2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

(No Model.)
P. MAUSER.
MAGAZINE FIRE ARM.
Patented Ngv. 27, 1883.
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_ P. MAUSER.
MAGAZINE FIRE ARM.
No. 289,113. Patented NOV.A 27, 1883.

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PAUL MAUSER, OF OBERNDORF-ON-THE-NECKAR, VRTEBIBERG, GERMANY.

MAGAZINE FIRE-ARM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,113, dated November 27, 1883.
Application filed June 3, 1881. (No model.) Patented in Belgium April 15, 1881, No. 54,214; in Austria-Hungary Juno 4, 1881, No.
10,562 and No. 18,608; in France June 10, 1831, No. 141,97); in England June Q3, 1881. No. 1,313; in Italy June 30, 1881, Xo.
12,804; in Spain Jul)~ 13, 1881, No.1,578, and in GermanySeptember 17, 1881, No.15,l0.

_T0 all whom it 'may concern: ed in an upward inclined position. The ear
Be it known that I, PAUL MAUsnr., of Obern rier Z) is lifted and depressed by the movement SO
dOrfbn-the-Necliar, inthe Kingdom of Viir of the lockf, the front end of which serves as
ternberg, German Empire,have invented an lm a breech-block, and which contains and coin
provement in Repeating Fire~Arms, of which mands the ring-bolt. During thelifting mo
the following is a full and clear specification. tion of the carrier the next cartridge a of the
The invention relates to that class of guns magazine is stopped and retained by a tail
which are closed by a cylindrical breech-piece piece, h, of the carrier b. ' When the carrier b
whose locking and firing mechanism is known occupies its lowest position this cartridge is
IO under the name Mauser,77 and in which the impelled by the driving-spring of the 1naga~
eartridge~holdin g magazine is situated beneath zine up into the scooped-out bed of the carrier
and along the barrel. b. The following cartridge is stopped by the
The object of the invention is to furnish a projection d of a spring, e. Vhen the carrier
device by the application of which to guns of Z1 is lifted it presses back the spring c by means
the mentioned pattern these guns may be used of its swell m and liberates the cartridge, a1
at will either as repeating or as single-shot lowing it to move to the tail~piece 71, which
arms. stops it again until the next depression of the 65
In the accompanying drawings, in which carrier b.
similar letters indicate like parts, Figures 1 to On the rear of the carrier bis mounted a
8 represent a new gun constructed according block, z', sliding up and down in a dovetailed
to the present invention; Figs. 9 to 12, a modi groove of the carrier. Then the block t' is in
fication of certain parts, and Figs. 13 and 11 its highest position its top portion, 7.', is rocked
show the application of the invention to an old to and fro by shoulders or projections p and q
gun of the so-calle( pattern 71.77 Fig. 1 is of the extract-or o, which latter is fixed to the
a longitudinal vertical section, the breech lock f and moves with it. This rocking ino
closed, Fig. 2, partly the same section, partly tion causes the front end of the carrier I) to rise
a side view, the breech opened; Fig. 3, a hori when the lock f is moved backward and the 75
zontal section from below, in the line A B C breech opened, and to fall when the loekf is
I) E ofFig. 1. Figs. 4, 5, 6 are cross-sections moved forward and the breech closed. rIhe
in the lines F G H I K L of Fig. 3. Fig. 7 is extractor o is not integral with the loekf, al~
an elevation of the left side, partlyin section; though it is attached to and moves with it.
Fig. 8, a horizontal longitudinal section ofthe -Being made separate, it is capable of removal
extractor. Figs. 9, 10, 11, 12 show sections and replacement, and when worn or injured
and views of some ofthe improved parts con~ it may be removed. Vhen the sliding block
structed differently from the same parts in the z is depressed, so that its top, 7.", is out ofreaeh
previous figures. Fig. 13 is a horizontal lon~ of the shoulders p g, the carrier I) will not be
gitudinal section of a gun of the pattern 71, al~ moved*that is to say, the repeater is con
tered according to the present invention and verted into a single-shot gun. It is important
with open breech; Fig. 14, a vertical cross to stop the movement of the carrier b whenit
section in the line M N of Fig. 13. is raised, forming in this position a smooth
The main feature of the improved arm is a bottom in the chamber c best adapted to in
cartridge-carrier, b, oscillating on its rear end troduce into the barrel a cartridge when load 90
and brought in action, when wanted, by the ing by hand. To accomplish these objects the
movements of the breech-piece or lock f. This sliding block z' is depressed by a pin, c, on the
carrier b. when standing in a downward in end of the shorter arm of a bell-crank lever,
clined position, receives the cartridge c from s, swinging round the screw-pin t. The longer
the magazine arranged beneath and along the arm of the bell-crank lever protrudes on the
barrel, and delivers it to the barrel when lift side of t-he chamber c, and is shifted into the
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required position by hand by means of the The carrier Z) contains-in areces's at the rear.
thumb-piece a of the arm s. The pinvworks the sliding block i, the top 7c of which. works,
in a horizontal slot of the slide-block t'. The when raised, in the groove of the lock f, in
shifting of the levei1 s, and thereby the depress which works also the trigger-catch. The car
ing of t, is performed when the carrier b is in rier b turns round the screw-bolt g t, which
its highest position, when >the block is drawn forms at the same time the fulcrum ofthe bell
back for loading. rlhe sliding block i rests in crank lever c s. The pin of the short arm c
its lowest position with its lower back edge works thro?gh a slot in the side of the carrier
against an offset, x, provided on the> inside of b, ina groove of the block t', which is allowed 65
IO the chamber or case c, so as to iixthe carrier to rise and `fall. The extractor ois not altered
Z) in its elevated position, prohibiting1 its being at all in this construction, but is that of the
depressed until the sliding block t is again old gun. I do not bind myself to one form of
"raised, liberating at once the carrier b and the parts.
transforming the single-shot gun again into a I claim as my invention- _ 70
repeater. l; In a repeating nre-arm with cylinder-lock,
The spring e is furnished beside the swell m in the longitudinally-sliding extractor o, having
the front end with a second similar swell, n, on shoulders 1o q, in combination with the verti
the back end. rlhe latter exerts a uniform cally-sliding block i, havingatop piece, k, and
spring-pressure against the carrier b at its ful with the carrier b, substantially as shown and 75
crum g, while the swellm performsthesame duty described.
as soon as the front end of the carrier b has left 2. In a repeating fire-arm with cylinder-lock,
its lowest position. By this arrangement the the bell-crank lever s, in combination with the
movement of the carrier b is made smooth and vertically-sliding piece t' .76, moving up and
easy. To show that, and also how the con down in ways on the carrier adapted to move
struction of the details can be altered without it into and out of engagement with the shoul
leaving the ground of the invention, a modifi ders p q, carried on the sliding lock f, as sh own
cation of those parts which control the move and described.
ments of the carrier b is shown in Figs. 9 to 3. 'Ihe offset x formed on the chamber C, in
12. The slide-block is not guided by a dove combination with the sliding piece t' working
30 tailed groove ofthe carrier l), but by a square on the side of the carrier, and with said car
one, and it is moved up and down not by a pin, rier b adapted to lock the latter in its eleva-ted
but by the direct contact of the shorter arm t position bythe depression of the slide-piece
of the bell-crank lever. rIhis arm c works in i, ,as herein specified. .
a suitably-shaped recess of the block t', and 4. The spring e, furnished with the swells n1, 90
35 swings, together with the longer arm s, around and a and head d. in combination with the
the screw-bolt g t, by means of which and of carrier b of a repeating fire-arm and with the
the coupled hubs g of the two levers c and s, breech piece orlock f, as shown and described,
these latter are united to a solid piece. , The and adapted for joint operation, substantially
arm cworks on the left side of the gun, while as set forth. `
.40 the arm s protrudes on the right side, so that 5. The carrierb, governed bythe slide-block
it can be moved >to and fro by means of its t', acting in the rear end thereof to tilt it,
thumb-piece u. In this way the slide-block il is and havingthe top piece, 7.4, on which act the-
moved up and down, presenting its top k to the shoulders 1) q of the extractor o, or the equiva
shoulders l) and q of the extractor o, or bring lent devices ofthe lockf, in combination with IOO
45 ing it out of reach of them, exactly as it is de said lock f and with the spring e, with its
- scribed already above. rlhe carrier b swings swells m n andy head d, all working together
here not directly round the screw-threaded 'as described, and for the purpose explained.>
end, but round the hubs g t of the lever c s, This specification signed by me this 5th day-
. which turn on the screw-threaded end. rIhc of February, lSSl.
50 recess of the block 13 is large enough to clear
the hubs g in any position. By this construc PAUL MAUSER.
tion the carrier b is very strong, compact, and
handy for the user of the arm. I.Vitn esses:
The invention canhe applied also to old CARL T. BURRHARDT,
55 guns of the so-called pattern 7l.77 Such is BERTI-rom) Roi.
represented in Figs. 13 and 14.