Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 4th May, 1887
Complete Left, 21st Dec., 1887
Complete Accepted, 10th Feb., 1888.
A communication from ALBERT NEWTON RUSSELL and ADDISON BRILL, Receivers of
E. Remington & Sons, Manufacturers of Firearms, etc., and both resident at Ilion,
County of Herkimer, State of New York, United States of America.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex M.I.M.E
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to magazine guns, and the invention consists in means for
converting the arm from a magazine or repeating gun into a single loader and vice
versa, at will, as hereinafter more fully described.
The invention has for its object an improvement on the gun for which an
application for a patent was filed February 26, 1887, numbered 3020.
In the gun as previously described, two spring lips were used, one to hold the
cartridges in the magazine at the proper height to enable them to be shoved one at
a time from the magazine into the chamber of the gun, as the breech bolt was
shoved forward, and the other to hold them below the line of the breech bolt,
when it was desired to use the gun as a single loader. In this case but one spring
lip is used, it being made vertically adjustable, so it will perform the same service
that the two lips did in the former instance.
The receiver, sometimes termed the shoe of the gun, and the magazine, together
with the breech bolt and its projection, the lug or shoulder, the extractor, the
spring, with its notch, and the cocking piece, all being made as described in the
previous application, require no further description.
Instead of securing the spring lip to the receiver direct as in the former case, it is
now secured to a separate plate. This plate with a spring lip having the end of its
spring arm secured thereto, is pivoted by a screw to a lug on the under side of the
receiver at its front end, the rear end of said plate being left free to be raised or
lowered at will, thereby raising or lowering the spring lip, which at its rear end works
in a slot cut in the said plate, and has free play inward and outward, the same as the

page_text: spring lips had in the former case. It will of course be understood that the slot or
opening through the side of the receiver for the spring lip will be made of the proper
width to permit the lip to be thus raised and lowered, or what is the same in effect,
the lower side of the receiver may be cut away at that point, there being plenty of
metal above to give the necessary strength.
In order to raise and lower the lip, a rock shaft is mounted transversely in lug or
under portion of the receiver in rear of the magazine, and has secured to it a rigid
arm. The front end of said arm engages with the rear end of plate by a notch, or in
any similar manner. To the opposite end of the rock shaft, a spring thumb-piece or
lever is secured, by which the rock shaft can be moved, and with it the arm, and
consequently the plate and lip. To limit the movement of this thumb piece, and
secure it in position, a plate having a recess on its inner side is secured to the receiver,
there being a notch at each end of the recess in said plate, in which the thumb-piece
springs and rests when adjusted forward or back, thereby locking it in position and
preventing it from being accidentally moved in the handling of the arm.
By these means, the cartridges in the magazine can be held at a higher or lower
point in the magazine. When the thumb-piece is shoved back, the lip will be raised,
thereby permitting the cartridges in the magazine to assume such a position, that the
gun can be used as a magazine gun or repeater. When the thumb-piece is shoved
forward, the lip will be lowered, thereby depressing the cartridges in the magazine, in
which case the gun can be used as a single loader, the cartridges in the magazine then
being held below, the line of the breech bolt, and a single cartridge being placed in
the receiver by hand, the same as in the ordinary single loader. The thumb-piece
being located at the right hand side of the receiver where it is in the most convenient
position for manipulation, enables the change to be effected with the least possible time
and effort.
The only reason for locating the spring lip on the left hand side of the receiver is,
that there is more metal on that side of the receiver, the opposite side being cut away
at its upper edge to afford room for the insertion of the single cartridges, and for the
ejection of the empty shells. Aside from this consideration, it is obvious that the
plate with the lip might be located on the right hand side of the receiver, and be
made to operate the same. In that case the rock shaft would of course be omitted,
the thumb-piece and arm being united in the form of an elbow lever, and be pivoted
to the lug on the right hand side. So too; it is obvious that the plate may be
dispensed with, and the lip be pivoted to the receiver without the plate, the only
requisite in that case being that the notch which serves as a guide for the free end of
the lip should be made in the end of the arm. It is preferred however to use the
plate, as the arm is considered more perfect with, than without it.
Dated this örd day of May 1887.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: A communication from ALBERT NEWTON RUSSELL and ADDISON BRILL, Receivers of
E. Remington & Sons, Manufacturers of Fire-arms, etc., and both resident at Ilion
County of Herkimer, State of New York, United States of America.
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to magazine guns, and the invention consists in means for
converting the arm from a magazine or repeating gun into a single loader, and vice
versa, at will, as hereinafter more fully described.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of that portion containing the breech mechanism
and magazine.
Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same, with a portion of the stock and trigger
guard shown in section.
Figure 3 is a similar view taken from the opposite side.
Figure 4 is a transverse vertical section on the line x-x of Figure 3, and
Figure 5 is a similar view taken on the line y-y of Figure 3.
Figures 6, 7, and 8 are views of parts shown in detail.
The invention is an improvement on the gun for which an application for a patent
was filed (February 26, 1887, numbered 3020).
In the gun as previously described two spring lips were used, one to hold the
cartridges in the magazine at the proper height to enable them to be shoved one at a
time from the magazine into the chainber of the gun, as the breech bolt was shoved
forward, and the other to hold them below the line of the breech bolt, when it was
desired to use the gun as a single loader. In this case but one spring lip is used, it
being made vertically adjustable, so it will perform the same service that the two lips
did in the former instance.
In the drawings, A represents the receiver, sometimes termed the shoe of the gun,
and I the magazine, these parts together with the breech bolt B with its projection c¹¹,
lug or shoulder C, extractor H, H³, spring d with its notch r and cocking piece D,
all being made as described in the previous application, and which therefore require
no further description.
Instead of securing the spring lip P to the receiver A direct as in the former case,
it is now secured to a separate plate G, shown detached in Figures 7 and 8 the former

page_text: being a side view, and the latter being a rear end view of the same. This plate G
with the spring lip P having the end of its spring-arm secured thereto, is pivoted by
a screw n, to a lug on the under side of the receiver A at its front end as shown in
Figure 3, the rear end of said plate G being left free to be raised or lowered at will as
indicated by the dotted lines in Figure 3, thereby raising or lowering the spring lip P,
which at its rear end works in a slot e cut in the plate G as shown in Figure 3, and
has free play inward and outward the same as the spring lips had in the former case.
It will of course be understood that the slot or opening through the side of the receiver
for the spring lip P will be made of the proper width to permit the lip to be thus
raised and lowered, or what is the same in effect, the lower side of the receiver may
be cut away at that point, there being plenty of metal above to give the necessary
strength.
To
In order to raise and lower the lip P, a rock shaft 7 is mounted transversely in lug
or under portion of the receiver in rear of the magazine I, as shown in Figures 3 and 4,
and has secured to it, a rigid arm o as shown in Figure 3, the front end of said arm
engaging with the rear end of plate G by a notch t, or in any similar manner.
the opposite end of the rock shaft I, a spring thumb-piece or lever ↳ is secured as
shown in Figures 2 and 4 by which the rock shaft can be moved, and with it the armo,
and consequently the plate G and lip P. To limit the movement of this thumb-
piece b, and secure it in position, a plate a having a recess on its inner side is
secured to the receiver as shown in Figure 2, there being a notch at each end of
the recess in said plate, as shown in Figure 4, in which the thumb-piece b springs
and rests when adjusted forward or back, thereby locking it in position and preventing
it from being accidentally moved in the handling of the arm.
By these means the cartridges in the magazine can be held at a higher or lower
point in the magazine I, as indicated by the full and the dotted lines in Figure 5.
When the thumb-piece b is shoved back, the lip P will be raised, thereby permitting
the cartridges in the magazine to assume the position indicated by the full lines in
Figure 5, in which case the gun can be used as a magazine gun or repeater: and
when the thumb-piece is shoved forward the lip will be lowered, thereby depressing
the cartridges in the magazine to the position indicated by the dotted lines in Figure 3,
in which case the gun can be used as a single loader, the cartridges in the magazine
then being held below the line of the breech bolt, and a single cartridge being placed
in the receiver by hand, the same as in the ordinary single loader. The thumb-
piece being located at the right hand side of the receiver where it is in the most
convenient position for manipulation, enables the change to be effected with the least
possible time and effort.
The only reason for locating the spring lip P on the left hand side of the receiver is,
that there is more metal on that side of the receiver, the opposite side being cut away
at its upper edge to afford room for the insertion of the single cartridges and for the
ejection of the empty shells. Aside from this consideration, it is obvious that the
plate G with the lip I might be located on the right hand side of the receiver, and be
imade to operate the same. In that case, the rock shaft would of course be omitted,
the thumb-piece 6 and arm o being united in the form of an elbow lever, and be
pivoted to the lug on the right hand side. So too, it is obvious that the plate G may
be dispensed with, and the lip he pivoted to the receiver without the plate, the only
requisite in that case being that the notch e, which serves as a guide for the free end
of the lip P, should be made in the end of arm 0. It is preferred, however, to
use the plate as the arm is considered more perfect with than without it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. In combination with a gun having a magazine arranged to feed the cartridges
upward through an opening in the bottom of its receiver, a vertically adjustable lip P
arranged to hear upon the cartridges in the magazine and hold them in a higher or
lower position therein, substantially as and for the purpose set forth,

page_text: 2. In combination with a magazine gun such as described, the pivoted plate G'
having the spring lip P secured thereto, with means for adjusting the same vertically'
substantially as described.
3. The combination in a magazine gun substantially such as described, of the
pivoted plate G having the spring lip P secured thereto, and a thumb-piece barranged
to operate the same, substantially as herein set forth.
4. In combination with a magazine gun substantially such as shown, the pivoted
plate G having the spring lip P secured thereto, the rock shaft / having the arm o,
and the spring thumb-piece b rigidly attached with the plate a, all arranged to operate
substantially as, and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 20th day of December 1887