Published Resources Details Letters Patent
- Title
- Submarine ram and torpedo-exploder
- Imprint
- United States Patent Office, 28 January 1890
- Description
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 420,406. Application filed April 19 1889.
Accession No.1352
- Abstract
"My invention relates to that class of marine rams in which the attacking armament is submerged below the waterline, the object being to produce a ram which is adapted to be impelled rapidly and with great force against the bottom and sides of a opposing vessel below the waterline, and to convert the same into a torpedo-exploder by substituting a shaft of greater length but less weight than that required for battering purposes, and may be attached to the same piston and be supported in independent bearings and project through a separate orifice to the side of that in which the ram projects; or it may be suitably secured to the outer end of the ram itself, this lengthening the same sufficiently to be impelled against a torpedo submerged in the water at a considerable distance from the vessel."