Published Resources Details Letters Patent
- Title
- Automatic sinking-valve for submarine torpedoes
- Imprint
- United States Patent Office, 15 October 1889
- Description
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 413,115. Application filed November 15 1888.
Accession No.1349
- Abstract
"In my application for Letters Patent of the United States, filed November 15, 1888… I have described a novel means of propelling a torpedo of the class referred to, in which the compressed air is caused to act directly upon the propeller-blades, the propeller on the principle of the Barker reaction wheel, whereby I am enabled to dispense with the usual piston cylinder and connections and other mechanism employed - for instance, in the Whitehead and other torpedoes - so that I am enabled to use a plurality of sinking-valves instead of one, as in the case of the Whitehead torpedo, thereby expediting the sinking of the torpedo in case it misses its mark…"