US7147A - Improved wing-ed metallic cartridges - Google Patents

Description

A. D. PERRY.

Cartridge.

Ptentd Mar. 5 1850 V No. 7,147.

ALONZO D. PERRY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVED WING-ED METALLIC CARTRIDGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 7,147, dated March 5, 1850.

To all whom it may concern.-

, Be it known that I, ALONZO I). PERRY, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Loaded Ball or Cartridge for Fire-Arms and that the following is a full, clear, and ex act description of the principle or character which distinguishes them from all other things before known, and of the manner of making, constructing, and using the. same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification in which-- Fignre 1 is an elevation, and Fi 2 a sect-ion, oi a loaded ball on my improved plan; and Figs. 3 and 4, like views oi" a similar hall, with my improved mode of tiringmagazities at tached to it.

The same letters indicate like parts in all the figures.

My improvements relate to that class of car tridges or loaded balls in which the ball is made cylindrical, with a spherical or pointed end, and the rear part hollow, to contain the charge of powder.

The first part oi my invention consists in slitting the rear end of the hollow part of the ball, at given distances apart, around the periphery, and in lines parallel or slightl oblique to the axis, so that, alter the charge of powder, with a gun cotton or other equivalent cap over it, has beer inserted, the slittcd parts can be bent in, overlapping each other, to secure the charge, and which, when the ball is discharged from the barrel oi a gun or other iire'arm, will be spread out by the force ol the discharge, and form spiral wings to give a retary motion to the bail, to guide it in a straight line; and the second part of my invention consists in forming the i'orward end of the ball with a nipple, to which is titted a percussion contain the charge ofpowder, which is covered with a cap of g'uircotton, c. The rear end is cut at given distances apart, as shown in the two sectional Figs. 5 and 6. The cuts should be made inclined, or in lines parallel with the axis, (the former being preferable,) and transversely in lines tangential to a circle of less diameter than the ball, so that, alter the charge has been inserted, the slitted end can be forced in all around, to inclose the charge of powder with the covering-cap and overlap each other. The ball so made and loaded, when discharged from the barrel, will leave the parts a forced out by the pressure within, and assume the form represented in Fig. 7, which will constilute a series of spiral leathers or wings, that will give to the ball rotary motion to direct it in its course and insure its moving with the head foremost. When I wish to use such balls for the purpose of firing magazines, 840.. I form the head part b with a nipple to receive a percussion-cap, so that when the ball strikes the explosion of the cap may communicate lire. When the ball is made withl'a nipple and cap, it is important that it should, at the same time, be made with the feathers or wings for guiding it, that it may move head foremost, as experience has shown that when made without such feathers or other means of guiding,

they are quite as liable to move sidewise, as endwise. But I do not wish to limit myself to the use of the nipple andcap, with the mode, of guiding the hall herein specified, as other modes may be substituted. t

What i: claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The method of inelosing the charge of pow dor in the hollow" part of the ball by slitting its rear end and bending; in the parts so. slitted, substantially as herein described, that when the ball is discharged the parts so slitted may be l'orcod out, to become leathers or wines to guide the ball, substantially as described.

A. D. PERRY.

Witnesses:

1%. W. Lownun, A. I. BROWNE.

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