US Patent: 5,656X
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| Eight barrelled percussion gun
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Patentee:
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| Samuel L. Faries (exact or similar names) - Middletown, Butler County, OH |
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| 1/1 |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Oct. 10, 1829 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. This is one of the recovered patents.
For an Eight Barrelled Percussion Gun; Samuel L. Faries, Middletown, Butler county, Ohio, October 10.
"We have described several guns for which patents have been obtained, which were provided with a revolving breech, containing four or more chambers to be loaded at one time, and successively brought to coincide with the main barrel, and have spoken of the difficulties attending their employment. The present patentee is more bold than his predecessors, as he proposes to adapt a similar contrivance, not to rifles merely, but also to cannon. He has a revolving breech consisting of eight chambers, united together so as to form, radii, each being furnished with its touch hole. This radiating breech turns, with play, on a centre pin, so that each chamber may in succession be brought to coincide with the main barrel, against which it is to be pressed by a screw bearing against the end of its opposite chamber. A percussion lock is to fire the piece.
Should a piece of ordnance of this description be manufactured, we should stand aloof at the time of proving it; for although the cheeks between which the breech is to revolve, and also the end in which the screw works, are to be cast solid with the body of the gun, we fear that those behind would be in as much danger from the breech, as those before from the ball. A cannon divided transversely, and held together by a screw behind, even supposing no actual fracture to take place, would open the joint every time it was fired, from the power of the recoil, and the vibratory motion experienced by every part of it. The percussion lock for cannon is not that simple thing which answers for small arms; upon this we might offer many remarks, but must defer them for a time. The rifle which Mr. Faries has represented in his drawing, although less objectionable than the great guns, is not, we apprehend, altogether free from the difficulties which nave been encountered, but not overcome, by its predecessors."Description from the Journal of the Franklin Institute, V5 1830 pg. 25-26. |
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