IMPROVEMENTS IN BREECH LOADING FIRE ARMS
Year: 1881

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Conrad Garbe at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd July 1881.
CONRAD GARBE, Civil Engineer, of Berlin, Neu Cölln am Wasser (Nro. 15)
N. 15 (Prussia). "IMPROVEMENTS IN BREECH LOADING FIRE ARMS."
My Invention relates to an improved breech loading fire-arm, which is of simple
construction, and offers the advantages of, 1st, rapidity of loading; 2nd, safety
against accidental discharge; 3rd, discharge of the spent cartridge case without
the aid of an extractor or ejector, by merely tilting the gun sideways; 4th, facility
of knowing whether the gun is loaded or unloaded.
In the accompanying Drawing, Figure 1 is a central longitudinal section with
the breech open, the cartridge being inserted, and Figure 2 is a cross section. The
breech is closed by a longitudinally sliding breech piece or cover A fitted to slide
upon a T shaped guide B formed on the bed of the breech piece and operated by a
band lever C, at one side provided with a locking spring. This cover is bored to
receive the cartridge which it encloses when pushed forward to close the breech,
the cartridge being placed in position between the rear of the barrel and a fixed
lump D, upon which the cover A. also slides. When the cover is drawn back to the
position shown, the cartridge is entirely free and merely rests in a shallow groove
in the bed of the breech piece, from which it is readily dislodged by merely
tilting the arm sideways. Within the bore of the cover is also received the striker
case Ĕ situated in rear of the lump D, and having a pin F passing through a hole
in the latter. The striker case is made tubular and in two parts E, E¹, of which
the part E' is fixed and contains a spiral spring G enclosed within the two parts as
shown. The sliding part E of the striker is also provided with a central stem H
which enters the part E' when the gun is cocked. The knob at the rear end of
the part E has a through lateral hole which is obstructed by the end of the
stem H when the striker is drawn back, so that it may be readily seen whether the
gun is cocked by looking through this hole. The part E of the striker is con-
nected with the sliding breech cover by a lug I upon the former received in a
longitudinal groove J in the latter, so that the striker is drawn back with the
cover A. It is retained in this, the locked position, by an arm K rising through the
bed of the breech in front of it. ? mis carried by a spring L fixed at its
Pivoted to its rear end is the trigger M
forward end to the underside of the beu.

page_text: which is of the form shown, and bears against the underside of the breech bed.
A safety bolt N is fitted to slide transversely through the breech and passes through
a corresponding notch in the arm K, thereby locking the striker, except when a
notch in it is made to correspond with the arm K and permit of its being drawn
down.
To load the gun the hand lever C is first raised and then drawn back together
with the breech cover A to uncover the breech, and again slid forward after the
insertion of a cartridge, and locked in this position by means of a spring on the
hand lever.