The idea of a lip, moveable or fixed, on the barrel lug to pickup the extended toes of the hammers and cock the gun predates either Hollenbeck or Fox with the W.W. Greener "Facil Princeps", which was a way around the leverage of the forearm cocking the A&D locks. Greener won his argument in three successive British Courts up to the House of Lords! It is all kind of a "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" argument as I see it.
The rest of the Fox lock is pure A&D, either V-spring driven in Baltimore or coil-spring driven in Philadelphia.
Last edited by Researcher; 12/18/07 07:40 PM.
