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Show FwmvrmM DETACHABLE SIDE-LOCK GUN. English Firm Hab Nowly Invented Wcgpon with Novel Thumb Lever Contrivance. MesBrs. Joseph 'Lang and son, gun-makers gun-makers of Bond stvoot, V., have, Ront us for Inspection a boat twelve'-bore twelve'-bore side-lock gun, tho lending fonturo A Lock Detached. ol which 1b the Invention of a moans for dotchlng the lories by tho raising of n small thumb lover sunk Into tho pinto us iluatrated horowlth. It Is Interesting In-teresting to nolo that tho thumb-lover Is connected with a spring-operated natch Inside tho lock which nctB vory much In tho same manner ns an ordinary or-dinary latch. Tho insertion of tho thumb-nail unlocks tho plato and allows al-lows It to he romovod by tho lifting of tho oxtornnl levor, and tho reverse operation of restoring It Is effected by pressing It homo into Its placo. In the Lang usual gun tho oocklnglovor does not carry tho ordinary lifting spring. If tho mcchnnism wore loft In Its usual state a dotachnblo lock ouch us thlB in might lcavo tho owner doubtful aB to the proper position of tho cocklng-Iovor when shutting up the lock homo into place, and If not forewarned ho might put tho lock homo again with tho cocklng-lovor In tho wrong position. Messrs. Lang have, accordingly, mndo It lmposBlblo to put tho locks homo again In any other position but tho right one. Tho cooklng-levor Ir mndo with n spring which keeps It pressed downwards down-wards as shown In the Illustration, In Thumb-Press Closed and Open. the ordlnnry way tho locks could thon only bo proporly replaced In position with tho tumblers down; but to pro-vent pro-vent tho shootor being obliged to ro-member ro-member tho dotnlls of tho arrangement arrange-ment a spring-operated catch has boon fitted to tho tumbler, tho effect of which 1b tho enabling of tho cocking nrm to take up Us right position po-sition In rolntlon to tho tumbler, no matter whether tho lock Ib cocked or not. Tho shooter, theroforo, of a Lang gun with dotnchnblo Hide-locks hns only ono thing not to forgot. Tho safety catch, when returning tho locks nrtor oiling, must bo Bet at "Bufe," which can very easily bo carried out without any nood for a complicated or expert operation, thua simplifying to tho shootor very greatly the putting togothor again of tho notion in tho gun. |