John T. Kewish was born in 1868 in Smithtown, New York, and was the principal creator of the primer-actuated blowback machine gun in 1918, which is covered by U.S. patent no. 1,472,126. John C. Garand was assigned 25% as a co-inventor. Kewish was also a contributor to several later automatic firearm developments. He died on 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
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.
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