Primary uses include pistol frames and revolver cylinders.

Tranter also produced percussion rifles that used a revolver cylinder instead of a magazine.

In events where revolvers compete with magazine-fed guns, magazines are restricted to seven shots, out of respect for the customary six-shot revolver cylinder.

The 23mm R-23 is a gas-operated revolver cannon whose revolver cylinder has 4 cartridge chambers.

Three separate gas systems eject the fired cartridge case from the chamber, chamber a fresh round and drive the revolver cylinder and the feed mechanism.

To reduce the overall length of the weapon, the feed mechanism is located in front of the revolver cylinder and chambers the cartridges backwards.

White had an idea of a "bored-through" revolver cylinder to allow the use of metallic cartridges in a handgun.

He closed the .44 Magnum revolver's cylinder, re-holstering it as well.

In 1852 an employee of Colt's, Rollin White, came up with the idea of having the revolver cylinder bored through to accept metallic cartridges.

Each block contains a ring of parallel cylinders and can itself rotate on a central axis, similar to a revolver cylinder.