So Ken had to make five shot 45 Colt cylinders just like everybody else.Īt some point Ken's patent on his angled design expired. When he later started up his own company for making conversion cylinders a few years later he could no longer make six shot 45 Colt conversion cylinders for the 44 Remington because he had sold the patent rights Taylors. The angle is so slight that there is no problem with the bullets entering the forcing cone at a tiny angle.Īt one point Ken sold his patent to Taylors. Note: It does not matter at all that the chambers are angled out ever so slightly towards the rear of the cylinder. The counterbores for the rims are large enough that the slightly larger diameter rims of 45 Schofield can be seated in the chambers with no problems. Here is a photo of the cylinder with my old EuroArms Remington. Here is a photo of it installed in my old EuroArms 44 Remington that I bought way back in 1975. I bought a R&D six shot 45 Colt conversion cylinder from Talyors many years ago. That is why all the other makers were making 45 Colt conversion cylinders for the 1858 Remington with only five chambers, the chambers did not need to be angled.Īt that time, Ken was selling his cylinders under the brand name R&D, and Taylors was the sole distributor for his cylinders.
None of the other makers of conversion cylinders for the 44 caliber Remington could make a cylinder with six chambers without violating Ken's patent. So many years ago Ken Howell developed a six shot conversion cylinder for 45 Colt that had the chambers angled out ever so slightly towards the rear so six chambers could be bored, and the rims would not overlap. The cylinder of a 44 caliber 1858 Remington is not large enough in diameter for six chambers to be bored without the rims of 45 Colt (or 45 Schofield or 45 CS) overlapping. I’m confused about why Howell has both five and six round Conversion cylinders.
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