Josselyn Revolver - Patent Prototype:

I was sent an intriguing attached photograph of this 'revolver' by "Neville":

Josselyn Chain Revolver.

- A twenty shot 'revolver' where the mechanism is a loop of chambers linked together as a chain that feeds through the frame / action. - Several online folk observe that it would be a pig of a thing to holster!

Patent No. 52248A from 1866

 

This interesting (odd?) design obviously failed to make it commercially - but it seems to hold promise to me - something about the individual chambers being linked flexibly.  Hmm ? - Maybe it just seems to look a little like a 'drum' magazine or looks familiar to a user of the Ruger rim-fire rotary magazines?

 

- Maybe it's a 'halfway house' between the harmonica design and the cylinder revolver - or perhaps that the 'roller-chain link' chambers might make for a more positive and accurate location of the chamber- barrel alignment?

 

- Dunno, but it's intriguing ..

 

- The web also tells of a 'Treeby" chain gun - another 'also ran' failure.

 

Marty K.