US449706A

US449706A - Toy detonator

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Publication number: US449706A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1891-04-07
Anticipated expiration: 1908-04-07

Description

(No Model.)

A. L. SEYMOUR.

TOY DETONATOR.

Patented Apr. 7, 1891.

IIVVE/VTOR Seym u? WITNESSES] UNITED STATES PATENT OEmcE.

ALLEN L. SEYMOUR, OF ORANGE, NEVJERSEY.

TOY DETO NATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,706, dated April 7, 1891.

Application filed November 8, 1890. Serial No. 370,787- (No model.)

i To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALLEN L. SEYMOUR, a citizen of the United States, residing in Orange, county of Essex, and State of New J ersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cartridge Exploders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to cartridge-exploders,

the object being to provide an article to be used principally as a toy, the function of which is to explode blank cartridges. Devices of this kind have before been devised; but so far as known to me their construction is such that there is always more or less danger in handling them by reason of the manner in which the cartridges are exploded.

The device I have invented is very simple and is adapted to fire any number of cartridges within limits simultaneously. The cartridges are fired by concussion with the ground and the charge is fired directly against the ground, so that no danger attaches to the use of the The details of the invention will now be described and claimed.

In the drawings,Figure 1 represents a side elevation of my improved cartridge-exploder; Fig. 2, a vertical section of the same; Fig. 3, a plan of the face of the hammer, and Fig. at a vertical section of a modification.

a represents, preferably, a circular block of metal having arranged around it in a circle between its center and periphery a series of vertical holes or chambers a, which are of the right size to fit the body of a cartridge-shell. On the lower side of this block there is a central pin a the function of which will be described later on, and on the upper side of this block there is an extended pin or shank a having at its upper end an eye, in which may be secured the end of a string b. Upon this shank a is another circular block 0, which I call a hammer. This block has a central perforation,which fits loosely over the shank a so that it may slide freely thereon. The lower or inner face of the hammer is provided with a circular concentric offset 0', the diameter of which is such that its edge just overlaps the inner side of the openings at in the block a.

The operation of the device is as follows:

One or more blank cartridges are placed in the respective openings a of the block a, pointing downward, and are shoved in until the heads of the cartridges rest upon the upper face of the block d. Then by lifting the device by means of the string 1) to the height of one and a half or two feet, and allowing it to suddenly drop upon a hard substance, the inertia of the hammer will drive the edge of the oifset 0 against the edges of the cartridgeheads with sufficient force to explode them. The charge of the cartridges, it will be observed, is fired straight toward the ground or the object upon which the device falls, and therefore can do no harm. The pin a strikes first, and beinglocated centrally insures that the force of the blow shall be vertical and that all of the cartridges shall be struck with the same degree of force. It will also be observed that the circular offset 0 on the hammer permits of the firing of any number of cartridges at a time, and although it is free to rotate on the shank it will fire a cartridge when in any position.

Fig. 4: shows a modification in which the pin a is done away with and the bottom of the block a made conical instead. This serves the same purpose as the pin.

It is to be noticed that the chambers a, in the block are of uniform diameter, and that they communicate directly and at a right angle with the upper surface of the block, whereby the said chambers are adapted to receive any ordinary shell cartridges. The usual flange of the shell rests on said upper surface and retains the cartridge in proper position to be fired by the action of the offset 0' of the hammer. Furthermore, since the chamber or chambers a are located one side of the projection a which strikes the ground, a lateral space under the block is left for the escape of the gases, and thus the block will not be thrown upward by the force of the explosion, as would be the result if the chamber were located at thecenter or bottom of the block.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. The combination, with a block provided with a plurality of vertical cartridge-chambers extending through it and having also a projection between the said chambers, of a hammer extending equallyover the said chambers, whereby a plurality of cartridges may be exploded simultaneously.

2. The combination of the block provided with Vertical chambers for cartridges having a central projection on its lower side and a central project-ion or shank on its upper side, the said chamber being formed on one side of the center of the block, and the hammer mounted and adapted to slide upon said shank, substantially as described.

The combination, with a block having a projection on its under side, and a cartridgechamber located in a vertical plane one side of the projection, and having also a shank on the opposite side from the projection, of a hammer movable on said shank, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALLEN L. SEYMOUR. lVitnesses:

FRANK S. OBER, EDWARD A. WAGNER.