New or Improved Apparatus for Exploding Flash-light Cartridges and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Apr., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Jan., 1896-Accepted, 7th Mar., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Apparatus for Exploding Flash-light Cartridges
and the like.
I MARTIN BÖSL of 2/3 Tierschstrasse, Munich in the Empire of Germany,
Telegraph Operator, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows-
This invention consists in new or improved apparatus for exploding flash light
cartridges and the like.
On each side of a bottom plate two lugs are arranged, into which are screwed to
parallel bars of iron or the like. Moveably attached to these bars is a casing
provided with a clock work, which casing is pressed by means of two spiral springs
away from the cartridge or the like to be fired.
This clock work causes a disk which is placed on the clock casing, to rotate, said
disk being provided with a cylindrical periphery. The clock work is wound up
by means of a key, and the disk is kept in its place by a brake lever which is
fastened on to the bottom plate, and by means of a nose engages with a notch in
a circular plate placed underneath the aforesaid disk. The disengaging of the
brake is accomplished by pushing forward the casing, inasmuch as the disk is then
removed from the brake lever and the plate freed from its engagement with the
nose of the same.
At the upper end of the bottom plate a box is attached the object of which is to
receive the flash light cartridge, it having at its bottom a slit to receive the
nipple or fuze of the cartridge. The latter may be secured in any suitable manner
in the box.
When a cartridge placed in the box is to he exploded, it is necessary to push
forward the casing by means of a latch or the like, until the disk which is then
set in rotation, reaches the fuze thereby exploding the latter.
This having been accomplished, the latch is released and the casing together with
the disk is, by the action of the springs, pushed back to its initial position. The
disk now again engages with the brake lever as above described, and the clock
work immediately stops.
Instead of employing the rotating disk a bar with rubbing plate may be used
which, with the aid of a rotating frictional or toothed attachment in connection
with a toothed bar or the like is brought in contact with the fuze; or in place of
that bar a percussion pin coated with a frictional substance may be employed
so as to strike against the cartridge thereby exploding the same.
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A 1 1005
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Apparatus for Exploding Flash-light Cartridges
and the like.
I, MARTIN BÖSL, of Tierschstrasse 2/3, Munich, in the Empire of Germany,
Telegraph Operator, 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 :-
This invention consists in new or improved apparatus suitable for exploding flash-
light cartridges and the like for signalling and other purposes.
The apparatus is illustrated in the annexed drawings in which Fig. 1 is a plan
view, Fig. 2 a side view partly in cross section, and Fig. 3 a plan view illustrating
a modification.
On each side of a bottom plate g two lugs h h¹ are arranged into which are
screwed two parallel bars of iron or the like. Movably attached to these bars i
is a casing k provided with a clock work, which casing is pressed, by means of two
spiral springs slid over the bars i and bearing against the lugs h, away from the
cartridge or the like to be fired.
This clock work causes a disk p, which is placed on the clock casing, to rotate,
said disk being provided with a cylindrical periphery. The clock work is wound
which is
up by means of a key j and the disk is kept in its place by a brake lever
fastened on to the bottom plate and by means of a nose engages with a notch in
a circular plate pl placed underneath the aforesaid disk p (Fig. 1).
The disengaging of the brake is acccomplished by pushing forward the casing k
inasmuch as the disk p is then removed from the brake lever and the plate p' freed
from its engagement with the nose of the same.
At the upper end of the bottom plate a box f is attached the object of which is
to receive the flash-light cartridge, it having at its bottom a slit m to receive the
nipple or fuze of the cartridge a (Fig. 2). The latter may be secured in any
suitable manner in the box f.
When a cartridge placed in the box is to be exploded it is necessary to push
forward the casing k by means of a latch or the like, until the disk p, which is
then set in rotation, reaches the fuze thereby exploding the latter.
This having been accomplished, the latch u is released and the casing k together
with the disk is, by the action of the springs, pushed back to its initial position.
The disk p now again engages with the brake lever 9 as above described and the
clock work immediately stops.
Instead of employing the rotating disk P a bar with rubbing plate may be
used (Fig. 3) which with the aid of a rotating frictional or toothed attachment in
connection with a toothed bar or the like is brought in contact with the fuze.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is -
The new or improved apparatus for exploding flash-light cartridges and the
like comprising a cartridge box and a rubbing plate p, which latter is set in
sliding motion by mechanism bringing the sliding rubbing-plate in contact with the
fuze of the cartridge or can be reversed the sliding fuze being brought in contact
with the rubbing-plate.
DL: 001
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.,
Agents to Applicant.