John T. Kewish was born in 1868 in Smithtown, NY and was the principal creator of the
primer actuated blowback machine gun
A machine gun is a fully automatic, rifled autoloading firearm designed for sustained direct fire with rifle cartridges. Other automatic firearms such as automatic shotguns and automatic rifles (including assault rifles and battle rifles) ar ...
in 1918 which is covered by U.S. patent no. 1,472,126.
John C. Garand was assigned 25% as co-inventor. Kewish was also a contributor to several later automatic firearm developments. He died March 1, 1945 in New York, NY.
Patents
Patents include:
:US1472126 - Filed Jul 09, 1918 - Issued Oct 30, 1923 "Machine Gun"
:US1502676 - Filed Sep 14, 1920 - Issued Jul 29, 1924 "Automatic Rifle"
:US1587003 - Filed Sep 07, 1921 - Issued Jun 01, 1926 "Automatic Firearm"
:US1563751 - Filed May 31, 1924 - Issued Dec 01, 1925 "Automatic Firearm"
:US1696537 - Filed Apr 13, 1927 - Issued Dec 25, 1928 "Automatic Firearm"
:US1993887 - Filed Apr 16, 1932 - Issued Mar 12, 1935 "Automatic Firearm"
See also
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Blowback (firearms)
Blowback is a system of operation for self-loading firearms that obtains energy from the motion of the cartridge case as it is pushed to the rear by expanding gas created by the ignition of the propellant charge.
Several blowback systems exist wi ...
References
Roach W. N. (1924). Recent Patents – Brief Descriptions of Inventions of Interest to Ordnance Engineers. Army Ordnance – The Journal of the Army Ordnance Association, IV(23), 347.
External links
List of Kewish U.S. patentsArmy Ordnance (1924), IV(23), pg 347.
1868 births
1945 deaths
Firearm designers
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