US1374706A - Projectile and bomb combined - Google Patents

Description

R. L. WRIGHT.

PROJECTILE AND BOMB corvlBlNEp.-

APPLlCAlON FILED MAY 20, *1918.2

Patented Apr. 12, 1921.

@E H @N a (m WN. NN. MN A ll ll UNITED ST PATENT ROBERT LEE WRIGHT, OF 'LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

PROJ ECTILE A N D BOMB COMBINED.

To all whom t may concern.'

a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of- Los Angeles and State of `California, have invented new and useful Improvements in a Projectile and Bomb Combined, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a modified form of my inventions filed in the United States Patent Ofiiee on Februaryv 23rd 1918, Serial Numbers 218,796 and 218,797, and relates to shells, projectiles, cartridges, and bombs and particularly to explosive shells, with or without bombs in the shell pointers or attenuated nose. Vhen I mention projectile hereinafter in this specification it also means shells and cartridges, and when 1 hereinafter mention shell-pointer it means the long slim attenuated nose with or without bombs land explosives in them, although I have named them shell-pointers, I do not limit myself to any particular shape, size, thickness or length of the long slim shell-pointer, or the large part of the projectile, or the large part of the projectile and bombs combined, and I do not limit myself to any particular shape or size of the bombs and explosives in the shell-pointers, and 1 do not limit myself to any number of bombs in the shell-pointers, there may be many of them or all of the shell-pointers wherever any room is to be had in them may be filled with explosives, as desired. This projectile with the bombs orl explosives in the shellpointer will make more than one hit with one shot if the springs on the electric firing pins that explodes the bomb are made stronger than the spring on the electric tiring pin that explodes the bomb in front of it, and the shell-pointer may also be creased between the bombs in a way such that they will break off easily as the -projectile goes forward, thus making a plurality of hits at one shot or a long string of ,explosions when the point of the shell-pointer strikes the object or the ground. The projectile and bombs or explosives in the shell-pointer to explode in the air before striking the ground and allows all of the explosives to scatter freely instead of exploding lying on the ground and making a great waste of explosives by the charge going into the ground and. confining the explosions to a small space as lthe old style way of exploding a projectile or bomb does. These shell-pointers Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 12, V1921.

Application filed May 20, 1918. Serial No. 235,482.

' may be used to explode any' kind of a bomb in the saine way before the bomb hits the ground and they are used in the saine way in exploding all explosive projectiles with or without bombs and explosives in the shellpointers. Other objects of my invention are for the long slim shell-pointer to be made a suitable length and thickness aecordin r to the sr/,e of the shell or projectile t0 scatter the air or water as theA case may be and allow the large part of the projectile to go forward without coming in contact with the great air or water pressure i usually driven 'before av projectile, thus causing my projectile to goat a greater speed and go a greater distance and hit harder und penetrate into and through the object hit whether it be air, water, or solid object hit, thereby making the explosions more damaging. One more object is to so construct the projectile that when the shell-pointer strikes the water Aat any angle it will not ricochet or rebound but will dive or subnierge at the place it vstrikes the water and will keep its course reinvention consists in the novel details of construction and combination of parts more fully hereinafter disclosed and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings forming a part of tliis specification, in which h ke numerals designate like parts in all the views,

ligure 1 is a longitudinal sectional View showing my projectile having an electric j fuse in the shell'pointer or nose for firing the device on impact.

Fig. 2 shoivs a longitudinal cross sectional View of a modification. l

Figs. 3 and 4 show details of the wiring.

4As shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, the

projectile body is indicated at 1. rihe body 1 is provided with a long slim shell pointer for the purpose of enabling the said body to more readily 'penetrate the air, water or othermaterial with which it comes in contact. l

A shell pointer of the type set forth may be used on various projectiles regardless of their size or construction, it being noted that the long attenuation will enable the point to pierce at almost any angle at which the shell strikes.

The size of the shell or shell pointer and the kind of shell used with my device are A ber may be employed.

not limited and it may be used with either solid non-explosive or explosive shells.`

The removable and slidable -point of the shell pointer isA indicated at 2,-and 3 indr.

Vis indicated at 10.

Current is led from the contact at 10 through wires 12 to the electric cap or detonator 14. The operation of the device fof' Fig. 1 is as follows: l/Vhen the end of the slidable point of the shell pointer 2 is struck or strikes an object it moves back compressing the spring 9 and the switch 8 closes the circuit' through the contact 10 causing the electric cap 111 to fire the explosive 13. The shell 1 is provided with a suitable base plug 15 as shown.

In Fig. 2, which shows a modification ofmy device as shown in Fig. 1, the projectile proper, with explosives in the shell-pointer and like Fig. 1, it applies to all explosives and non explosive projectiles from the smallest to the largest inclusive, is shown at 16. 17 indicates the explosives, held in place by the base plug 15. An electric fuse is shown at 18, and 19 refers to wires which lead from the fuse'or contact 2O to the [iring device 18. A circuit closer is indicated at 21, vmounted in the end of the shell pointer. rlhis last mentioned circuit closer is for the purpose of completing the circuit through the contact 2O when the shell pointer is screwed into the end of the pro jectile as shown. The shell pointer in the present modification comprises an extension carrying one or more bombs; in the present instance two are shown, but this is only by way of illustration, as any desired num- The stem of the pointer is indicated at 23, and 24 is the electric iring cap which fires the explosive 26 in bomb 27. The wires for the firing circuit are shown at 25. The stem or shell pointer may be creased or kerfed as shown at 28, if it is desired to make the shell pointer weaker or more easily broken between the bombs than at other points, so that a plurality of hits may be made with one shot. When shot the shell pointer if creased as shown at 28 will break and a better result be attained If a single hit only is desired, l do not crease or kerf the shell pointer. lf on land, it will do a large amount of damage on account of the large amount of space the ex- Lerares plosions cover at one shot; and if it strikes the Water when fired at a ship, it will-keep its course. lf fired at the side of a ship it will take a long space out of the side of the ship, thus making one shot do the work of many. More hits maybe registered with this projectile and bomb combined than can be made with other projectiles.

An electric cap for firing the explosive in the foremost bomb is indicated at 29. The explosive is shown at 30 in the bomb 32. A contact is indicated at 31 adapted to be closed by the fuse or switch 33 in the end of the slidable point 3e. A collar is depicted at 35, and 36 is a cap therefor. batter for firing is indicated at 37. 38 is the slidable point. A spring 34 serves to hold the slidable point of the shell pointer from coming in contact'with the electric fuse 31.

lft will be noted that in both forms shown the shell pointers may be very easily removed from the shells by unscrewing the pointers at 11 and 22 as shown in the drawlng.

The operation of the device of Fig. 2 will be clear from the description of parts taken in connection with the description of the operation of the device of Fig. 1. 'I reserve the right to use any of the well known time devices' to explode my projectiles and bombs in any way and at any time that I desire todo so.

' lt is obvious that those skilled inthe art may vary the details of the construction as ,well as the arrangement of parts Without departing from the spirit Vof the invention, and therefore, l do not wish to be limited to the above disclosure except as may be required by the claims.

lVhat l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is z" 1. ln a projectile, a slender rod extending from the nose, a plurality of bombs mounted on said rod in spaced relation and means for simultaneously igniting said bombs upon engagement with the target.

2. ln a projectile, a slender rod extending from the nose thereof, a plurality of substantially ovoid bombs arranged in spaced relation upon the rod, and means for simultaneously discharging said bombs upon engagement of the projectile with the target.

3. ln a proj ect-ile, a relatively long slender rod extending from the nose having portions of the slender rod enlarged to form charge receiving bombs substantially ovoid in outline, a member movably mbunted in the outermost bomb and means operable upon engagement of said member with a target to simultaneously discharge said bombs,

el. projectile and bomb combined, a suitable cavity to hold an explosive charge within the projectile and within the bomb, an explosive charge within the cavity of the projectile and the cavity of the bomb, said bomb being larger in circumference in the center and sloping from the center in a way to form a -point at each end of the bomb, a shell-pointer mounted in the forward end of the bomb and extending out of the front end of the bomb, a slidable point with means to hold same in position mounted on the forward end of the shell-pointer, and means to ignite the explosive charge in both the projectile and bomb when the slidable point mounted in the forward end of the shellpointer comes in Contact with the ground, object or target.

' 5. A projectile having a suitable cavity within to l'iold an explosive charge, a point thereon, and a charge of explosives within the cavity, a threaded opening in the point of the projectile suitable to recess one end of a shell-pointer and av removable shellpointer composed of a plurality of parts longitudinally mounted in' the point of the projectile, a removable and slid-able point mounted longitudinally in the forward end of the shell-pointer, an electric battery mounted in the slidable point, two pairs of contacts, one of same being movable withishe slidable point and the other stationarily' mounted and wiring connecting said contacts -with the fuse and battery whereby inward movement of the slidable point will cause engagementbetween the contacts to complete a circuit through the fuse and ignite the explosive charge within the cavity of the projectile when the slidable point mounted in the forward .end of the shellpointer comes in contact with the ground, objectvor target.

6. A projectile having a suitable cavity within to hold an explosive charge, a point thereon, and a charge of explosives within the cavity, a rod with a longitudinal channel therein, one end being screwed into a threaded opening in the point of the projectile and the forward end of the rod extending out from. the point ofthe projectile, a plurality of bombs formed in spaced relation upon the rod, each containing a cavity within, an explosive charge within the cavity of each bomb, a shell-pointer composed of a plurality of parts with a longitudinal channel therein, one end being screwed into a threaded opening in the point of the Anost forward bomb, and `the forward end of the shellpointer extending out from the point of the bomb, a removable and slidable point with means to hold same in position longitudinally mounted in the Vforward end of the shell-pointer, an electric battery mounted in the slidable point, two pairs of contacts, one of same being movable with the slidable point and the other stationarilyy mounted and wiring connecting said contacts with the fuse and electric battery whereby inward movement of slidable point will cause the engagement between the contacts to complete a circuit through the fuse and ignite the explosive charge within the cavity of each bomb and projectile when the slidable point mounted in the forward end of the shell-pointer comes in contact with the ground, object or target.

7. A projectile having a suitable cavity within, to hold an explosive c-harge, a point thereon, and a charge of explosives within the cavity, a threaded opening in the point of the projectile and a shell pointer composed of a plurality of parts with a longitudinal channel` therein with one end screwed into the threaded opening in the point of the projectile and the forward end of the shell pointer extending out from the point of the projectile, a removable and slidable point longitudinally mounted in the forward end of the shell pointer and means engageable by the slidable point to ignite the explosive charge within the cavity of the projectile by percussion when the slidable point mounted in lthe forward end of the shell-pointer comes in contact with the ground, object or target.

8. A projectile having a charge therein, a fuse located within the charge, a relatively long slender rod extending from the nose of the projectile, a plurality of bombs arranged along the rod, a movable member in the outermost bomb, a source of current and wiring connecting the bombs in parallel and connected with a fuse, and means operable upon engagement of the movable member with a target to complete a circuit through said bomb and fuse to simultaneously ignite the charges contained therein.

9. An ordnance shellhaving a projection secured to the forward end thereof'extend-- ing axially and formed with a longitudinal bore in combination with a plurality of cavities larger in circumference than the longitudinal bore and in alinement and communicating with said bore within said projection, explosive within each of said cavities and means to ignite said explosive within each of said cavities within said projection.

l0. An ordnance shell having a projection secured to the forward end thereof extending axially and formed with a longitudinal bore in combination 'with a cavity larger in circumference than said longitudinal bore and in alinement and communicating with said bore within said projection, explosive within said cavity and means to ignite said explosive within said cavity withinsaid proj ection.

11. i An ordnance shell having a projection secured to the forward end and formed with a longitudinal bore in combination with a contact ignitin means, having a cavity with a detonating c arge larger in circumference than said longitudinal bore and said cavity in alinement with the bore and at the n: part a similar oletonating4 charge in ope tive relation and communicating with and". in alinementwith the explosive charge in the shell.

l2. An ordnane shell having a projection secured to the foi-Ward end and formed with a longitudinal bore'in combination Willa a Contact igniting means, having a cavity Wieli 10 a detonating Charge laige' in eircumferenoe in the center and sloping from the center to the longitudinal bore at each end, and said cavity in. alinelnent with the bore and at the year part a similar d etonating charge in operative relation and communicating with and in alinelnent with the explosive charge .le shell.

i testimony whereof, have hereunto sa; my, hand.

ROBERT LEE WRIGHT.

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