Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . these op-erations are repeated continuously. The machinewas intended principally for defending the flanks ofa column or line, or the angles of a square. It hasno carriage, but is mounted upon a light frame of irou, with a pair of hinged legs in front and anotherin rear, which are locked in position for firing by ahinged brace, and which serve as handles for tran
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . these op-erations are repeated continuously. The machinewas intended principally for defending the flanks ofa column or line, or the angles of a square. It hasno carriage, but is mounted upon a light frame of irou, with a pair of hinged legs in front and anotherin rear, which are locked in position for firing by ahinged brace, and which serve as handles for trans-porting it from place to place, two men performingthis ojjeration. The Billinghurst and Requa battery, an Americaninvention, consisting of 24 rifle-barrels arranged onan axle, and capable of parallel or diverging fire, wasin use in the United States service in 1861. The .-ibbertini, one of the forms of this weapon inuse in Europe, has ten barrels similarly arranged; theworking of the machine being perforined by a crankwhich, through intermediate devices, conveys thecartridges to the barrels from the box-like magazineat the rear of the barrels upon the mounted frameor carriage. The barrels, after each discharge, are Fig. Abberlnii Mi: rirritr. cleaned by special appliances; the entire number ofbarrels can be discharged from eighteen to twentytimes a minute. Hotchkisss mitrailleur is a bundle of rifled can-non, throwing explosive shells weighing 23A ouncesat the rate of 60 in 48 seconds. It is mounted androtated like the Oatling gun, but the loading andfiiing ap[)aratus differ from the latter. It has beentried ex]ierimentally in France and Italy. Taylors machine-gun is shown at Fig. 3185. The charging-blocks, one of which is shown outhe shelf on the trail of the gun, are filled with car-tridges automatically from a magazine carried in thecaisson, the magazine having chambers correspond-ing with those in the charging-block, and contain-ing springs to press the cartridges
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