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BEGOIL LOADING RIFLE.

Arrmouion FILED MAY 6, 1907.
918360. Patented Apr. 20, 1909.
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PAUL MAUSER, OF oBEENDoEF-oN-THE-NEoKAR, GERMANY.
,nEoornLoAnme RIFLE.
No. 918,760. Speci?cation of LettersOIPatent. > Patented April 20, 1909.
Application ?led May- 6, 1907. Serial Nol 372,109.

T0 all whom it may concern: in detail are possible which would still be
Be it known that I, PAUL MAUsER, royal withinthe the scope of the'invention.
commercial councilor, a subject of the King 3, In
both
construction shown in Fi s. 1,2 and
locking levers or arms I? are one
of Wiirtemberg, Germany, and a resident of
Oberndorf-on-the-Neckar, in the Kingdom the armed levers or arms, and are pivoted on
of Wiirtemberg, German Empire, have in pins a in the rear Wall of thebreech- barrel
vented certain new and useful Improvements extension jh. The pins a are integral with
in Recoil-Loading Ri?es, of whichv the fol the arms and project far enough into the cor
lowing is a full, clear, and exact description. responding sockets in the sides of the barrel, 65

10 The present invention relates to recoil-j extension, to be prevented from falling out.
loading rifles with sliding barrels, and more The compulsory guidance of the levers or
arms in t e locking and unlocking'positions,
especially to the arrangement of the breech is e?ected by projections c1 on the fore ends
and to the locking mechanism for locking the
breech bolt. 7 - -
of the levers or arms, said projections engag
In a previous construction'of mine, for the ing in correspondingly curved recesses g1 in
locking means, a block similar to a rocking the upper w'allof the frame g. , -
cradle is provided, the upper part of which The action of' the above described locking
rests with its face against the rear surface of mechanism readily understood. InZ the
- the breech bolt, andits side arms being pro locking position (Figs. 1 and 2), the locking
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vided with noses or projections which coact levers or arms lie with their fore ends in
with corresponding grooves in the walls of clined inward in such a manner that the
the frame, in order to assure the, compulsory fore ends of the levers or arms (which are
rounded off to the radius having the centers
movement of the block in the unlocking vand
locking direction. ' _
of. the pins 0, astheir centers) act like single 80
I In accordance with the resent invention arm- ?aps and abut against both sides of the
two- separate movable locking and unlocking rear surface of thebreech-bolt 7c and thus
.levers or arms are provided instead of this support the breech-bolt in 'a' symmetrical
block, which levers are located on either side manner. Upon the barrel and barrel ex
of the breech framejand being mounted in tension oing back, the pins or gprojections
pee the barrel extension, are free to swing, c1 of the evers or arms in the grooves 91, also
whereby the compulsory. adjustment of the slide back, the grooves beingso shaped that,
- levers or arms in the locking and unlocking when the 5barrel extension has reached its
positions is effected by the co-action of pro extreme ackwardvv position, the locking
> jections ,on the arms with corresponding levers or arms will have swung out into the 90
unlocking position, so that the breech-bolt \~
'35 grooves inthe frame or in any other part rig-_ is released and is able to ass backward be
idly connected with the frame, The advan
tage of the present arrangement is that these tlgween the parallel locking evers, as shown in
horizontally or laterally swinging levers or ' . 3. .

armssupport the breech-bolt on either side the construction shown in Fig. 4, the
40 symmetrically to the lon itudinal axis of the locking levers or arms 6 are not pivoted, as in
the ?rst instance, at the rear end of the bar
breech and barrel, an further that by
' mounting the arms or levers laterally the rel extension h, but near the center so that
whole breech system with casing can be kept they act as double armed levers. The com
ipulsory swing of the levers or arms I)1 6?, for 100
. In the accompanying drawings two ar the purpose of locking and unlocking, is ef
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rangements of locking lovers are shown con fected by projections c2 on the rear ends'of
the levers or arms I), the corresponding
, structed in accordance with the present in
vention, Figure '1 bein'gr an elevation partly grooves 92 being provided for said projections -
in'section, Fig. 2 a lan also partly in sec at It the rear part of the wall of the frame 9. 105
is obvious that the princi le of the
so tion, and Fi .. 3 a an showing a diiferent< of action of the breech orloc ' g system ef mode
osition of t e locking levers or arms, while fected by the examples shown, might also be
ig. 4_ is a plan partly in section showing a attained by using other detail arrangements;
modi?cation. I wish it to be distinctl un- _
derstood, however, that-the exampless own for instance the compulsory movement of
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'55. by no means limit the number of ossible ar the-locking levers or arms might be effected
rangements, but that a number 0 variations by other means than projections and curved
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grooves, and the sha e, construction and of the barrel extension and extendin sub 30
mode of mounting the ockin levers or arms, stantially over the whole length of thelliarrel
. could vary considerabl .' t vis, however, extension, said levers being provided with
always essential that t e arrangement be projections near their fore ends and- the
such that the breech-bolt should be symmet rame having cam, slots or rooves, wherein
rically supported at its rear surface by the said projections engage, the evers thus being 35
shoulders of supporting mechanism (levers moved like single-arm ?a s and in their look
. or arms), and that the relative'supporting ing position abutting wit their fore ends on
' mechanism should be automatically moved both sides against the rear face of the bolt.
10 in and out, whereby the same should, when 3. In recoil loading ?re arms, the combina
moved out, allow a free passage for the tion with a frame, a movable barrel sliding 40
breech-bolt to pass backward. A on the frame and havin an extension, and a
What I claim as my invention, and desire breech bolt sliding in t 1e extension, of bolt
to secure by patent is: U. locking levers pivoted in'tlre rearward part
15 1. In recoil loading ?re arms, the combina of the barrel extension and rovided with
tion with a frame, a movable barrel sliding projections en aging in cam s ots or grooves 45
on the frame and havin \an extension, and a of the frame, t e barrel extension having the. '
breech bolt sliding in t e extension, of bolt holes for the pins of the locking levers in its
locking levers pivoted in the rearward part rear transverse wall, and lengthwise in its
20 of the barrel extension and extending) over side walls, cavities wherein the levers enter?
- substantially the whole length-of the \ arrel when swung. laterally into the unlocked po-i
extension and means for moving the said ' sition.
levers into the locking and unlocking posi In testimony whereof have hereunto set
' tions. 'my hand in presence of two subscribing wit- \
25 2. In recoil loading ?re arms, the combina nesses. . -

tion with a frame, a movable barrel sliding PAUL MAUSER.

on the frame and havin an extension, and .a Witnesses: V
breech bolt sliding in t e extension, of bolt HENRY HASPER,
1 locking levers pivoted in the rearward part WOLDEMAR HAUPr