This is the fuze which is used in the preparation of the jam-tin bomb: an instrument of destruction which has caused much amusement to the frivolous.
The true artist never exaggerates, and quite half the bombs had genuine safety-fuze in them and were lit before being thrown.
Now be it known to those who do not dabble in explosives, there are in the army two types of fuze which are used for firing charges.
Should, therefore, an unwary person place two inches of this second fuze in his jam tin by mistake, and light it, it will take exactly one-600th of a second before he gets to the motto.
It will readily be seen by those who are profound mathematicians, that if three feet of safety-fuze burn in a minute, two inches will burn in about three seconds--and three seconds is just long enough for the presentation ceremony.
The end of the safety-fuze is then lit, and the jam tin is presented to the Hun.
Fuze out, as soon as the Rammer is clear of the muzzle.
When the Fuze has been uncovered, care must be taken not to let it be touched by the moisture of the hand, or by the sea-water.
If it be desired to explode the shell in front of or in the midst of a body of troops, or after having penetrated some resisting obstacle, the time-fuze should be used.
The adjustment of the fuzeto the distance and the altitude of explosion are regulated to the elevation; and, therefore, the three conditions to good effect may be said to depend mainly on a correct knowledge of distance.
Loaded shell are to be painted red and placed in boxes or bags marked with a red cross, which boxes are to have the lengths of fuze painted on them in black.
The very common, but slovenly, practice of filling the shell, and then pouring out a quantity sufficient to allow the fuze to be inserted, is expressly prohibited.
This fuze should be carefully explained to the men, as shells have been taken from guns with the cut made into the priming-magazine, which would explode them at the muzzle.
Shrapnel shell and the tops of their boxes shall be painted white, with the length of fuze stencilled on them in black.
I knowed what that meant in a second, Mr Hawkesley; so I whips out my knife, sings out to Ned to prise open the other two doors, and cuts off the live end of the fuze at once, and just in time.
The metallic fuze bored out and a paper fuze of longer time inserted.
By joining the fuze wires in series or in groups, any number of holes may be fired simultaneously, according to the current available.
The ends of the fuze wires in the detonating cap are connected by a fine platinum filament (fig.
When more than one cartridge is required for the blast, that which has the fuze attached is usually charged last.
High explosives are fired either by ordinary fuze and detonating cap or by electric fuze.
The cap is crimped tight on the end of the fuze, embedded in the cartridge, and on being exploded by fire from the fuzedetonates the charge.
It is ignited by the miner's candle or lamp, or by a candle end so placed at the mouth of the hole that the flame must burn its way through the fuze covering.
The bare ends of the fuze wires in the detonating cap are placed say 1/8 in.
As the fuze burns slowly, at the rate of 2 or 3 ft.
For firing, the fuze wires are joined to long leading wires, connected with some source of electric current.
The fuze is a cord, having in the centre a core of gunpowder, enclosed in several layers of linen or hemp waterproofed covering.
Chemical fuze, a fuze in which substances separated until required for action are then brought into contact, and uniting chemically, produce explosion.
Percussion fuze, a fuze in which the ignition is produced by a blow on some fulminating compound.
Time fuze, a fuze adapted, either by its length or by the character of its composition, to burn a certain time before producing an explosion.
Friction fuze, a fuze which is ignited by the heat evolved by friction.
Electric fuze, a fuze which is ignited by heat or a spark produced by an electric current.
Concussion fuze, a fuze ignited by the striking of the projectile.
This fuze burst its shell instantaneously when the fuze-cap touched the ground.
The fuze was set for seventeen seconds, so that by the time Sergeant Gosling had reached the shell and drawn it from the ground, it was a question of only a few seconds before it would explode.
It was, however, at this period that the now famous 106 or instantaneousfuze arrived in the country.
He then unscrewed the fuze and threw it away before it could detonate the shell.
Illustration] Time Fuze By Randall Garrett Illustrated by Paul Orban Commander Benedict kept his eyes on the rear plate as he activated the intercom.
We can only assume that we ourselves were the fuze that set off that nova.
FUZE or FUSE, an appliance for firing explosives in blasting operations, military shells, &c.
Romanic into English, the ordinaryfuze taking the shape of a spindle-like tube.
I see the train; I kneel down; the fuze is faint, and I stoop to blow it; and then my action is perceived, and a shattering volley sweeps the bridge.
But the fuze will not take: horrible moment of agonizing suspense,--the powder is clotted with blood, and will not ignite!
But unhappily the fuze has missed, and the great engine lies inert and inactive.
This form of fuze was devised by Lieutenant now Captain Fisher, R.
PLATE XXIX] The horizontal lever k, which carries the lever m and propeller e, rotates on the top of the fuze pillar f, and is prevented from rising by means of a screw.
A section and elevation of this electric fuze are shown at Fig.
Should the bolt so arranged be required to be fired at will, it is only necessary to put a more powerful battery in circuit, and so fire the fuzethrough the 20 ohms resistance.
Various kinds of this form of electrical fuze have been designed, the principal of which are as follows:-- 1.
This is the form of electrical fuze most commonly used, and which will most certainly supersede altogether the high tension fuze.
One peculiarity of this fuze is that the composition is run over the insulated wires without materially softening the dielectric, or affecting in the slightest degree the insulation of the wires.
In this form of low tension fuze there is no liability whatever of any injury being caused to the bridge by the working of the wires in the head, or by damp even after lying in the water for a month or more.
The following is a description of the platinum wire fuze of the form adopted in the English service, a section of which is shown at Fig.
It may be necessary in some cases, when a specially manufactured fuze is not attainable, to make a fuze on the spot.
A short piece of fuze that had been placed in the touch-hole of the gun was ignited.
The faithful dog, thinking that the stick had been thrown for him to bring, ran and returned with it to his master in great glee, with the fuze sizzing nearer and nearer to the explosive.
The next shell contained twenty-three pounds of Maximite, and the fuze was timed to go off a little quicker.
He attached fuze and exploder to a stick of the explosive, and threw it toward the stream, but, missing his aim, the dynamite landed on a rock.
The huge loaded shell armed with a fuze was placed in a pit and fixed so as to be set off by electricity from a distance.
The method of using the dynamite was to pour it into holes drilled in the rock, inserting an exploder cap and fuze in the usual manner.
When the editor went out into the ante-room the fuze had burned out, the surface gunpowder had flashed off, but the poet was still sitting there.
While half a thousand of them were crowded in close upon the mine, marveling over the mystery of this flotsam, one of their number began to investigate it with a hammer, and, hitting the fuze a heavy blow, exploded the mine.
On hearing his minion's report concerning the visitor, the editor told the boy to light the fuze and to ask the poet to sit down; that the editor would see him in half an hour.
New types of grenades filled with high explosives detonated by a percussion fuze have been produced of late years, and it is probable that they will be again introduced into most countries.
The bag is inserted through the fuzehole and the bursting charge of pebble and fine grain powder gradually poured in.
For guns they were latterly fitted with a wooden disc called a sabot, attached by a copper rivet, intended to keep the fuze central when loading.
Some fifty years, however, elapsed before a satisfactory fuze was made.
This entailed the use of a mortar or a very short piece, so that the fuze could be easily reached from the muzzle without unduly endangering the gunner.
They were fitted with a small wood time fuze to burn 7.
It was impossible to ignite with certainty this primitive fuzesimply by firing the gun; the fuze was consequently first ignited and the gun fired immediately afterwards.
They were roughly screwed on the exterior to fit a similar thread in the fuze hole of the shell.
The fuze on striking ignites the exploder and in turn the lyddite.
If thefuze had to be withdrawn, there was a fuze extractor for the job.
Over this ring the top of the fuze case was marked in seconds.
The ring burned until it reached the zero end and set off the fine powder in the center of the case; the powder flash then blew out a tin plate in the bottom of the fuze and ignited the shell charge.
The flame escaped through vents, three to five in number, around the fuze hole of the shell.
Further, it was the main element in such modern projectile fuzes as the ring fuze of the U.
The shock of impact caused this fuzeto explode the shell at almost the instant of striking.
The base fuze was used with armor-piercing projectiles where it was desirable to have the shell penetrate the target for some distance before bursting.
Both guns two degrees more left, fuze two, eight hundred.
The determination of the fuze (by time shrapnel) follows.
The best procedure with field guns is said to be lengthening the fuze to obtain a high percentage of bursts on graze.
The fuze lengths are marked on a movable scale opposite the range graduations to which they apply, and the "corrector" moves thisfuze scale so as to bring different fuze lengths opposite the range graduation.
The close-quarters projectile of to-day is more usually shrapnel with thefuze set at zero.
The fuze has a standard length for the ascertained range, but the proper correction of this standard length to suit the atmospheric conditions has to be made.
This it will do, provided the fuze is minutely accurate, and a burst is thus obtained exactly over the heads of the enemy, but this is now generally held to be unlikely, and in so far as effect against personnel is concerned the H.
The French, always in the forefront of artillery progress, were the first nation to realize the new significance of the time-fuze and the shrapnel shell.
Thus, in 1870 the French time-fuze was only graduated for two ranges, and the Germans used percussion fuzes only.
They may be fired by powder hose, fuzeor electricity.
The safety fuze used in the British service burns at the rate of about 3 ft.
A defective splice in two lengths of fuze was thus discovered and repaired.
Instantaneous fuze burns at the rate of a mile a minute.
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