Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 520
t ofthe locks, while the other ends project from the rear, where they are fashioned into knobs, by whichthe firing-pins are drawn backward while passing through the groove in the rib D. The diagramshows that the distance of the apex B of the cam from the ends of the barrels is such that the… … is fired. The position of the cam relatively to the cartridge-hopper is such that each lock is drawnbackward to its full extent when it passes the hopper, so that the cartridges may fall into the carrierin front of the locks. The explosion of each cartridge takes place as its proper lock passes…
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