US515931A - Wrapper for torpedoes - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

, J. COOK.

WRAPPER FOR TORPEDOES.

Patented Mar. 6, 1894.

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WRAPPER FOR TORPEDOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Application filed November 8, 1893- Serial No. 90-333- Patent No. 515,931, dated March 6,1894.

(No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN COOK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Burnside Crossing, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in IVrappers for Torpedoes and Like Explosives, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates to wrappers for explosives such as toy torpedoes and the inrprovements have more especial reference to means for causing a portion of the wrapper or a portion attached to the wrapper or 0therwise carried by the torpedo, to adhere to the surface against which the torpedo is thrown or exploded; whereby the adhering portion may be utilized for displaying an advertisement indicated thereon, or for marking the point at which the torpedo strikes when employed for throwing at a mark, to demonstrate the skill of the marksman. Hence the primary object of my invention is to enable an explosive to cause a part carried thereby to adhere to and appear upon the surface against which it is exploded.

With this end in view my invention con sists in certain features of novelty by which the said object and certain minor objects hereinafter explained, are attained, as fully described herein with reference to the accompanying drawings and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the said drawings, Figure l is a detail face view of the portion upon which the advertisement may be indicated showing the means by which such portion maybe attached to the torpedo wrapper. Fig. 2 is a view of the torpedo wrapper showing the device illustrated in Fig. 1, secured to the under side thereof. Fig. 3 is a side view of a torpedo provided with my improvements. Figs. land 5 are vertical sectional views of a torpedo provided with my improvements showing slight modifications hereinafter described.

Like signs of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views.

In carrying out my invention I prefer to print or indicate the advertisement on aseparate piece of paper or other material attached to the wrapper, rather than on the wrapper itself, inasmuch as the wrapper is ordinarily other like material which would be liable to wrinkle or tear. In Figs. 1 to 4 of the drawings I have shown this separate piece, as consisting of a disk-like portion A composed of paper or other suitable material and formed integrally with or secured to a number of points or tabs B which serve for the attachment of the disk A to the ordinary tissue wrapper C, the tabs or portions B being preferably pointed in order that their upper ends may more nearly conform to the tapering form of the torpedo when the wrapper is twisted up as shown in Fig. 3.

In attaching the wrapper to the device shown in Fig. 1, the points B alone are gummed as shown at b and the wrapper then placed over it in the manner shown in Fig. 2 so that the disk A will be substantially in the center of the wrapper and consequently on the bottom of the finished torpedo. The points are partially separated from the disk by a dividing seam or row of perforations D so that when the explosion takes place the points will be blown away, carrying with them the tissue Wrapper and leaving the disk A and exposing to view the advertisement at thereon. The portion of the tissue which covers the face of the disk protects the same from any discoloration that may result from the smoke and flame of the explosion.

In order to cause the disk portion Ato adhere to the surface against which the torpedo is thrown, I prefer to coat its bottom or under side with suitable gum or glue a as shown in Fig. i, which may be retained in its dry and non-adhesive state until desired for use and may then be rendered adhesive by moisture applied by the tongue of the user or otherwise, just before the torpedo is thrown. In order however that the moisture thus applied may not by any possibility find its way between the points B and pass through the tissue wrapper and permit its contents to escape, such wrapper, if desired, may be composed of any well known form of paper which is impervious to moisture, such for instance as waxed or paraftined paper. With a torpedo thus constructed it will be seen that the gummed side will naturally turn toward the object at which it is thrown, by virtue of the greater weight in that side, and the composed of very thin or tissue paper or light twisted end of the wrapper which acts as a tail piece or vane; and consequently the combined forces of the impact resulting from.

the momentum of the torpedo and the explosion will flatten the disk A out against the wall or object and cause the gum to adhere, the explosion instantly sundering the points 13 from the disk and leaving the latter with a clean surface at the point where the torpedo strikes. The torpedo wrapper thus constructed may be utilized for holding the gravel and explosive or other contents of the torpedo without the aid of any other Wrapper; or if desired, a ready-made torpedo with its individual wrapper E may be placed within my improved wrapper in the manner shown in Fig. 5.

If the paper or material of which the disk A and points B are composed is very thin it may be found desirable to place within the torpedo at the lower side thereof, a ring or washer F composed of any suitable material such as pasteboard, for stifiening the disk A and holding the same in shape.

Fig. 5 represents a modification in the means for causing the disk portion to adhere to the surface against which the torpedo is thrown, and which modification may be employed with or Without the special wrapper E before referred to. In this form of the invention I have simply placed within the ordinary wrapper 0 a disk A composed of pasteboard or other suitable material having secured therein and projecting therefrom a spur or point a" which will stick in wooden or other like surfaces against which the torpedo is thrown, and hold the disk in that position, the necessary advertisement being printed directly upon the upper side of the disk as described with reference to Fig. 1. The wrapper G in thisinstance need not be secured to the disk A.

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

1. A torpedo provided with a detachable portion having means for'causing it to adhere to the surface against which the torpedo is exploded, substantially as set forth.

2. A Wrapper for explosives provided with a detachable portion having an adhesive surface, substantially as set forth.

3. An explosive having a wrapper impervious to moisture and provided with an adhesive portion, substantially as set forth.

at. In an explosive, the combination with the wrapper, of a portion having an adhesive surface and being provided with detachable tabs secured to said wrapper, substantially as set forth.

5. In an explosive the combination with the wrapper, of a disk-like portion having tabs separated therefrom by a dividing seam and secured to said wrapper, said disk-like portion being provided with means for causing it to adhere to the surface against which it is thrown, substantially as set forth;

6. The combination with a wrapper for explosives, ot the disk A having tapering points B secured to said wrapper and separated from said disk by a dividing seam, said disk being provided with an adhesive substance, substantially as set forth.

7. In an explosive the combination of the wrapper having a detachable portion secured thereto and provided with an adhesive surface, and a washer or ring arranged within said wrapper, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN COOK. lVitnesses:

F. A. HOPKINS, EDNA B. JOHNSON.

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