Inventions Needed: Fixed Barrel Handgun with non contiguous cylinder 03 07 2018
In this type of gun the cylinder would not be a cylinder but rather more like a chain belt or linkage. Whereby the cylinder could hold more cartridges. But the main advantage being that 1. the barrel is fixed and therefore more accurate and 2. that there is no loss of muzzle velocity through blowback recoil.
Indeed the chain cylinder could be fed from a standard magazine. The cylinder could also perhaps just be three cartridges capacity and fed from the magazine. A Four cylinder would seem to be the most ideal as the top cylinder bullet is firing the bottom cartridge is being loaded.
It amazes me why no one has ever perfected this before?
Upon firing a round and cylinder rotation the spend cartridge could be ejected in a downward directional manner.
The 3rd main advantage being that it has a higher capacity than a revolver.
There is also another 4th main advantage to it.
The 5th main advantage would be that this design would also make on of the best known army rifles there is! For the above reasons.
So the search term to look for to see if it has been done before would be "cartridge fed revolver."
© 2018 Thomas Murphy
Looks like it has! The design looks a little clumsy though.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cartridge+fed+revolver&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-ab
No, that isn't really a magazine fed revolver because it doesn't use standard cartridges and the revolver isn't a cylinder. It is a cylinder with gapped sides. So indeed no one has perfected this.
One would think that it would be a very simple problem to invent one with very few moving parts. Would be a great project for an engineering contest.
I saw an old woman driving in car today. On the back of her car was a sticker or two that indicated she had three advanced engineering degrees. I thought to myself, "There isn't anything that I couldn't design more intelligently than you and engineer better." To me that statement just represents reality. And is indeed supported by my lifetime experience.
In this type of gun the cylinder would not be a cylinder but rather more like a chain belt or linkage. Whereby the cylinder could hold more cartridges. But the main advantage being that 1. the barrel is fixed and therefore more accurate and 2. that there is no loss of muzzle velocity through blowback recoil.
Indeed the chain cylinder could be fed from a standard magazine. The cylinder could also perhaps just be three cartridges capacity and fed from the magazine. A Four cylinder would seem to be the most ideal as the top cylinder bullet is firing the bottom cartridge is being loaded.
It amazes me why no one has ever perfected this before?
Upon firing a round and cylinder rotation the spend cartridge could be ejected in a downward directional manner.
The 3rd main advantage being that it has a higher capacity than a revolver.
There is also another 4th main advantage to it.
The 5th main advantage would be that this design would also make on of the best known army rifles there is! For the above reasons.
So the search term to look for to see if it has been done before would be "cartridge fed revolver."
© 2018 Thomas Murphy
Looks like it has! The design looks a little clumsy though.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cartridge+fed+revolver&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-ab
No, that isn't really a magazine fed revolver because it doesn't use standard cartridges and the revolver isn't a cylinder. It is a cylinder with gapped sides. So indeed no one has perfected this.
One would think that it would be a very simple problem to invent one with very few moving parts. Would be a great project for an engineering contest.
I saw an old woman driving in car today. On the back of her car was a sticker or two that indicated she had three advanced engineering degrees. I thought to myself, "There isn't anything that I couldn't design more intelligently than you and engineer better." To me that statement just represents reality. And is indeed supported by my lifetime experience.
