Most of these British friction primers do not have the wire loop attached.
A friction primer is a device to initiate the firing of muzzle-loading cannon. Each friction primer consists of a copper tube filled with gunpowder. The tube fits into the cannon touch hole burying its lower end in the gunpowder chamber. The top end of the tube extending above the touch hole has a short perpendicular spur tube filled with a priming mixture of antimony sulfide and potassium chlorate. A roughened wire slider extends from the outer end of the spur tube through the priming mixture and the gunpowder tube. This slider wire is twisted into a loop on the opposite side of the gunpowder tube.[1]
^Manucy, Albert C. (1994). Artillery Through the Ages. DIANE Publishing. pp. 26 & 27.
A frictionprimer is a device to initiate the firing of muzzle-loading cannon. Each frictionprimer consists of a copper tube filled with gunpowder. The...
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powder and placed in the vent and ignited by a port-fire. Frictionprimers (sometimes called friction tubes) were used in the later black powder era, while...
diameter. A pull-type frictionprimer, 0.88 inch in length, equipped with a loop lanyard, was designed to fit into the primer seat, or touch hole. The...
punctured the cartridge bag. Number 4 attached a lanyard to a frictionprimer and inserted the primer into the vent. At the command “Fire,” Number 4 yanked the...
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called rolling friction. Similar to rolling friction there are energy terms in charge transfer, which contribute to friction. In static friction there is coupling...
fired shot and shell. Percussion primers were used in naval service, but the howitzers could also use frictionprimers obtained from the army. The small...
No.1's command the No.5 would fire the piece with his slow match. Frictionprimers replaced slow match ignition by the mid-19th century. Hoffmeyer, p...
reentered the submarine. The charge was exploded by a lanyard and a frictionprimer attached to the charge, sinking the scow. Following the failed trial...
which has a modified percussion cap (primer) seated in a cavity at the back end of the cartridge case. Between the primer pocket and the case chamber are one...
fulminate and almost as powerful as lead azide. The sensitivity of DDNP to friction is much less than that of mercury fulminate and lead azide. DDNP is used...
externally reinforced with pasteboard. A pivoting handgrip with safety button, a primer and initial propelling charge are at one end of this tube, the other end...
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physician and apothecary William Watson showed that the electric spark of a friction machine could ignite black powder, by way of igniting a flammable substance...
friction, a quarter was still left at the end of 500 years in the detailed simulations. The same outcome occurred under low warming and low friction....
command, the fifth gunner would fire the piece with a slow match. Frictionprimers replaced slow match ignition by the mid-19th century. When a cannon...
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