A Device for Controlling or Regulating the Position, Direction, or Arrangement of Projectiles or like Bodies Open or Recessed at One End.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Feb., 1899-Accepted, 27th May, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Device for Controlling or Regulating the Position, Direction, or
Arrangement of Projectiles or like Bodies Open or Recessed at
One End.
I, 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: -
The subject of this invention is a device for controlling the direction or mode
of arrangement of projectiles cases or similar hollow or other bodies, which are
open or recessed at one end and are required to be automatically fed forward in
a given position and the effect of the improved device upon the bodies in question
which are introduced into the apparatus without any regard to order and pointing
in various directions is such that during their further progress said bodies are
all arranged in one uniform direction namely with their closed or pointed ends
in advance.
The main feature of the present invention is the provision in the path which
the projectiles cases or the like are required to traverse, of a nose, stud or catch
adapted to intercept or ariest such of the bodies as may be travelling with the
open or recessed ends downward or in advance when a slide or pusher devised
for the purpose, or the said catch itself, will tilt or turn them over into the
required position before allowing them to proceed further but those of the bodies
which are descending or advancing with their closed or pointed ends first, are
not arrested by the said catch, and their position remains unaltered as they
advance past the same.
In the accompanying drawings which show by way of example three forms
which the device may assume.
Figure 1 is an elevation partly in section of a device constructed according to
the present invention showing the action of the apparatus upon projectiles or
bodies passing through the same with their closed or pointed ends first.
Figure 2 is a similar view but showing the action of the apparatus upon pro-
jectiles or bodies passing through the same with their open or recessed ends
first.
Figure 3 is a sectional view of Figure 2 taken at right angles thereto.
Figures and 5 are similar views to Figures 1 and 2 but showing a modifica-
tion in the tilting mechanism.
Figure 6 19 a sectional view of Figure 5 taken at right angles thereto.
Figure 7 is an end elevation representing a further modification of the device and
showing its action upon projectiles travelling closed or pointed end first.
Figure 8 is a sectional side view thereof and
Figure 9 is a similar view showing the action of the apparatus upon projectiles
travelling with their open ends first.
In the form shown in Figures 1 to 3 the cases, projectiles or other bodies, as

page_text: they are delivered from the feeding channel a, are acted upon by a slide or valve b,
which receives a reciprocating motion from any suitable means, so that it only
allows one projectile at a time to drop out of the channel a into the mechanism
which is to adjust or arrange its direction whilst said slide or valve 6 intercepts
the next following projectile or case and temporarily retains it.
The projectiles or bodies thus admitted into the adjusting mechanism first
drop through the aperture d formed in the slide or pusher c which also receives
a reciprocating motion and if said bodies are travelling with their pointed or
closed ends first as represented in Figure 1 where said bodies are marked 1 they
are merely diverted somewhat to one side by the stud, catch or stop e, but in
other respects retain their original position or direction and enter, so directed
into the discharge channel f.
When, however, the bodies falling from a through the slide or valve 6 and
through the aperture d of the slide or pusher c arrive with their open ends first,
they are arrested by the said stud catch or stop e, as shown at Figure 2 and are
thereby detained at such a height that their closed or pointed ends engage or
enter into the orifice d of the slide or pusher c.
The slide or pusher c then receives an endway movement and thereby tilts
the projectile or body which in Figure 2 is marked 2 when said body so tilted
will be caused to fall over and take up successively the positions indicated in
dot and dash lines in Figure 2 and will enter the delivery channel f with its
closed or pointed end first.
The arrangement shown in Figures 4 to 6 is in the main similar in its con-
stiuction and operation to that heieinbefore described. In this example, however,
no slide or pusher c for tilting the projectiles or bodies is provided but in lieu
thereof, the stud, catch or stope is mounted upon an axis of motion and adapted
to turn through an arc of 180° at cach operation as shown at Figure 5.
By these means the bodies travelling with their closed or pointed ends
first are merely deflected to one side by the said stop or catch e as shown at
Figure 4 and which in other respects does not affect their position, whilst the
bodies 2, which enter with their open ends first are caught upon and intercepted
by the pivotted stud, catch or stop'e and upon said catch e being rotated about
its pivot through an arc of 180° in the direction of the arrow Figure 2 the bodies
will drop off said catch c with their closed or pointed ends first into the delivery
channel f.
The pivotal stud catch or stop e may be actuated by any suitable means for
example it may be positively reciprocated through the required arc by a driven
cam or other device through suitable connections or the weight of the moving
body may cause the stude to tilt and turn over and the latter may be counter-
weighted or acted upon by a light spring to restore it to its normal position.
In the arrangement represented in Figures 7 to 9 the device is formed with an
inclined shoot or hopper a leading from the charging receptacle which may be
of any suitable construction, the stud catch or stop e being situated at the lower
end of said shoot or hopper a.
Adjacent to the catch e is provided a hinged trap door or valve g, which is
opened and closed automatically, and serves as a support for the projectiles or
bodies resting upon the catch e.
The operation of this mechanism is as follows:-
Those projectiles or bodies 1 which slide down the shoot with their closed or
pointed ends first take up their position in contact with the catch e, as illustrated
in Figure 8 and when the door or valve opens as indicated by the dotted lines
in Figure 8 the projectile or body, whose direction remains unaltered, drops into
the delivery channel f with its closed or pointed end first.
Those projectiles or bodies 2, however, which descend with their open
ends first, are caught by the stud catch or stop e so that when the door or valve g
turns on its hinge and opens, said bodies are also turned upon the said stop, as
shown in Figure 9, that is to say, they are tilted and turned over by their own

page_text: weight, and consequently enter the delivery channel f likewise with their closed
or pointed ends first.
Motion may be imparted to the door or valve g in any convenient manner, for
example, by means of cams, levers, toothed gearing or the like, from the
main shaft of the machine.
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
1. A device for controlling or arranging the position or direction of projectiles
cases or other bodies open or recessed at one end comprising a fixed or movable
stud, catch or stop, such as e designed to intercept bodies travelling with their
recessed or open ends first, and serving as a fulcrum or pivot upon which said
bodies turn and means for causing said bodies to turn, the parts being o
arranged that the bodies or cases travelling with their closed or pointed ends
first are not intercepted by the said stud but pass through the machine with their
position unaltered substantially as herein shown and described.
2. A device of the character described in the preceding claim comprising a
stud catch or stop e arranged at the end of an inclined shoot such as 7 provided
with a door, trap or valve such as 9 which at each operation opens into the
delivery channel f substantially as herein shown and described.
Dated this 11th day of February 1899
WHITE & WOODINGTON,
Birkbeck Bank Chambers, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents