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AUTOMATIC PISTOL AND OTHER MAGAZINE SMALL ARM,
APPLICATION FLED JULY 20, 1914,
1,148,470. Patented June 15, 1915,
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 UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.
WILLIAM JoHN w HTTTNg n' TAN nsworth, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.
AuTOMATIC PLSTOLAN.D OTHE is a AGAZINE SMAL-ARIM.
Specification of Letters estent. Patented June 15, 1915.
Application filed July 20, 1914. Serial No. 851,995.
To all whomera hay concern: zine when the latter is secured in the maga
Beit known that I, WILLIAM JoHNWHTT
ING, subject of the King of Great Britain, zine-chamber of the arm and the striker is
held in cock by the sear. Fig.2 is a view on
residing at 111Antrobus
Birmingham, road, Handsworth,
England, director of Public an enlarged scale, showing only the lock
Company, have invented certain new and mechanism, the striker of which is indicated 55
by dotted lines. In this view, the several . .
useful Improvements in Automatic Pistols parts are represented in the same positions
and other Magazine Small-Arms, of which as in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is another view similar
the following is a specification. . . . . to Fig. 2, but showing the parts of the
O This invention has reference to automatic safety lock in the inoperative positions 60
pistols and other small-arms of the detach
able magazine type, and consists in a maga which they automatically assume on the
zine-controlled lock or firing mechanism magazine being withdrawn. Fig. 4 shows
which is also adapted to serve as an auto separate detail views of the sear which is
5 matic safety arrangement, since the said embodied in the particular form of maga
mechanism is only operative for effecting zine-controlled
to 3. lock illustrated in Figs. 1 65
the discharge of a cartridge when the maga . The same letters of reference indicate cor
zine is in its normat? position in the arm and responding parts in the several figures of
serves to maintain certain members or parts: the drawings. . .
20 of the lockin effective relationship with one
another, whereas on the said magazine be frame In the pistol shown in the said figures, the 70
a carries a detachable barrel b and a
ing entirely or partially withdrawn, the said. detachable
lock is immediately and aautomaticallyK. so both and recoiling breech sleeve e,
disorganized that it is 'impossible for the of which are normally secured to the
25 arm to be fired by pulling the trigger. The said frame by a trigger-guard fastening das
described in the specifications of my appli 75'
invention thus affords a safeguard against cation
accidental discharges due to the trigger be while the for Letters Patent, Serial No. 851,998,
ing pulled after a live cartridge has been ing strikerbreech-sleeve
e which is
is fitted with a slid
removable bodily with
left in the barrel chamber when the maga
30 zine is removed and the hammer or striker the said sleeve as described in the specifica
of the lock is cocked. tion of my application for Letters Patent 80
Serial No. 851,997, and is associated with a
The said invention is particularly applit searf
cable to automatic pistols of the Webley and above contained in the part of the frame
which the breech-sleeve is mounted.
similar types, in which the trigger is ar
35 ranged in front of the magazine chamber in This searf, which is capable of a vertical
the handle or grip of the arm while the tween rising and falling movement, is mounted be 85
sear is mounted in the rear part of the frame side thea upper
pair of guide-grooves a formed in
and is actuated from the said trigger of the magazinepart of the frame at the back
chamberg and is influenced
through a bar or limb that extends across by a spring f", whereby, during the recoiling
40 the side of the said magazine chamber.
The accompanying drawings show one c,movement of the breech sleeve and striker 90
method of applying my invention to a ham drawn back bythehand
e (or when said sleeve and striker are
for manually cocking
merless pistol of the above-mentioned
Figure 1 of the said drawings is a gen
kind. the pistol) the nosef' is made to engage the
45 eral sectional view of a pistol embodying a bent shoulder e of the said striker for re
magazine-controlled lock or firing and safety taining the latter in its cocked position. The 95
vertical movement of the spring-lifted sear,
system in accordance with this invention. is, however, limited by a stop f which is
This view shows the parts of the said lock carried by or formed on the frame and en
in their normal or ready-to-fire positions in
gages a recess f in the front of the said
SO which they are held by the detachable maga sear; this stop being so disposed that when 100
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the breech sleeve and striker are withdrawn downward or striker-releasing movement 65
in disassembling the pistol, it serves to keep. thereto when the said lever is rocked or tilt
the searin its place in the frame and to ed in-the rearward direction in opposition
to the spring is; - --
hold it in the position shown in Figs. 2 and As regards the operating bar k, this ex
3 where the sear-nosef" is in the path of the tends the upper part of the lever 70
shoulder e', so that, after the replacement of across from
the said sleeve, its first cocking movement near thetheback
sideofofthe
thetrigger
magazine chamber
i which to
is fur
will cause the striker to travel rearwardly nished with a stud or contact piece it where
over the sear which first yields downwardly with the front end of the said bar engages,
O to allow the said shoulder e. to pass beyond as shown in Figs, 1 and 2, when the parts of 75.
the sear-nose a and then springs upward the lock are in their normal or ready-to-fire
into its cocking engagement with the said positions,
bent. . . while the said bar is also in
The trigger-operated mechanism for ef fluenced by the spring f and is thereby nor
mally held in its proper relationship to the
5 fecting the disengagement of the sear from leveri although it is also capable of a lim 80
the sleeve-contained striker is also mounted ited angular movement relative to the said
in the frame and is, in accordance with the lever. To provide for this action, the pivot
present invention, so entirely controlled by pin k of the bar k works in a bearing in
the detachable magazine h that it is only the upper part of the lever i and the spring
20 when the latter is in its normal position in f' which influences both members i, k, is lo 85.
the chamberg that operative connection be cated in an inclined hole or recess m cut in
tween the trigger i and the sear f is estab the memberi and is provided, at its opposite
lished, whéreas if the magazine is with
drawn when the striker is cocked, the said extremities, with plungers m, m, the upper :
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plunger m being adapted to bear in an an

25 mechanism is automatically disorganized or gular-sectioned seating m arranged below 90
so put out of action that no movement can and in front of the center of the bar-pivot
be transmitted to the sear on the trigger
being pulled. Or even if the striker is k', while the lower plunger m” has a sta
cocked by hand after the withdrawal of the tionary center
bearing at m, behind and below the .
of the lever pivot i, at the back of
30 magazine, the sear-actuating parts of the frame recessi wherein the leyer i is 95.
lock still remain disorganized and inopera the
.. tive, but, on the other hand, they are posi mounted. Thus the spring, in addition to
tively restored to the positions in which they tending to tip or rock the lever i forwardly
establish a firing connection between the into rock
the magazine-chamber, also tends to
the bark in the upward direction, but
35 trigger and the sear by the act of replacing latter movement is limited by the up 100
the magazine within the chamber, while as this per plunger m engaging the seating m. in .
the whole of the said sear-actuating parts the bar-pivot k" and serving as a stop which
are entirely inclosed inside the frame of the determines
pistol, it is impossible for them to be placed members i, the k,
normal relationship of the
but leaves the latter free to
40 in or restored to their firing positions-ex make a limited movement in the downward 05
cept through the medium of the magazin direction relative to the said lever for a pur
as aforesaid.
The sear-actuating parts of the lock shown pose In hereafter mentioned.
the lock-mechanism above described,
in the drawings consist of a lever i which is both of the spring-influenced members that 110
45 designed to act upon, and impart a down
ward movement to, the sear, and an operat transmit the trigger movement to the sear
ing bar k which is pivotally attached to the are positively and directly controlled byisthe
magazine , as when the said magazine zine in
is said lever i and serves to transmit movement its prescribed place within the maga
thereto from the trigger i. chamber (see the 1 andpart2) ofitstherearlever
Figs.upper side .
50 The lever i is arranged within an upright bears 115
recess or clearance it formed inside the and holds the said lever and the bark in thei
against
frame, immediately behind the magazine
chamber 9, and is pivoted at i in the lower positions shown in the said figures wherein
part of the said recess so as to be capable the forward extremity of the said bar is be
55. of a limited angular movement therein. hind and in direct engagement with the trig 120
This lever is influenced by a spring is which ger-contact it and the cam-extension i bears
tends to rock its upper portion forwardly, upon the top of the sear, so that on the E.
or to cause the same to extend into or lie geracts being pulled (when the pistol is cocked)
within the magazine-chamber (as shown in itcauses through the bark on the lever i and
the latter to make a rearward angu 25
60 Fig. 3) when the magazine is not in posi lar movement,
tion, while its upper end is formed with a . wipes over theintoptheofcourse of which its cam
the sear and depresses
cam-like rearward extension f which is the same out of engagement
adapted to bear upon the inclined upper If, however, the magazinewith is
the striker.
withdrawn,
Burface of the slidable sear and to impart a
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then, as soon as its rear side has moved clear
of the upper part of the lever i (see Fig. 3)
normal position by its spring, the bark may 65
be lifted by the spring and reengaged be
the latter is, (by the thrust exerted by the hind the trigger-contact, whereupon the lock
spring f. from a point rearward of its pivot)is again effective for firing the next shot.
constrained to tip or fall forward into the In the particular construction shown in
empty magazine chamber until its lower end. the drawings, the magazine-controlled mem
icomes against the stop it in the lower part bers of the lock, together with their spring
70
of the frame-recess f. This movement of j, are mounted on a piece in which, for con
the limb carries the cam i away from the venience in manufacture, is made separate
10: sear and also displaces the bar k whose for from the frame and is rigidly or perma
ward end Er a distance below the nently secured within an opening in in the 75
contact stud on the trigger, as shown in rear of the said frame when the parts are
Fig. 8. The lock or firing mechanism of . assembled. The said members may, how
the: R is thus automatically and com
45 pletely disorganized and is kept in such con ever,
which
be mounted in a recess or clearance
is machined at the back of the maga
dition by the spring so long as the upper zine chamber inside the frame itself; or they 80
E. the magazine chamber is vacant.
ut on a magazine being pushed back into venient manner.or applied in any other con
may be fitted
the said chamber, it contacts with, and tray The application of the magazine-con
O. els up the front of, the lever i and thereby trolled lock principle to automatic pistols of
positively restores the members j, k, into the the hammer type, and also to pistols and
positions shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and keeps
the lock operative or effective for firing small-arms
magazine is
generally where a detachable
employed, differs in no essential
purposes so long as it (the magazine)
25 rnains in its normal place in the pistol.
re respect from its application to a hammerless .
automatic pistol as herein
The arrangement which admits of the bar Having described my invention, what described. .
k, making a limited downward movement claim and desire to secure by Letters PatentI
relative to the lever i when the magazine S- v.
controlled lock is in its operative condition, 1. In a magazine small arm, in combina
80 is adopted in order to admit of a slight play tion, a frame, a magazine removably fitted
between the two members j, k, when the bar therein, a searin the rear of said magazine, 95
k is actuated from the trigger, and also the a sear-actuating member also located in the
urpose of enabling the said bar to be tilted rear of said magazine, a spring pressing
elow
is means of the contact-stud of the trigger by said member against the rear face of the
the breech sleeve for rendering the magazine and adapted to move said member
lock mechanism inoperative during the re partly into the space normally occupied by OO
coiling movement of the said sleeve and for
insuring that, after the trigger has been the and
magazine when the latter is withdrawn,
an operative connection between said
pulled for effecting a discharge, the same member and the trigger arranged to assume
40 cannot be reengaged by the bar k until the an inoperative position when said member
breech-sleeve has been restored to its closed is moved by its spring consequent to the 105
Rosition and fingerpressure on the trigger withdrawal of the magazine.
as been relieved. To attain this result, the 2. In an automatic pistol, in combination,
bark is formed with a curved upper, edge a frame having a magazine chamber and a
45 which (when the arm is ready for firing)
lies in a cam-ended recess in one side of E. recess in the rear of said chamber, a sear ar
ranged in the rear of said chamber, a trigger O
breech-sleeve as shown in Figs. 4 and 8 of arranged in front of said chamber, a sear
my co-pending application Serial No. operating lever pivotally mounted in said
851,996, so that when the said sleeve starts recess, a bar pivoted to said lever and form
50 to recoil along the fraine, the cam end of the ing an operative connection between the
said recess travels over the curved edge of same and said trigger, and spring means 115.
the bar and rocks the latter, in opposition to acting upon said lever and bar and holding
the spring i", in the downward direction in
order to temporarily but positively disen said lever against the magazine, the latter
normally holding said lever in operative po
55 gage the front end of the said bar from the sition, the spring means acting when the
trigger contact. The straight or unrecessed magazine is withdrawn to move the lever to 120
edge of the sleeve then comes over and rides. a position wherein Faid bar is inoperative as
along the bar and keeps the latter in its de a connection between the same and said
pressed position until the said sleeve has trigger. -
completed its recoiling, and return, move 3. In a magazine Small arm, in combina
ments, whereupon the sleeve-recess comes tion, a frame, a magazine removably fitted 125
again over the bar, so that when the finger therein, a slidably mounted sear, a spring
pressure on the trigger is relieved and after acting on said Sear, a stop to limit the move
the said trigger has been returned to its ment of said sear in either direction, a
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spring-influeficed member arranged to op mally holding said member in operative 10
erate the sear, the latter being movable in position.
dependently of said member, a trigger, and myInhand
testimony whereof I have hereunto set
in presence of two subscribing wit
an operative connection between said men
5. ber and the trigger, the said member being IeSSeS. : .. . . . . . . . .. .
held by its spring against the magazine and WILLIAM JOHN WHITING,
being movable when the magazine is with Witnesses: ... . . . .
drawn to a position wherein the said con ARTHUR SADLER,
nection is inoperative, the magazine nor E. J. REESE.