(No Model.

P. MAUSER.
CARTRIDGE STOP FOR MAGAZINE GUNS.

No. 455,514.

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Patented July '7, 1891.

" NITED STATES

ATILNT Orr-icei

PAUL MAUSER, OF OBERNDORF-ON-THE-NECKAR, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO

THE VAFFENFABRIK MAUSER, OF SAME PLACE.

_CARTRIDGE-STOF FOR MAGAZINE-GUNS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent Noo 455,514, dated July '7, 1891.
Application filed November 8, 1890. Serial No. 370.830. (No model.)

T0 @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL MAUSER, man uf
facturer, a subject yof the King of lVi'irtemberg and German Emperor, residing at Obern 5 dorf-on-the-Neckar, in the Kingdom of lVrtemberg, German Empire, have invented a
new and useful Improvement in Loading De-

Let A represent the breech-case or receiver

of a gun; B, the barrel; C, the stock,~ a, the
bolt, and m the magazine.
4The two side sheets of the magazine m are 5 5
constructed with their top edges fm2 bent in
wardly and made elastic by suitable cuts in
the sides, as shown in dotted lines in> Figs. l

vices for Breech-Loading Bolt-Guns, of which and 2, as has been heretofore usually done,

the following is a specification.

so that the uppermost cartridge p in the mag- 6o

lo

The cylinder-bolt of breech-loading repeating-guns as constructed at present. does not

pull back the cartridge in case the latter was
not fully brought home within the barrel and

azine is retained therein by the edges m2, but ,

presents itself automatically to the bolt c
when the latter is fully drawn back, and will

be" removed from the magazine and pushed

the bolt pulled back prior to fully closing the into the barrel when the bolt a is brought 65
I5 breech.

In such cases a new cartridge com- forward and before it has been brought into

ing from the magazine enters in front of the its fully closed position. -The uppermost
retracted bolt and is pushed either under or cartridge in the magazine m is normally
against the iirst cartridge sticking more or kept down in such a position that it cannot

Vless deeply in the barrel, thereby interfering rise high enough to present its butt to the 7o
2o with the'proper loading and discharging of bolt (l.

To accomplish this, I provide a de

the gun. To obviate these disadvantages tent consisting, preferably, of the top edgem
and obstacles to loading by very simple me- of the back portion of the lett~side sheet of
chanical lneans and without altering essen- the magazine m below the spring m2, which
tial parts of the gun and in such a way that edge m -is partly bent inwardly, so that this 75

25 the improvement may be applied without inventive action to guns of all patterns is the
object of the present invention.
In the accompanying drawings, represent-

projecting edge m' keeps back the back end

of the uppermost cartridge and prevents it
from rising into the path of the bolt a so long
as the edge m is not forced aside to-free the

ing a so-called Mauser gun-with a remov- cartridge. This position of the parts is rep- 8o
3o able cartridge-magazine attached beneath the resented in Fig. l. To release the cartridge,
breech, wherein the preferred form of my in- provision is made for forcing aside ' the edge

vention is illustrated, Figure 1 is a fragment- m. This is preferably accomplished by the

ary vertical axial section of the breech por- tumblera,(shown removedin Fig. 5,) mounted
tion of the gun in the position occupied when to swing around a stud or rivet n* in the rear 85
35 the bolt has pushed a cartridge into the bar- wall o of the magazine m, and having a

rel, but before the breech has been fully rounded upper end fas protruding into the
closed and before the bolt is turned down to path of the bolt a, to provide for which the
4the right to lock it.

Fig. 2 is a similar view,

but showing the parts in the fully-closed po4o sition, the bolt being turned down to the right
ready for firing. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of
the bolt out on the line l l of Fig. l, showing

latter has a groove s correspondingly, so that

it can be pushed freely lengthwise to and fro 9o

without touching the part n3. The tumbler
n has two side projections 'n' n2, fitting be~
tween the two side sheets of the magazine in

the magazine in rear elevation. Fig. l is a such a way that n rests against the detent
fragmentary side elevation of the upper back m of the left-hand side and n2 against the 95
45 portion ot' the magazine, and Fig. 5 is an en~ part m2 or m of the right-hand side. It will
larged rear view of the tumbler removed.
be seen that if the tumbler n is moved to the

Referring to the drawings, in which simi- left the left edge m of the magazine is forced
lar letters refer io similar parts throughout aside by the projection a. of the tumbler, so
the several" figures, I will now describe the that at this moment the cartridge p will be roo
5o preferred form of my invention as applied to released from the edge m and will rise into
a Mauser gun.l
its normal position against the bottom of the

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bolt. This position is represented in Fig. 2. invention may be variously modified and may
As soon as the tumbler nis allowed to return be applied lto various styles of guns without
to its normal position the edge m springs departing from its essential features, and that
back also and, will be ready to retain the I do not limit myself to the construction herein

5 next cartridge'in its depressed position af set forth, which is the preferred form of my in
ter the uppermost cartridge is removed by vention.
After having fully described and ascer
the advancing bolt ct and pushed into the
lO

barrelB. The bolt ct, having pushed the car tained the nature of my invention and in
tridge into the barrel, is now turned to the whatvmanner the same is to be performed,
right by means of its handle ct into its closed what I claim as new, and desire to secure by

position. During this turning motion the top Letters Patent, is, in bolt-guns, the following

end n3 of the tumbler n enters from the lon defined novel features and combinations, sub
gitudinal groove s into a short cross-groove stantially as hereinbefore set forth, namely: 75
l. In a breech-loading bolt-gun, the combi
s inl the bolt ct until it is struck by an in

15 terruption or tooth t .of this cross-groove s', nation, with the bolt and the cartridge-maga
which tooth t, as the bolt turns moves the top zine opening below the bolt, of a detentpro
end or of the tumbler to the left again, caus j ecting into the path. of the rising cartridges
ing the various proceedings before described and constructed to prevent the cartridge se
as the tumbler is tilted on its pivot, thusper within the magazine from rising into position
zo mitting the uppermost cart-ridge in the mag for engagement with the bolt, and means con
azine to be released from under the edge rrr structed to act on said detent and to engage
and to rise to the position shown in Fig. 2. with said bolt and to be operated by the move
Before the bolt a has finished turning the ment of the bolt to the closed position, and 85
tooth t has passed the top end n3 of the tum thereby to automatically disengage said de
z 5 bler, which now returns to its normal position
_2. In a breech-loading bolt-gun, the combi
. by reason of its end n3 entering an indenta
tion or hole s2 onthe bolt a when' the latter nation, with the bolt and the Acartridge-maga
tent.

reaches its closed position,which indentation zine, of a detent located adjacent to the
s is practically a continuation of the cross magazine and constructed to project into the
go groove s2. After the discharge of the gun pat-h of the rising cartridges and to prevent the

and in turningthe bolt a to the left for open top cartridge within the magazine from ris
ing the breech the tootht moves the tumbler ing into position forI engagement with the

fr to the right, which, having passed the tooth bolt, and means for automatically disengag 95
t, returns int-o its normal position. When the ing said detent, consisting of -a tumbler en
3 5 bolt a has finished its back-stroke, the upper-' gaging said bolt andY constructed to be oper
most cartridge will rise and present itself to ated by the turning movement otl this latter.
3.- In a breech-loading bolt-gun, the bolt a,
the returning action of the bolt a.. W'henever
the bolt a is pulled back before it has been having the grooves s s s2 and the tooth t, and

fully closed, the next cartridge is prevented the magazine m, having the projecting spring

4o from presenting itself to the action of the bolt m far enough below its top to hold the car
a,since until the tumbler is tilted by turning trid ge from engagement' with the bolt, in com
the b_olt to the closed position the detent in', bination with means for disengaging said

restraining the cartridge, is not displaced; spring m', and consisting of a tumbler enter

but if the bolt is once normally closed and ing said groove in the bolt and operated by
45 then drawn back the uppermost'cartridge of _the rotation of the latter. '
4. In a breech-loading holt-gun, the bolt a.,
the magazine will always appear in its nor
mal position, its detent having been displaced having the grooves s s s2 and the tooth t, and
by the closing operation.

The application of my invention to the bolt

the magazine m, having the proj ectingspring

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m far enough below its top to hold the car

50 guns at present in use does not require an es-v tridge from engagementwith the bolt, in com
sential alteration of them. The grooves s s bination with the tumbler n, having projec
s2 can be milled in the bolt a without other tions/n n2 and top n3 entering said grooves s

changes of the lock mechanism, and the s' s2 and striking said tooth t, all'as and for 1 r
mounting of the tumbler n, as well as the

5 5 small alteration of the side sheets of the maga

zine m, will in no wayinterfere with the pres

ent construction.
It will be understood that instead of using
a portion of the side sheet of the magazine m
6o for the spring-edge m a separate spring prop
erly shaped and fastened to the frame of the
magazine m may be employed; also, that my

the purpose set forth.

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In witness whereof I have hereunto signed '

my name in the presence of two subscribing \
witnesses.
PAUL MAUSER. _
Witnesses:

CARL T. BURoHARDr,

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