US243334A

US243334A - Cartridge

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Publication number: US243334A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1881-06-21
Anticipated expiration: 1898-06-21

Description

E. WHITNEY.

Cartridge.

No. 243,334. Pat-ent edlune I881.

UNITED. ST TE PATENT FFICE.

ELI WHITNEY, OF new HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

CARTRIDGE.

, To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ELI WHITNEY, of New Haven,'in the countyof New Haven and State of Connecticut, have'invented a new Improvementin Cartridges; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with v the accompartying-drawing and the letters of reference marked thereon. to be a full, clear,

and exact description of the same, and which said drawing constitutes part of this specification, and'represents, in sectional side view. a cartridge embodying my invention.

1 This invention relates to an improvement in cartridges, designed with special reference to cartridges used in magazine-arms.

Center-lire cartrir'lges are now almost uni versally used in magazine-arms. As they lie in the magazine heads to points, accidental explosions not infrequently occur, because of the primer of the forward cartridge being brought into sudden forcible contact with the ball of the cartridge next in rear. 4

Various mechanical devices have been applied to the magazine to prevent the possible contact of one cartridge with the next in rear of it, but as yet with no great success.

The object of this invention is to construct a cartridge so that no explosion can occur from the contact of the primer of one cartridge with the point of the one next in rear; audit consists in constructing the bullet with a cushion at its point of such flexible or elastic material that no forcible or exploding blow can be produced by it on the primer of the next cartridge.

A represents the metal shell, and B the bullet, combined into.a cartridge in the usual manner. The bullet is made with a cavity in the center of its forward end, and into this cavity a cushion, a, is introduced, made from indie-rubber, soft leather, or other flexible or elastic material, so as to project slightly from the end of the ball, as shown. .This cushion is the only part of one cartridge whieh'ean p'ossibly come in contact with the primer of the 45 nextcartridgewhileintliemagazine. Because r of its flexible or elastic character, nothing ap proximating an explosive blow can be imparted to the primer by it hence all possible danger of explosion of the cartridge in the magazine is avoided. The cushion only needs to enter the bullet a sufticient distance to retain it in position, and not so as to in any practicable degree lighten the forward end of the bullet; hence the cushion in no way interferes with the progress of the bullet through the air, it maintaining its axial position as Well with the cushion as without. I

I do not wish to be understood to broadly claim providing a cartridge with a cushion to protect its primer, as such,'I am aware, is not new.

I claiml A cartridge having the forward end of .the, bullet provided with an elastic or flexible cushion at the center, and sees to project there from, substantially as described.

Witnesses:

JOHN E EARLE, L. 1). ROGERS.

,E-LI .WHir EY.