Hunt, Walter

Name	Street	Town	State	From	To
Hunt, Walter		New York	New York	1840s	1859

Patent	Date	Remarks
5,699	August 10, 1848	Improved Method of Attaching a Ball to a Wooden Cartridge Patent drawing Specification
5,701	August 10, 1848, assigned to Geo. A. Arrowsmith	Loaded Ball, three-fourth of the interior of the bullet was loaded with powder, a cork wad having a flash hole in the center covered with paper prevented escape of the powder Patent drawing Specification
6,663	August 21, 1849	Combined Piston Breech and Firing Cock Repeating Gun, assigned to Geo. A. Arrowsmith Patent drawing Specification Specification 2nd page Specification 3rd page
Re163	February 26, 1850	Method of Attaching a Ball to a Cartridge, assigned to Wm. R. Palmer Patent drawing Specification
Re164	February 26, 1850	Metallic Cartridge, assigned to Geo. A. Arrowsmith Patent drawing Specification

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Walter Hunt was born on July 29, 1796 in Martinsburg, New York. He passed away in 1859 Partnership with George A. Arrowsmith. One of Arrowsmith employees was Lewis Jennings who made several aprovements to Hunt's design. The patents fot the Hunt Rocket Ball, his lever rifle together with the Jennings improvements (patent 6,973) were sold to Courtland C. Palmer for $100'000 in 1850. .54 caliber loaded ball with priming pellets, Volition Repeater, tubular magazine. Except the patetent model no production is known and seems being preserved at the Cody Museum in Wyoming left side right side The Hunt repeater was improved by Jennings and Smith & Jennings Little is known of the performance of bullets of those days. It was said of Hunt's cartridge used in a later gun, that each ball goes out of the barrel, the cork cap remains in the barrel and is carried out in front of the next ball, sweeping thoroughly all of the dirt with it. From Hunt rifle to Winchester. See the whole story. Hunt, Walter Arrowsmith, George A. Jennings, Lewis Palmer, Courtland Robbins & Lawrence Henry, Benjamin Tyler Wesson, Daniel B. Smith, Horace Smith & Jennings Smith & Wesson Volcanic Repeating Arms New Haven Arms Co. Winchester

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Walter Hunt was born on July 29, 1796 in Martinsburg, New York. He passed away in 1859

Partnership with George A. Arrowsmith. One of Arrowsmith employees was Lewis Jennings who made several aprovements to Hunt's design. The patents fot the Hunt Rocket Ball, his lever rifle together with the Jennings improvements (patent 6,973) were sold to Courtland C. Palmer for $100'000 in 1850.

.54 caliber loaded ball with priming pellets, Volition Repeater, tubular magazine. Except the patetent model no production is known and seems being preserved at the Cody Museum in Wyoming

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The Hunt repeater was improved by Jennings and Smith & Jennings

Little is known of the performance of bullets of those days. It was said of Hunt's cartridge used in a later gun, that each ball goes out of the barrel, the cork cap remains in the barrel and is carried out in front of the next ball, sweeping thoroughly all of the dirt with it.

From Hunt rifle to Winchester. See the whole story.
Hunt, Walter
Arrowsmith, George A.
Jennings, Lewis
Palmer, Courtland
Robbins & Lawrence
Henry, Benjamin Tyler
Wesson, Daniel B.
Smith, Horace
Smith & Jennings
Smith & Wesson
Volcanic Repeating Arms New Haven Arms Co.
Winchester