A Treatise On Ordnance And Armor Embracing Descriptions Discussions And Profe
A Treatise On Ordnance And Armor Embracing Descriptions Discussions And Profe
Alexander Lyman Holley
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, and elsewhere in England, to be used with the Blakely guns and Brooke's guns, is illustrated by Fig. 264. The FIG. 264. / \'^'^ Captain Blakely's projectile, expanding copper cup c is secured to the base of the shot, what- ever its size, by a single tap-bolt, and is prevented from revolving on the shot by being compressed by the powder-gas against pro- jections cast (or in case of steel shot, planed) on the base of the shot. The space e is filled with tallow, to lubricate the gun. The small s...oft metal studs a are greater in number than the grooves of the gun ; so that however the shot is put in, some of the studs will bear upon the lands, and hold up or centre the point of the shot. The engraving shows a 21-lb. Shot for an " 18-pounder, " J size. 572. The rifling of Captain Blakely's 9-in. Gun is shown by Fig. 265, and of Brooke's (Confederate) T-in. Gun by Fig. 266 (104). The groove of Captain Blakely's 12f in. , or 900-pomider gu'i (66), RIFLING AND PROJECTILES. 477 is shown by Fig.
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