US34017A - Improvement in portable battery or platoon guns - Google Patents
Improvement in portable battery or platoon guns Download PDFInfo
- Publication number
- US34017A US34017A US34017DA US34017A US 34017 A US34017 A US 34017A US 34017D A US34017D A US 34017DA US 34017 A US34017 A US 34017A
- Authority
- US
- United States
- Prior art keywords
- improvement
- guns
- platoon
- portable battery
- battery
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
- Expired - Lifetime
Links
- 238000010276 construction Methods 0.000 description 2
- 230000000994 depressed Effects 0.000 description 2
- 238000010586 diagram Methods 0.000 description 2
Images
Classifications
-
- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F41—WEAPONS
- F41A—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE
- F41A9/00—Feeding or loading of ammunition; Magazines; Guiding means for the extracting of cartridges
- F41A9/01—Feeding of unbelted ammunition
- F41A9/06—Feeding of unbelted ammunition using cyclically moving conveyors, i.e. conveyors having ammunition pusher or carrier elements which are emptied or disengaged from the ammunition during the return stroke
- F41A9/09—Movable ammunition carriers or loading trays, e.g. for feeding from magazines
- F41A9/10—Movable ammunition carriers or loading trays, e.g. for feeding from magazines pivoting or swinging
- F41A9/11—Movable ammunition carriers or loading trays, e.g. for feeding from magazines pivoting or swinging in a horizontal plane
Definitions
- the following is a description of the battery or improvement. It consists of a cylinder, A,
- This cylinder may be pierced with seventy-five or more chambers, according to its thickness.
- a chamber ed spherical breech of the same diameter may be used, revolved upon a transverse or horizontal axis, or, as an obvious equivalent, two or more disk or annular c3 linders, A, intersecting each other at a transverse axis, in the manner of meridian lines, may be used, thereby greatly increasing the number of charges held by the battery.
- the charges are placed in this cylinder, and in front of it are the barrels, twenty-five or more in number, which are stationary, and arranged in a fanlike form, in the segment ofa circle, as seen at G in diagram.
- Each chamber in the cylinder corresponds with and comes opposite to a barrel at the moment of discharge. They are fired or discharged by means of the locks H. It may be fired as fast as it can be loaded, and as many as four hundred and eighty balls may be fired in one minute. If the invention be applied to pistol or musket barrels, the cylinder should be pierced for twelve balls. For a cannon, the improvement is placed upon four wheels, as in ordinary cases,
- gage-screw G
- the improvement may also be placed below the axle, thus doubling the number of guns.
- the guns may be fired either with percussion-caps or by means of a match.
Description
O. STAUP &C. J. STEINBAGH. PORTABLE BATTERY 0R PLATOON GUN.
No. 34,017, Patented Dec. 24, 1861.
'from two inches in thickness to any thickness UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
C. STAUF AND O. J. STEINBAOH, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.
IMPROVEMENT IN PORTABLE BATTERY OR PLATOON GUNS.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 34,017, dated December 24, 1861.
To all uhmrrit may concern:
Be it known that we, CONRAD STAUF and CRISTIAN JosEYF STEINBACH, of the city of St. Louis, county of St. Louis, and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Im provement in Fire-Arms, called the Portable Battery, applicable to any description of fire-arms, from a pistol to acannon; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being bad to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which the battery and all its parts are shown, the diflerent parts being marked with the letters of the alphabet.
The following is a description of the battery or improvement. It consists of a cylinder, A,
desired and from two inches in diameter to anydiameter required, revolving horizontally. This cylinder may be pierced with seventy-five or more chambers, according to its thickness.
It may be loaded or charged as it revolves,
thus making it a perpetually-repeating gun.
Instead, of the chambered horizontal cylinder A l'evolvingon a vertical axis, as shown, a chamber ed spherical breech of the same diameter may be used, revolved upon a transverse or horizontal axis, or, as an obvious equivalent, two or more disk or annular c3 linders, A, intersecting each other at a transverse axis, in the manner of meridian lines, may be used, thereby greatly increasing the number of charges held by the battery. The charges are placed in this cylinder, and in front of it are the barrels, twenty-five or more in number, which are stationary, and arranged in a fanlike form, in the segment ofa circle, as seen at G in diagram. Each chamber in the cylinder corresponds with and comes opposite to a barrel at the moment of discharge. They are fired or discharged by means of the locks H. It may be fired as fast as it can be loaded, and as many as four hundred and eighty balls may be fired in one minute. If the invention be applied to pistol or musket barrels, the cylinder should be pierced for twelve balls. For a cannon, the improvement is placed upon four wheels, as in ordinary cases,
and by means of a gage-screw, G, it may be elevated or depressed .in a moment to any angle desired.
The improvement may also be placed below the axle, thus doubling the number of guns.
The guns may be fired either with percussion-caps or by means of a match.
The entire improvement or part of it may be covered with sheetdron, so that the men and 1 CONRAD STAUF. CRISTIAN JOSEYF STEINBACH.
Witnesses:
FEANcIs MINOR, Joan T. HOLMES.
Publications (1)
| Publication Number | Publication Date |
|---|---|
| US34017A true US34017A (en) | 1861-12-24 |
Family
ID=2103603
Family Applications (1)
| Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| US34017D Expired - Lifetime US34017A (en) | Improvement in portable battery or platoon guns |
Country Status (1)
| Country | Link |
|---|---|
| US (1) | US34017A (en) |
-
0
- US US34017D patent/US34017A/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
Similar Documents
| Publication | Publication Date | Title |
|---|---|---|
| US26919A (en) | Improvement in repeating fire-arms | |
| US34017A (en) | Improvement in portable battery or platoon guns | |
| US28437A (en) | Improvement in revolving fire-arms | |
| US640070A (en) | Firearm. | |
| US30446A (en) | Improvement in magazine fire-arms | |
| US36836A (en) | Improvement in revolving battery-guns | |
| US35404A (en) | Improvement n revolving fire-arms | |
| US41166A (en) | Improvement in fire-arms | |
| US32685A (en) | Improvement in fire-arms | |
| US32768A (en) | Improvement in breech-loading ordnance | |
| US6945A (en) | Improvement in faucet-breech guns | |
| US28461A (en) | Improvement in revolving fire-arms | |
| US5146A (en) | Improvement in fire-arms | |
| US27342A (en) | Improvement in rifled fire-arms | |
| US33655A (en) | Improvement in breech-loading fire-arms | |
| US36555A (en) | Improvement in revolvsng ordnance | |
| US43259A (en) | Improvement in breech-loading pistols | |
| US45623A (en) | Improvement in many-barreled cannons | |
| US1323162A (en) | davison | |
| US20608A (en) | Improvement in breech-loading cannon | |
| US15041A (en) | Improvement in | |
| US85120A (en) | Improvement in breech-loading fire-arms | |
| US27374A (en) | Improvement in self-loading fire-arms | |
| US33544A (en) | Improvement in repeating-gun batteries | |
| US29437A (en) | Improvement in repeating ordnance |