US735047A - Recapping device. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED AUG. 4, 1903.

No.V 735,047.

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APPLIOATIOH FILED NOV. 19, 1900.

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.VILLIAM T. ALSOP, OF OWENSBORO, KENTUCKY.

RECAPPING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.4'7355047, dated August 4, 1903.

Application tiled November 19,1900. Serial Nol 36,987. (No model.)

To all whom it 'muy mmc/:rn: Be it known that I, WILLIAM T. ALsoP', citizen of the United States, and a resident of Owensboro, Daviess county, State of Kentucky, have invented acertain new and useful Recapping Device; and Ido declare that the 'following is a description thereof sufficiently clear, full, and exact as to enable 0thers skilled inthe art to which it appertains to make and use the same,^attention being called to the accompanying drawings, with the reference-numerals marked thereon, which form also a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a device whereby in ammunition-shells which have been used and are otherwise in condition t for reuse the exploded cap (or primer) may be .removed and replaced by anew one. My invention provides for such purpose a certain implement constructed as hereinafter shown and described 'and whereby the old cap rendered useless by the firing of the shell is removed from the latter ahd replaced by a new one.

In the following specification, and particularly pointed out in the claim, is found afull description of the invention, together with its manner of use, parts, and construction, which latter is also illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1, in a side elevation with parts broken away, shows the implement as being used for the p urposcof removing an exploded cap (the same'ha ving just been expelled) and with parts ina corresponding position. Fig. 2, in a similar view, shows the device as used for the purpose of replacing in asubscquent manipulation a new capfor the one removed, the new cap havingjust been placed, and the parts are in a corresponding'position. Fig. 3 is a top View of the device with the operatinglevcr removed. Fig. l shows a scctional vicw of a shell with an auxiliary part ot' my device in position.

'lhc implementconsists,s Vosta 1tially, ol` a. suitable base (i, a suitable t'. vice, preferably in shape of a lever 7, for exerting pressure, and an intermediate lauxiliary dcvice'S, not connected to any part of the implement, whereby the action of this pressure-exerting device is caused to be transmitted to the parts to beacted upon. The leverispivotallysupported on an upright or post 9 and normally held in a raised position bya spring 11 to facilitate placing of the shell under it. This latter is indicated by 12and 'is provided in its base with a customary perforation 13, forming a socket, which is occupied Aby the cap in the usual way.

In order to remove the exploded cap from a fired shell, the auxiliary device is inserted thereinto, as shown in Fig. 4, such device consisting, substantially, ofa guide-piece 8, occupied in its central bore bya drift-pin 14:. The diameter of this guide-piece is such as to fit freely into the shell, and it serves to bring the lower end of the drift-pin immediately above the inner end of the exploded cap, on which latter the drift-pin then rests. The length of this latter is such that it projects at this time above its guide-piece as shown in Fig. Lt. The two as so shown in Fig. 4 are now placed under the., elevated pressure deviceutlever 7 in this case,) the position being, further, such as to bring the outer (now lower) end of the cap immediately above a perforation 15 in the base. 4The finding of this position is facilitated bya gage 16, held in position ou base 6, the connection being adjustable by means of a set-screw 17 if shells of various caliber are worked upon. The pressure-exerting device or lever 7 is now caused to actagainst the projecting upper end of drift-pin 14, as shown'in Fig. 1, whereupon its lower end enters the socket occupied by the exploded cap and displaces the same. Then the device is used on shells of various sizes and where the size of the caps may be different., it is preferable to have perforation 15 contained in a plug 18, of which there are adesired number, all of equal outer diameter and fitted to and tapped into the upper end of a larger perforation 19 in,base 6. Socketholes 2l are provided to permit use of a suitable tool or wrench when exchange becomes necessary.

Innncdiately after expulsion of the eX- ploded cap or while such is done with one hand a new cap, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. l, is placed with the other hand into a. socket 22, formed by and contained within a plug 23, which is yieldingly supported by a spring 24 within a recess 25 of base 6. The

lower end of this socket is closed by a pin 26,

upon which the new cap rests, as shown in Fig. 1, and the diameter of which is such as to fit into socket 22. lf caps of various sizes are used, plug 23 and pin v26 are made each exchangeable, for which purpose this latter is held in base 6 by means of a screw connection, the insertion being in this case from below. This permits also adjustment of the upper end of this pin to adjust lthe depth of the socket to suit the height of the cap and to permit this latter to fully enter said socket without projecting above plug 23. The shell, with auxiliary device 8 still within, is now slid over onto plug 23, so as to be centrally. above socket 22 therein, Which position is determined by another gage or stop 27, held adjustably to base 6 by a set-screw 28 above. The finding of this position is facilitated by a projection 29 on the under side of lever 7, against which the upper end of device 8 contacts while moved over. The pressure-exertingdevice or lever 7 is now again'caused to operate, acting in this case against the upper end of part 8, the drift-pin remaining in its depressed position, in which it was left by the previous manipulation. This action on lever 7 causes the lower end of part 8 to bear against the inside or bottom of the shell, thereby carrying this latter down and depressing` thereby also plug 23 against the a'c-v tion of spring 24. Since pin 26 with the cap on its upper end cannot yield, it is clear that` this latter is caused to enter the perforation intended for and forming its socket in the bottom of the shell. lVhile so passing in drift-pin 14 yields freely upwardly, its upper end passing into a groove or slot 31, cnt into the lever 7. On release of lever 7 spring 24 carries plug 23, with the shell thereon, up again`, after which the latter, recapped now, maybe removed. lt is preferable to limit in a positive way the depressingV of plug 23, which need not be any more than equal to the height of the cap. Such may be done by a stop or shoulder, which may be obtained by increasing in, thickness the lower or screwthreaded part of pin 26, as shown, and against which ,the lower end of plug 23 becomes seated when depressed.

Itis preferable to hold drift-pin 14 within part 8 in a manner to prevent it :from dropping out when the device Vis handled. This as shown,

may be done byja set-screw 32,

reader which holds the pin without interfering with its movement and use.

It will be observed that'in all manipula tions the bottom of the shell is firmly and fully held and supported in the first manipulation on plug 18 and in the second between the lower end of part 8 and plug 23, so as to prevent injury to it or loss of shape. During the second or Irecapping manipulation part 8 is` doing the Work, while during the first it merely serves as a guidefor the driftpin, while this latter eXpels the exploded cap. It is evident that if it were found expedient for certain reasons the cap-expelling part of this device and the recapping part thereof might be separated, so as to form independn ent implements, each having its own pressure-exerting device.

Having described my invention, I claim as new- A combined device for expelling used caps from ammunition-shells and inserting new ones, consisting of a base, a pressure-exerting lever supported above Vit in a manner to have a movement toor from the same, an independent auxiliarydevice 8 whereby the pressure exerted by the lever is transmitted, the same fitted to be received by a shell, but projecting above the same, a drift-pin loosely carried by this auxiliary device, but longer than it and having a limited movement therein, a perforation 15 in the base and a'perforated plug 23 yieldingly supported alsoin this base, sure-exerting lever, 26 closing the lower part of the perforation in plug 23 and forming the bottom of a recess above it adapted to receive a cap, a groove 31 in the under side of the lever and in that part of-it which is above plug 23, to clear the 'upper end of the drift-pin, a gage or stop 27 adjustably attached to the top of the base to define the position ofthe shell below and a projection 29 on the lever to define the position of the auxiliary device 8 above when coming laterally in contact with the same.

ln testimony whereof l hereunto set my hand in the presence of two Witnesses.

WILLrAM T. ALsoP.

Wfitnesscs:

C. SPENGEL, ARTHUR KLINE.

both centrally alined below the presl a tixedy-supported pin IOO

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