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GUNV MOUNTING.

No. 513,706.l Patented .13.11.30, 1894.

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J. B. G. A. CANET. GUN MOUNTING.

No. 513,706. Patented Jan. 30, v1.894.- Y

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GUN MOUNTING.

N0. 513,706. Patented Jan. 30, 1894.

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JEAN BATISTE GUSTAVE ADOLPHE CANET, OF PARIS,FRANCE, ASSIGNOB.' OF ONE-HALF TO THE SIR JOSEPH WHITWORTH & COMPANY, LIMITED,

OF OPENSHAW, ENGLAND.

GUN-MOUNTBNG.

lSPEGIFIGI-L'ITIION forming part of Letters Patent No. 513,706, dated January 30, 1894.

Application tiled December 1'7, 1892- Serial No. 455,542. (No model.) Patented in France February 26, 1890, No. 204,021, and

in England March 26, 1890i No. 4,717.

To ZZ'wwm it may concern:

Y Be 1t known that LJEAN BAPTISTE GUsTAvE ADoLPHn CANET, engineer, a citizen of the Republic of France, and a resident of Paris,

5 France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gun-Mountings, (for which I have obtained patents in the following countrles, viz: Great Britain, No. 1.1.,2717,A dated March 26, 1890, and France, No. 204,021, dated ro February 26, 1890,) of which invention the following is a specication, reference beinghad Y and made fast to the sides thereof orin any other convenient position.

Although my improved mounting is-par' ticularly applicable'for ships .batteries as above stated,it may also be used in easements or 1n any fortifications on land. In theaccompanying drawingsz-Figure 1 3o 1s a side elevation of a gun mounting conf structed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan, and Fig. 3 is a rear end elevation of the same.

A is the gun. B is the hydraulic brake cylinder or jacket through which the gun can slide, and whichA is trunnioned in bearings formed in a carnage or frame consisting of two `'side cheeks C, C which are well secured together by suit- 40 able cross stays and bolts.

C is a strong bolt which connects the cheeks at their forward ends with a pivot piece D that is supported on avertical pivot vE on the bed plateE 'throughl the medium of spheri- 4 5 calor conical rollers. l

D is a clamp or claw secured to the.4 pivot piece D and engaginga collar or shoulder on the bed plate to prevent thepivot piece lifting.

The said mounting' The carriage is supported at its roar end by' 5o rollers O3 C? which are mounted in brackets C3 C3 secured to the cheeks O.-

F is a recuperator cylinder.

F is a spring recuperator.

G is a collar through which the gun can slide.

G is a toothed sector, formed on or secured to the collar G on the left side of the. gun, through which the vertical pointing of the gun is eected. l

G* Figs. 2 and '3 is a plain sector formed on' or secured to the collarG on the right side of the gun.l- G2, G2, are curved slots formed in the said sectors and struck from the same center as the trunnions of the gun. 6

Fixed to or formed on each side cheek C is a projection G3 which is adapted to engage' with or work in the corresponding slot G2 and thereby'prevent any lateral movementot` the collar when the gun recoils. y 7o a is the rear sight which is carried bythe collar G.

b is the forward sight which is fixed on the jacket B.

For turning the gun about its trunnions, I provide a hand wheel c which drives preferably through differential gearing a toothed pinion d that gears with the curved toothed sector Gltixed to the collar G. Y

The lateral training is edected either by a lever or bymeans of a hand wheel f which is secured on a short shaft g on which is keyed a worm or endless screw h.

t' is a worm wheel gearing with the worm h and keyed on a Vertical shaftj which is supported in bearings Afixed to the. carriage.

On the lower end of the shaftj is keyed a pinion k that 4is in gear with a circular rack Z tixed to the bed plate E. y

The gun is so arranged as to be when run 9o out in equilibrium about the axis of the pivot piece D, so that it can be trained by means of' a lever-:when desired. When lusing a lever for training the gun, the pinion 7c is thrown 'out of gear with-.the rack Z. v 95 What I claimi's- 1. The combination of a bed plateE having a vertical pivot, a pivot piece D turning on said pivot, a carriage C resting on the bed plate and secured to the piece D by a removable bolt C', and a gun and cradle mounted 1u said carriage, substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

2. In a gun mouuting,tl1e combination with the gun and its cradle, of a carriage@ consisting of two cheeks, a pivot piece D secured to the carriage by a removable bolt C', and a vertical fixed pivot about which the piece D turns so situated that the gun and mounting are approximatelybalanced horizontally with respect thereto,substautial1y as described for, the purpose specied.

3. The combination of a gun carriage, a bed plate having a vertical pivot, a piece D rotating on said pivot, and a pin C which connects the forward end of the carriage to said piece D, and which can be removed to allow of the uusbipment of the gun and carriage, au d then utilized to secure the carriage to the side of a vessel, or battery, easement or parapet, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two sub- 25

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