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; . 333 BREECH-LOADING SMALL-ARMS HAVING A FIXED CHAMBER, (Obsolete.) 334 EDWIN SLEEPER, No. 1. Wooden model. Opened.—By pressing an eccentric lever on the right side of the butt-stock, and thus throwing out the spring-butt-plate, so as to release therear end of the chamber-lever, and to allow it to be thrown down by the
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; . 333 BREECH-LOADING SMALL-ARMS HAVING A FIXED CHAMBER, (Obsolete.) 334 EDWIN SLEEPER, No. 1. Wooden model. Opened.—By pressing an eccentric lever on the right side of the butt-stock, and thus throwing out the spring-butt-plate, so as to release therear end of the chamber-lever, and to allow it to be thrown down by thespring included between it and the stock. Closed.—By closing the chamber-lever until its rearmost end engageswith the butt-plate, the forward end catches the cartridge, as would bedone by a pair of tongs. Lock, &c: Rudimentary. F. W. WORRELL, No. 6. A wooden model consisting of a perforated block revolving in a mor-tised frame about an axis at right angles to its length. When closedthe hole in the block lies in the prolongation of the bore. The modelis without any indications of the means depended on for working
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