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
to the barrel; then the barrels begin to revolve, and the cartridge is carried on until itarrives before the firing-pin L, which penetrates the solid part of the breech, and which has in themean time been retracted by the action of the cam K; then, as soon as the cartridge has arrived inthis… … ried on until it comes to the extractor. This in the mean time has arrived up to the barrels, andthe cartridge-head rolls into it. As soon as the head is laid hold of by the extractor, the barrelsagain cease to revolve, and during this period the cartridge-shell is withdrawn and dropped to…
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