US46259A - Improvement in breech-loading ordnance - Google Patents
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F41—WEAPONS
- F41F—APPARATUS FOR LAUNCHING PROJECTILES OR MISSILES FROM BARRELS, e.g. CANNONS; LAUNCHERS FOR ROCKETS OR TORPEDOES; HARPOON GUNS
- F41F1/00—Launching apparatus for projecting projectiles or missiles from barrels, e.g. cannons; Harpoon guns
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F41—WEAPONS
- F41A—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE
- F41A1/00—Missile propulsion characterised by the use of explosive or combustible propellant charges
- F41A1/04—Missile propulsion using the combustion of a liquid, loose powder or gaseous fuel, e.g. hypergolic fuel
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- my invention consists in a curved movable balance (containing two or more charge-chambers) operating in a section of a circle back and forward, and having the touch-hole at the side of the movable balance, the balance operating through the back end of the breech of the gun and moving from side to side.
- Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the cannon with its movablebalance.
- Fig. 2 shows the rear end of the cannon and the shape and movement of the balance.
- A represents the cannon or gun; B, a solid support cast with the cannon, to which the center of the balance 0 is attached by a screw-bolt, D, that acts as a pivot for the balance 0 to operate on.
- the top of the balance (3 is curved in a section of a circle and fits into a corresponding curved aperture, E, through the breech of the gun. It can be made as heavy as may be required, according to light or heavy ordnance, and in light guns a small handle at each side will answer to operate it, and in large ordnance a strong lever may be attached. As the top of the balance O moves through the gun the weight of the one side carries it to its place.
- the arms G on each side form a V-shaped support for the balance G.
- the bore H of the gun and the bore J ofthe balance 0 project slightly, so as to fit closely at K when they are drawn together to fire the gun, the balance 0 having two bores, J, so
- the touch-hole L is at the end of the balance 0, where it is most easily managed.
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J. A. MILLER Machine Gun. 1
Patented Feb. 7, 1865.
N. PETERS. FHOTO-UTHQGRAPM 2 Sheets--Sheet 2.
J. A. MILLER.
Machine Gun.
Patented Feb. 7, 1865.
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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JoHn A. MILLER, on IADUOAH, KENTUCKY.
IMPROVEM ENT IN BREECH-LOADING ORDNANCE.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 46,259, dated February 7, 1865.
- this specification.
The nature of my invention consists in a curved movable balance (containing two or more charge-chambers) operating in a section of a circle back and forward, and having the touch-hole at the side of the movable balance, the balance operating through the back end of the breech of the gun and moving from side to side.
Figure 1. represents a side elevation of the cannon with its movablebalance. Fig. 2 shows the rear end of the cannon and the shape and movement of the balance.
A represents the cannon or gun; B, a solid support cast with the cannon, to which the center of the balance 0 is attached by a screw-bolt, D, that acts as a pivot for the balance 0 to operate on. The top of the balance (3 is curved in a section of a circle and fits into a corresponding curved aperture, E, through the breech of the gun. It can be made as heavy as may be required, according to light or heavy ordnance, and in light guns a small handle at each side will answer to operate it, and in large ordnance a strong lever may be attached. As the top of the balance O moves through the gun the weight of the one side carries it to its place.
The arms G on each side form a V-shaped support for the balance G.
The bore H of the gun and the bore J ofthe balance 0 project slightly, so as to fit closely at K when they are drawn together to fire the gun, the balance 0 having two bores, J, so
that one is being loaded while the other is being fired.
The touch-hole L is at the end of the balance 0, where it is most easily managed.
I am aware that a block or square breech has been used having a lateral motion for loading at the breech but this I do not claim.
What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-
The shape and construction of the balance G, operating in a corresponding curved aperture, E, in the breech of the gun, in combinationwith the support B, as herein described, for the purpose of firing a cannon rapidly.
\ JOHN A. MILLER.
Witnesses:
J. FRANKLIN REIGART, EDM. F. BROWN.
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