Whittier, Otis W.

Name	Street	Town	State	From	To
Whittier, Otis W.		Enfield, Grafton county	New Hampshire	1829	1841

Patent	Date	Remarks
216	May 30, 1837	Improvement in Many-Chambered-Cylinder Fire-Arms view patent

Contract	for

Product
6, 9 and 10 shot rifles and 6 shot shotguns in various calibers. Fewer than 100 were made. Two of them (one 6-shot - half round half octagonal barrel and one 9-shot - full octagonal barrel. The rear trigger was used for cocking and to rotate dhe cylinder by a zig-zag system) were in the William G. Renwick collection .70 caliber percussion, 6 shot revolving rifle, with zig-zag for rotating the cylinder (In 1855/1856 Colt experimented with the zig-zag princip on New Model Pocket and Root revolvers and got patent no. 14,905 from May 20th, 1856 but no production was made) In later years this principe was utilized on Mauser Zig-Zag revolver in 1878 and on the Webley-Fosbery revolver in 1901.

Product

6, 9 and 10 shot rifles and 6 shot shotguns in various calibers. Fewer than 100 were made.

Two of them (one 6-shot - half round half octagonal barrel and one 9-shot - full octagonal barrel. The rear trigger was used for cocking and to rotate dhe cylinder by a zig-zag system) were in the William G. Renwick collection

.70 caliber percussion, 6 shot revolving rifle, with zig-zag for rotating the cylinder
(In 1855/1856 Colt experimented with the zig-zag princip on New Model Pocket and Root revolvers and got patent no. 14,905 from May 20th, 1856 but no production was made)

In later years this principe was utilized on Mauser Zig-Zag revolver in 1878
and on the Webley-Fosbery revolver in 1901.