CLEMMONS MAGAZINE GUN.
This gun is an adaptation of a magazine to the Springfield rifle. The altera tions are as follows: The left side of the receiver is cut away nearly to the bot tom of the well. The portion removed is replaced by a piece the interior of which is somewhat the shape of the half-cartridge. This piece is open at the rear in or der to receive cartridges from the magazine. A groove is cut in the left side of the butt-stock for the magazine-tube and is covered by a brass plate. The maga zine-spring and cartridge-follower are of the usual form. To the rear of the follower one end of a piece of tape is attached; the other end is wound up, draw ing back the follower and compressing the magazine-spring,. On the inner sur face of the piece attached to the receiver is a spring-, pivoted at its front. This spring has a thumb-piece, which may, be locked back by a spring catch. The split spring serves as a magazine cartridge stop. The magazine-spring having been
compressed by, winding up the clockwork, the magazine is filled with cartridges by backing them down from the receiver. A pawl is then released from a ratchet, by means of a slide, and the magazine-spring bears on the column of cartridges. When the breech-block is closed it strikes the thumb-piece, presses it back and lets in a cartridge from the magazine. By pressing on this thumb-piece, the breech block having been opened sufficiently to overcome the spring-catch, the cartridge is thrown into the receiver; it must be then pushed into the chamber in the usual way.
As a magazine gun, six motions arc necessary to operate it, viz., cocked, opened, loaded (two motions), closed, fired. AS a single-loader, the usual five motions are necessary to operate it, The gun carries five cartridges in the magazine, one op posite the receiver and one in the chamber.