Improvements in the Ejecting Mechanism of Drop-down Small Arms.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 13th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 13th Jan., 1894
TRUVIDIONAL BUITIVATIVA,
Improvements in the Ejecting Mechanism of Drop-down
Small Arms.
1, HENRY WILLIAM HOLLAND, of 98, New Bond Street, in the County of
Middlesex, Gun and Ritle Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the ejecting mechanism of drop-down guns and rifles
and is specially applicable to those small arms in which each lock is cocked by
means of a lever turning on a pivot placed between the firing tumbler and the
centre on which the barrels turn.
In carrying out my invention, I employ, in addition to the ordinary extracting
mechanisin, ejecting mechanism comprising, in respect of each barrel, an ejecting
tumbler preferably pivoted in a box or case attached to the fore-end iron. This
tumbler is acted on by a spring which, when the tumbler is pressed back to the
full extent, holds the tumbler in that position, but which, when the tumbler has
been partially rotated on its pivot, imparts a sudden movement to the tumbler and
causes it to strike the end of the extractor with sufficient force to effect the ejection
of the empty case. The spring may be a double flat spring, a single flat spring or
a spiral spring surrounding a rod. In front of each ejecting tumbler is pivoted a
releasing lever having a short arm or projection adapted to engage with a projection
on the tumbler; the long arm of the lever lying in its normal position just outside
the path of a stop pivoted in or extending from the action-body, or formed on the
extractor-cam or -post. This lever also has a lateral arm.
When the gun or rifle is fired, the cocking lever acts on the lateral arm of the
releasing lever, and brings the long arm of that lever into the path of the stop.
During the opening movement, the long arm engages with the stop; the releasing
lever being turned on its pivot so that its short arm bears against the projection on
the tumbler and turns the tumbler far enough to bring it into that position in
which the spring can act upon it to impart the requisite blow for effecting the
ejection of the empty case. If the gun or rifle has not been fired, the long arm
of the releasing lever does not engage with the stop, the releasing lever being held
in its normal position by a spring, and the ejecting tumbler remains in its cocked
position.
Instead of employing the cocking lever for imparting the initial movement to
the releasing lever, such movement may be produced by contact with a special
lever, a sliding rod or the main-spring during the opening of the gun or rifle.
The ejecting tumblers, instead of being mounted in the fore-end, may be attached
to the barrels.
Instead of cocking the ejecting tumblers by the extractor, they may be cocked
by a slide, one end of which is adapted to engage with spurs on the ejecting
tumblers. This slide may be contained in the box or case in which the other
parts of the ejecting mechanism are mounted. The other end of the slide falls
iuto a slot in, or otherwise engages with, the action-body. While the gun or rifle
is being opened, the inner end of the slide recedes from the spurs on the ejecting
tumblers. Upon the release of the ejecting tumblers, the spurs follow up the
slide. While the gun or rifle is being closed after the ejection of the empty cases,
the slide (the other end of which is held by the action-body) draws the ejecting
tumblers back into the cocked position.

page_text: In small arms having sliding ejector strikers, communication between the strikers
and the slide is effected by means of an intermediate lever.
Dated the 13th day of January 1893.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Ejecting Mechanism of Drop-down
Small Arms.
I, HENRY WILLIAM HOLLAND, of 98, New Bond Street, in the County of
Middlesex, Gun and Rifle 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 :-
This invention relates to the ejecting mechanism of drop-down guns and rifles,
and is specially applicable to those small arms in which each lock is cocked by
means of a lever turning on a pivot placed between the firing tumbler and the
centre on which the barrels turn.
In carrying out my invention, I employ, in addition to the ordinary extracting
mechanism, ejecting mechanism comprising, in respect of each barrel, an ejecting
tumbler preferably pivoted in a box or case attached to the fore-end iron. This
tumbler is acted on by a spring which, when the tumbler is pressed back to the
full extent, holds the tumbler in that position, but which, when the tumbler has
been partially rotated on its pivot, imparts a sudden movement to the tumbler and
causes it to strike the end of the extractor with sufficient force to effect the ejection
of the empty case. The spring may be a double flat spring, a single flat spring or
a spiral spring surrounding a rod. In front of each ejecting tumbler is pivoted a
releasing lever having a short arm or projection adapted to engage with a
projection on the tumbler; the long arm of the lever lying in its normal position
just outside the path of a stop pivoted in or extending from the action-body,
or formed on the extractor-cam or -post. This lever also has a lateral arm.
When the gun or rifle is fired, the cocking lever acts on the lateral arm of the
releasing lever, and brings the long arm of that lever into the path of the stop.
During the opening movement, the long arm engages with the stop; the releasing
lever being turned on its pivot so that its short arm bears against the projection on
the tumbler and turns the tumbler far enough to bring it into that position in
which the spring can act upon it to impart the requisite blow for effecting the
ejection of the empty case. If the gun or rifle has not been fired, the long arm of
the releasing lever does not engage with the stop, the releasing lever being held in
its normal position by a spring, and the ejecting tumbler remains in its cocked
position.
Instead of employing the cocking lever for imparting the initial movement to
the releasing lever, such movement may be produced by contact with a special
lever, a sliding rod or the main-spring during the opening of the gun or rifle. The
ejecting tumblers, instead of being mounted in the fore-end, may be attached to
the barrels.
Instead of cocking the ejecting tumblers by the extractor, they may be cocked
by a slide, one end of which is adapted to engage with spurs on the ejecting,
tumblers. This slide may be contained in the box or case in which the other parts
of the ejecting mechanism are mounted. The other end of the slide falls into a
slot in, or otherwise engages with, the action-body. While the gun or rifle is
being opened, the inner end of the slide recedes from the spurs on the ejecting
tumblers. Upon the release of the ejecting tumblers, the spurs follow up the
slide. While the gun or rifle is being closed after the ejection of the empty cases,
the slide (the other end of which is held by the action-body) draws the ejecting
tumblers back into the cocked position.

page_text: In small arms having sliding ejector strikers, communication between the strikers
and the slide is effected by means of an intermediate lever.
The accompanying diagrams show the way in which I prefer to carry out my
invention.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation representing the parts in the normal position; the gun
being closed and the tumbler of the lock cocked.
Fig. 2 is a similar view; the tumbler of the lock being down and the cocking
lever in engagement with the lateral arm on the releasing lever.
Fig. 3 illustrates the parts in the position they assume after the opening of the
gun and the ejection of the empty cartridge-case; the releasing lever being in
engagement with the ejector-stop.
Fig. 4 shows in side elevation the device sometimes employed for cocking the
ejecting tumbler.
a a' is the ejecting tumbler, which is acted on by the spring b. c c¹ is the
releasing lever. d is the stop with which, after the firing of the gun, the releasing
lever engages.
e e is the forked lever for cocking the tumbler f. This lever may,
however, be made without the fork, in which event the tumbler of the lock would
at the end of its falling movement come into contact with and actuate said lever
so as to slightly raise its rear arm for the purpose of bringing the releasing lever
into the path of the stop.
In Fig. 1, the arm c of the releasing lever is out of the path of the stop d, con-
sequently if the gun be opened the ejecting mechanism remains inoperative. In
Fig. 2, the tumbler has fallen, depressing the arm e¹ and raising the arm e of the
cocking lever; the latter arm engaging with the arm c¹ of the releasing lever,
thus moving that lever so as to bring the arm c into the path of the stop d and the
arm into contact or nearly into contact with the projection a¹ on the tumbler.
In Fig. 3, the gun is open, the arme of the cocking lever having been depressed
by the fore-end iron, the arm e¹ raised so as to cock the tumbler f, and the arm c of
the releasing lever lifted by the stop d so as to depress the arm c³ and turn the
ejecting tumbler far enough to enable the spring & to impart the sudden movement
to that tumbler which is requisite for causing the ejection of the empty cartridge-
case. The spring pertaining to the releasing lever, which normally holds that lever
out of the path of the stop d, resembles an ordinary sear-spring and is therefore
omitted in the diagrams. On the closing of the gun, the cocking lever and the
tumbler of the lock remain in the positions shown in Fig. 3, the ejecting tumbler
is forced back by the extractor (represented by dotted lines) into the position
shown in Fig. 1, and the releasing lever, under the action of its spring, returns into
its normal position out of the path of the stop d.
The ejector-stop is pivoted in the action-body if the overdraw on opening the
unfired gun brings the arm c into contact with it.
It will of course be understood that in a double gun a split extractor, two
releasing levers and two ejecting tumblers and springs are employed.
The extractor may be forced back to cock the ejecting tumbler in the usual way
by the extractor-post. Or, the extractor may be pushed back by contact with the
standing breech; the ejecting tumbler being then furnished with a spur a³ (Fig. 4)
normally in contact with a projection 9 on one end of a slide 9 g'. The other end g¹
of the slide engages with the action-body at a point below the joint-pin. While
the gun is being opened, the projection 9 recedes from the spur a³. When the
ejecting tumbler is released, the spur a follows up the projection
and again
comes into contact with it. While the gun is being closed, the slide gg', acting on
the spur a², draws the ejecting tumbler into its cocked position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I claim :—
1. In drop-down small arms, the improved ejecting mechanism constructed
substantially as herein described.
2. In the ejecting mechanism of drop-down small arms, the combination, with an

page_text: ejecting tumbler and an ejecting spring adapted for holding that tumbler in the
cocked position and also for imparting when required a sudden movement to said
tumbler, of a releasing lever, substantially as herein set forth.
3. In the ejecting mechanism of drop-down small arms, the combination, with
an ejecting tumbler, an ejecting spring adapted for holding that tumbler in the
cocked position and also for imparting when required a sudden movement to said
tumbler, and a releasing lever, of a stop for operating the releasing lever after the
same has been turned out of its normal position, substantially as herein set
forth.
4. In the ejecting mechanism of drop-down small arms, the combination, with
an ejecting tumbler, an ejecting spring adapted for holding that tumbler in the cocked
position and also for imparting when required a sudden movement to said tumbler,
a releasing lever, and a stop for operating the releasing lever, of a cocking
other lever for turning the said releasing lever out of its normal position into the
path of the stop, substantially as herein set forth.
or
5. In the ejecting mechanism of drop-down small arms, the combination, with an
ejecting tumbler, an ejecting spring adapted for holding that tumbler in the cocked
position and also for imparting when required a sudden movement to said tumbler,
a releasing lever, and a stop for operating the releasing lever, of a sliding main-
spring or other slide for turning the said releasing lever out of its normal position
into the path of the stop, substantially as herein set forth.
6. In the ejecting mechanism of drop-down small arms, cocking the ejecting
tumblers or strikers by means of a slide placed between those tumblers or strikers
and the action-body, substantially as herein described.
Dated the 12th day of October 1893.
HENRY WILLIAM HOLLAND.