US350096A

US350096A - Salvator

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Publication number: US350096A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-10-05
Anticipated expiration: 1903-10-05

Description

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E. AMODEO-SALVATOR.

CARTRIDGE.

Patented Oct. 5, 1886.

W/T/VESSES.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMMANUEL AMODEO-SALVATOR, OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY.

CARTRIDGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,096; dated October 5, 1886.

Abulienlion lilcd March 2. 150-56.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, EMMANUEL Amooso- SA LVATOR, of the United States Navy, and a citizen of the Republic of France, havc iuvented certain ncw and useful Improvements in Cartridges; aml I do hereby declare the ibllowing to be a full, clear, and cxact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in'tbc art to which it appcrtains to makeand use the same.

The invention relatesto cartridges, and has for its objct the construction of means whereby they may be readity attached and detached from a ribbon or belt used for supplying magazine-guns.

Heretofore cartridges have been attached to belts by forming loops in the belt, by plastic material, or by flanges secured to the cartridgc and the belt.

In each and all of the forms known to me the fastening of the cartridge is attended with considerable expense in the preparation of the cartridge and the belt.

By my invention cartridges can be attached and detached with facility and at a very small cost.

The invention will be hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the-claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure l is a per spcetivc. yiew of a cartridge; Fig. 2, a plan; Fig. 3, a side. view, and Fig. i a perspective of a beltor ribbon with cartridges attached.

Reference being hiul to the drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, A represents a cartridge of ordinary constrnotiomexcept that it has a prong, a, formed thereon and integral with the cart ridge. The prong is cut out of metal by any suitable means, is free at its pointb, whichis adjacent to the flange 0, and connected with the metal at (1, near the front end of the cartridge.

To secure the cartridge to a belt, the prong is pierced through the belt or ribbon B from the under side at e, and pushed back on the Serial No. ill-3,719. (No model.)

upper side of the bclt to f, where it again pierces the belt and passes through to the under side, where the point oi the prong is protected from being struck and the cartridge displaced by any object coming in contact; therewith in handling the belt. \Vhcn the cartridge is displaced from the belt (which may be of any suitable fabric) and forced into the barrel of the gun by the breech-block or any other suitable means, the prong a is .rcturned to the body of the metal, pressed down, and forms a smooth surface with the exterior of the cartridge. \Vhen cartridges arc reloaded, the prong is again drawn out of its seat intho body of the mctal and attached to a belt in the manner above described;

It will be observed that by my construction the means for attacl'iing the cartridgc to the belt can be used as often as the cartridge will bear reloading, is always ready for use, and can be readily and speedily applied to a-bclt.

Having thus described my invention, what I. claim is I 1. A cartridge having a prongforined integral therewith extending rearwardly, and

the metal when inserted in the breech of a gun, substantially as described.

2. A cartridge having :1. prong cut out of the metal forming its \vall ,.with its free end directed toward the flange of the cartridge, 5YlbStfllltltlli as described.

3. A cartridge having a prong formed integral therewith and extending rearwardly, in combination with a belt or ribbon,to which the cartridge is attached by the prong being inserted through the bclt','snbstantiallyas dcscribed.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EMMANUEL AMODEO-SALYATOR.

Witnesses:

RICHARD SANDERS, S. A. TERRY.

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