US136000A - Improvement in torpedoes - Google Patents

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Torpedoes.

No. 136,000; Patented Feb.18,18 73.

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CHARLES NELSON, OF EAST NEYV YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN TORPEDOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,000, dated February 18, 1873.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES NELSON, or East New York, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Torpedoes, of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists of a torpedo in which the fulminate is separated from the powder, gravel, and other filling, and inclosed in a paper sack and fixed ou the center of the paper Wrapper, so as to be at the bottom part of the completed torpedo, which is most likely to strike when thrown, and, together with the filling, it is either iuclosed in one wrapper, or package of two or more plies of strong paper, except at their bottom, where each inner piece of paper has a large hole forming a kind of well, in the bottom of which the fulminate is placed, and the whole, including an exterior thin fancy-colored paper, are folded over the powder and secured by twisting together and gumming the twisted parts. The object is to guard against explosion by concussion of the sides of the torpedo, and to provide a wrapper or case that will not break open easily when subject to concussion, as the torpedoes 110w made do to such extent that it one in a mass or package explodes the whole will be fired.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the improved torpedo which I propose to make. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the inclosing papers. Fig. 3 is a plan of a little paper piece containing .the fulminate to be placed in the bottom of the torpedo; and Fig. 4 is a section of Fig. 2 on the line 00 1'.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is the outer ply of strong paper for inclosing the whole. B represents two inner plies ot' the same paper, but having a large hole, (1, at the center, forming a little well or pocket when laid flat, as represented in Fig. 4. D represents a little paper piece with the fuhninate attached to one side, which is placed on the sheet A at the center or in the bottom of said pocket, then a charge of powder and other filling, E, is put on the paper above the fulminate and the paper A B. Also, an outer and larger piece of thin colored paper, G, is folded up around the contents and. twisted and gumlned together, as shown in Fig. 1, making an oval package with a vertical conical extension, with the center of gravity near the bottom, so that when thrown from the hand to be exploded the bottom in which the t'ulminate is most exposed will strike the object against which the torpedo is thrown and cause it to explode; but this part covering the fulminate being considerably elastic and very strong, the torpedo will be much less liable to explode by the shock of another exploded by the side of it than the ordinary torpedoes; and in all other parts except the bottom such concussions will be absolutely harmless, because of not being expended on the fulminate or against it.

The outer covering of colored paper is employed merely to improve the appearance of the package.

Having thus described m yinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patcut- 1. A torpedo in which the fulminate is an ranged in the center of the wrapper A, separate from the other filling, and either inclosed or not in one or more pieces, B, of strong paper having a hole, 0, at the center, and all folded, twisted, and pasted together, substantially as described.

2. A torpedo, as described in the foregoing clause of the claim, having an outer covering of tissue or other colored paper, substantially as specified.

CHARLES NELSON.

\Vitnesses:

A. P. THAYER, T. B. MosHER.

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