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US775640A
US775640A US19159304A US1904191593A US775640A US 775640 A US775640 A US 775640A US 19159304 A US19159304 A US 19159304A US 1904191593 A US1904191593 A US 1904191593A US 775640 A US775640 A US 775640A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F42—AMMUNITION; BLASTING
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    • F42B12/32—Projectiles, missiles or mines characterised by the warhead, the intended effect, or the material characterised by the warhead or the intended effect of high-explosive type with fragmentation-hull construction the hull or case comprising a plurality of discrete bodies, e.g. steel balls, embedded therein or disposed around the explosive charge

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  • My present invention relates to artilleryprojectiles, and more especially to that kind of shrapnel-shells which contain two charges, I
  • one for dispersing the shot being located in a chamber at the base of the projectile and the second, which is only ignited at the moment of impact, for bursting the projectile.
  • the invention has for-its object to increase the effect of the projectile at the moment ofimpact without diminishing the advantages peculiar to the base-chamber system when it is used as a shrapnel.
  • the bursting charge was distributed over the whole lengtliof the chambetween this bursting charge and the exterior wall, of the projectile, partly between the bursting charge and the base-chamber.
  • Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a projectile constructed according to my invention
  • Fig. 2 a cross-section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1.
  • a is the exterior. skin or wall of the projectile.
  • b is the base-chamber, containing the usual charge for dispersing the shot.
  • c is the chamber containing the bursting charge, preferably consisting of a high explosive, and e is a detonator adapted to be fired when the projectile strikes.
  • g is the usual time-fuse of double action. A vent f, passing around the chamber 0 to the center of the projectile and connected to nited; but when the projectile strikes the detonator will fire the bursting charge 0, the fore part of the projectile will first be shattered as a shell, and then the shot-dispersing charge 6 will be fired and will throw the rest of the shot forward.”
  • a projectile containing abase-chamber charge, a separated bursting charge provided with means for igniting it at the moment of arranged partly between the bursting charge and. the exterior wall of the projectile, and partly between the bursting charge and the base-chamber; substantially as described.
  • a projectile containing a base-chamber charge, a separated bursting charge provided with means for igniting it at the moment of impact, said bursting charge being located at the forward part of the projectile and consisting of a high explosive together with a smokeproducingsubstance, and shot arranged partly between the bursting charge and the exterior wall of the projectile, and partly between the bursting charge and the base-chamber; substantially as described.

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PATENTED NOV. 22, 1904.
P. D. VAN ESSEN.
SHRAPNEL.
APPLIGATION FILED FEB. 1, 1904.
N0 MODEL.
Nrrnn STATES Patented November 22, 1904.
PIETER DANIEL VAN ESSEN, OF UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS.
SHRAPNEL.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 775,640, dated November 22, 1904. Application filed February 1, 1904:. Serial'No. 191 ,693. (No model.)
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, PIETER DANIEL VAN Es- SEN, lieutenant of the artillery, a subject of the Queen of Holland, residing at Utrecht, 43 Buys. Ballot straat, Holland, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shrapnels, of which the following is a specification.
My present invention relates to artilleryprojectiles, and more especially to that kind of shrapnel-shells which contain two charges, I
one for dispersing the shot being located in a chamber at the base of the projectile and the second, which is only ignited at the moment of impact, for bursting the projectile.
The invention has for-its object to increase the effect of the projectile at the moment ofimpact without diminishing the advantages peculiar to the base-chamber system when it is used as a shrapnel.
in the projectiles hitherto constructed according to this plan the bursting charge was distributed over the whole lengtliof the chambetween this bursting charge and the exterior wall, of the projectile, partly between the bursting charge and the base-chamber.
1n the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a projectile constructed according to my invention, and Fig. 2 a cross-section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1.
In the drawings, a is the exterior. skin or wall of the projectile. a
b is the base-chamber, containing the usual charge for dispersing the shot.
c is the chamber containing the bursting charge, preferably consisting of a high explosive, and e is a detonator adapted to be fired when the projectile strikes.
g is the usual time-fuse of double action. A vent f, passing around the chamber 0 to the center of the projectile and connected to nited; but when the projectile strikes the detonator will fire the bursting charge 0, the fore part of the projectile will first be shattered as a shell, and then the shot-dispersing charge 6 will be fired and will throw the rest of the shot forward."
Having thus described my invention, what i I claim is- 1. A projectile, containing abase-chamber charge, a separated bursting charge provided with means for igniting it at the moment of arranged partly between the bursting charge and. the exterior wall of the projectile, and partly between the bursting charge and the base-chamber; substantially as described.
- 2. A projectile, containing a base-chamber charge, a separated bursting charge provided with means for igniting it at the moment of impact, said bursting charge being located at the forward part of the projectile and consisting of a high explosive together with a smokeproducingsubstance, and shot arranged partly between the bursting charge and the exterior wall of the projectile, and partly between the bursting charge and the base-chamber; substantially as described.
In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two sub:
scribing witnesses.
PIETER DANIEL VAN ESSENV Witnesses: LUDOLF OPDnN-Noos'r.
' BUROHARD GEnBRAnD EDOUARD ELIAs'.
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