John T. Kewish

J. T. Kewish, US patent 1472126.

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

• Blowback (firearms)

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.

External links

• Patent Public Search Basic
• Army Ordnance (1924), IV(23), pg 347.