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 521
e underthe action of the spring AT, and so strikes the primer and discharges the cartridge. On the interior face of the left side of the breech, a cog-wheel JV, Fig. 3293, is mounted, with twohorizontal racks, 0 and P, running in slides. The rack 0, which is attached to the loading-piston0i, is…
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