Lovell v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate ·

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1. ““My invention consists of a novel, construction of the breech-piece of a single-barreled gun; my object being to make a single-barreled breech-loading gun, with a central hammer and top snap in the same line, which is simple, cheap, and very compact in its construction. * * * In the drawings, A is the breech-piece. This breech-piece is slotted from top to bottom, to receive a central hammer, B, and is also slotted across this central slot, to receive the locking-bolt, C, and its connecting arm, c». The locking-bolt, C, by which the barrel is locked in place, slides in this slot in the breech-piece, A, and is moved forward and back by the tumbler, c, which is actuated by the finger-lever, ci. The bolt, C, it will be seen, is in front of the central slot in the breech-piece, A, and the tumbler, c, at the rear, with the hammer, B, between them. To admit of this compact arrangement, I make the bolt, C, with a side-arm, c2, which extends back of the hammer, and connects the bolt, G, and tumbler, c. This arm is shown as a separate piece from the bolt, C, and is best made so for convenience in putting both in place. There is nothing novel in these operative parts per se, and I have merely transferred them from double-barreled guns, and arranged them, as described, so as to fit in and work within the slotted breech-piece that I have provided; the novelty of my device being in the structure of the breech-piece. A breech-piece for a single-barreled gun has never heretofore been so .con”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lovell v. Johnson