William Rochester Pape
William Rochester Pape (1831–1923) was an English gunsmith who is often credited with inventing and patenting the Choke (firearms), choke boring system for shotguns, which W. W. Greener went on to develop. He also patented several Extractor (firearms), extractors, and invented draught excluders for railway carriage doors and windows. History Pape was born in Amble, Northumberland, England in 1831, the son of James and Dorothy Pape. He opened in first shop in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1858, expanding his family's game dealership, and produced his first shotgun in 1857. In the 1860s, he expanded his business, buying another premises at 29 Collingwood Street, Newcastle. In 1866, he invented the Choke (firearms), choke boring system for shotguns (British Patent No. 1501), and went on to patent a system of mechanically retracting firing pins, improving on this system later that year, and again in 1870. In 1875, he won a prize of ten guineas as 'the original inventor' of choke borin ...
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