US346718A - Shot and powder charger - Google Patents

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. S. .-CAPEWELL.

SHOT AND POWDER CHARGER.

Patented Aug. 3, 1886.

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' WALTER S. CAPES/VELE OF OAKVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

lsl-io'r AND POWDER CHARGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 346,718, dated August 3, 1886.

Application filed May 24, 1886. Serial No. 33,106. (No inndel.)

. To all whom t may concern/.5v

Be it known that I, WALTER S. CAPEWELL,

of Oakville, in the county of Litchfield and g State ofConnecticnt, ,have invented'a new Im- 5 provernent in Shot and Powder Chargers; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection lwith accompanying drawingsl and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part 'of this specification, andiepresent, inl- Figure l, a side view; Fig. 2, a side view turned one-fourth around; Fig. 3, a vertical portion enlarged; Fig.

section of the' charger 4, an inside View of the cap.

This invention 'relates to an improvement in shot and powder chargers, and particularly to that class in which the charger is adj nstable, to adapt it to charges ot' various quantities,and with a gate at the outer end, which isclosed when the gate or cut-off at the mouth ol' the iiask is open, and vice versa.

In the usual construction of chargers the shot or powder isiiable to clog at" the month of the fiask and Ainterfere with the proper workl ing of the cut-oft. l

vrIhe object of this invention is to avoid this difficulty; and it consists in the construction as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claim.

A represents the body to receive the powder or shot, as the case may be. Its neck end is closed by a cap, B, secured to the flask'in any suitable manner. Through the cap a'tube, 4(l, is introduced, opening into the flask in the usual manner for such chargers. Transversely across the inside ot' the cap B is a groove, vD, extending outside the ilask, as seen in Fig. et, and into which groove a gate, E, is arranged to slide outand in, and so as to open or eut oit' the tube O from the flask, in the usual manner for the gate in this class' ot' chargers. AUpon the inside of the cap, and upon the sideof the opening opposite the gate, is a recess, F, considerably deeper than the groove in which the gate works, as seen in Figs. 3 and 4. l

- G is a tube arranged outside the tube C,

- and so as to slide thereon in theusual inanner for the adjustable tube of this class of chargers. rlhe tube G is provided with a lateral of the liask, adapted distance between the two gates E I. The twogates are arranged in line witheach other, as shown, so that both may be moved 1n the same direction.

arm, J, extending from the one, E, and an arm,

K, extending'froni the gate I, and so as to liey upon each other, as seen in Fig. 3. In the one K is a longitudinal slot, a, through which a setscr fl), extends into the other arm, J, and by which the two arms may be clamped together at anypoint to which the gates may be set with relation to each other.

The gate I is longer than the gate E, and so that when the gate E is open the gate I is closed, as seen in Fig. 3. In this condition the contents ofthe frame arefree to rnninto the tube upon the gate I; but. when the two gates are forced in ward', as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 3, and 'so that the gate E will have passed over the inner end of the tube C, so as to close it, the gate I will lhave passed inward, to bring an opening, d, therein across the lower end ot' the tube G, and so that the contents in the tube C above the gate II and below the gate E may escape. Then on the return of the gates the gate I closes thcpassage from the tube C, and the gate E opens the tube to the flask to receive a second charge.

As the normal condition of the parts is with the gates in the position of the tube C closed by the gate I, and that the gates may be retained in that position, I arrange a spring, L, the tendency of which is to force and hold the gates in thcirnormal position, but so as to The two Oates are connected b an v being.

yield under the inward movement of the gate, V

as indicated by broken lines, Fig. 3.

To vary the charge the outer tube, G, with l the gate it carries, is moved toward or from the cap, as the case may be, andas indicated by broken lines, Fig. 3, and when so adjusted the outer tube may be clamped upon the inner tube by a sct-screw, M; or the setscrew b may be alone depended upon for that purpose; or, the screw M being used, the screw b may serve only as the means for making the connection between the two gates, that the movement of one may beimparted to the other.

` strueti ng shot or grains up or down, as the case may be, and thus avoid obstruction to the gate, which sometimes exists in the more common construction. Y,

The adjacent parts are provided with graduations, as seen in Fig. 2, in the usual manuel', and so as io measure the contents of the charger.

To preserve the gates from heilig forced outward too "i'ar by the spring, the inner end 'of the gate extends beyond the end of the guide H, and is bent down, as seen in Fig. 1, so as to form a stop to limit the return movement of the gates.

I claim- In a charging-desk, the combination of the flask A, the cap B, fixed thereto, and with a tube, @extending therefrom, .opening into the ask through the cap, the gate E, arranged to slide in a groove upon the inside of the cap and transversely across the opening C, the cap constructed with the recess F upon its inside, and about said opening, and below the plane of the said gate E, with a tube, G, adjustable on said tube C, a second gate, I, arranged in guides in said tube Gr, and so as to slide transversely through it, the said gate constructed with an opening, d, the two gates adjustably connected, and the spring L, substantial] y as and for the purpose described.

- XV. S. GAPEWELL.

Titnessesz C. S. BRADLEY, 1t. l. BRAnLnY.

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