Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon.pdf - Forgotten Weapons
Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon.pdf - Forgotten Weapons
Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon.pdf - Forgotten Weapons
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face, thus forming an iriclined plane, by which the c .. u-tridgeR, as they travel<br />
on it, are gradually forced into the barrels from the point they have been<br />
left by the loading-piston. Directly below the shaft-bearing is the recess<br />
containing two holes for the recoil-plateN'.<br />
On the under sifle of the breech and in the front half a passage 1s<br />
formed through which the withdrawn ca:;cs are expelled. A small chq,nnel,<br />
2', Fig. 1, Plate III, leads obliquely from the firing-pin close behind the<br />
recoil-plate; through it the point of the pin can drop out, in case it iK accidentally<br />
broken.<br />
Towards the rear is the bed for the head of the elevating-screw, aml<br />
around it are tapped holes for the assembling-screws of the cover-plate. (See<br />
Fig. J, Plate VI.)<br />
On the upper face, to the left and front, is the loa
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