Lindner, Edward

Name	Street	Town	State	From	To
Lindner, Edward		New York City	New York	1854	1863

1415 UK Patent.pdf

Patent	Date	Remarks
11,197	June 27th, 1854	Improved Magazine, Repeating, and Needle Gun view patent
2297 British patent	April 24, 1855	Revolving-breech Fire-Arms see patent
14,819	May 6, 1856	Improvement in Breech-Loading Guns see patent
1415 British patent same as 14,819	June 14, 1856 / December 12, 1856	Improvements in Breech-Loading Guns see patent
17,287	May 12, 1857	Improved Cartridges see patent
17,382	May 26th, 1857	Improvement in Fire-Arms view patent
1999 British patent same as 17,382	August 30, 1858	Improvement in Fire-Arms
23,378	March 29, 1859	Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms view patent
32,949	July 30, 1861	Improved Mode of Preparing Projectiles for Ordnance see patent
37,173	December 16, 1862	Improvement in Air-Guns see patent
3275 British patent	December 28, 1863	Sealed Interrupted-Thread Breech for Cannon 3275. EDWARD LINDNER, of New York, in the United States of America, now temporarily residing at Hamburg, Engineer, for an invention for " Improvements in breech loading fire - arms and ordnance, and in apparatus for loading the same. " Letters Patent sealed.
358 British patent	February 8, 1865	Slinding bold, interrupted thread, needle fire 358. EDWARD LINDNER, now residing in Vienna, Austria, Engineer, for an invention for- " Improvements in breech loading fire - arms. " Letters Patent sealed.
2512 British patent	September 30, 1865	Sliding Interrupted-Thread Breechblock for Centerfire or Needlefire Rifle 2512. Edward LINDNER, of Old Broad Street, in the City of London, Engineer, for an invention for- " Improvements in breech - loading guns and in projectiles and cartridges. " Letters Patent sealed.
1143 British patent	April 18, 1867	Sliding bolt, interrupted thread, breech block conversion 1143. EDWARD LINDNER, of the City of New York, in the United States of America, Engineer, for an invention for- " Improvements in breech - loading fire- arms, and likewise the cartridges and balls to be used therewith. "

Contract	for
November 4, 1862 Colonel William Maynadier	All the carbines made after his plan which he can deliver up to the first of December next at $20 each

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Edward Lindner was german origine. He emigrated to the USA in 1850. When the Civil War ended he moved back to Germany where he died February 17, 1870. Invented the first system to utilize the emission of gas when firing a gun to action the lock. There was a relationship to Amoskeg Manufacturing Co. which made 400 Carbines and 40,000 rounds of Lindner cartridges (.574 caliber Minie ball) at $25 per gun. In fact they made many of the guns for which Lindner contracted. In 1857 Lindner patented a self-priming, tubular-magazine, revolving-cylinder, percussion firearm. The mechanism automatically feeds combustile cartridges into a rotating cylinder from a tubular magazine, while automatically cycling percussion caps from a spring-loaded magazine. Possibly only a patent model or a prototype was made. Lindner Repeater, left side Lindner Repeater, right side On the November 4, 1862 contract 5001 carbines were delivered and issued to the 8th West Virginia Mounted Infantry. .48 caliber percussion, 15 shoot (6 in a cylinder and 9 in the tube) rifle. Only one is known .58 caliber percussion, bolt action of which 892 were purchased during the Civil War Mississippi rifle conversation, Lindner conversion altered by Allen and Moore, Boston for the state of Massachusett in 1861 - about 100 made. left side right side breechblock right side Lindner Carbine with breechblock, Model 1861 marked EDWARD LINDNER'S/PATENT/MARCH 29, 1859 in three lines. The models produced in 1861 and 1863 are generally considered First Model or Type I carbines. These were the only type to participate in recorded combat. Several thousands of the Bavarian M 58 rifle were altered after the Podewils-Lindner system in 1867 and therfore called Model M58/67. Podewils = German noble family

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Edward Lindner was german origine. He emigrated to the USA in 1850. When the Civil War ended he moved back to Germany where he died February 17, 1870.

Invented the first system to utilize the emission of gas when firing a gun to action the lock.

There was a relationship to Amoskeg Manufacturing Co. which made 400 Carbines and 40,000 rounds of Lindner cartridges (.574 caliber Minie ball) at $25 per gun. In fact they made many of the guns for which Lindner contracted.

In 1857 Lindner patented a self-priming, tubular-magazine, revolving-cylinder, percussion firearm. The mechanism automatically feeds combustile cartridges into a rotating cylinder from a tubular magazine, while automatically cycling percussion caps from a spring-loaded magazine. Possibly only a patent model or a prototype was made.

Lindner Repeater, left side
Lindner Repeater, right side

On the November 4, 1862 contract 5001 carbines were delivered and issued to the 8th West Virginia Mounted Infantry.

.48 caliber percussion, 15 shoot (6 in a cylinder and 9 in the tube) rifle. Only one is known

.58 caliber percussion, bolt action of which 892 were purchased during the Civil War

Mississippi rifle conversation, Lindner conversion altered by Allen and Moore, Boston for the state of Massachusett in 1861 - about 100 made.

left side
right side
breechblock right side

Lindner Carbine with breechblock, Model 1861 marked EDWARD LINDNER'S/PATENT/MARCH 29, 1859 in three lines. The models produced in 1861 and 1863 are generally considered First Model or Type I carbines. These were the only type to participate in recorded combat.

Several thousands of the Bavarian M 58 rifle were altered after the Podewils-Lindner system in 1867 and therfore called Model M58/67. Podewils = German noble family