| 摘要 |
A safety mechanism for a muzzleloading rifle has a firing hammer pivotally mounted on the rifle and is movable between a rearward cocked position and a forward firing position, and is releasably held by a trigger mechanism in the cocked position when manually moved to the cocked position. The firing hammer includes an arm portion extending away from the pivotal connection between the hammer and the rifle. An elongated safety bolt is slidably mounted in a transverse direction in the rifle and is movable between an outer safety position and an inner non-safety position, and is located within a pivotal path of the arm portion of the hammer to engage the arm to prevent the forward rotation of the hammer to move to the firing position if the hammer is released for forward pivotal movement by the trigger mechanism. The safety bolt is selectively manually slidable into the rifle by the user to remove it from the safety position in the pivotal path of the arm portion so as to prevent the hammer to pivot toward the firing position when released by the trigger assembly. The safety bolt has a plurality of annular grooves therein which must be aligned with tangs on the rear end of the rifle barrel when the barrel is being removed from or inserted into the rifle. The alignment of these components is only possible when the safety bolt is in the safety position. A spring loaded plunger is engagable with the safety bolt at times to hold it in the safety mode when required. A detent also engages spaced annular grooves on the safety bolt to stabilize the position of the safety bolt in either the safety or non-safety positions.
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