. Mechanical appliances, mechanical movements and novelties of construction; a complete work and a continuation, as a second volume, of the author's book entitled "Mechanical movements, powers and devices" ... including an explanatory chapter on the leading conceptions of perpetual motion existing during the past three centuries. The greatest assumed range of steel rifles of medium sizes is about12 miles, which requires an elevation of from 40° to 45°, but accuracyof fire is uncertain beyond a range of 4 miles. 897. UNITED STATES MAGAZINE RIFLE. Krag-Jorgensentype. The United States magazine r
. Mechanical appliances, mechanical movements and novelties of construction; a complete work and a continuation, as a second volume, of the author's book entitled "Mechanical movements, powers and devices" ... including an explanatory chapter on the leading conceptions of perpetual motion existing during the past three centuries. The greatest assumed range of steel rifles of medium sizes is about12 miles, which requires an elevation of from 40° to 45°, but accuracyof fire is uncertain beyond a range of 4 miles. 897. UNITED STATES MAGAZINE RIFLE. Krag-Jorgensentype. The United States magazine rifle is the simplest arm of its kind to take apart, as all of the bolt and magazine ^^^^ mechanisms can be dis- .;/^A;/;.-/:i;^--j^-4/ mounted and againassembled withoutthe use of a singletool. The magazine holdsfive cartridges, which can be held in reserve by turning the cut-off down;the gun can then be used as a single loader, just as if it had no magazineand, at any moment, the cartridges in the magazine can be fired withwonderful load this arm, the bolt handle is raised and pulled to the rear in. MISCELLANEOUS DEVICES. 351 one continuous motion, which operation withdraws the empty cartridgecase from the chamber and ejects it from the gun. The top cartridgein the magazine then rises in front of the bolt, if using magazine fire, ora cartridge is dropped in front of the bolt by hand, if using single loaderfire, and the bolt handle pushed forward and turned down. This mo-tion seats the cartridge in the chamber and cocks the piece, which is thenready to fire. 898. BREECH-BLOCK MECH-ANISM for firing large guns. A rackmoved by the lever meshing in a sec-tor gear on the breech block revolvesthe block one sixth of a revolution,when it is swung out of the breech andclear of the bore. The handle nearthe pivot strikes the extractor lever,which operates the shell extractor anddraws the case. Seabury system.
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