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Remington Conversion cal .46 RF Remington Conversion, Rollin White Patent In 1868, Remington began offering five-shot metallic cartridge conversions of the revolver in .46 rimfire . Remington paid a royalty fee to Smith & Wesson , owners of the Rollin White patent (#12,648, April 3, 1855) on bored-through revolver cylinders for metallic ...
Smith & Wesson .32 rimfire 'model 1½' pocket pistol manufactured 1865-1868 under Rollin White's patent Remington Conversion Remington Conversion, Rollin White Patent April 3. 1855 inscribed on cylinder Rollin White Revolver Rollin White Revolver barrel, Lowell Arms Co. inscription. Up until that time, revolvers were black-powder percussion arms.
At the end of the 20th century, the most widely adopted method of loading and unloading a revolver is the swing-out cylinder, invented by several people in early 1860s, not counting Daniel S. Moore's swinging barrel and cylinder assembly [12] in 1860, [13] amongst them were Charles W. Hopkins in 1862, [14] and Benjamin F. Joslyn in 1863, [15 ...
Mason began his career as an apprentice patternmaker, eventually working in the arms industry for Remington Arms.While at Remington, on November 21, 1865, he received U.S. patent 51,117, for a swing-out cylinder for easy loading and the star ejector mechanism to eject spent cartridge cases, a design used in 1896 by S&W for the .38 Hand Ejector (M&P and S&W Model 10).
Despite these improvements, the only real advantage of the Remington-Beals over well established Colt’s pocket revolvers was in its solid-frame design. So, in 1860 Remington ceased the production. [1] It was not until the outbreak of the American Civil War that Remington started revolver production on a large scale, with Remington Army Model ...
The family of Colt Pocket Percussion Revolvers evolved from the earlier commercial revolvers marketed by the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company of Paterson, N.J. The smaller versions of Colt's first revolvers are also called "Baby Patersons" by collectors and were produced first in .28 to .31 caliber, and later in .36 caliber, by means of rebating the frame and adding a "step" to the cylinder ...
Eventually the 1860s were replaced by the Remington Model 1858 due to Remington’s cheaper price and the ability to easily reload by swapping cylinders [citation needed] without having to remove the whole barrel, as was the case for the Colt. The last government contracted Colts were delivered in November 1863.
The cylinder of the revolver was designed with five individual chambers in the form of sliding tubes (length of the chambers 1.24 inch) within the cutouts of the cylinder. For removing spent cartridge cases and reloading, the chambers slide forward one at a time over an ejector-rod at the front of the cylinder, fixed on the right side parallel ...