| Name | Street | Town | State | From | To |
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| Hunt, Walter | New York | New York | 1840s | 1859 |
| Patent | Date | Remarks |
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| 5,699 | August 10, 1848 | Improved Method of Attaching a Ball to a Wooden Cartridge Patent drawing Specification |
| 5,701 | August 10, 1848 | Loaded Ball Patent drawing Specification |
| 6,663 | August 21, 1849 | Combined Piston Breech and Firing Cock Repeating Gun Patent drawing Specification Specification 2nd page Specification 3rd page |
| Re163 | February 26, 1850 | assigned ../../patent-H/Hunt/to Wm. R. Palmer for Method of Attaching a Ball to a Cartridge Patent drawing Specification |
| Re164 | February 26, 1850 | assigned to Geo. A. Arrowsmith for Metallic Cartridge Patent drawing Specification |
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See also Jennings, Smith & Jennings, New Haven Arms co., and Winchester 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. Seems being preserved at the Cody Museum in Wyoming right side The Hunt repeater was improved by Jennings and Smith & Jennings |
