Untitled record

Application filed May 22, 1884. Serial No. 132,487. (No model )

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Andrew Burgess, a citizen of the United States, residing at Owego, in the county of Tioga and State of New York, 5 have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Magazine Fire-Arms, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide a io magazine-gun of easy and rapid operation and capable of holding more than the usual number of cartridges; and said invention consists in improvements on the locking aud starting devices, and improvements in coin15 bining feed-boxes with the magazine, together with other arrangements and combinations of parts, hereinafter more fully set forth and described.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional side ele20 vationshowing-positionof the feed-boxes when carried by the gun to supply the magazine, also the locking-brace with its starting-lever. Fig. 2 is an outside view of the same. Fig. 3 is a cross-section through the frame aud 25 magazine and feed-box. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the way W. Fig. 5 is a side view in section of way Wand magazine feed-boxes, showing their position on the way. Figs. 6 and 7 are cross sections of circular forms of maga30 zine. Fig. 8 is a bottom view of one of the feed-boxes.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Fig. 1 shows a circular magazine, M, pro35 vided with a follower, F, attached to an arm, F\ pivoted in the frame, and which is operated on by a spring, as F', which acts as a magazine-spring by pressing the cogged lever F² to turn the cogged wheel F³ (which is ar40 ranged on the pivot of the magazine-follower F) to feed the cartridges.. The cogged lever F² has a handle projecting outside of the frame to turn back the follower, and an index to show its position, and thereby the number of 45 cartridges in the magazine. The brace B' locks the bolt forward of the abutment B². The slide or sleeve S under the barrel reciprocates the operating-rod R, to unlock and move the brace B'by its connection with the 50 lever R', which, in its first backward movement, turns up the brace B' by the forward arm, r, of the lever R' first engaging the pin r' in the frame to start up said brace, and. then the upper arm, r², engages the other pin, F, to start back the brace and bolt, and the 55 roller F then turns so far forward as to run back under the horizontal projection F in the frame, said projection being engaged by said roller on its return to force the brace down to a locking position. The spring F', as shown, 6c having a bearing on the lever F² to operate the magazine-follower, is merely a typical form which may be employed. It is obvious that any equivalent arrangement of spring and follower will be within the spirit of my inven- 65 tion, and that the lever F² may have an equivalent substituted for it.

Figs. 3, 4, and 5 show another feed device. A grooved way, W, is attached to the side of the barrel, and extends back to have an open- 70 ing, M, into the mouth of the magazine, (which may be opposite to the delivery-opening when a circular magazine is used, or over delivery-opening, asin Fig. 4,) through which the magazine is loaded. The loading-boxes 75 B³ have flanges or projections on their lower sides to run in the grooves g g of the way W, and spring dogs s s are compressed by shoving the loading-boxes over them, but spring up to hold said boxes in position forward, as 80 shown in Fig. 2, and also a stop, s, to prevent the rear box from moving too far back by engaging the butt of the cartridge when in the feed-box; but when said box is empty it moves freely back to fall off from the way. A .85 pivoted lever, s³, is added in Figs. 2 and. 4, which may be turned to hold forward or stop the box.

As many feed boxes as required may be placed on the way, as in Figs. 2 and 5, or one 90 box with various compartments may be used, as in Fig. 1, and the cartridges of the rear box drop or are forced by a spring or by hand through the opening of the way into the magazine M, and then the box or series of 95 boxes are moved back, allowing the rear empty one to fall, or when the compartmentbox is used until all have been emptied.

The feed-boxes have a slide, b, Figs. 5 and 8, to hold in the cartridges; but when a box is ioj placed on the way, as shown in Fig. 6, the lower projection, V, of the slide is stopped by

357,461 the end of the way W, so that when the box is moved backward the slide &is held forward by the way, so the box opens- as it moves backward, but the cartridges are held up by the 5 way until they reach the opening into the magazine.

Fig. 6 shows a cross section of the magazine and loading-box in one piece, and a springdog, d, arranged to hold the upper cartridges re out of the range of follower-arm F‘. The operating-rod R is shown above the follower’s pivot.

The circular magazine, as shown in crosssections, Figs. 6 and 7, may be removably at15 tached, so that when empty full ones may be slipped on to replace them.

In Fig. 1 the semicircular magazine is made open in front, so it may be filled (when the follower has been retired) by thrusting the 20 cartridges, head first, backward into it, a box of the same form being used to hold the forward ends of the cartridges.

A vertical magazine alongside of the frame, as shown in Fig. 3, is fed by the boxes B^:i.