Smith, Horace

Name	Town	State	From	To
Smith, Horace	New Haven	Connecticut	1850	1851
Smith, Horace	Norwich	Connecticut	1851
Smith, Horace	Springfield	Massachusetts	1859

Patent	Date	Remarks
8,317	August 26, 1851	Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms, assigned to Cortlandt Palmer, New York view patent
10,535	February 14, 1854	Improvement in Fire-Arms, joined patent of H. Smith & D. B. Wesson view patent
11,496	August 8, 1854	Improvement in Cartridges, joined patent of Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson view patent
14,147	January 22, 1856	Improved Primers for Cartridges of Fire-Arms, joined patent of H. Smith & D. B. Wesson, assigned to Volcanic Repeating Arms Company view patent
24,666	July 5, 1859	Improvement in revolving Fire-Arms, joined patent of H. Smith & D. B. Wesson view patent
27,933	Apr. 17, 1860	Matallic Cartridge, joined patent of H. Smith & D. B. Wesson view patent
30,990	December 18, 1860	Improvement in Revolvers, Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson's patent view patent
38,921	June 16, 1863	Improvement in Revolving Fire-Arms, joined patent of H. Smith & D. B. Wesson view patent
51,092	November 21, 1865	Improvement in Revolving Fire-Arms, joined patent of H. Smith & D. B. Wesson view patent

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See also Smith & Wesson Horace Smith had been stationed at the Robbins & Laurence plant by Courtlandt Palmer himself to supervise the manufacturing of the Jennings rifles. Smith kept the magazine tube, sliding bolt, bolt locking lever, and priming pill magazine of the prior two designs, but with some important modifications. Most notably the action was completely redesigned by removing the rack and pinion action from the Jennings models and replacing it with an action that pivoted at the front, which would look much more familiar to shooters today. Despite its improvements, it was still a rifle that was still dependent on the weak rocket ball cartridge, an external primer & magazine, and it was not yet self-cocking. Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson, both working at the Robbins & Lawrence factory discussed the failures of the Hunt/Jenning rifle and the Smith-Jennings repeaters. Horeace Smith was sent to London by Courtlandt Palmer in 1851 to attend The Great Exhibition in order to show their 1841 “Mississippi Rifle, but also to perform some reconnaissance on the recent innovations by European gunsmiths. While in London, Smith spoke with Louis Nicholas Auguste Flobert about his “copper case, self-contained rim fire ammunition, and method of extraction. Finally Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson went into a partnership and asked Palmer for $10,000 to create their own company Wmith & Wesson. However, within one year they the finances were exhausted. Palmer again invested and again with Smith and Wesson they incorporated the Volcanic Repeating Arms Co. in 1856. On of the stock holder of that company was Oliver F. Winchester. When Volcanic Repeating Arms Co. went bankrupt, Oliver F. Winchester acuired it in 1857. Volcanic became New Haven Arms Company. And finally in 1867 the company became Winchester Repeating Arms Company. 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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See also Smith & Wesson

Horace Smith had been stationed at the Robbins & Laurence plant by Courtlandt Palmer himself to supervise the manufacturing of the Jennings rifles.

Smith kept the magazine tube, sliding bolt, bolt locking lever, and priming pill magazine of the prior two designs, but with some important modifications. Most notably the action was completely redesigned by removing the rack and pinion action from the Jennings models and replacing it with an action that pivoted at the front, which would look much more familiar to shooters today.

Despite its improvements, it was still a rifle that was still dependent on the weak rocket ball cartridge, an external primer & magazine, and it was not yet self-cocking.

Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson, both working at the Robbins & Lawrence factory discussed the failures of the Hunt/Jenning rifle and the Smith-Jennings repeaters.

Horeace Smith was sent to London by Courtlandt Palmer in 1851 to attend The Great Exhibition in order to show their 1841 “Mississippi Rifle, but also to perform some reconnaissance on the recent innovations by European gunsmiths. While in London, Smith spoke with Louis Nicholas Auguste Flobert about his “copper case, self-contained rim fire ammunition, and method of extraction.

Finally Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson went into a partnership and asked Palmer for $10,000 to create their own company Wmith & Wesson. However, within one year they the finances were exhausted. Palmer again invested and again with Smith and Wesson they incorporated the Volcanic Repeating Arms Co. in 1856. On of the stock holder of that company was Oliver F. Winchester.

When Volcanic Repeating Arms Co. went bankrupt, Oliver F. Winchester acuired it in 1857. Volcanic became New Haven Arms Company. And finally in 1867 the company became Winchester Repeating Arms Company.

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