In 1911 Mr. Browning was issued a patent for this invention from the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO). There are 15 documents included with this patent. The drawing specification sheet of the patent has been reproduced from original USPTO documents and printed onto parchment paper. This print is sized and ready to install into an 8" x 10" frame. The additional sheets included are printed on 5.50" x 8.50" parchment paper. These accompanying documents describe the scope of this invention in formal terms. The following is an actual excerpt from the patent…

       " Be it known that I, JOHN M. BROWNING, a citizen of the United States, residing in Ogden in the county of Weber and State of Utah, have invented, certain new and useful improvements in Firearms, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof. The main object of the present invention is to produce a firearm of this class which in order to be specially adapted for the military service, shall be not only practical, efficient and perfectly safe in use, but strong and capable of withstanding the exposure and rough usage of service in the field and adapted to fire cartridges having bullets of large calmer and weight and powerful 7 charges of powder"…