the side of the breech shoe or
body of a gun and to be held in two positions in one of which cartridges can pass or
be caused to pass from it into the breech shoe or body whereas in the other they will
be kept within the magazine or cartridge holder so that the gun with cartridges in its
magazine or cartridge holder may be carried with safety as above set forth.
2. My sliding magazine or cartridge holder applied to a gun of the kind known as
the "Enfield repeating rifle " ΟΙ "Enfield Lee substantially as described.
::
3. My sliding magazine or cartridge holder constructed with a cover such as
described for preventing escape of cartridges through the opening by which they are
inserted into the magazine or holder substantially as described and illustrated.
.
4. My sliding magazine or cartridge holder constructed with means for retaining
the same in its raised or firing position and in its lowered or safety position for
carrying, respectively, whether the said means be such as described with reference to
the arrangement illustrated in Figs. 1 to 7 inclusive, or that illustrated in Figs. 8 to 10
inclusive, or that illustrated in Figs. 11 to 17 inclusive.
Witness—
F. J. BROUGHAM,
Clerk to Mr. W. Lloyd Wise,
Patent Agent,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.
JOHN MARK.