United States Patent Office.
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SAMUEL COLT, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.
IMPROVEMENT IN FIRE-ARMS AND IN THE APPARATUS USED THEREWITH.
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Samuel Colt, Improvement in Fire-Arms and in the Apparatus Used Therewith, Patent 1304
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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1,304, dated August 29, 1839.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, Samuel Colt, of Paterson,in the county of Passaic and State ofNew Jersey, did obtain Letters Patent of theUnited States for an Improvement in Fire-Arms,which Letters Patent bear date on the25th day of February, in the year 1836, andthat I have made certain improvements in theconstruction of the said fire-arms, and also inthe apparatus for loading and priming thesame; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full and exact description of my saidimprovements.
My first improvements appertain to rifles,guns, and pistols; my second to the constructionof a cap-primer for containing the percussion-capsand placing the same upon the nipples,and my third to a flask and other apparatusfor loading the rifle or gun.
For the general construction of my fire-arms,as originally patented I refer to the LettersPatent first above named, the same being necessaryto a perfect understanding of the improvementsthereon, which I am now about todescribe.
Figure 1 in the accompanying drawings representsa section through the lock and breechof my rifle or gun and two of the chambers ofthe revolving receiver, B being a part of thebarrel of the gun. The mouths of the chambersand the end of the barrel have their edgeschamfered or beveled, as shown at a a in thedrawings. In all guns of this description thereis necessarily a lateral discharge between thereceiver and the barrel, and thi
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