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Section through a Martini-Henry lock.
Scanned from "Discoveries & Inventions of the Nineteenth Century" R.Routledge, 13th Edition, 1900.
- A - bolt holding lock and breech to wooden stock
- B - block closing the breech
- C - pin pivoting the block B
- D - back of the case
- E - the lever
- F - pin working on the tumbler G
- G - tumbler working the block B and firing mechanism K
- H - a notch to hold the tumbler G in position
- I - the depression along the top of the block B
- J - the firing chamber
- K - the spring and metal point of the firing mechanism
- L - the rest-piece, holding the firing mechanism in tension until released by the trigger
- M - pin holdinging the cartridge extractor arms N
- N - the cartridge extractor arms
- O - arm working the arms N through the lever E
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