Device for Regulating the Position or Direction of Projectiles, Cartridges, or like Bodies.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 11th Nov.,
1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Device for Regulating the Position or Direction of Projectiles,
Cartridges, or like Bodies.
We, The Joint Stock Company, styled NORDDEUTSCHE MUNITIONSFABRIK, of
Grossalze, Schönebeck, on the Elbe, in the Empire of Germany, Manufacturers
of Munitions of War, ALBERT TOTTE, of the same place, Manager of the said
Company, and PAUL PONDORF, of Goessnitz, Saxe Altenburg, in the Empire of
Germany, Doctor of Science, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the drawings
hereunto annexed and to the figures and letters marked thereon that is to say:
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In operating upon bodies of small size such as bullets or projectiles cartridges
or the like with automatic or self-acting machines it has been necessary hitherto
to place such bodies in the feeding groove or channel by hand in order in the
first instance to set or adjust them in the position best suited to the particular
treatment they are intended to undergo for example with their points or noses
uniformly in one direction and which operation is both troublesome and ex-
pensive.
Now the subject of this invention is a device the purpose of which is auto-
matically to turn said bodies which may have been introduced into the feeding
groove without any regard to order by self-acting machinery so that they point
in various directions and thus to impart a uniform position or direction to them
all.
This object is attained by causing the bodies as they emerge from the feeding
groove or channel to descend upon a rest or support, which is so constructed that
it only intercepts and temporarily arrests those bodies which are delivered the
wrong end for example the blunt or flat end first and which bodies are then by
means of a sliding carriage or the like turned over into the required position
or direction whilst those bodies representing the other or pointed end first are
allowed to pass through the apparatus without their direction or position being
changed.
In the accompanying drawings:-Figures 1 and 2 are respectively, a front
elevation and a side elevation of one form of the reversing or tilting apparatus
constructed according to the present invention and shown by way of example.
a designates the feeding shoot channel or hopper the projectiles or the like 1, 2,
emerging from which point in different directions that is to say one points
upward and the other downward.
Now before the projectiles enter the reversing or sorting device proper they
are detained by the slide which is constantly drawn towards the left that is to
say in the direction of the arrow by the spring 12 and is only moved to the right
for a short period of time by the cam this brief interval of time being just
sufficient to allow the projectile, which was locked in its temporary position,
to drop and the projectile next following to be caught and detained in its turn.
Thus two projectiles cannot enter the reversing mechanism at the same time.
Upon the cam shaft c which receives rotary motion from any convenient soufees

page_text: of power two more cams m³ and n¹ are mounted; each of these cams operates a
slide such as m and n respectively likewise controlled by a spring m² and n² but
the springs m² and n² respectively tend to shift these slides to the right whereas
the cams m¹ n¹ move them to the left.
Now after a projectile has been released by the slide 1, it drops through an
aperture m³ provided in the slide m onto the slide n.
In this last-mentioned slide is formed a slot or aperture 3, which, though large
enough for the projectile to pass freely through while the slide n is in its extreme
outward or right hand position, is normally partly received into the wall o
which thus covers about one-half of its area.
Now when the projectile falls upon the slide with its blunt end or base
first as is assumed to be the case with reference to projectile No. 1-such pro-
jectile will remain upon the said slide n in an upright position so that its upwardly
projecting point will enter the slot m³ of the slide m; and at this juncture the
revolving shaft c will so move the cam m² as to cause it to release the said
slide m and permit the spring m² to act with the result that this slide will
suddenly be moved to the right by the spring m² and will tilt projectile No. 1
in such manner that it will be caused to occupy in succession each of the several
positions in which the projectile marked No. 1 is represented in Figure 1 of the
drawings and eventually enter the channel or groove b.
When on the other hand the projectile emerges from the channel a point
downward as is supposed to be the case in the drawing with reference to pro-
jectile No. 2, such projectile, after passing through the aperture m³, will fall
with its point resting in the aperture in which position it will remain. When
in this position the rear or base of the projectile is located underneath the slide m
and when this slide comes to be released in the manner described above in con-
sequence of the rotary movement of the cam ml and is moved to the right by the
spring m² it will slide past the base of the projectile without turning the same.
As the shaft c continues to revolve, the slide n is presently released by the
cam n¹ and moved to the right by the spring n² the aperture at this moment
wholly emerging from the wall o so that the projectile No. 2 the point of which
rests in such aperture is now enabled to fall therethrough and past the slide n and
thus likewise to enter the shoot & point first.
The object of the guide d is to direct the projectile whether turned over as
No. 1 or moved along in its initial position as No. 2 in such manner as to secure
it against any undesirable canting or inclination and thus to avoid its becoming
jammed in its course.
It may here be mentioned that the rest which intercepts the blunt ends or
bases of the projectiles or bodies need not necessarily be formed by the slot or
aperture of the slide n partially covered or contracted by the wall o as described
above.
Instead of this a fixed projection or stop may be provided for the purpose on
the said wall o and made to operate in conjunction with the said slot or aper-
ture 3, the shape and size of such projection being so calculated that it will
intercept only the flat bases of the articles fed through the shoot and conse-
quently their pointed ends will be maintained within reach of the slide n and
conversely the said projection will cause the points of the bodies to enter the
aperture for such a distance that their flat bases will be situated beneath and
clear of the slide m.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:
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1. A device for regulating the position or direction of projectiles and like
bodies the main feature of which is that a projection or rest such as n inter-
cepts those bodies which advance with their flat ends or bases downward so that
their pointed ends or noses are maintained within reach of a slide such as m

page_text: adapted to turn them over while the said projection allows those bodies which
advance point or nose downward to descend somewhat lower so that they occupy
a position beneath and clear of the said slide m a movement which the said pro-
jection or rest n then performs having the effect of releasing the said bodies and
enabling them to continue their onward traverse without altering their position
substantially as herein shown and described.
2. A modification of the device named in the preceding claim, the characteristic
feature of which is that the sliding stop or rest n is provided with a slot or aper-
ture such as n³ for the bodies under treatment to fall through which slot or
aperture while the said slide is in its terminal position is partially covered by
a wall such as o so that only the pointed ends or noses of the bodies can enter
the said slot or aperture substantially as herein shown and described.
Dated this 10th day of December 1898.
WHITE & WOODINGTON,
Rooms 221-225, Birkbeck Bank, Chambers,
Southampton Buildings, London, Agents,
WHITE & WOODINGTON,
Rooms 221-225, Birkbeck Bank, Chambers,
Southampton Buildings, London, Agents.