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I found some candidate patents. Joseph E. Casserly was issued a string of US patents, numbers 811,695 through 811,701, in 1906. -696 and -699 look like the mechanism could easily be placed out of sight. These were all assigned to Remington & Sherman which seems to have been absorbed later by York.