_The angle of site_ mechanism is designed to give the gun a maximum
depression of about 6° and a maximum elevation of 11°, independent of
the elevating mechanism. The mechanism is operated by two handwheels,
one on each side of gun.
[Illustration: 75 MM GUN CARRIAGE MODEL OF 1916.
DIAGRAM OF ANGLE OF SITE MECHANISM.]
Handwheel on right side operates through bevel gear on handwheel shaft
and intermediate shaft, both mounted in angle of site bracket, right,
and cross shaft mounted in bronze bushings in top carriage. Handwheel
on left side operates through bevel gears on handwheel shaft, mounted
in angle of site bracket, left, and cross shaft mounted in bronze
bushings in top carriage. Bevel gears on ends of both cross shafts mesh
with bevel gear on angle of site worm, which is mounted in bushings in
top carriage and held in place by angle of site-worm caps. This worm
meshes with teeth cut in rocker.
Rocker is a U-shaped piece with bearings at the tops of both arms
and teeth cut in bottom of U. The bearings bear over and are free to
revolve about trunnions on cradle independent of trunnion bearing in
top of carriage. Top half of right bearing is formed by rocker arm,
right, which extends back and carries angle of site scale, pointer,
rack, and level and forms a bearing for elevating handwheel shaft. Rear
of rocker arm, right, is braced by rocker arm brace, a diagonal hollow
rod attached to rocker arm and rocker. Top half of left bearing is
formed by rocker arm, left, a diagonal arm extending upward to the rear
to form a support for sight. Movement of the angle of site mechanism
is limited in elevation by the rocker stop bolted to the side of the
rocker and in depression by a screw in the arc.
=The elevating mechanism= is designed to allow an elevation of the
gun of 42° independent of the angle of site mechanism. The mechanism
is operated by one handwheel on the right side of carriage, which is
turned in a clockwise direction to elevate gun.
[Illustration: 75 MM GUN CARRIAGE, MODEL OF 1916.
ELEVATING MECHANISM.]
The elevating mechanism is operated through bevel gears on elevating
handwheel shaft mounted on a rocker arm, right, elevating intermediate
shaft inside rocker-arm brace, elevating cross shaft, mounted in an
elevating cross-shaft bearing bolted to the rocker, and the elevating
worm, which bears inside lower part of the rocker. The elevating worm
meshes with the elevating arc, which is bolted to the bottom of the
spring cylinder.
In indirect fire the angle of site in mils is laid off on the angle of
site scale with the pointer and the desired range of graduation brought
opposite the pointer by means of the elevating handwheel.
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