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  2. Buttonholer - Wikipedia

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    A buttonholer is an attachment for a sewing machine which automates the side-to-side and forwards-and-backwards motions involved in sewing a buttonhole. Most modern sewing machines have this function built in, but many older machines do not, and straight stitch machines cannot sew a zigzag stitch with which buttonholes are constructed.

  3. List of machine guns - Wikipedia

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    Colleoni machine gun — 6.50×52mm Mannlicher–Carcano: Ammunition belt Italy: 1908 Colt Machine Gun: Colt's Manufacturing Company: 5.56×45mm NATO: Ammunition belt United States: 1965 Colt Automatic Rifle: 5.56×45mm NATO: Detachable box magazine United States: 1982 Darne machine gun: Hotchkiss et Cie: 7.50×54mm French 8.00×51mmR French ...

  4. Firing pin - Wikipedia

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    [1] The Dreyse needle gun of 1836 uses a paper cartridge with a priming as part of a sabot which cradles the projectile and is forward of the propelling charge. The needle-like firing pin projects from the bolt-face and pierces the cartridge when the breech is closed. On firing, the spring-loaded needle strikes the priming in the sabot.

  5. Category:Machine guns of the United States - Wikipedia

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    M60 machine gun; M73 machine gun; M85 machine gun; M134 Minigun; M240 machine gun; M242 Bushmaster; M249 light machine gun; M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun; M1917 Browning machine gun; M1918 Browning automatic rifle; M1919 Browning machine gun; M1921 Browning machine gun; M1941 Johnson machine gun; Mark 38 25 mm machine gun system; Mk 48 ...

  6. Action (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    Although bolt-action guns are usually associated with fixed or detachable box magazines (multi-shot), some are single-shot. In fact, the first general-issue military breechloader was a single-shot bolt action: the paper-cartridge Prussian needle gun of 1841.

  7. Category:World War I machine guns - Wikipedia

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    M1917 Browning machine gun; M1918 Browning automatic rifle; Madsen machine gun; Maxim gun; MG 08; MG 18 TuF; P. Perino Model 1908; PM M1910; S. Salvator-Dormus M1893;

  8. Type 1 heavy machine gun - Wikipedia

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    The Type 1 is essentially a smaller, lighter version of the Type 92 heavy machine gun. It employs the same principles of operation, simply with scaled down components. The barrel is designed to be rapidly changed in the field to prevent overheating, as a result the barrel cooling rings were reduced in size and the barrel jacket was done away ...

  9. Henry Alonzo House - Wikipedia

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    The machine-picked skins were shown to furriers in New York. A few days later, a Mr. Frasure of Wall Street , New York, called on House at Bridgeport, and the two reached an agreement for House to develop a machine that would pick a bull pelt six feet long and three feet wide, while being kept moist and warm.