Report of the Board of officers appointed in pursuance of the act of Congress approved June 6, 1872, for the purpose of selecting a breech-system for the muskets and carbines of the military service, together with their report upon the subject of trowel-bayonets; . side of the stock between thelower band and the guard, in which three cartridges are placed, theirheads being to the rear. They are held in place by means similar tothose described in JSTo. 90. JAS. B. STILLMAWS MAGAZINE, No. 95. The comb of the butt-stock is counterbored for four musket cartridges,cal. .45. They are kept in place b
Report of the Board of officers appointed in pursuance of the act of Congress approved June 6, 1872, for the purpose of selecting a breech-system for the muskets and carbines of the military service, together with their report upon the subject of trowel-bayonets; . side of the stock between thelower band and the guard, in which three cartridges are placed, theirheads being to the rear. They are held in place by means similar tothose described in JSTo. 90. JAS. B. STILLMAWS MAGAZINE, No. 95. The comb of the butt-stock is counterbored for four musket cartridges,cal. .45. They are kept in place by a lid swinging backward, which iskept open when raised, and shut when closed, by a flat spring bearingon corresponding flat surfaces on the hinge. When the lid is raised thecartridges are kept from accidentally falling out by copper bushings, asin No. 90. B. STILLMANS MAGAZINE, No. 96. Like JSTo. 95 except as to the motion of the lid, which swings sidewisein opening, and the forward end of which when closed, springs upward,from the elasticity imparted by its length, into a notch in the end of aplate let into the stock just in front of the cartridge-holes. To open it,the forward end is depressed until out of the notch, when the lid maybe swung
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