Handbook for Light ArtilleryDyer, A. B. (Alexander Brydie)
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Handbook for Light Artillery
Dyer, A. B. (Alexander Brydie)
Artillery, Field and mountain
=About the Carriage.=--Swivel (the brass casting connecting casing and
carriage); swivel and casing pivot-pins, ring, chain, and lock-pin;
swivel-clamp; swivel-clamp screw, gunner's seat; swivel-clamp
screw-collar; swivel and carriage pivot-bolt locks; swivel and carriage
pivot-bolt lock-lever; swivel and carriage pivot-bolt lock-lever ring
and chain; elevating and pointing-lever; pointing-lever pivot-pin ring
chain and lock-pins; pointing-lever clamp, lock-chain; pointing-lever
clamp-screw; oscillation-stop, trail handspikes, oscillation-stop
traversing-screw; oscillation-stop limit-screw.
=Implements, etc.=--Wiping-rod; T screw-driver; lock-wrench; headless
shell-extractor; packing-case; shell-driver; hammer; drifts;
breech-casing cover (leather).
THE CARRIAGE.
The distinctive feature of the carriage is the arrangement for
oscillation, the lateral movement being regulated by a clamp, which
compresses, or allows to expand, a metallic ring concentric with
the pivot around which the gun moves. The lever for elevating or
depressing, as well as giving the oscillation, is peculiar to this gun.
THE LIMBER.
The limber-chest is opened in rear by a lid, which falls down, and is
held in place by jointed braces, thereby serving as a shelf. When down,
it exposes a series of drawers six in number, and two recesses for
implements. In these drawers the ammunition is carried in the original
pasteboard packages. Each drawer has a capacity for 45 packages or 900
rounds, thus giving to each limber 5400 rounds.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR DISMOUNTING.
1. Unscrew the cascable and raise the breech-cover.
2. Remove the locks. To do this, turn the crank until one of the
lock-cam recoil-plates is uppermost; rotate the corresponding lock
about the recoil-plate until it is vertical, and draw it out at front.
The other lock may be removed in the same manner.
3. Remove the ejectors directly by their pins.
4. Remove the lock-cam, raising it vertically by means of its
journal-boxes.
5. Turn out the feed-valve and valve-lever screws, and remove valve,
valve-slide, lever, and lever-slide.
6. Drive out the safety-crank pin, and remove crank.
7. Drive out the safety-crank shaft and remove the spline.
TO DISMOUNT THE LOCK.
1. Drive out the extractor-pin, and remove the extractor.
2. Unscrew the lock-head by means of the lock-wrench.
3. Uncock by pressing on the sear, and turn the cocking-lever to the
rear; drive out the cocking-lever pin, and remove the lever.
4. Draw out the firing pin, remove the rack, and unscrew the mainspring.
5. Drive out the sear-spring pin, and remove the spring.
6. Drive out the sear-spring, and remove the sear.
7. Drive out the truck-pin, and remove the truck.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR ASSEMBLING.
1. Put in safety-crank shaft and spline.
2. Put in safety-crank and crank-pin.
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