Aug. 14, 1923. 1,464,864 J. M, BROWNING oREARW Filed Sopt. 27. 1981 2 Sheots-Sheet 1 Lg. a v ge SS ———— ‘ATTORNEY,Aug. 14, 1923. 1,464,864 J. M, BROWNING FA. Sy Z a Ormonde By Aarne > ‘ATTORNEY10 1s ss Patented Aug. 14; 1923. UNITED STATES 1,464,864 PATENT OFFICE. JOHN M. BROWNING, OF OGDEN, UTAH. FIREARM. Application fled September 27, 1921. To all. whom. t& may concern: ‘Be it known that I, Jomx M. Browstxa, 1 citizen of the United States, residing at Ogden, in the county of Weber and State of tah, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Firearms, of which the following is a specification. ‘This invention relates to firearms and particularly to magazine firearms in which e cartridges are contained in magazines, ‘either fixed or detachable. ‘Among the objects are to improve the manner of feeding the cartridges from the magazine to the chamber, so as to obviate feed jams; to facilitate the filling of maga~ zines, and (0 facilitate the loading of re~ movable magazines into the gan. Usually the cartridges in the maguzine, (especially in autoloading firearms) actu: ated by a spring or by the force of gravity, press against some part of the recoiling Bechanism, causing friction during the re- coiling movement." An object of the present invention is to do away with such friction, ‘Usually in all box magazine firearms, the top cartridge in the magazine bears against the breech block, or breech bolt, so that when the latter is moved rearwardly in the open- ing of the breech of tho firearm, the car- tridge in the magazine cannot jump into po- sition to be caught by the return movement of said breech bolt, and forved: into the chamber, until the front of the breech bolt has passed the rear of the cartridge in. the magazine, This jumping of the eartrid then cannot take place until the breech bolt has nearly reached the limit of its rearward travel, and if it is returned to its forward position quickly, the cartridge in-the mag Zino may not have time to jump up into po- sition to be eaught and loaded into the cha ber. To insure this jumping of the cai tridge, the magazine spring is sometimes strengthened, but to do so, increases the dif- ficulty in loading. Tn the improved firearm the aforemen- tioned objections have been wholly overcome in a novel and peculiar way. Tn the drawings accompanying and form- ing part-of the present specification, I have shown in detail one of the several forms of embodiment, of the invention, which to en- table those skilled in the art fo practice the fnvention will be set forth fully in the fol- Towing description, Clearly Tam not re- stricted to such disclosure; I may depart Serial Mo, $03,002. therefrom in a number of respects within the scope of the invention defined by the claims following said description. Referring to said drawings: Fig. 1 iva fongitadinal section of the re- ceiver of 2 rear Involving the invention, fn illtstratine the breech bolt in prac: tally its backward position. Figs, 2 and'3 are virtually similar views, but with less of the arm showing, and illus trate tho breach bolt in amid position and Forward position, respective Tig 4 a vow somewhe: [ike Fig. 3, showing the breech bolt as retracing. and the manner of extracting a shell ‘Figs, 9 and 6 are horizontal sections], top plan views of the intermediate portion of Zhe reseiver and show particulary the ac- tion of the ejector and Dreeeh-bolt guide. ‘Fig. Tis a cransverse section through the reir and lokingvearvary ig. B ipa rear elevation of the upper por- tion ‘ofthe magazine with the eotner ve- med, Tig. 9 is a paropecive view of the breech bolt from the frost and left sige. panera o ue ofa i arm dying tho invention is represented by # numeral 2. Adapted to reciprocate beak nd forth in the receiver 2 ig the inertia block 3; carrying the hammer 4 whichis a tuated by spring so as to strike the fin pin 3 in's well known manner, The b ott is linked to the inertia block 3 im the Tanner deserbed in my. prior application, Borial No. 400007, filed April 18, 1921, and has a iby as 1; the purpose of which wil bo hereinafter inore fully described. The ined ‘Dreech-bolt.gulde.and. ejector. 9 to. Hot ut Ita these wal of he Fecever 2 and has a pivot pin 16 extend Trough ie The hug on is rear end. forced. yieldingly inwardly by the spring 87s ah to project into the path of the breech bolt 62 Breech bolt supports 10 are etod or otherwise fastened on each side of the eee i She trigger goard 12 is removably mount- ed_in an Spening in the bottem of the Te. ceiver % and just forward of said ti fruard 12 is situated the magazine 14, which (eof the box type, having a spring LY wnd ¢ {ellower 15 to force the cartridges toward tho entrance of the magezine. The ear- fridges are prevented from esenping by the inturned lipe at the top of the magazine, Eo 100 108 no