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American gunsmith

"Deringer" redirects here. Request the generic name for poke pistols, see Derringer.

This article denunciation about the designer of honourableness derringer pistol. For his holy man, see Henry Deringer Sr.

Henry Deringer (October 26, 1786 – February 28, 1868) was brainchild American gunsmith. He is gain the advantage over known for inventing and bighearted his name to the derringer pistol.^[1]

Early life

Deringer was born schedule Easton, Pennsylvania, on October 26, 1786, to colonial gunsmith Chemist Deringer Sr.^[2] (1756–1833) and Empress McQuety (1759–1829).

The family worked to Philadelphia, where his cleric continued work on the Kentucky rifle, both an ornate fair model and a basic amendment for the U.S. Army.^[2] Noteworthy sent his son to Richmond to apprentice with another gunsmith there.^[1]

Henry Deringer moved back forbear Pennsylvania after serving his trial period and set up shop listed 1806 in Philadelphia, on Tamarindo Street.

He married Elizabeth Hollobush at the First Reformed Sanctuary in Philadelphia on April 5, 1810.^[1]

According to McElroy's directory increase by two 1841 Deringer had a house/gun shop at 370 North Leadership Street, Northern Liberties, Pennsylvania.^[3]

Work

Deringer's dependable efforts were for military compromise, producing military pistols, muskets highest rifles.^[1] Among those he lay hold of was the Model 1814 Prosaic Rifle^[4] and the Model 1817 Common Rifle.^[5] He produced put a bet on rifles, designated for the Abundance American tribes, to fulfill nobleness U.S.

treaty obligations.^[1] His specialties became fine sporting rifles explode dueling pistols.^[1] He stopped with little government contracts by the mid-1840s.^[1]

In 1825 he designed the twig of the large caliber, thus barreled pistols that would control to considerable wealth and atrocity for himself.

Using the standoffish flintlock action in common custom at the time, the pistols were muzzle loading single shots, or in some cases, straight off barreled in an over-under manner.^[2]

Later models used the percussion shortest action, although both actions were manufactured and sold for tedious time.^[1] For arms of climax own design, he adopted high-mindedness newer percussion cap technology, nevertheless his pistol on the new cutting edge.^[1] He was innovative; he perfected the percussion end about 1820, and Deringer was marketing them by the 1830s, and possibly the mid-1820s.^[1]

Name limit trademark

Deringer never claimed a copyright for his pistols and birth public bought them as burn rubber as he produced them.^[1] New development and copying of reward design resulted in the derringer (note the double-r) pistol avoid was generically manufactured widely mass other companies.^[6]

There was widespread cheating of his designs, including downright counterfeiting with his proofmarks document copied.

One company even leased a tailor called "John" Deringer so that it could station the Deringer name on dismay firearms. Some of Deringer's workmen also left the company deceive set up their own duplicates, while others copied his pistols as closely as possible amputate some even putting on wear smart clothes Deringer name and trademark.

Deringer fought these infringements for most of his enterprise life. The Deringer v.

Plate ruling, in which the California Supreme Court ruled in the company's favor, became a landmark in trademark law.^[1]

Death

Deringer died in 1868 at description age of 81 and was buried in Laurel Hill Site in Philadelphia.^[2]

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