US697703A - Shell. - Google Patents

Description

Patented Apr. l5, |902.

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SHELL.;` (Application med Ma'y 1, 1901,.)

(No Model.)

VVILLAM CALLAXVAY, OF MOUN'llAINIIOME, IDAHO.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 697,703, dated April 15, 1902.

Application lell May 1, i901.

To (olif whom, it may concern:

Be it known thatl, WILLIAM S. CALLAWAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mountainhome, in the county of Elmore and State of Idaho, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Projectiles; and

l do hereby declare the following to beafull,

clear, and exact description of the invention,

such as will enable others skilled in the art io to which itappertains to make and use the same. v

This invention relates to a projectile for a mortar, cannon, or other form of gun or machine for throwing a shell or large and heavy I5 missile, the purpose being to construct an object for carrying small cartridges beyond the A range of infantry into the lines of the enemy fol' effective work behind earthworks and in trenches.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquirea knowledge of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result reference is to be had to the following description and drawings hereto attached.

While the essential and characteristic features of the invention arenecessarily susceptible of modification, still the preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the 3o accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a longitudinal section of a pren jectile embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the projectile forming an element or part of the large missile or shell. Fig. 3 is a section of the projectile shown in Fig. 2 about on the line X X of Fig. 4. Fig. 4 isa section on the lineY Y of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 isa perspective View ofthe breech or tiring pin. Corresponding and like parts are referred 4o to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters. v

' The projectile is preferably of spherical form, although within theV purview of the invention it may have any form, the latter being immaterial; but the ball shape is preferred because of convenience in handling, ease with which a number can be loaded into a shell, and the greater effectiveness in service. The projectile is formed with a diametrical opening l, into which the bie-ech 2 is secured said opening being enlargedatits Serial No. 58,339, (No model.)

6 are tted into the opening and are in communication with the opening l, so as to be discharged when= the powder or fulminate 7 placed in the opening 1 explodes, thereby sending a shower of b-ulletsin every direction.

The xbreech 2 is hollow and is adapted to receivye a. time-fuse 8, and an opening 9 is formed in a side of the breech to communicate with the explosive 7, lilling the space between the said breech and walls of the opening l,whereby iire may be communicated from the fuse to said explosive for discharging the cartridges 6. The'breech is headed at its outer end, as shown at 3, to overlap and close the outer end of the opening l and prevent escape of the explosive 7. The part 2 may be screwed into the projectile by a tool of any kind, and, as shown, its headed end is slotted for the reception of a screw-driver or kindred tool.

A number of projectiles constructed substantially as herein set forth is loaded into a shell 10, as shown in Fig. `land the spaces between the projectiles are filled with an explosive which is set off by fuse 11, fitted to they shell, so as scatter the projectiles and ignite the fuses 8 thereof The shell l0 may be of metal, paper, or other material and may be of any -size and contain any number of projectiles and is int nded to be fired from a mortar, cannon, o; other gun or machine yand when reaching the objective point is exploded by means of t e fuse 11, and the projectile 95 being scattered are in turn discharged. of the cartridges 6 by means of the fuse 8 and -ex plosive'- 7.

Having thus described theinventon, what is claimed as new is` A projectile having -a breech opening threaded at its inner end and enlarged at its enter end and adapted to receive an explo- IOO sive and having" other openings in communiation with the breech-opening and adapted I In testimony whereof I a-x my signature o zacive cartridges, md da. ollow dbreech in presence of two witnesses.

lea e at its outer en an' t reade at its I l, nner end and having an opening in its side, YHfLmM s' CALM AY' D" ""1 he headed end serving to enter the enlarged -W'itnesses:

nter end of thebreech-opening and close the J. WV. BALL,

same, substantially as set fortn. A. G. SMITH.

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