US336680A - Shot-concentrator - Google Patents

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H. E. WINANS &u G. N.'WOODEN.

A SHOT GO-NCBNTRATOR. No. 336.680. Patented Peb. 23, 1886.

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SHOT-CONCENTRATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 336,680, dated February 23, 1886.

Application filed June 20, 1885. Serial No. lfiflflsl. (1\'0 model) T 0 all whom it may concrn:

Be it known that we, HENRY E. TINANS and GEORGE N. WOODEN, citizens of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvenents in Shot- Concentrators; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,` and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawiugs, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in devices used to regulate the tlight of the load of shot from a Cartridge, and is designed to cause the shot to be more accurately projected `froni the gun and prevent the same from either massing together or scatteriug widely, the improved device allowing the shot to spread with regularity fron the time the load leaves the gun until it reaches a point (usually about thirty yards) where it is no longer needed. I

The iuvcntion consists in the device for regulating the flight of the shot, substantially as illustrated in the drawings, and described and claimed hereinafter.

ln the drawings, Figure l'is aside el-evation of a shot-Cartridge. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of a shot-cartridge With our improved shot concentrator or regulator arranged therein. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the same; and Figs. et and 5 are a longitudinal section and side elevation, respectivcly, ot' the concentrator illustrated in Fig. 3.

Similar reference -letters indicate correspoudiug parts in each of the views above descrbed.

In the drawings, a is the cartridge-shell, I the powder-receptacle, c the shot-chanber, Near the open end of the cartridge shell in the shotchamber is the concentrator, which consists of an outer shell, e, made of any suitable ma-` terial, pasteboard being preferable, having one end, e', cut or scalloped, as indicated in Figs. 5 and 6. NVithin the shell e is arranged another shelhf, shorter than the outer shell, and made preferably of tiu. Across the face of the shell f are arranged four wires, g g', which cross each other at right angles,

two, g, crossing in one direction, and two, i

in another, leaving openings between of about the same area. The wires cross the face ot' the shellf and extend in between the same and the shell e, as indicated in Fig. 5, by which arrangement they are held in place.

The object of notching or scallopingone end of the casing or shell e is to permit it to spread by the force of the explosion when the load starts and hug the btrrel, thereby insuring certainty of flight. i,

The peculiar arrangenent and the number of wires employed give the greatest effectiveness to the fiight ot' the shot, allowing them to escape at the proper moment and in sufficient number.

Having' described our invention, we desire to claim the following:

1. A shot-concentrating device eonsisting of an outer casing having one end notched or scalloped, an inner shell arranged within said outer casing, and wires arranged across one end of the inner shell, and extending in between the said inner shell and the outer casing, said device being adapted to be arranged in a shot-cartridge, for the purpose set forth.

2. A shot-concentrating device consisting of an outer casing having one end scalloped, an inner shell arranged within said outer casing, and four wiresarranged across the face of said inner shell, dividing the opening therein into spaces of app roximatel y the same area, the ends of said wires extending in between the outer and inner casing, said conceutrating device being adapted-to be arranged in a shotcartridge, for the purposes set forth.

3. The combination with a shot-Cartridge, of a shot-conccntrating device cousisting ofan outer casing having one end scalloped, an in ner shell arranged within said outer casing, and four wires arranged across the face of said inner shell, dividing the opening therein into spaces of approximately the same area, the ends of said wires extending in between the outer and inner shells, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testinony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands this 9th day of Juno, 1885.

HENRY E. WINANS. GEORGE N. WOODEN.

XVitnesses:

OLIVER DRAKE,

OSCAB A. MICHEL.

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