John T. Kewish was an American inventor and the principal creator of the primer actuated machine gun in 1918, covered by U.S. patent no. 1,472,126. John C. Garand was assigned 25% as co-inventor. Kewish was also a contributor to several later automatic firearm developments.
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"References
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