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English: A. T. Freeman musket, caliber .50 disassembled

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Title: Report of the Board of officers appointed in pursuance of the act of Congress approved June 6, 1872, for the purpose of selecting a breech-system for the muskets and carbines of the military service, together with their report upon the subject of trowel-bayonets;
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: United States. Board on Breech-loading Small-arms United States. Army. Ordnance Dept
Subjects: United States. Army Firearms Bayonets
Publisher: Washington, Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Library of the Marine Corps
Digitizing Sponsor: Library of the Marine Corps

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284 FREEMAN, No. 59. Five motions, viz: Cocked; opened; loaded; closed; fired. Opened.—By cocking the piece and pulling back the horn of thebreech-block. Closed.—By pushing the horn forward with the right hand, the bevelon the left face of the breech-block pushing the cartridge home. Locked.—By the position of the breech-block, it is also kept from turn-ing, by the front segment of the hammer engaging with a correspondinggroove in the back of the block. Fired.—By a center-lock of the usual pattern. Extraction.—By a bent lever pivoted below the chamber and struckby the ejector-cam, which, turning with the breech-block in opening thepiece, rides over the curved horn of the extractor and draws back itsupper end, carrying with it the cartridge-shell. Ejection.—-By a flat spring riding on a cam formed on the hub of theextractor, and thereby accelerating its action on the cartridge-shellwhen the latter has been started from its seat in the chamber in the actof opening the piece.
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28 PARTSTwo of Wood: 2 Tip Stock, 3 Butt Stock. PECULIAR AND ESSENTIAL I 11 Trigger. Eleven Screws: TO THE SYSTEM. Eight principal metallic parts JJJ not otherwise mentioned : tu i 34 6 Frame, 35 8 Breech Block, 49 Firing Pin, 27 Extractor Cam, 29 Hammer, 31 Extractor, 32 Guard, 30 11) Firing Pin Screw,Breech Block Stud Scr.,Hammer Screw,Extractor Hinge Screw,Ejector Spring Screw,Main Spring Screw,Trigger Spring Screw,Guard Plate Screw,Guard Plate Screw,Tang Screw, 23 12 Recoil Stud Screw. One Pin: ■Trigger Pin. Four Springs:Brch Block Friction Spg,Ejector Spring,Trigger Spring,Main Spring. Two other minor parts: Recoil Stud, Recoil Stud Dowel Pin. 26 PARTS NOT PECULIAR TO THE SYSTEM, OR COMMON TO ALL ARMS. 36 Barrel and Front Sight, Ramrod, Butt Plate, Butt Plate Screw, Butt Plate Screw, Tip, Tip Screw, Upper Band, Swivel & Pin, FREEMAN, No. 50. Upper Band Spring, 17 Middle Hand, 37 Middle Band Spring, 18 Lower Band, 38 Lower Band Spring1, 41 Rear Sight Base, 42 Rear Sight Leaf

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