Untitled record

No 39,28’2

G. P. GANSTER.

Projectile.

Patented July 21, 1863.

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X· PETERS, PROTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D C.

United States Patent Office»

GEORGE

P. GANSTER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT in chain-shot.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 39,282, dated July 21, l_f(; ·.

Io all whom it may concern, · ।

Be it known that I, George P. Ganster, of the city county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Chain Shot; and I do hereby declare that the oilowing is a full, clear, and exact description ot the construction and operation thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawing’s making a part of this specification, in which the same letters refer to similar parts.

ΐ ^si’^ow‘^s an external view of the shot with the chains and sub-balls extended. Fi ~ represents the butt-end of the shot, showing the square pivot-packing and washer. Fig·, 3 is a longitudinal cut section, showing the arrangement of the shell, chains, sub-balls, pivot, and packing. Fig. 4 is a cut section through the aperture for the sub-balls, also showing the staple to which the chain is attached.

A is the shell or case containing the chains when in the gun.

B B' are the chains attached to the shot in the center by the means of a staple or in any other convenient way. At each end of the chamus attached a sub-ball.

S? ^e sub.’Lalls which are attached to each encl ot the chain and serve two purposes: first as a stopple to plug up the aperture in the main shot; second, as a weight on the end of chains to keep them extended in their flight through the air after being discharged from the gun.

D is the packing, made of india - rubber gutta-percha, or any other material capable ot being expanded by the discharge of the gun. ^a

E is the square pivot at the end of the shot to which the packing is fitted, thereby causing them both to rotate together.

. ^t]₇^ie metallic washer, put onto the outside of the packing, to prevent the gun from being fouled by the packing, the washer being stripped, so as to admit the packing to shape itself to the gun with ease.

I Γ are the apertures in the side of the shot into which the chains BB'are put, and closed up by means of sub-balls C C'.

F is the cavity into which the chains are placed previous to being put into the gun.

Operation: After the shot has been made, the chains and sub-balls having been attached the chains are dropped into the apertures in the side of the shot. The sub-balls are then adjusted into the apertures and a Very thin piece of muslin pasted over them, to keep them temporarily in their places. The mode of loading and discharging them from the gun does not differ from any projectile.