US624530A - Pyrotechnic signal - Google Patents

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No. 624,530. Patented May 9, |899. H. J. PMN. PYRUTECHNIC SIGNAL.

(Application med Feb. 7, 1898.)

(No Hodnl.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 624,530, dated May 9, 1899.

Application filed February 7,1898. Serial No. 669.351. (No'model.) l

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY JOHN PAIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pyrotechni'c Signals, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to pyrotechnic devices for signaling' purposes on'land and sea and during either the day or night.

In carrying out my invention I provide similar interchangeabletelescoping or slip holders for colored fire, each holder preferably containing tire of only one color and the color beingindicated upon the exposed periphery of the holder by a band of color or letters giving the name of the color. These are slipped together and grouped in any order desired and to any extent, according to the signal to be given. rlhe color-holders for givingthe signal are adapted to use in a rocket in connection with a parach ute,and by which rocket they are carried high in the air, thecolored fire ignited, and the same with the parachute are blown out of the rocket-head. The fires burning in successive colors indicate the signal while supported in air by the parachute. group of color-holders may be ignited and elevated to a high point upon a flagsia or the masthead of a vessel, or the same may be connected upon the end of a stickto be held in the hand by burning.

In the drawings, Figure l represents b'y an elevation and partial section the improvement applied to a rocket. Fig. 2 represents the same as suspended from a parachute and the signal burning. Fig. 3 represents the signal as upon one end of a stick to be held in the hand. Fig. 4 is a.longitudinal section of a group of color-holders with screw-cases, and

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of the colorholders with slip-cases. Figs. 4 and 5 are about full size and the other figures of smaller scale.

The groups of slip-holders for colored fire are represented at A A. These slip-holders are preferably made with one end larger than the other end. The'smaller end receives and holds the colored fire, and the largerl end receives the smaller end of the next holder having a fire of different color. The holders are to be all alike and of corresponding dimen- The' sions, so as to be interchangeable, but the size is immaterial.

In Fig. 4 the holders of the group A are represent-ed as sheetmetal shells with screwthreads, the ends a being largest and the ends b smallest, all the ends ci being the same size, so as to be adapted to receive the smaller end b of any other colored-fire holder, the parts telescoping or screwing together to bring the surfaces of the colored fires cinto proximity, so that one will light from the flame of the other in succession.

In Fig. 5 the holders of the group A are represented as of paper with ring centers, the ends o being largest and the ends b' smallest, all the ends a being the same size and adapted to receive and slip over the smaller end b of,

any otherholder of colored fire c. Thus rings of red, white, blue, yellow, and green, or white, yellow, red, green, and blue, or any other arrangement of colors desired, may be brought together for signaling.

I prefer with the paper shells to gum the inner surfaces of the ends a' and the outer surfaces of the smaller end b', so that the surfaces may be moistened previous to connecting them' and adhere thereafter, so that in use they will not accidentally become disA connected. y

The carrier d, Fig. 4, of sheet metal, is peripherally threaded to connect with the end d of a threaded holder, and it is provided with an eye, to which may be connected the string of a parachute D. The carrier d', Fig.

'5, is received into the end of one of the paper-holders and is suitably supported or suspended.

The rocket-body B, as usual, contains the powder and fuse and is connected to the stick C, and the head B .is removably connected to the body, preferably by the screw-thread joint f. The head contains the parachute and the group of slip-holders with colored ires,which are preferably held in place by a packing g` to prevent the fire from the body of the rocket injuring' the parachute before and at the time said parts are blown out of the head with the colored fire ignited, the cap B2 giving way easily. The first colored tire of the groupis in close proximity with the powder in the rocket to be readily lighted. f

W'hen the group of colored fires is to be used, as shown in Fig. 3, the carrier d is connected with the stick or holder E, and the first color to burn is preferably protected by an end cap having a lighting-fuse. These groups of interchangeable colored lires are adapted for use as signals in times of peace and War from forts and fields, but particularly from vessels at sea as a means of communicating with one another by a Well-recognized code of colors. They can 'also be used for pyrotechnic displays. Y

I (lo not herein claim a rocket With a head screwed on to give access to the parachute and signal for changing the latter, nor to the yielding material around the signals to protect the parachute, as these are set forth and claimed in my application, Serial No. 669,350, filed February 7, 1898.

I claim as-my invention- 1. A series of signals combustible in different colors, each signal having a surrounding holder in the form of an open ring larger at one end than at the other to be connected to the adjacent rings, the material or fire compound for the colored signal being in the form of a cake permanentlyheld within t-he smaller end of the holding-ring and having its ends exposed so that the surface of one cake is closely adjacent to` the surface of the next cake and is fired thereby Without the intervention of a fuse, substantially as set forth.

2. A series of signals combustible in different colors, each signalA having a surrounding holder of paper and a larger band projecting at one end and adapted to receive the smaller part of the next holder and adhesive material for connecting the holders, the material orr fire compound for the colored signal being in the form of a cake introduced and permanently held Within the smaller end of the holder and having its ends exposed so that the surface of one cake is closely adjacent to the surface of the next cake and is fired thereby Without the intervention of a fuse, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 29th day of January, 1898.

HENRY J. PAIN.

Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, HAROLD SERRELL.

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