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REPEATING RIFLE. (Application ?led Jan. 19, 1899.)

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lTo all whom it may concern:

'UNiTED ­Sl'i‘nfrns vParent OFFICE. ‘

ADOLF VON ZEKE, OF BUDA PESTII, AND KAROL RÉDL, OFGi'llK'ïhlÁ'), l AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. _

nEPi-:ATING RIFLE.

` SPECIFFLCATI’ON forming/part of Letters Patent No. ' 1899. Serialllo. 702.743. (No model.) Application ñlecl January 19.

Be it known that we, ADOLF VON ZEKE, a A resident of Buda Pesth, and KAROL RÉDL, a resident of Gödöllö, Austria-Hungary, sub _je'cts of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, have invented certain new and‘ useful 1m provenients in Mannlicher Repeating Rides,

' of which the following is a specification.

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_ The­ discharged cartridge is'drawn out of the .

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This invention relates to improvements in. ­the known Mannlicher'repeating riflesand is for the purpose of operating the loading au tomatically by means of. the recoil.­ Bythis invention the breech-closer is unlocked and returned by the recoil compressing thereby a helical spring arranged in a guideconstructed in one with the casingk of the mechanism.

riñein .the known manner and ejected, while by »the lowering of the butt a cartridge is brought, as formerly, into the loading-plate, which is brought into the loading-chamber after the return of the breech-closer, which by the effect of the resistance of the spring is thrown forward, so that the manipulation for `firing the cartridge in the magazine is limited

l to pulling the trigger.

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The lock ofa ride, as in this invention, is . in general similar tothe known Mannlicher rifle-locks. Only a few alterations are neces sary, as shown in the following description.

1n the description the construction and ac' ' _tiono’r` the Mannlicher repeating ride are‘taken to be known, and therefore only those parts _ bearing upon this invention are described.

Thewan‘nexed drawings‘illustrate the im ' provements of this invention, Iin which

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Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of the mechanism at'the moment» of tiring. The magazine is shown empty. Fig. 2 isan upper view of Fig. 1. _ Fig.` 3 is a side view,‘parts being represented'as broken away'.- Fig. 4'is a horizontal section of the front part of the breech-closer. Figs. 5,6, and 7 are respec tively sections on the lines a. b _c d e f of Figs. 2 and Fig. 8 isa section on the lineg h of Fig. 1. Fig.l 9 is a perspective View of the locking-bolt. ' y ` ' '.

­The barrel 1 is joined in the known man ner with the casingv 2 and this with the stock 3 and magazine 4. The casing-2 is lengthened _backward and serves, as usual, for. guiding

_ _the breech-closer,

'head 6,- and the handle 7.

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consisting of the lknown breech-closing piece 5, the

In the breech closer is the firing-pin S, the spring 9, and the firing-piu head. 10.A The handle and breech closing pieceare of one piece. The casin g 2 is vat the side (on the left) provided with a socket like guide 1l, constructed in one with the cas ing and closed at thefront by a fixed wall an d at the back bya plate 12`,n1ovable around a bolt arranged on the casing 2. vided on the side toward the casing with a lou gitudinal slot 13, which serves for guiding a side shoulder 14 ou the head 6 of the breech closer. This shoulder consists of a' circular plate, which is joined by means of a stem ût.

parts-that is, the

This guide is pro- .

ting into Ithe slot 13 with the head ofthe breech- y closer.> This shoulder 14 is brought from be hind into the guide 1l after opening the plate 12 en_vmoving the breech-closer-into the cas

spring 15, the other‘end of which is supported byithe plate 12, brought into closed position. When the breech-closer is returned byl the recoil, the spring 15 expands andV pushes the breech­closer back again into the closed po- \ sition,_ 1n order to retain the breech-closer at rest in the rear position during loading, a catch

« ' is arranged consisting of a spring 17, provided ’ on the guide 1l.> This spring has on its free end a nose 18, which engages into a slot of the guide i 11. 'It has, cheeks 19, between which anpeccentric 20‘is seated. vWhen Iiring, the eccentric 20_ has the posit-ion shown in Fig. 3, in which the nose 18 is lifted outof the course'ot' the shoul der 14; but when loading it is turned back ward, so that the nose goes into the line‘of the shoulder 14. The shoulder 14 lifts vthe' nose'of the spring 17 whilethe breech-closer is pushed back‘,'_but it immediately catches in front of the shoulder 14. and prevents 'the same from moving forward. The breech closer is retained in the closed position 'by the bolt 21. This bolt 21, Fig. 9, is pivoted in the casing 2 and forms atwo-armed lever, the forearm of which in the closed position of the breech-closer leans on an abutment`2î of thebreech-closer, (see Fig. 1,) and nth( `rear arm> engages by means of its nose 22

Then it serves as an abutmentfor a,

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- _ with the finger 24 of the trigger-'16. I The bölt ' 21 has a hollow wherein a sear 26 is pivoted on the cross-pins 25. The s_ear 26 is pressed ­against the boit 21 by the trigger-spring 27, so that when the bolt is pushed ,downward­ when pulling the trigger the sear is likewise pushed downward by the bolt 21 and 4is thus drawn-out of the slot 28 of th'e casing 2 and sets free the firing-pin head 10, as represented in Fig. 1. The breech-closer. is thereby en' tirely locked byA the bolt 21 and held until the

_ projectile has had time to quit the barrel. AAs -the bullet' leaves’the _barrel the recoil

overpowers the opposition ofthe bolt and turns I,the latter downward out of the line of the breech-closer,.and consequently the trigger

_ and the finger» thereof are returned to their

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normal position. The breech-closer is un,-V locked` and can move backward with the strik ing-pin 8. The sear26 is lifted into the line ofthe striking-pin head l0 by the spring 27,’ so that the sear can catch the 'striking-pin head in the known manner and can compress . the principal spring 9. "[‘hev bolt 21 does not hinder the forward locking of the breech closer. The pressure of the mainspring alone is not suiîicient to open the breechëcloser, whereas a> slight‘drawing on thehandle by hand is sufìieient to open the breech-closer, as the actual locking of l_the breech-closer is eüected at the moment of firing. The breech#

­ closer moves a cartridgeinto -the‘ loading

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chamber in the known manner when looking, '_forward, s0. that when firing thedescribed movements are repeated. The ' bolt is with regard, to the ordinary

Mannlicher rifle much simplified and con nected with the firing mechanism. ‘Also the catch-piece 29 of the íiring-pin- .has been al» tered, as on account of the guide 11 the same

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cannot bea-arranged on the left, but is here located on the top of the.handle-_piece/"ïl It is movable arg-und the pin 30 and engages ia» v the position of Figa-8 into a suitable notehof the firing-pin head 10. In unlocking the fir ing-pin the catch-piece" is turned _to the left, so that it comes with its hollow 31 opposite the striking-pin head 10 and does not hinder the movementof` the striking-pin. - , .'We claim as our invention in a Maunlieher

repeating ride- . ­

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1'. The combination with a stock and bar- ` rel immovable in said stock of the lock-eas ing a> guide 11 in one piece therewith and sit« uated at the side thereof a spring A1,5 in said 55 guide, a breech-closer _6 having a shoulder 14 '» bearing­ against one end of said spring, and '

the'otherend of said spring substantially as andfor the purpose set forth.

2. The ̀combination of a two~armed -bolt 21 onthe casing 2, pin 25 for' said bolt, and a Sear 26 lDivoted on pin 25 withth'e breech closer and firing-pin therein, and a spring '2 commontothe bolt 2l and sear 26, th'e bolt.

.an abutment formed as a movable plate for '

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21 being adapted to >hold the breech-closer ‘ afterfìring until the latter is set free by- the recoil. - _ ' . '_ '

3. The combination with the guide 11' and u..

breech-closer having a shoulder 14 of a spring 1'7 havinga nose 18 and an eccentric 20 adapt-._ ' ed to bear on said spring 'and cause the no_se ­ 118 to engage .the shoulder 14 during loadilglg.`

Inv witness whereof we have signed this speci’ fication ih the presence’of two witnesses.~~ '

ADOLF Y.; ZEKE. KAROL REDL.

i/_Vitnessesz ­ Y ' '

MORITZ MOENZERF, JOSEF S. CULLEN.