US29331A - Improved chain-shot battery - Google Patents
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- F41A—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE
- F41A21/00—Barrels; Gun tubes; Muzzle attachments; Barrel mounting means
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- the object of my invention is to produce a battery of perfectly, equally, and readily adjustable barrels, which will be always sure to be fired precisely at the same moment.
- the accompanying drawings exhibit the principle of the mode by which I accomplish this.
- a suitable gun carriage or block, A is provided, in which is pivoted by trunnions a a'a table, 0.
- the gun-barrels B B are mounted, and it is adjustable to a horizontal or any inclined position required for pointing the battery by an elevating-screw, l), or its equivalent.
- the two barrels B B are pivoted to each other or together and to the table 0 around a common axis, the union being formed by divided journals E E or their equivalents.
- a common vent, f is situated in the common axis of the adjustable motion of the barrels, a branch, g, leading therefrom to each of the bores of the barrels, as shown in Fig. 3, the distances from the vent to each bore being nearly or exactly equal, and the two branches being subject to exactly the same conditions, so that when ignition takes place at said vent, by whatever means, the two charges in the bores must necessarily be fired at precisely the same inomenta desideratum of the utmost importance.
- a support ing-rim, i,or its equivalent, concentric with the pivots of the barrels, is situated on the front end of the table 0, and on this, the diverging and converging adjustable movements of the barrels take place.
- a sight-point, Z, exactlyin the central longitudinal line between the bar. rels, and of the common axis of their adjusting motions, is also located on the front end of the table 0.
- the adjustable motions of the two barrels take place simultaneously and equally on both sides of this point, in order that the aim may not be disturbed by any adj ustment of the barrels.
- wheel, G having screws 0 0 on the two ends of its axis, one being right and the other left, the threads thereof being also exactly equal.
- These screws enter, respectively, nuts (I d, which are pivoted vertially in the rear ends or knob of the barrels, substantially as represented.
- both barrels will be caused to diverge equally from each other in respect to the central longitudinal or sight line, f Z, and by turning the wheel G the other way the barrels'will be caused to approach or converge toward each other in a similar way.
- the gunbarrels B B are so mounted on the table 0 as to be nearly or exactly balanced or poised over the trunnions a a of said table.
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C. B. THAYER.
Muzzle-Loading Ordnance.
Patented July 24. 1860 Wi'fizamsjf I I N. PETERS, ruom-Lnnoelilmsn, WASH in consequence of other variable circumstances,
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PATENT OFFICE. I
crnns B. THAYER, or BOSTON, ASSIGNOR TO cHAnnns ,nonmso v, or
' OAMBRIIDGEPORT,
MASSACHUSETTS.
lMPl-IOVEDCHAIN-SHOT BATTERY.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 29,3311, dated July 24, 1860.
To all whom, it may concern:
Be it known that I, OYRUs B. THAYER, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a-new and Improved Adjustable Chain-Shot Battery,- and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification- Figure 1 being a plan of the battery; Fig. 2, a side elevation thereof; Fig. 3, a transverse vertical section of the same in the plane indicated by the line .70 m, Fig. 1.
Like letters designate corresponding parts in all the figures.
In throwing chain-shot from two gun-barrels placed side by side, it is necessary, for the proper direction and passage of the shot that the chain connecting the two balls should be kept straightened, and to accomplish this the axes of the two gun-barrels composing the battery are caused to diverge slightly from breech to muzzle. It is also necessary, or very desirable, in throwing to different distances, and
to vary the degreeof divergence by some suitable means of adjusting the relative positions of the two guns. Various methods of accomplishing these results have been devised; but all are liable to serious and insurmountable objections. Especially when the two gunsare made adjustable to each other, a difficulty has arisen in not being able to fire the guns exactly at the same moment-an indispensable condition to the proper movement of the shot.
The object of my invention is to produce a battery of perfectly, equally, and readily adjustable barrels, which will be always sure to be fired precisely at the same moment. The accompanying drawings exhibit the principle of the mode by which I accomplish this. A suitable gun carriage or block, A, is provided, in which is pivoted by trunnions a a'a table, 0. On this table the gun-barrels B B are mounted, and it is adjustable to a horizontal or any inclined position required for pointing the battery by an elevating-screw, l), or its equivalent. The two barrels B B are pivoted to each other or together and to the table 0 around a common axis, the union being formed by divided journals E E or their equivalents. The location of the axis of the pivots is just between the barrels, nearly or exactly in the transverse plane passing through the rear ends of their bores h h, indicated in the drawings. A common vent, f, is situated in the common axis of the adjustable motion of the barrels, a branch, g, leading therefrom to each of the bores of the barrels, as shown in Fig. 3, the distances from the vent to each bore being nearly or exactly equal, and the two branches being subject to exactly the same conditions, so that when ignition takes place at said vent, by whatever means, the two charges in the bores must necessarily be fired at precisely the same inomenta desideratum of the utmost importance. A support ing-rim, i,or its equivalent, concentric with the pivots of the barrels, is situated on the front end of the table 0, and on this, the diverging and converging adjustable movements of the barrels take place. A sight-point, Z, exactlyin the central longitudinal line between the bar. rels, and of the common axis of their adjusting motions, is also located on the front end of the table 0. The adjustable motions of the two barrels take place simultaneously and equally on both sides of this point, in order that the aim may not be disturbed by any adj ustment of the barrels.
The device employed or preferredv for adj usting the barrels in the manner required, as specified above, wheel, G, having screws 0 0 on the two ends of its axis, one being right and the other left, the threads thereof being also exactly equal. These screws enter, respectively, nuts (I d, which are pivoted vertially in the rear ends or knob of the barrels, substantially as represented. j
It is obvious that by turning the wheel G oneway both barrels will be caused to diverge equally from each other in respect to the central longitudinal or sight line, f Z, and by turning the wheel G the other way the barrels'will be caused to approach or converge toward each other in a similar way. The gunbarrels B B are so mounted on the table 0 as to be nearly or exactly balanced or poised over the trunnions a a of said table.
I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the described nor any other precise construction of the parts of the battery. Any variation thereof may be adopted,
substantially as consists of a turning or hand the two charges exactly at the same moment,
substantially as and for the purposes herein specified.
In witness that the above is a true specification of my improved chain-shot battery, I hereunto set my hand this 21st day of September, 1859.
CYRUS B. THAYER. [n s.]
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CHARLES RoBINsoN, Onanmas E. WIGeENs.
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US4635526A (en) * | 1982-10-25 | 1987-01-13 | Luigi Franchi S.P.A. | Weapon for launching a number of grenades |
US4922588A (en) * | 1983-12-30 | 1990-05-08 | First Brands Corporation | Single hinge interlocking closure profile configuration |
US4701358A (en) * | 1984-03-21 | 1987-10-20 | The Dow Chemical Company | Thermoplastic film with integral closures and reclosable container formed therefrom |
US4635294A (en) * | 1985-04-05 | 1987-01-06 | Minigrip Incorporated | Material for making three reclosable bag sections from extruded plastic material |
US4629524A (en) * | 1985-04-17 | 1986-12-16 | Minigrip Incorporated | Making reclosable bag material |
US4759642A (en) * | 1986-08-11 | 1988-07-26 | Minigrip, Inc. | Reclosable bag especially suitable for cereal packaging, and method |
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