Debased barrel revolver
OwnerEmilio Ghisoniinventor
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Abstract
A debased barrel revolver is disclosed which comprises a stock having a rear mount, a cylinder carried rotatably on said stock close against the rear mount, a barrel mounted on the stock in alignment relationship with a bottom cartridge chamber of the cylinder, and a release and percussion mechanism, and wherein at least some of the components of the release and percussion mechanism are supported in a chamber formed in the rear mount and extending therein perpendicularly to and above the barrel. By virtue of the reduced extent in the longitudinal direction of the release and percussion mechanism, substantially all of the elastic potential energy stored up therein can be utilized on striking.
Claims16
A debased barrel revolver comprising a stock having rear mount, a cylinder carried rotatably on said stock at a location close against aid rear mount, a barrel mounted on said stock aligned to a bottom cartridge chamber of the cylinder, a release and percussion mechanism, and a chamber formed in the rear mount and extending therein in a perpendicular direction to and above said barrel, wherein said release and percussion mechanism comprises a trigger pivoted on said stock, a distributor lever pivoted on said stock and operatively linked to said trigger, a cylinder rotating arm movable vertically within said chamber and having a bottom end journalled of said distributor lever and a top end engaged with the cylinder, a rod-like safety catch lying parallel to said arm and being movable vertically within said chamber, first spring means carried on the rear mount and biasing said safety catch, a lever connecting said top end to said safety catch and a two-stage release mechanism setting device operatively linked to said top end.
A debased barrel revolver according to claim 9, characterized in that said shaft includes a first camming profile adapted to act on a pusher extending in said rear mount perpendicularly to the shaft, operative to release said cylinder from said stock.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.