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20/08/06 05:05 AM
Re: Screw grip and PHV1

Hammerless Jones underlever DRs are fairly common. Purdey built hammerless Jones underlever DRs as snap actions at least as late as WWI. Blixen used one in .500/.465 for a time.

In double gun nomenclature, a "screw grip" is a fastener that operates on the interrupted thread principle and is activated by a lever. Sorta like a bayonet mount camera lens, a partial turn of the lever fastens, and a partial turn in the opposite direction unfastens - hence the term "screw grip". It was commonly used as a primary bolting system, a fore-end attachment system, and a third fastener system. The Jones UL Screw Grip Action patent of 1859 uses a screw grip to engage the underlugs. The fore-end fastener you referred to is the Screw Grip Fore-end Fastener. This type was patented by a workman of Wilkinson's (I seem to remember his name as Harvey) in 1866 and was, thus, the property of Wilkinson Sword Co. The T. W. Webley & T. Brain Screw Grip Top Fastener Patent of 1882 is a third fastener on a dolls head extension, and was obviously a direct crib on the Wilkinson patent.

Most of the Webley built screw grip double rifles also use the screw grip fore-end fastener.
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