An Improvement in Projectiles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 25th July, 1895-Accepted, 31st Aug., 1895
I, ALLEYNE REYNOLDS, of No. 4 St. Marks Crescent, Sheffield, in the County
of York, Manager in Steel Works, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
It is found advantageous to protect the point of a projectile, especially when
it is employed for penetration of superficially hardened plates, by some metal
softer than the projectile itself. Hitherto this has been done by securing to
the point of the projectile a separately made cap of softer metal, but it has
been found difficult to secure this cap firmly.
My invention relates to the construction of a projectile having a point of
comparatively soft metal attached to it as if it were one piece of metal. For
this purpose, after properly shaping and hardening the projectile, I electro-
lytically deposit on its head soft metal such as copper, iron or suitable alloy,
preferably burnishing the metal as it is deposited, according to what is known as
the Elmore process.
After depositing to the desired thickness, the head may be turned true to shape,
if necessary. The whole projectile, while it is in the electrolytic bath, may receive
a coating; and the driving band or bands may be deposited in the groove or
grooves during the electrolytical operation.
Dated this 8th day of November 1894.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
An Improvement in Projectiles.
I, ALLEYNE REYNOLDS, of No. 4 St. Marks Crescent, Sheffield, in the County
of York, Manager in Steel Works, 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 :-
It is found advantageous to protect the point of a projectile, especially when it
is employed for penetration of superficially hardened plates, by some metal softer
than the projectile itself. Hitherto this has been done by securing to the point
of the projectile a separately made cap of softer metal, but it has been found
difficult to secure this cap firmly.
My invention relates to the construction of a projectile having a point of
comparatively soft metal attached to it, as if it were one piece of metal. For this
purpose, after properly shaping and hardening the projectile, I electrolytically
deposit on its head soft metal such as copper, iron or suitable alloy, preferably
burnishing the metal as it is deposited, according to what is known as the Elmore
process.
After depositing to the desired thickness, the head may be turned true to shape,
if necessary. The whole projectile, while it is in the electrolytic bath, may receive
a coating and the driving band or bands may be deposited in the groove or

page_text: grooves during the electrolytical operation. Instead of depositing electrolytically
the whole body of the soft metal applied to the head of the projectile, a cap of
soft metal may be separately made, placed on the head of the projectile and
attached thereto by electrolytically depositing a thickness of soft metal over or
partly over this cap and its junction to the body of the projectile.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A projectile of hard metal having a cap of softer metal electrolytically formed
on or attached to its head, substantially as described.
Dated this 25th day of July 1895.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.