Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . eserve. The Swiss magazine-rifle (shown on Plate XVIII.,opposite page 853) has the bolt feature of the Ward-Burton, and the cartridge-loader of the Henry, sowell known as the Winchester. The Spencer has a tube containing seven coppercartridges placed lengthwise in the stock, fromwhence they are forced, one at a time, into the bar-rel, by merely moving the lever-
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . eserve. The Swiss magazine-rifle (shown on Plate XVIII.,opposite page 853) has the bolt feature of the Ward-Burton, and the cartridge-loader of the Henry, sowell known as the Winchester. The Spencer has a tube containing seven coppercartridges placed lengthwise in the stock, fromwhence they are forced, one at a time, into the bar-rel, by merely moving the lever-guard forward andback, — the shell of the explodeil cartridge beingremoved by the same operation. Tlie gun is thencocked and fired in the usual manner. This gunwas more extensively intioduced into the army, dur-ing the late civil war, than any other of its class,. MAGAZINE-STOVE. 1369 MAGIC LANTERN. and is, therefore, verj generally known. It is shownMF, Plate XVI. The Culleu (Fig. 3022) has a revolv-ing cartriclge-eanier in the stock, which containsfour sets of cartridges, ten in each set or one column is exhausted anotlier comes in place,so that forty shots may be tired without reloading. Fig. Masazine-Rijfe. The operating mechanism is connected to the trigger-guard, which works as in the Spencer. The Jleigs magazine-gun, made at Lowell, Mass.,contains five columns of ten each, or fifty cartridges,which were tired before the Austrian Military Com-mittee in 16 seironds, and replaced by another maga-zine in a few seconds. The breech-block rises andfalls by a backward and tbrward sliding reciiuocationof the trigger-guard. When one line of cartridgesis expended, the magazine is rotated on its axis bya s|iriug bringing another line of cartridges in linewith the feeding arrangement. A numlier of magazine-gnns cany cartridges in thestock, linked together like sausages, which are cutapart as they are used. See classification list underFii;e-ai:m, ).|
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