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Download or read book On the Application of Machinery to the Manufacture of Rotating Chambered Breech Fire arms and their peculiarities With an abstract of the discussion upon the paper Edited by Charles Manby Excerpt Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers vol xi written by Samuel COLT and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Application of MacHinery to the Manufacture of Rotating Chambered Breech Fire Arms and Their Peculiarities written by Samuel Colt and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... INSTITUTION CIVIL ENGINEERS. November 25, 1851. Sir WILLIAM CUBITT, President, in the Chair. No. 862.--" On the application of Machinery to the Manufacture of Rotating Chambered-Breech Fire-Arms, and the peculiarities of those Arms." By Colonel Samuel Colt (U.S. America), Assoc. Inst. C.E.f Among the various departments of practical science, there is perhaps none in which more rapid advancement has been made within the present century, than in the manufacture of fire-arms, and great ingenuity has been displayed in devising improvements in them; but it is the extent to which machinery may be used in their construction, that must render the subject interesting to Engineers. It is not the design of this paper to enter upon a history of the first employment of fire-arms, nor yet to trace all the gradations of improvement that have taken place, since their introduction as weapons of war, such a subject being somewhat foreign to the scientific views and peaceful occupations of Civil Engineers; but as experience has shown that perfect weapons of defence are indispensable for the pioneers of civilization in new countries, and still as necessary for the preservation of peace in old countries, the best means of producing them by the aid of machinery, must be interesting; it is therefore intended briefly to examine, chronologically, as far as recent researches extend, the gradual advances in the form and construction of fire-arms with magazines or chambers for repeated discharges, and to contrast them with the modern repeating chambered-breech arms introduced by the Author. The principal collections of arms examined for this purpose are those in the Tower of London, the United Service Museum, the Rotunda at Woolwich, Warwick Castle, in England, ...
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Download or read book On the Application of Machinery to the Manufacture of Rotating Chambered Breech Fire Arms and Their Peculiarities Vol 11 Classic Reprint written by Samuel Colt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from On the Application of Machinery to the Manufacture of Rotating Chambered-Breech Fire-Arms, and Their Peculiarities, Vol. 11 The third specimen is a decided advance on the preceding guns. This arm (fig. 3, Plate which was found in the Armoury at the Tower, is furnished with a pyrites wheel lock, and one priming-pan is common to all the six chambers of the revolving breech; this pan is fitted with a sliding cover, and is so arranged that the serrated edge of a vertical wheel may project into it, amongst the loose powder in the pan; to this wheel a rapid rotary motion is given, by means of a trigger spring acting upon a link lever, attached to the arbor of the wheel, the teeth of which, striking upon the pyrites, create the sparks which ignite the priming powder. The fire is then communicated laterally to a train of powder about 21} inches long, before it reaches the charge In the breech, and which train of powder and priming require to be renewed each time before the charge' m the adjoining chambers can be exploded. A stop-pin is made to enter the orifices' In the wheel, to stay its action until the proper time, and on pulling the trigger the firing Is effected. In this instance, also, the breech is rotated by hand, and the barrel and breech are brought into contact by a nut working upon the threaded end of the breech arbor. By the employment of one priming-pan for all the chambers, and from the apparent necessity for closing the rear end of the breech with a cap, so as to leave but one small Opening for the passage of the fire, from the priming-pan to the breech, the liability of the several chambers to be simultaneously fired was greatly increased; for the cap, which covers the rear end of the breech, prevents the escape of the fire laterally, and forms, in fact, a channel for guiding the deflected fire to the touch-holes of all the charges. This gun has no stock in front of the breech; but unlike the previous specimens, the barrel is cut away on each side, so as to allow the balls to escape in case Of premature Oxplosion. A pistol of nearly identical construction (fig. 4, Plate 1) is in the collection at the Rotunda, at Woolwich. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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