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U UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
WILLIAM 0. HAYNES, OF MIELROSE, TEXAS.
IMPROVEMENT IN REVOLVING FIRE-ARMS.
Specification forming part of Letters Patenlt No. 8,0897, dated March 1, 1859.To all whtom it may coacer"a:
Be it known that I, WILLIAM[( C. HAYNES,
of Melrose, in the county of Nacogdoches, aid
Stale of Texas, have invented an Improve-
ment in RIevolving Fire-Arms, the construe-
tion and operation of which I have described
in the following specification and illustrated
in the accomnpan} iig drawings with sufficient
clearness to enable competent and skillful
workmen in the arts to which it pertains or is
most nearly allied to make and use my inven-
tion.
The object and purpose of my sald inven-
tion is to provide means for shooting several
charges of buckshot without reloading, while
at the same time these shot shall be guided
with all the precision of a single bullet fired
from a barrel of proper bore to fit it. To ac-
complish this desirable purpose it is neces-
sary that all the shot in each charge shall be
fired at once.
My said invention consists in the combina-
tion of a barrel which is bored w ith several
apertures to guide the shot, each separately,
with a chambered revolving breech which is
pierced with holes or apertu-es -in groups
which are bored in such positions in the cyl-
inder or breech tlhat each of these groups shall,
when the cylinder is rotated into the proper
position, meet or match the group in the bar-
rel, when each separate group in the cylin-
der, as corresponding with those iin the barrel,
is so connected to the others in the same -groul)
that all its barrels may be discharged by the
explosion of a single capl or other )priming, a.s
hereinafter more fully s forthh.
in the acompanying.'drawiig, Figure 1 is
a side elevation of ty impri-oved fire-arm, F ig.
2 is a sectional plan, showing the mode of
connecting the chambers so-as to discharge
several bullets at the same time. Fig. 3 is a
sectional elevation. - Fig. 4 is an end view.
A is the stock, and B is the hammer, which
is attached to any common gun-lock. D is the
barrel.,
This gun is intended more (spee;ally for
shooting buckshot, and is bored to fit the size
of shot required, and rifled;
The number of barrels or, mpre propel i1, of
holes in the barrel 1) miay be varied to corre-
spond with the wants of.the user. Seven is
the number here represented. These holes in
the barrel D connect with th e chambers in the
cylinder E, which chambers are arranged ingroups so as to meet the holes in the barrel.
In the cylinder all these chambers in each
group are connected by the chamber F imme-
diately back of these charge-chambers, with
which charge-chainbers they communicate by
means of the holes a. The back of the cham-
ber F is closed by the breech-pin G. The
hole b connectathis chamber F to the cone J,
upon-.which the cap is placed which is intended
to fire the charge. By this means all the balls
in the group of chambers which is then in
communication with the barrel are fired at
once, and each ball or shot is separately guided
in direct line by the chalnbers or tubes in .the
barrel rD. By this arrangement a more direct
and certain aim is secured, as the shot are
not crowded out of line by pressing upon each
other, though they are perhaps slightly spread
after they leave tie barrel by the compression
of air between them; but'this last effect (loes
not turn the whole charge aside from its course,
but, on the contrary, is beneficial, as it makes
the shot cover a little larger mark.
The cylinder is heli in position duriing the
dis'ohrgo by the spring-catch H. This catch
is operated to release said cylinder by press-
ing the finger upon the key h, and the cylin-
der is rotated by hand.
I do not claim a barrel which has several
holes fbr bullets or shot; nor do I claim a many-
chambered rotating cylinder as such, or as de-
livering bullet, to a single barrel. Neither do
I clai aniy device for discharging several bar-
rels at the same time.
1The particular improvement which cousti-
tutes my said invention, and which I eaim as
having been originally and first invented by
me. is-
Combining with a stationary barrel having
several tubes or chambers for shot a rotating
cylinder" having groups of chambers, each
group of chambers being so arranged as to
correspond with the chambers or tubes in the
barrel, and also so arranged in connection
with a single cone or its equivalent to each
group that the explosion of the cap or its
equivalen; shall fire the whole group to which
tile cone upon which it was exploded belongs,
the whole being constructed and operating
substantially as set forth.
.AWILLI M A C. HAYNES
o Witnesses:
B. IHARDE,AN, Jr.,
I, .C, SHORT, Jr.
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Haynes, William C. Improvement in Revolving Fire-Arms., patent, March 1, 1859; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth165069/m1/3/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.