US695087A - Gun-mounting. - Google Patents

Description

(Application filed Get. 14, 1901.)

Patented Mar. H, i902.

a. T. BRANKSTGN.

GUN EUNTING.

(Application med ocu. 14, 1901.)

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il/MU ibn: bor-1 faire @mien i ins' L i RALPH 'lll-EVV BRNKSTO OF NEiVCAS'ILE-UFGN-TYNL ENGLAND, AS-

l SlG-NQR T "NL, G. ARMSIRONG, VHITWORTH d: CGMPANY, LiMTED, OF NEW'CASTLEU)ON-TYNE, ENGLAND.

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SECIFIGATON forming peri; of Lettere Patent No. 695,087, dated Merch 11, 1902. i

Application ilo/.l @einher lli, i901. Serial No. 73,605, (No niodely) ,To @ZZ whom it Hwy concern:

-' ienponfyne, England, here invented n eertain new and useful. Gen-Mounting, of whioh the following,i is e, epeeiiieetion.

The objeet of this invention is to provide e Convenient method by which high :ingle of elevation een be obtained and et the seine time the gnu een4 oe-placed low iiown in oryder that the Center of gravity may be ne lolv as possible when trevelinff. The usual method ,to obtain high elevations with large guns is' lo enlyloy en upper carriage, which is fired tothe upper side of the trail; but this in`- volvee the ereetion of ngin or slieerdegs and the disnxounting of the gun and the removal o the Wheels from, the carriage ;v ontby ineens 'o this invention the gun een be wheeled np into position luid the fnli elevation een be' obtained in e few ininnes without the iid of sheer-legs or gin, which may be eonspieuons objects et en inconvenient time.

At eeeh side of the onrriege is e lever pivoted to the mile and having its rear end pivoted to the trail. The lever hns pivotred to it block, forming n'bearing for supporting the lower end efe she-ft, Whose upper end is' screw-threaded and works in e .nut oivoiedv to the front of the trail. revolved by ineens of :i Worin mounted Vin hearings in the block, Wnioli gears with ai worm-wheel fixed. to it. I

Figures l 2 aire side elevations of a gun eerried by e gun-mono. -iig constructed aeeording' to 'this invention. The sights and other details not oonneeted wili the invention are omittednv in FigE l the gun is shown in its loweror traveling position and in Fie.. 2 in its high position. Fig. 3 Shows e detail.. The dotted lines indicate the maximum engles of elevation which een be given 'to the gun when in these positions. ln l it is about thirty degrees and in l1`ig52 fifty de-l greee.

u is the gun, free to recoil in e the ordinerydnanner. i n

o' represents trnnnions fixed to the cradle Cradle D in This shaft-'een be" Z; end Werl-:ing in' bearings at the front of the trail o.

Z is a lever pivoted :it cl' to the trail and to the axle e of the carrying-wheels e. The frontend oi' the lever l is connected by a linl; c 2 to e brekeblook f, which can be jammed against the wheel e by the handle j. v

y is e. bleek pivoted et g' to the lever (Z and forming e bearing for the lower end of the sliet lr.'

j in e worm mounted in bearings in ihe bloei: g and gearing with a Worm-wheel h', fixed to the shaft lr. The spindle of the worin -j lies e square end j' to receive a handle by which it een be turned.

is a nui; on the screw-threaded shaft h,

which is pivoted et 7; to the front end of the -tre'iL A The gun, wheihe'in its lower position, Fig. l, or in its upper position,iFig. 2,'ie elevated ,find depressed in the ordinary manner by n curved -rziek Z22, fixed to the cradle b, and n pixnion'o, mounted ir). beerings in the trail.

in order to prevent eide Strains in traveling, erich of thetrails o has fixed to its nnder side n segment o?, wedge-shaped in orosese'etion, which engages with corresponding flanges d3 on the lever rl, ieelearly shown in Figai and l.' 'in e gnn-n1onntingtlie combination of an axle, eirrryingfwheels on the exige trail, a lever e'onneeti'ng the trail'toilie axle, and ineens for varying the angle between the lever sind trail.

2 lin.egunxnountingthe combination of an erle, carrying-wheels on the axle, a trail, a lever eonnecting the trail to theaxle, n screwtlireeded eli-aft pivoted -to the lever, a nut on the ebaltpivoted to thetrail, and means for .rotating the shaft.

3. ,begun-mounting theoombinationof an axle, Carrying-Wheels on the axle, a trail, a

lever connecting the trail te the axle, e serewthreaded shaft pivoted to the lever, a nut on ine shaft pivoted to the trail, e Worm-wheel' ,lo the shaft pivoted to the trail, means for rotating the shaft, a brake-,block carried by the lever and means for forcing theblock against the wheel.

6. In a gun-mounting the combination of an js' axle, carrying-Wheels on the axle, a trail, a

lever connecting the trail to the axle, a screwthreaded shaft pivoted to the leven, a nut on the shaft pivoted to the trail, a worm-wheel 'ixed to the shaft, a worm pivoted to the' level`F gearing 'with the worm-wheel, a brakeblock carried 'by the lever and means for fore ing the block against the Wheel.

7. In a gun-mounting the combination of an axle, carrying-wheels on the axle, a trail, a lever pivoted to the trail and to the axle,

, means for varying the angle between the lever and trail and means for causing the trail and the lever to engage with each other at a point other than their pivot when in the traveling position. l

i S. In aguil-mounting the combination of an axle, carrying-wheels on the axle,a trail,a lever pivoted to the trail and to the axle, a screw-threaded shaft pivoted to the lever, a nuton the shaft pivoted to the trail, means for rotating the shaft and means for causing the trail and the lever to engage with each other l with @ch other at a point other than their talpoint other than their pivot when in the traveling position. f

I Q'IIn'ISgun-mounting the combination of an axlo,lcarryingwheels on the axle, a trail, a lever` pivoted'to the trail and to the axle, a screvvfthreaded shaft pivoted to the lever, a

nut on the shaft pivoted to the trail, a Wormwheel fixed to the shaft, a worm pivoted to the lever gearing with the worin-wheel and means for causing the trail and the leverlto engage with each other at a point other than their pivot when in the traveling position.

10. In a gun-mounting the combination oli' an axle, carrying-Wheels on the axle, a trail, a. lever pivoted to the trail andv to the axle, means forvaryin g the angle between the lever and trail, a brake-block carried. by the lever, means for forcing the block against the Wheel and means for causing thc trail and the lever to engage with each other at a'point other than their pivot when in the traveling posi tion.

V1l. In agun-mounting the combination of an axle, earrying-wheels on the axle, a'trail, a lever pivoted to the trail and to the axle, a screw-threaded shaft pivoted to the lever, a nut on the shaft pivoted to the trail, means for rotating the shaft, a brake-block carried by the lever, means for forcing the block against t'he wheel and means' for causing the trail and thelever to engage with each other at a point other than their pivot when in the traveling position.

12. In a gun-mounting the combination of an axle, carrying-wheels on the axle, a trail, a lever pivoteot to the trail and to the axle, a

screw-threaded shaft pivoted to the lever, a

nut on the shaft pivoted to the trail, a worinwheel fixed to the shaft, a worm pivoteil to the lever' gearing with the worin-wheel, a brake-block carried by the lever, means for forcing the block against the wheel and means for causing the trail and the lever to engage pivot when in` ihetraveling position.

' RALPH lllEW BRANKS'ION. lVlrtnesses:

L. PURvIs, L. W. Woons.

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