Published Resources Details Letters Patent
- Title
- Firing mechanism for torpedoes
- Description of Work
- Application forming part of Letters Patent No. 417,206. Application filed November 15 1888.
- Imprint
- United States Patent Office, 10 December 1889
- Description
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 413,5885. Application filed November 15 1888.
Accession No.1351
- Abstract
'To these ends the invention consists in the combination, with the charge-chamber of a torpedo of a firing mechanism comprising, essentially, a firing pin or bolt having a free longitudinal and a rotary motion in its bearings, in combination with a time-lock operating to retard or check said free longitudinal motion of the bolt and automatically release the same after the torpedo has travelled a given distance…"