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Tentman
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E F Hedrick Patents
Aug 17th, 2006 at 4:54pm
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Good Morning

It my travels through the trigger (and other) patents in both the US and European registries I have come across this gentleman a couple of times.  He holds US patents 906,419 and 1,448,297 for a Hi wall set trigger and a single shot rifle design respectively.

He does not figure in any of my single shot books (mostly De Haas) but was obviously very interested in the feild in the early part of the 20th century.

Does anyone know any more about him and his work ??

Cheers - Foster
  
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Reply #1 - Aug 17th, 2006 at 6:23pm
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906,419   Hedrick trigger was never assigned to anyone and if used it may have been on his action. 

1,448,297  is the patent for the Hedrick action, not a common rifle but not unheard of. 

Somewhere I have a picture of a Hedrick rifle and If I can find it, I’ll post it. 

"Boys' Single-Shot Rfiles" by Grant has both pictures and text about Hedrick, so does "More Single-Shot Rifles".
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Re: E F Hedrick Patents
Reply #2 - Aug 18th, 2006 at 5:32am
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Thanks MP, I've a request in at the library for Grants books (again).  I'be be real grateful for any other info folk can shed on his rifles.

The lever/mainspring arrangement of his 1923 patent is very interesting, and looks to me to be potentially very good for further "development".  It would be good to find any opinions as to how it worked for real.

I've done some web searches but zero results so far.

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Reply #3 - Aug 18th, 2006 at 11:58am
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I’m not sure if Hedrick built many or any rifles, he did make and sell actions though.  The Niedner Rifle Corporation used around a dozen of them and made some nice rifles.  I understand that each action was hand made, so I would be surprised to learn that any more than a couple dozen at most were made.
  
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Reply #4 - Aug 18th, 2006 at 12:26pm
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What web site is best to view patent drawings?

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Allen
  
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Reply #5 - Aug 18th, 2006 at 1:15pm
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I don't know about "best".. but the US Patent Office web site is kinda the "horses mouth" on the subject... having the original and complete patent papers on-line.

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Hope this helps!

Paul F.
  
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