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Ithaca also produced the M1911 pistol during World War II and the M3 Grease Gun during Korean War, both for the United States military. Its 12-gauge shotguns were the standard used by the Los Angeles Police Department and New York Police Department, and sold to the Royal Thai Army in the early 1980s to arm farmers against communist insurgents. Ithaca M - 66 Super Single. All parts kits sold on this site do not include a receiver. We do not sell receivers. Ithaca M66 Super Single NFA.

betterment of firearms design. A number of these improvements met with little favor despite their virtues, and a few led to litigation ancl considerable controversy. Perhaps the most widely acccptcd of Manton's designs was the elevated rib for sighting double-barrel arms, and second was his patent brccch complete with drain hole, which made it possible for double-barrel guns to be constructed in a more streamlined form. Less popular were his V-shapcd priming pan and his gravitational safety stop designed to prevent the accidental discharge of a gun while a chargc was being rammed home.

Most controversial of all were Manton's contributions to the development of the percussion ignition system. In 1816 he patented a percussion pellet lock which Forsyth claimed was an infringement on his patent, and in the suit which followed Forsvth won. Thereafter Man-

m ton turned to the tube lock and obtained a patent on it in 1818. Again Forsyth sued, but his patent was about to expire, ancl although the court found in his favor. Mantón was soon able to put his lock into production. Finally, Manton's friends also advanced him as having developed the true percussion cap. If he did so, he failed to patent it, and the claim is generally disregarded today.— Harold L. Peterson.

By E. J. Hoffschmidt

Ithaca Model 37 Featherlight Shotgun

The Ithaca Gun Co. of Ithaca, N. Y., started manufacturing guns in a small wood building on the banks of Fall Creek in 1880. Their first model was a 12-ga. hammer gun, and from this they evolved a series of single- and double-barrel shotguns. Although they have manufactured M1911A1 automatic pistols, M6 survival weapons, and M3A1 sub-machine guns under World War II government contracts, and are currently producing a cal. .22rifle, their reputation has been built on their trap guns, their double-barrel guns, and the Model 37 Featherlight slide-action shotgun.

The Featherlight was first offered in 1937. It won immediate acclaim since it was a good pound lighter than its nearest competitor. This weight reduction was accomplished by clever design rather than by the use of light alloys. The number of operating parts was kept to a minimum and they were lightened where possible.

As with most slide-action shotguns, the bolt has no locking lugs or separate locking block. The slide tips the end of the bolt up as it is pulled forward. When the end of the bolt is locked into the top of the receiver, the slide supports it from below to prevent unlocking. Apple el capitan 10.11 download.

Another good design feature is the bottom ejection system which prevents rain from getting into the gun when

1 Before attempting to remove barrel, unload magazine and chamber. To empty magazine, push in spring shell stop (13) on inside of receiver as shown. Ease rounds out one by one. Pull back on slide release on forward side of trigger guard and pull back slide handle to empty chamber handled normally. This system also provides a good safety factor since it protects the face from brass particles or powder burns resulting from defective-shell bursts. Since ejection is downward, the Featherlight is a great favorite with left-handed shooters. Ithaca makes a left-hand safety that can be easily in-

1. Barrel

2. Magazine nut pin*

3. Magazine nut

4. Magazine nui pin check screw*

5. Magazine nut pin catch spring*

6. Magazine nut pin check spring cap*

7. Yoke screw

8. Yoke

9. Magazine spring

10. Magazine spring cup

11. Receiver and magazine tube

12. Slide handle assembly

13. Spring shell stop (left)

14. Spring shell stop spring

15. Spring shell stop screw

16. Positive shell stop (right)

17. Trigger plate screw

18. Hammer pin

19. Trigger pin

20. Safety

21. Safety catch spring

22. Safety catch

23. Mainspring cup

24. Mainspring

25. Mainspring cap

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26. Stock bolt

27. Stock washers

28. Mainspring stop

29. Trigger plate

2 To remove barrel (1), pull back on slide release on forward side of trigger guard and puli slide handle assembly (12) to rear to open breech. Pull up magazine nut pin (2) and use it as a lever to rotate magazine nut (3) until projection on it is free of barrel lug. (Magazine nut pin furnished only on guns built prior to 1955. On later built guns having no pin. simply rotate magazine nut in direction shown)

stalled in place of the normal right-hand safety.

Model 37 Featherlight shotguns arc made in 20-, 16-, and 12-ga. Barrel lengths range from 20' for the riot gun, to 30' for trap or duck hunters. The 5-shot magazine is easily plugged to conform with Federal law.

30. Slide stop spring (bottom)

31. Trigger spring

32. Trigger

33. Slide pin

34. Slide pin spring

35. Slide

36. Slide pin check pin

37. Hammer bar

38. Hammer bar pin

39. Hammer

40. Slide stop

41. Slide stop release spring (top)

42. Carrier

43. Bottom extractor

44. Bottom extractor spring

45. Positive extractor spring cap

46. Positive extractor spring

47. Positive extractor (top)

¿8. Extractor hinge pin (bottom) Bluestacks mac os 11.

49. Firing pin check pin

50. Firing pin spring

51. Firing pin

52. Breechblock

53. Stock

54. Buttplate and screws

55. Carrier screw (2)

56. Carrier screw lock screw (2)

* Not used in guns made after 1954

3 Barrel is joined to receiver by an interrupted thread. When magazine nut is free of barrel lug. give barrel 14-turn in direction shown and pull it free of receiver. Magazine tube and slide handle assembly remain attached to receiver

Parts Legend

4 Slock (53) must be removed before disassembling action. First remove butt-plate screws and buttplate. Stock is attached to receiver by a long bolt (26) which has a square head with slot so that it can be removed with a long screwdriver or socket wrench

5 With stock removed, remove trigger plate screw (17) and pull trigger plate group to rear and out of receiver. Remove 2 carrier screw lock screws (56) and carrier screws (55) from receiver. Hold receiver bottom up with magazine to left, and with punch or fingernail pull slide pin (33) toward body until slide bar can be pulled forward from engagement with slide (35). Pull slide, breechblock (52), and carrier (42) together to rear, out of receiver

6 Positive extractor (47) is retained by a powerful spring. To remove it, use a thin punch to push spring plunger back; at same time push extractor out of its seat as shown. Bottom extractor (43) can be easily removed by driving out its hinge pin (48). To remove firing pin from breechblock, first drive out firing pin check pin (49). Then firing pin and spring (51 and 50) can easily be removed. Reassemble in reverse ■

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The Ithaca Gun Company is a manufacturer of shotguns and rifles originally established in Ithaca, New York in 1880.

History[edit]

Over the years, Ithaca made numerous firearms, most notably the Ithaca Flues double barrel shotgun and the Ithaca 37 shotgun.^{[1][citation needed]}

Production[edit]

Ithaca became famous for building firearms based on expired patents owned by Remington Arms. They also purchased patents from other firearm designers. In 1895 Emil Flues was granted Patent # 546,516, for a double barrel shotgun with only three moving parts per barrel. Ithaca bought the patent in 1907 and upgraded the design to allow for mass production. With the Flues designed Ithaca double, which became the best selling American double of all time with more than 223,000 produced between 1908 and 1926, Ithaca effectively drove Remington out of the double gun market.^[1]

Ithaca also produced the M1911 pistol during World War II and the M3 Grease Gun during Korean War, both for the United States military. Its 12-gauge shotguns were the standard used by the Los Angeles Police Department and New York Police Department, and sold to the Royal Thai Army in the early 1980s to arm farmers against communist insurgents.^[2] Its hunting shotguns were known^{[by whom?]} for their fine decorative work, typically waterfowl or hunting dogs.^[3] In 1989, Remington purchased a design from Ithaca, the Mag-10 shotgun, which they produced as the SP-10.

Around 1877, brothers Lyman Cornelius and Leroy Smith went into business with William Henry Baker. They moved the W.H. Baker Company, which manufactured double- and triple-barreled shotguns, from Center Lisle, New York to Syracuse.^[4] In 1883, Baker and Leroy Smith left the company, moved to Ithaca, and established the original Ithaca Gun Company with several partners.^[5] The company was responsible for much of the early industry of Tompkins County, especially during World War I and World War II,^[6] and counted among its patrons John Philip Sousa, Annie Oakley, and Alfred Lee Loomis^[7][1] At the time Sousa was president of the American Trap Shooters Association and The Ithaca gun company named a shotgun in his honor, the Sousa Grade. Annie Oakley used an Ithaca Flues model in her competition and exhibition shooting. In 1917, Alfred Loomis and his brother-in-law, purchased 17,000 acres (69 km2) of Hilton Head Island, which they established as a private hunting preserve and purchased Ithaca shotguns for use by guests. Dwight D. Eisenhower and George C. Marshall also owned Ithaca double barrel shotguns^[8]

Lefever guns[edit]

The Lefever Arms Company (1883–1916) was a manufacturer of guns in Syracuse, New York founded by Daniel Myron LeFever (1835–1906) who was an American gun maker, popularly known as 'Uncle Dan LeFever'. He is best known as the inventor of the hammerless shotgun, first introduced in 1878. The company was in the business of gun manufacture until 1916 when they were incorporated with Ithaca Gun Company in Ithaca, New York who continued with the LeFever gun production until 1921.^[9] Although production of the LeFever Sidelock Model designed by Dan LeFever ended, the Ithaca gun company continued to use the LeFever name on Boxlock action double and single barrel guns, until 1941.^[10]

Fall creek[edit]

The original factory was located in the Fall Creek neighborhood of the city, on a slope later known as Gun Hill, where the nearby waterfall supplied the main source of energy for the plant. In later years, the company came under criticism regarding environmental pollution of Fall Creek, especially by lead, which led to a Superfund remediation effort. Various plans to demolish the derelict plant and to redevelop the land failed over the years due to the cost of remediation and community objection to construction proposals. The factory was condemned in March 2006 and only the smokestack remains. An apartment project has been proposed for the site.^[11] Despite having moved 6000 tons of lead-contaminated material between 2002 and 2004 at a cost of $4.8 million,^[12] it was still necessary to perform even more clean up at the superfund site in 2015.^[13]

Reorganization[edit]

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The company was controlled by the Smith family until 1967, when it was sold to a Colorado company, Jerry Baldritch & Asso., which later, after buying 10X Clothing, Atlantic Dinghy, and American Fiberglass, became General Recreation, Inc. and in 1971(approx.) made a public stock offering on the NYSE. General Recreation encountered financial problems in the late 1970s, selling off all its subsidiaries except Ithaca Gun. After a failed attempt to move manufacturing to Colorado, it filed for Chapter 11 reorganization in December 1978, shuttering the plant on December 20 for several months.^[14] General Recreation filed for bankruptcy a second time in September 1985.^[15]

In 1987, new owners Ithaca Acquisition, Inc. moved manufacturing to King Ferry, New York. In 2005, it received a $150,000 development loan from Cayuga County,^[16] and in May of that year moved to larger facilities in Auburn.^[17] After being unable to facilitate an operational manufacturing facility in Auburn, the owners sold all of Ithaca's assets, trademarks, and manufacturing rights to the Marshalls from Upper Sandusky, Ohio. The physical goods were relocated to Floyd Marshall's 30+ years tool and die shop where all prints, programs, and processing were converted to CNC machine tools. Unable to secure state or local financing assistance with the startup conversion, the Marshalls were forced to sell the company.^[18] Dave Dlubak purchased the company in June 2007, and it continues to operate in Upper Sandusky, Ohio.^{[citation needed]}

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcPinckney, Roger. 'Just a Beat-Up Old Ithaca With a Story to Tell'. Shotgun Life.
2. ^Associate Press (June 30, 1982). 'Ithaca Gun Co. Has Thai Order'. The New York Times.
3. ^Johnson, Kirk (October 15, 2000). 'Ithaca Journal; Sweet Fishing and a Gorgeous Gorge, if You Don't Mind All That Old Lead'. The New York Times.
4. ^Snyder, Walter (1999). The Ithaca Gun Company. Southern Pines: Cook & Uline. p. 15. ISBN978-0-9629469-2-9.
5. ^'Historical Overview of the Ithaca Gun Company'. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
6. ^O'Toole, Molly (November 28, 2007). 'Gun Factory Building Has Hazardous History'. Cornell Daily Sun. Archived from the original on November 22, 2008. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
7. ^Gleason, Anne (November 30, 2005). '125-year-old company sold off at auction'. The Auburn Citizen.
8. ^'Seven Shotguns That Conquered the Rest' – via www.washingtonpost.com.
9. ^Recent Trade Developments. The Horseless Age - Volume 37, E. P. Ingersoll, New York. N.Y., - June 15, 1916. 1916. Retrieved September 11, 2010.
10. ^'Production Dates'.
11. ^O'Toole, Molly (November 30, 2007). 'Clean-up, Construction to Rejuvenate Ithaca Gun Site'. Cornell Daily Sun. Archived from the original on November 22, 2008. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
12. ^'EPA Finishes $4.8 Million Cleanup at Ithaca Gun'. US EPA. 29 October 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
13. ^Reynolds, Nick (9 September 2015). 'EPA to remove contaminated soil at Ithaca Falls'. Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, NY. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
14. ^Heff, Alan (January 23, 1979), 'Sickler Named President of the Ithaca Gun Company', Cornell Daily Sun
15. ^UPI (September 5, 1985), 'Ithaca Gun, Parent Firm to Reorganize', Schenectady Gazette, p. 8
16. ^Broach, Louse Hoffman (June 23, 2005). 'Ithaca Gun loses buyer, closes its doors'. The Auburn Citizen.
17. ^Broach, Louise Hoffman (May 6, 2005). 'Ithaca Gun reloads in Auburn'. The Auburn Citizen.
18. ^Ithaca Gun Company, 2013 Catalog, Page 4 (The Ithaca Gun Company: A Brief History) Retrieved 2013-09-01

Further reading[edit]

• Snyder, Walter Claude. The Ithaca Gun Company: From the Beginning. Spencerport, N.Y.: Cook and Uline Pub, 1991. ISBN0962946907

External links[edit]

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