Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 944
s. L is this carrier; it has a coiled spring O abutting against its forward end,the dots, Fig. 2217, and abutting with its back end against a collar of the breech-pin, seen inside of thecatch P of the carrier, which is attached by a screw to the head M of the needle. To load, the handleG is turned… … barrel. The breech-pin is then moved forward, and the shoulder turned into the inclined recess. Bydrawing the trigger S the carrier is disengaged, and the spring darts the needle K into the end of thecartridge to effect the discharge. U, Fig. 2216, is a ring of the tube, into which the breech-pin…
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