When we talk about revolvers, we always think of American macho men with cowboy hats and thick beards in westerns. Colt's first race was a commercial failure. The real popularity of revolvers depends on the design of Europeans. This article will talk to you about the revolver designed by the Germans in the1850s.
The characteristics of Dreiser's firing pin gun, which was produced by 1836. At that time, the mainstream rifles in Europe were muzzle loading+fire cap firing+sliding chamber, and Dreiser was breech loading+paper-wrapped bullets with primer+silk chamber, so Dreiser rifles were zentraedi technology at that time. Let's remember the key word here first-paper-wrapped bullets with integrated primer (other rifles were also paper-wrapped bullets at that time, but only a separate fire cap needed to be buckled on the fire hole to fire).
Dresser rifle's self-contained ammunition is very bad from a modern point of view, because its fire cap is located in the center of the bullet, and it is in the middle. At that time, the rear-loaded ammunition needed a stock to be positioned in the gun bore, so it was easier to hit the fire cap by throwing it behind the stock.
Dreiser's needle gun was successful, and I naturally think that the era of afterloading has arrived. As a gun owner, he must have seen the revolver that appeared in America across the Atlantic. And you think, the reason why the gun is loaded after being built is to improve the firing rate. Isn't the multi-chamber revolver the best way to improve the firing rate? Then do it.
The prototype of this gun was not the first one, but an Englishman named Caffard applied for a patent in London in 1852, but no British manufacturer bought a patent, so Caffard finally found Dreiser's company.
From the appearance, it is a special kind of revolver, because it uses needle hair instead of the hammer hair of the traditional revolver, and it is also a double-acting revolver (the earliest double-acting revolver in the world is the British Adams revolver of 185 1 year). When pulling the trigger, the machine and the housing are linked in three places, which are used to toggle the lever of the wheel, locate the limiting tenon of the wheel, and store and release the needle.
Double action is Dreiser's improvement. It turns out that it needs to pull the lever below to realize the rotation of the bullet wheel. On the prototype of Dreiser, you can also clearly see the ratchet teeth on the bullet wheel for rotation and limit. The capacity of the bullet wheel is 6 rounds, and it is loaded from the front. There are four rifling lines, with a caliber of .39 Prussian inches or about .43 inches, and the metric unit is about 10. 1 mm..
The back of the bullet wheel is not open like modern wheels. After all, this gun fires a paper-wrapped bullet, and the small hole is used to let the needle penetrate and then pierce the paper-wrapped bullet to ignite the primer. At this time, the needle is really "needle", needle. The firing pin on our modern weapons is actually called the firing pin. Therefore, Dreiser still fires paper-wrapped bullets with primer, but the pistol has a smaller charge, so the needle does not need to be so long.
About 1 1000 pistols were produced, most of which were used by rich uncles for self-defense, but some of them were also used as guns for police, border guards or gendarmerie. In the 1850 s, all-metal edge-fired bullets appeared, which could be fired with a hammer or a pin. However, Dreiser's fine needle is a consumable that needs to be replaced frequently, so it quickly withdrew from the historical stage after the1860s. ..