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US Patent: 364
Magazine Fire-Arm
Patentee:
Silas Day (exact or similar names) - New York, NY

USPTO Classifications:
42/60

Tool Categories:
armaments : firearms : revolvers

Assignees:
None

Manufacturer:
Not known to have been produced

Witnesses:
Seth E. Clapp
Owen G. Warren

Patent Dates:
Granted: Aug. 31, 1837

Reissue Information:
Reissued as AI2 (Jan. 23, 1838)

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Description:
This patent was improved by patent #AI2.

Abstract:

The nature of my invention consists in attaching to the stock, at the breech of the gun, a single or many chambered cylinder, which receives from a magazine placed above it the charges ore at a time, as often as the gnu is cocked. The many-chambered cylinder contains only two charges at any one time. The single cylinder is loaded by simply turning the barrel half round twice.

Claim:

The method above described of turning the many-chambered cylinder within another by means of a ratchet and notches, either with a camn or handles.

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