Considering Browning designed this only about ten years after the whole concept of smokeless propellants, and self contained metallic cartridges had become viable, it's remarkable it ever worked. So easy to sneer at the mechanism now but it was a revolutionary design.
The Maxim was available before smokeless powder (1883 or 1884, I believe). I think the potato digger a cool gun, but honestly it’s not quite as revolutionary as it might first seem. Still a fascinating bit of history though.
@@TitusCastiglione1503 Not sure if revolutionary is the word, but certainly it gets high grades for effort, creativity and ingenuity. Keep in mind gas pistons were covered by patents back then (Maxim had the rights to gas pistons and actually tried to sue Browning for the potato digger because it was gas operated), and this is a really creative workaround to get a gas operated gun that worked, and worked reliably enough to be used as an issue weapon without infringing any of those patents (if of course with obvious drawbacks). Also let's not forget that Browning up to this point of his career had not really done that much in the field of self-loading firearms, and certainly nothing in the field of gas operation actions. And in a handful of years he pulled off the potato digger, a whole family of semiauto handguns (that set the standard for handguns until today), a long recoil rifle, a long recoil shotgun, a short recoil heavy machinegun, and the BAR. so not sure if "revolutionary" is the word or not for this firearm, but certainly comes close.
@@ramjb The word I think is "creative" and "ingenious". Rather than revolutionary. Heck even John Browning admit that the potato digger wasn't very good. (An incorrect assumption, but that's a story for another time). And so he focused on creating a recoil blowback machinegun rather than a gas operated machinegun. The BAR was a replacement for Chauchat, an automatic rifle of sort that the Army Ordnance department (cursed organisation that halt the adoption of an Assault rifle BAR) pushed into service as an lmg, which it underperformed compare to it's contemporaries.
@@ramjb I think the M-1895 Br was "Evolutionary" as it was a conceived as a Light Automatic Weapon (6mm Navy) working around the restrictions you stated. Browning employed an Impingement Mechanism, and Tilting Block in to his design to create a sort of auto-loading lever action, air cooled rifle that fired 400 RPM
Hello Rob. I was directed here by Ian at Forgotten Weapons. I have just watched most of your animations and I have to say that they are simply wonderful. Please keep on making them when you have the time - and I do appreciate that they must take an awful amount of time (not to mention talent!) to make. Sincere thanks for doing this ......and keep 'em coming. Ian.
C&Rsenal: About 2 months, part time (it is a hobby). The problem was that I could only get elevation drawings, not plan views, and it was difficult to work out exactly what each part looked like, and how wide it was. Eventually, I got the Royal Arsenal at Leeds, UK to dismantle one for me. Once the basic model was crated, animation was fairly swift - a couple of weeks. Rob
This is absolutely fabulous, and darn accurate also. Amazing work. Tears me up because I have a digger book to get finished and love seeing others interested in the digger and having the talent to put this together as well as the desire and application of what must have been an incredible amount of work. Thank you.
John Browning was a friggen "GENIOUS", and whoever is posting these animated videos, "Thank you" I LOVE them all, great learning experience. Kind regards! Eric Dee.
Jas ward : when Maxim invented the automatic MG in 1884, he took out a patent covering all the possible ways he could think of covering both gas and recoil forces. Browning's potato digger mechanism neatly skirts around Maxim's patents. Rob
Browning at the time remember, had just finished work on the Winchester Model 1894 lever-action rifle and had previously designed the Model 1886 Winchester as well, so it makes logical sense that he would then want to conjure up a way to use the powder gases in some way to automate the cycling of the lever action to construct a machine gun for the U.S. Army and Navy. Browning though must have found Winchester unwilling to build it, or Winchester simply didn't have the factory space and was unwilling to dedicate a fresh production line for it, so he took it to Colt and began working with Colt for the next couple decades.
The very next machine guns John Browning made were the BAR (technically a rifle) but mostly the M1917 He went from this to a design we still use today in literally a single step amazing.
@@Briselance Well depends on how you look at it. It was quite lighter than most Maxim incarnations (roughly half the dry weight of the contemporary Maxims in 1895, and that's without taking in account the weight of the water in the Maxim). And yes, it was also cheaper to produce, both in material costs (obviously in a weapon that weighs roughly half as much) and in manufacturing costs (far simpler gun, fewer moving parts). Reliability wise sources are mixed. Reports from the spanish-american war go from saying it had reliability issues (in Cuba) to saying it was very accurate and reliable (in the Philippines). Canadians loved it in South Africa during the Boers War. So I guess it depends on how it was handled. But by all accounts it was very practical, effective and useful for it's era. Not without drawbacks. Being air-cooled of course meant it could keep nowhere near the kind of sustained firepower a Maxim could. And the (in)famous lever that prevented its use close to the ground was obviously undesirable. And of course the action was a development dead end, it couldn't be refined long term like the Maxim was. But for a weapon that came in 1895 this was indeed a remarkable achievement, and yes, it was practical, cheap and effective enough to compete with the Maxim, at least by the time it was put in production.
I know the whole lever-action situation was to dodge Maxim's patent and all, but when you think about it, this system keeps the gas as external as possible (even more so than Garand and AK long-stroke piston operations), so maybe that minimizes fouling.
Very interesting gas-operated lever action. The only other example I could think of is one particular BSW prototype pistol which uses a rather unique gas-accelerated lever delayed blowback system.
Have you ever seen pictures of the 1893 Salvator Dormus, or "Skoda" machine gun? It has to be the most bizarre and obscure machine gun ever. Ian from Forgotten Weapons couldn't even find the trigger.
Another more plausible theory pertaining to its Nickname, is that rather than it coming from the lever digging into the mud during The Great War, the name comes from the fact that it was heavily used and widely liked by the IRA in during the Irish War of Independence and the Fighters who used it were reminded of how they themselves swung a hoe when digging for potatoes. Gotta love the Irish Tiocfaidh Ar La!
The later Marlin model 1917 had a more traditional gas piston design underneath the barrel, right? Did it have other major mechanical differences from the Colt model?
Hey man, love these animations. If you ever get the chance, I think people would love to see the mechanism of an mg-42 or one of its counterparts. Also, you should set up a patreon.
@vbbsmyt so this maybe the only gas operated gun that can handle black powder reliably ? There are sources that the prototype version demonstrated for Colt used a .45 -70 govt BP and fired 3 minutes flawlessly.
Could you do a comparison between the ShKAS and MG 213 mechanisms? It is often cited that the MG 213 paved the way for the high rate of fire cold war autocannons (like the ADEN, DEFA, etc) but the earlier ShKAS also had a revolver mechanism and wondered if both designs were similar... (with this giving a bit of credit to the ShKAS).
Tell me, what does not allow the hook, which pulls the cartridge out of the tape, to go even lower? Visually, there is still room there and the hook can go lower and then it will not be able to grab the cartridge. And what forces this hook to go down? For some time, when moving forward, the hook goes straight, and only then lowers. Why is this happening? The hook can be seen at th-cam.com/video/7j8UQNPlhsY/w-d-xo.html
Have you ever heard of the Lee 1875 carbine? it is a breach loader that was supposed to be a very fast shooter. It would be really cool if you could make an animation of it
Any chance to see a vid of a Marlin version with a gas piston? Also, forgotten weapons did a video of the M1907 st etienne if that would help you in making a video
I know it is a long shot, but I am trying to reproduce one of these to use as a display. I was curious if you would mind sharing the dimensioning and some of the data? It would save me a considerable amount of time hunting down an original to disassemble and get the info from. Love the video BTW!
Andy, I work from published drawings, many of which are published in wikimedia commons - some quite high resolutions. None have actual dimension detail, so I just enlarge them and print them out at an arbitary scale. As many components are round, I estimate the width, - it just has to look right in the animation. So, I can't help with actual dimensions, but you can find a good scaled sectional view by searching on wikimedia commons for Colt_M1985_Sectional_Views. Cornell Publications have a handbook on the Colt Automatic Machine Gun, 1917, which explains how the gun works (no dimensions), and there are several Browning U.S. Patents from 1895 (e.g. 544657, 544659 and more) which might help. Sorry I can't help any further. Rob
he was the best gun designer both in the world and in the US but he wasn't the only good one. Sam Colt, Eugene Stoner, Ben Henry, John Garand, David Williams and Richard Gatling were all excellent aswell.
NedYarbNexus. I was surprised to see that you have omitted the guy who actually invented the automatic machine gun. Hiram Maxim had the original idea, and built the first working example and proved it could be done. His designs made up the vast majority of heavy machine guns used in WW1. Interestingly, Maxim held 140 American Patents (31 related to guns) and 101 British Patents (72 relating to machine guns, projectiles, explosives and ordnance manufacture).
Correct. The final movement of the breechblock as it moves into battery is to rotate the rear end downwards to lock the breechblock firmly against the frame/receiver.
I checked my photographs and the 'purple' extractor is a separate unit that slides into the receiver from the rear, so it can be replaced quite easily. The extractor can be seen best at 1:18. Apologies, six years ago I had not started adding annotations to explain the parts.
Неплохая задумка. Но если бы Браунинг установил бы прямоходный поршень вместо качающегося рычага, пулемёт получился бы вполне удачным и не поднимал тучу пыли перед стрелками.
Всички оръжейни конструктори са направили по няколко лошо работещи оръжия, докато направят добре работещо ефективно оръжие. А на Михаил Калашников първата разработка е шедьовър. Хуго Шмайзер може би знае нещо по въпроса.
Stanislaus. The feed mechanism is shown from about 1:00 to 1:30. As the 'potato digger' arm swings down and back it pushes a frame to the rear. As this frame moves, it rotates a lever between two lugs on the frame. This lever then raises and lowers an arm (shown as silver) with a spring-loaded plunger. The ammunition belt lies across a toothed wheel. As the frame moves to the rear, the lever is rotated to the rear and raises the silver arm. The toothed wheel cannot rotate backwards, so the spring loaded plunger is pushed into the arm. Then when the frame moves forwards, the lever rotates to the front, pushing the arm down. This time the plunger springs out and rotates the toothed wheel holding the ammunition belt. Rob
The Reason It Was Called A "Potato Digger" Was, That If It Was Used In A Ground Or Landing Operation, (It Was At It's Best When Mounted On A Bulwark Or A Pintle Mount Of A Warship,-Read "THE AMERICAN STEEL NAVY" By John D. Alden, PG. 212), -And If It Was Placed Too Low On It's Mounting On The Ground, The Moving Arm Underneath The Gun,-(Vital For It's Function,)-Would Be Tearing Out A Small Trench In The Dirt Below Suitable For Planting Spuds!
Yes. If you look at the scene about 1:27, you see a spring loaded catch that stops the cartridge wheel from reversing. There is a small 'push knob' on the right hand side of the gun casing (not shown in animation) which moves the spring-loaded catch to release the cartridge wheel so that the belt can be withdrawn by pulling to the left. Then the lever is operated once by hand to eject the round in the chamber. Rob
Такой механизм Браунинг не мог сделать из-за патентных прав Хайрема Максима. Он судился с компанией Кольт из-за этого. Так что какой пулемет вышел, такой и вышел.
Browning's problem was that in 1883, Hiram Maxim, the inventor of the automatic machine gun, had patented every possible way that he could think of of using the recoil, or force of gas discharge in his patent (I think it was No. 3178 June 26 1883, in England). Browning had to find a way to avoid Maxim's patent, so chose to use the swing arm. Some may consider this a patent violation, but the US Patent office approved as US patent for a US inventor as not a violation of an English patent. If you search for VictorianShipModels, then Auto MG, Maxim, Maxim Gun 1 - prototypes, I have published details of all the mechanisms patented by Maxim. John Browning may have been clever, or lucky!
Comment for the Italians: se guardate i filmati o le foto dei M.A.S. della I guerra noterete che a poppa ne avevano 2. (if you look at the movies or photos of the M.A.S. torpedo motorboat of the first war you will notice that they mounted 2) 1 K thanks.
gosto de seu trabalho sei que nao é seu foco fazer armas modernas mais poderia fazer uma glock? tem videos de glock mais nao com o tipo de animaçao, creio que o seu fikaria otimo
The only real flaw of this gun was that stupid gas system. Marlin crated a later gun that was basically the same, except that the swingarm was replaced with a more conventional piston: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1895_Colt%E2%80%93Browning_machine_gun#Marlin_Rockwell_M1917/M1918_versions
The problem was that Hiram Maxim, who invented the first self loading machine gun, patented every single way of operation that he could think of. Browning had to find an operating method that did not fall foul of his patents. It could be argued that the swing arm did actually infringe the patents, but the US Patent Office sided with Browning.
Considering Browning designed this only about ten years after the whole concept of smokeless propellants, and self contained metallic cartridges had become viable, it's remarkable it ever worked. So easy to sneer at the mechanism now but it was a revolutionary design.
That depends on where other MG designs were at the time, certainly the belt feed was on the money.
The Maxim was available before smokeless powder (1883 or 1884, I believe). I think the potato digger a cool gun, but honestly it’s not quite as revolutionary as it might first seem. Still a fascinating bit of history though.
@@TitusCastiglione1503 Not sure if revolutionary is the word, but certainly it gets high grades for effort, creativity and ingenuity. Keep in mind gas pistons were covered by patents back then (Maxim had the rights to gas pistons and actually tried to sue Browning for the potato digger because it was gas operated), and this is a really creative workaround to get a gas operated gun that worked, and worked reliably enough to be used as an issue weapon without infringing any of those patents (if of course with obvious drawbacks).
Also let's not forget that Browning up to this point of his career had not really done that much in the field of self-loading firearms, and certainly nothing in the field of gas operation actions. And in a handful of years he pulled off the potato digger, a whole family of semiauto handguns (that set the standard for handguns until today), a long recoil rifle, a long recoil shotgun, a short recoil heavy machinegun, and the BAR.
so not sure if "revolutionary" is the word or not for this firearm, but certainly comes close.
@@ramjb The word I think is "creative" and "ingenious". Rather than revolutionary. Heck even John Browning admit that the potato digger wasn't very good. (An incorrect assumption, but that's a story for another time). And so he focused on creating a recoil blowback machinegun rather than a gas operated machinegun. The BAR was a replacement for Chauchat, an automatic rifle of sort that the Army Ordnance department (cursed organisation that halt the adoption of an Assault rifle BAR) pushed into service as an lmg, which it underperformed compare to it's contemporaries.
@@ramjb
I think the M-1895 Br was "Evolutionary" as it was a conceived as a Light Automatic Weapon (6mm Navy) working around the restrictions you stated. Browning employed an Impingement Mechanism, and Tilting Block in to his design to create a sort of auto-loading lever action, air cooled rifle that fired 400 RPM
Me: "why on earth do they nickname it 'potato digger'?"
*glorious gas operated shovel lever majesticaly springs into action*
Me: (*o*)
Hello Rob. I was directed here by Ian at Forgotten Weapons. I have just watched most of your animations and I have to say that they are simply wonderful. Please keep on making them when you have the time - and I do appreciate that they must take an awful amount of time (not to mention talent!) to make. Sincere thanks for doing this ......and keep 'em coming. Ian.
How many hours did this take?
C&Rsenal: About 2 months, part time (it is a hobby). The problem was that I could only get elevation drawings, not plan views, and it was difficult to work out exactly what each part looked like, and how wide it was. Eventually, I got the Royal Arsenal at Leeds, UK to dismantle one for me. Once the basic model was crated, animation was fairly swift - a couple of weeks. Rob
vbbsmyt
It's damned impressive. Check your message btw
Some hobby! 'Oh I just persuaded the Pattern Room to take one apart.' Hats off to you Sir. Please use your influence some more.
If you think about it this is the ultimate lever gun !!! (A gas operated lever gun!!!)
I really like that you dig up these old and forgotten firearms and even compared two versions of the same. Please keep it up!
This is absolutely fabulous, and darn accurate also. Amazing work. Tears me up because I have a digger book to get finished and love seeing others interested in the digger and having the talent to put this together as well as the desire and application of what must have been an incredible amount of work. Thank you.
lol a gas operated pump action machine gun - clever
It was actually lever action.
Aiden B which is very identical to pump action ╭∩╮ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ╭∩╮
@@ezra9256 the only difference is the motion needed to unlock and open the action.
Not quite
"The full auto lever action isn't real. It cant hurt you."
Browning:
Four years ago and still holds up......
Bud you really have a gift......
I always sat in front of the books with the cut drawings and never understood how the weapons work - now I understand everything - thank you very much
Russguard, thank you, that is exactly why I started animating - starting with the Collossus gun. I think I have learned a lot. Rob
What a clever design!, a gun that digs a foxhole when it fires so their operator doesn't have to dig before firing.
John Browning was a friggen "GENIOUS", and whoever is posting these animated videos, "Thank you" I LOVE them all, great learning experience.
Kind regards! Eric Dee.
I've always wondered exactly how those old beasts worked, and now thanks to you I know! Love your videos!
For a machine. Gun from the 1800s it’s very simple compared to some other machine guns of the era
Great work! There's about 0 other sources on the internet where I can see how this machine gun works.
The lifting Lever reminds of a Shotgun.
This man was a genius of his day.
Beautiful animation !!
Beautiful job.
what clever yet simple way to get gas to actuate an automatic action
Jas ward : when Maxim invented the automatic MG in 1884, he took out a patent covering all the possible ways he could think of covering both gas and recoil forces. Browning's potato digger mechanism neatly skirts around Maxim's patents. Rob
So the gas actuated lever was a patent workaround? Cunning, but easy to get jammed with dirt in combat. Beautiful animation.
vbbsmyt Hello, would you consider making a video on the Madsen lmg?
Maxims patent is about using the gas forces issued from the muzzle and covers a mechanism to do so.
www.google.com/patents/US319596
Browning at the time remember, had just finished work on the Winchester Model 1894 lever-action rifle and had previously designed the Model 1886 Winchester as well, so it makes logical sense that he would then want to conjure up a way to use the powder gases in some way to automate the cycling of the lever action to construct a machine gun for the U.S. Army and Navy. Browning though must have found Winchester unwilling to build it, or Winchester simply didn't have the factory space and was unwilling to dedicate a fresh production line for it, so he took it to Colt and began working with Colt for the next couple decades.
The very next machine guns John Browning made were the BAR (technically a rifle) but mostly the M1917
He went from this to a design we still use today in literally a single step amazing.
This is a significantly more elegant gun than the maxim. And considering it is Browning's first, well, that just par for the course for him wasn't it?
More elegant, maybe. Yet was it more practical, cheaper to produce, etc.?
@@Briselance Well depends on how you look at it. It was quite lighter than most Maxim incarnations (roughly half the dry weight of the contemporary Maxims in 1895, and that's without taking in account the weight of the water in the Maxim).
And yes, it was also cheaper to produce, both in material costs (obviously in a weapon that weighs roughly half as much) and in manufacturing costs (far simpler gun, fewer moving parts).
Reliability wise sources are mixed. Reports from the spanish-american war go from saying it had reliability issues (in Cuba) to saying it was very accurate and reliable (in the Philippines). Canadians loved it in South Africa during the Boers War. So I guess it depends on how it was handled. But by all accounts it was very practical, effective and useful for it's era.
Not without drawbacks. Being air-cooled of course meant it could keep nowhere near the kind of sustained firepower a Maxim could. And the (in)famous lever that prevented its use close to the ground was obviously undesirable. And of course the action was a development dead end, it couldn't be refined long term like the Maxim was.
But for a weapon that came in 1895 this was indeed a remarkable achievement, and yes, it was practical, cheap and effective enough to compete with the Maxim, at least by the time it was put in production.
Fascinating Channel, just discovered it a week ago!
Very interesting design! Nice animation as usual.
great animation. facinating design
ابداع وهندسه وذكاء لولا العضماء مثل براونج وغيره من المهندسين لكان العالم اكثر غباء
So minimalistic, especially for the time, you’d think apple designed this machine gun.
They have one at camp maybry in Austin Texas. The museum there is free by the way
I know the whole lever-action situation was to dodge Maxim's patent and all, but when you think about it, this system keeps the gas as external as possible (even more so than Garand and AK long-stroke piston operations), so maybe that minimizes fouling.
Very interesting gas-operated lever action. The only other example I could think of is one particular BSW prototype pistol which uses a rather unique gas-accelerated lever delayed blowback system.
Have you ever seen pictures of the 1893 Salvator Dormus, or "Skoda" machine gun? It has to be the most bizarre and obscure machine gun ever. Ian from Forgotten Weapons couldn't even find the trigger.
Another more plausible theory pertaining to its Nickname, is that rather than it coming from the lever digging into the mud during The Great War, the name comes from the fact that it was heavily used and widely liked by the IRA in during the Irish War of Independence and the Fighters who used it were reminded of how they themselves swung a hoe when digging for potatoes. Gotta love the Irish Tiocfaidh Ar La!
The later Marlin model 1917 had a more traditional gas piston design underneath the barrel, right?
Did it have other major mechanical differences from the Colt model?
Can you image owning one of these back in 1890s, you’d be a massive threat 😅
Hey man, love these animations. If you ever get the chance, I think people would love to see the mechanism of an mg-42 or one of its counterparts.
Also, you should set up a patreon.
@vbbsmyt so this maybe the only gas operated gun that can handle black powder reliably ? There are sources that the prototype version demonstrated for Colt used a .45 -70 govt BP and fired 3 minutes flawlessly.
Could you do a comparison between the ShKAS and MG 213 mechanisms? It is often cited that the MG 213 paved the way for the high rate of fire cold war autocannons (like the ADEN, DEFA, etc) but the earlier ShKAS also had a revolver mechanism and wondered if both designs were similar... (with this giving a bit of credit to the ShKAS).
Hey vbbsmyt can you do the Mg 42 please
Tell me, what does not allow the hook, which pulls the cartridge out of the tape, to go even lower? Visually, there is still room there and the hook can go lower and then it will not be able to grab the cartridge.
And what forces this hook to go down? For some time, when moving forward, the hook goes straight, and only then lowers. Why is this happening? The hook can be seen at th-cam.com/video/7j8UQNPlhsY/w-d-xo.html
Have you ever heard of the Lee 1875 carbine? it is a breach loader that was supposed to be a very fast shooter. It would be really cool if you could make an animation of it
If possible, would you mind making the KwK 40? I can't find a single video anywhere about its operation
Any chance to see a vid of a Marlin version with a gas piston? Also, forgotten weapons did a video of the M1907 st etienne if that would help you in making a video
Whats the firerate of this machinegun?
where did you get the measurements for this? is there some blueprint lying around in archive somewhere?
I think you'll soon see a large boost in your subs since Ian mentioned you in his video
I know it is a long shot, but I am trying to reproduce one of these to use as a display. I was curious if you would mind sharing the dimensioning and some of the data? It would save me a considerable amount of time hunting down an original to disassemble and get the info from. Love the video BTW!
Andy, I work from published drawings, many of which are published in wikimedia commons - some quite high resolutions. None have actual dimension detail, so I just enlarge them and print them out at an arbitary scale. As many components are round, I estimate the width, - it just has to look right in the animation. So, I can't help with actual dimensions, but you can find a good scaled sectional view by searching on wikimedia commons for Colt_M1985_Sectional_Views. Cornell Publications have a handbook on the Colt Automatic Machine Gun, 1917, which explains how the gun works (no dimensions), and there are several Browning U.S. Patents from 1895 (e.g. 544657, 544659 and more) which might help. Sorry I can't help any further. Rob
@@vbbsmyt that's a start for sure. Thanks anyway. Keep up the great work on the vids
If a Winchester model 1892 and Maxim gun had unprotected sex
magic , learn more than any book can give.
As I like to call it: the dust kicker!
What force pushes the pink sear up? Is there a spring?
Yes
This is the next new weapon of red dead redemption 2
John Moses Browning.
The one great designer America ever had.
*****
It's either Simonov of Degtyrioyov really
he was the best gun designer both in the world and in the US but he wasn't the only good one.
Sam Colt, Eugene Stoner, Ben Henry, John Garand, David Williams and Richard Gatling were all excellent aswell.
I just refer to Browning because he has so many patents by his name.
NedYarbNexus. I was surprised to see that you have omitted the guy who actually invented the automatic machine gun. Hiram Maxim had the original idea, and built the first working example and proved it could be done. His designs made up the vast majority of heavy machine guns used in WW1. Interestingly, Maxim held 140 American Patents (31 related to guns) and 101 British Patents (72 relating to machine guns, projectiles, explosives and ordnance manufacture).
Could you later make a video about the Browning M1917, the another masterpiece that bears a strike resemblance to the famed Vickers machine gun ?
that is a tilting breechblock, right? i'm new to this, sorry.
Correct. The final movement of the breechblock as it moves into battery is to rotate the rear end downwards to lock the breechblock firmly against the frame/receiver.
Es muy bueno su trabajo
What is this purple stripe to the left of the bolt?
It is the machining in the receiver with the ejector ledge at the rear. When the cartridge reaches the rear end it is kicked out
@@vbbsmyt Is it a protrusion on the wall of the receiver or a separate part?
Maybe I'm not formulating my questions correctly. My English is poor
I checked my photographs and the 'purple' extractor is a separate unit that slides into the receiver from the rear, so it can be replaced quite easily. The extractor can be seen best at 1:18. Apologies, six years ago I had not started adding annotations to explain the parts.
Неплохая задумка. Но если бы Браунинг установил бы прямоходный поршень вместо качающегося рычага, пулемёт получился бы вполне удачным и не поднимал тучу пыли перед стрелками.
Hiram Maxim held the Patent on piston operated mechanism, so Browning had to find another way to operate - so the Potato Digger. Rob
Всички оръжейни конструктори са направили по няколко лошо работещи оръжия, докато направят добре работещо ефективно оръжие. А на Михаил Калашников първата разработка е шедьовър. Хуго Шмайзер може би знае нещо по въпроса.
I feel like this could’ve become light machinegun. Imagine if have LMGs before WW1.
I'm still confused. How did it feed?
Stanislaus. The feed mechanism is shown from about 1:00 to 1:30. As the 'potato digger' arm swings down and back it pushes a frame to the rear. As this frame moves, it rotates a lever between two lugs on the frame. This lever then raises and lowers an arm (shown as silver) with a spring-loaded plunger. The ammunition belt lies across a toothed wheel. As the frame moves to the rear, the lever is rotated to the rear and raises the silver arm. The toothed wheel cannot rotate backwards, so the spring loaded plunger is pushed into the arm. Then when the frame moves forwards, the lever rotates to the front, pushing the arm down. This time the plunger springs out and rotates the toothed wheel holding the ammunition belt. Rob
americans really loved their lever action didn’t they
What is the belt that houses the cartridges made of?
Cloth, specifically I think it was a canvas.
D8W2P4 Thank you.
The Reason It Was Called A "Potato Digger" Was, That If It Was Used In A Ground Or Landing Operation, (It Was At It's Best When Mounted On A Bulwark Or A Pintle Mount Of A Warship,-Read "THE AMERICAN STEEL NAVY" By John D. Alden, PG. 212), -And If It Was Placed Too Low On It's Mounting On The Ground, The Moving Arm Underneath The Gun,-(Vital For It's Function,)-Would Be Tearing Out A Small Trench In The Dirt Below Suitable For Planting Spuds!
I need 3000000 of those to buy ok
Is there a way to remove a loaded belt?
Yes. If you look at the scene about 1:27, you see a spring loaded catch that stops the cartridge wheel from reversing. There is a small 'push knob' on the right hand side of the gun casing (not shown in animation) which moves the spring-loaded catch to release the cartridge wheel so that the belt can be withdrawn by pulling to the left. Then the lever is operated once by hand to eject the round in the chamber. Rob
vbbsmyt Thanks!
Its a lever actuated machine gun.
please make a Lancaster Howdah Pistols 4 barrel
Someone needs to loan one to C&Rsenal
Браунинг,поставь вместо системы рычагов газоотводную трубку и все!)
Такой механизм Браунинг не мог сделать из-за патентных прав Хайрема Максима. Он судился с компанией Кольт из-за этого. Так что какой пулемет вышел, такой и вышел.
A very interesting design except for the swing arm. But we must not distrust the designs of our lord and saviour, John Browning
Needless to say, absolutely gorgeous work, as always
Browning's problem was that in 1883, Hiram Maxim, the inventor of the automatic machine gun, had patented every possible way that he could think of of using the recoil, or force of gas discharge in his patent (I think it was No. 3178 June 26 1883, in England). Browning had to find a way to avoid Maxim's patent, so chose to use the swing arm. Some may consider this a patent violation, but the US Patent office approved as US patent for a US inventor as not a violation of an English patent. If you search for VictorianShipModels, then Auto MG, Maxim, Maxim Gun 1 - prototypes, I have published details of all the mechanisms patented by Maxim. John Browning may have been clever, or lucky!
vbbsmyt Interesting information. Thank you
Comment for the Italians: se guardate i filmati o le foto dei M.A.S. della I guerra noterete che a poppa ne avevano 2. (if you look at the movies or photos of the M.A.S. torpedo motorboat of the first war you will notice that they mounted 2) 1 K thanks.
I want a bolt action rifle
Rpm is damm slow
in some sense this is the grand grand grand father of the M1911 :-)
The only known footage of the Potato Digger in WW 1. th-cam.com/video/A8zdDLIDlyI/w-d-xo.html
gosto de seu trabalho sei que nao é seu foco fazer armas modernas mais poderia fazer uma glock? tem videos de glock mais nao com o tipo de animaçao, creio que o seu fikaria otimo
хорш тем что он есть востальном минусы неточный высокий ненадежный
more simple than the maxim. lol
M1917A1
The only real flaw of this gun was that stupid gas system. Marlin crated a later gun that was basically the same, except that the swingarm was replaced with a more conventional piston: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1895_Colt%E2%80%93Browning_machine_gun#Marlin_Rockwell_M1917/M1918_versions
The problem was that Hiram Maxim, who invented the first self loading machine gun, patented every single way of operation that he could think of. Browning had to find an operating method that did not fall foul of his patents. It could be argued that the swing arm did actually infringe the patents, but the US Patent Office sided with Browning.