US471703A

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Publication number: US471703A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-03-29
Anticipated expiration: 1909-03-29

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(No Model.)

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PYROTEOHNIG.

No. 471,703. Patented Mar. 29; 1892.

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PYROTECHNIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 471,703, dated March 29, 1892.

Application filed December 4, 1891. $erial No. 413,999- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLEMENTE DEL GRANDE, a subject of the King of Italy, and a resident of Isernia, in the Province of Oampobasso, Italy, but temporarily residing at Petersburg, in the county of Dinwiddie and State of Virginia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pyrotechnics, of which the following is a specification. r

The object of my invention is to provide a novel article of fire-works, which on ignition will give a loud whistle or a colored flame succeeded by a series of detonations, which detonations or explosions may vary in loudness, if desired, and may be either with or without the ejection of stars, colored balls, or rockets; and my invention consists of a tube or core charged with a whistling or other pyrotechnic compound and secured in any suitable Way to a handle, in combination with a series of bombs suspended from the tube and connected to the compound and to each other by a suitable fuse.

An article of this description is useful for pyrotechnic purposes in parades and celebrations, as well as for signaling purposes, wherein the loudness or nature of the whistle or flame and the succeeding detonations may be arranged in accordance with any predetermined code.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates my invention, A is a handle composed of wooden or other suitable material of any convenient length.

B is a tube or core of pasteboard, paper, or other suitable material charged with whistlin g or other pyrotechnic compound b-such, for example, as the whistling picrate of potash described in Letters Patent to Antonio del Grande, No. 411,714, September 24, 1889.

b is a fuse for igniting the compound.

The tube B is secured to the handle A in any suitable way. In the drawing it is shown as fastened by means of a wire or string a a.

C O C are bombs connected in a series by the fuse c to the compound in the tube B and hanging freely from said tube.

D is a wrapper of strong paper or other suitable material surrounding said fuse c and serving to suspend the bombs from the tube where a fuse is used, which entirely consumes when ignited.

E is a fancy wrapper, which may surround any or all of the various parts of the pyrotechnic, if desired.

In firing the fire-work it is held by the bandle, and the fuse 5 being ignited the com pound burns with the production of a whistling noise or a colored flame, as the case may be, followed by the explosion of the bombs in succession.

I thus provide an article of fire-works'which permits of the use of loud and large bombs without jar to the hand of the person holding the handle, such as would result were the bombs rigidly secured to the handle, against which part of their explosive force would then be exerted. V

In the drawing I haveshown the last bomb 0 as much larger and consequently louder than the others.

When operating the particular signal shown in the drawing, attention being first called by the colored flamecor whistle from the tube, there will be five low explosions, which may be, if desired, at fixed intervals, (according to the length of the fuse,) terminating in a loud report; but I do not limit myself thereto, as the bombs may all be of equal loudness or varied in number or' loudness, or both, in accordance with any predetermined or well-known code for signaling purposes, as already stated. Neither do I limit myself to any particular compound or any particular means of connecting the whistling-tube to the handle, or of suspending the bombs from the tube, as they may all be greatly varied without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

An article of pyrotechnics, consisting of a handle, a tube packed with a whistling or other compound and secured to one end of my hand in the presence of the subscribing said handle, a fuse for igniting said eom- Witnesses. pound, and a series of bombs cqnnected to each other and to the compound in the tube CLEMENTE DEL GRANDE 5 by a fuse and freely suspended by one end \Vitnesses:

from said tube and handle, substantially as P. GIULIANO, described. 7 SAML. STEVENS, J r.,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set W. P. MORAE.