IMPROVEMENTS IN MAGAZINE FIRE-ARMS.
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, &
Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for an Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MAGAZINE FIRE-ARMS.' A communication from abroad
by William Trabue, of Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Robert Lake at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th January 1880.
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WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MAGAZINE FIRE-ARMS.' [A
communication from abroad by William Trabue, of Louisville, Kentucky, United
States of America.]
The said Invention relates to magazine fire-arms, and consists chiefly in a double
incline guide for elevating and guiding cartridges as they are forced from the
magazine, located beneath the barrel of a fire-arm, into a position from which said
cartridges are forced into the chamber of the barrel.
By means of this double incline cartridge-guide the cartridges as they are forced
from the magazine are moved up one side of the incline until they fall over the
edge or point at which the first incline terminates, and the other commences, and
rest upon the latter incline. The cartridges are then in the required position (their
pointed ends being elevated) for being forced by the bolt into the chamber of the
barrel.
The frame of the arm has an aperture through which the cartridges are passed
into the magazine.
The form and construction of the said double incline cartridge guide may be
modified as required. The angle formed by the two sides forming the double
incline may be made more or less obtuse, and the said inclined sides may have any
required length. Moreover these sides or either of them may be constructed to
yield under pressure either separately or jointly.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William Robert Lake in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th July 1880.
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WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Hazeltine Lake, & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London.. IMPROVEMENTS IN MAGAZINE FIRE-ARMS." A
communication from abroad by William Trabue, of Louisville, Kentucky, United
States of America.
This Invention relates to magazine fire-arms, and comprises a double-incline
guide for elevating and guiding the cartridges as they are forced from the magazine,
located beneath the barrel of the fire-arm, into a position from which said cartridges
are forced into the chamber of the barrel.
The Drawing represents a portion of a magazine fire-arm embodying my
improvements.
A represents the double-incline cartridge-guide. The cartridges as they are
forced from the magazine B are moved up the incline C of the guide until they
fall over the edge or point D and rest upon the incline C¹ of the said guide, the
cartridges are then in the required position (their pointed ends being elevated) for
being forced by the bolt E into the chamber of the barrel F.
The frame G has an aperture H through which the cartridges are passed into
the magazine B.
The form and construction of the double-incline cartridge-guide may be modified
as required; for example, the angle formed by the sides C, C¹, may be made more
or less obtuse, and the said inclines or inclined sides C, C¹, may have any required
length. Moreover these sides, or either of them, may be constructed to yield under
pressure either separately or jointly.
Having thus fully described the said Invention, as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent, and the manner of performing the same, I wish it understood
that I claim,-
The double-incline cartridge-guide arranged in combination with the magazine
and bolt, substantially as and for the purpose specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty.
W. ROBT, LAKE. (..)