John T. Kewish
John T. Kewish was born in 1868 in Smithtown, NY and was the principal creator of the primer actuated machine gun in 1918 which is covered by U.S. patent no. 1,472,126. John C. Garand was assigned 25% as co-inventor. Kewish was also a contributor to several later automatic firearm developments. He died March 1, 1945 in New York, NY. Patents. Patents include: References. Roach W. N. (1924). Recent Patents – Brief Descriptions of Inventions of Interest to Ordnance Engineers. Army Ordnance – The Journal of the Army Ordnance Association, IV(23), 347.