The Works Of Messrs. Schneider And Co.

70 MESSRS. SCHNEIDER AND CO.’S WORKS. one of the toothed wheels that form part of the hand- working device for training the gun. By means of a lever and clutch, the hånd and power transmissions can be thrown in and out of gear. The hoist consists of a carrier with two compartiments one above the other. The carrier is raised from the magazines to the platform, by a chain set in motion either direct, by means of a crank and a set of conical gear, or through a dynamo fixed to the central tube below tlie armoured deck, the dynamo transmitting its motion to the lower mechanism of the chain by a vertical shaft placée! inside the tube. A disengaging lever makes it possible to render these two mechanisms independent of each 11 carrier for hoisting the charges is guided carrier lower part of the cylinder is fitted with slides having out- side damps and inside guides ; front buffers limit the travel of the carriage. The slides are made with two cheeks ; these have a soleplate bolted to the turret plat- form, the top Hanges constituting slide-paths in which seatings are cut for the rollers that facilitate the travel of the carriage during recoil and running out. The right- liand cheek carries the side support, the siglit - line not being affeeted by the recoil. The recoil-cylinders are ou the Schneider-Canet system, with central counter - rod ; the pipe which unites the two cylinders ends on one side at the rear of the right-hand cylinder, and on the other in a valve on the cover of the left-hand cylinder. The liquid flows from right to left by lifting the intermediate 15- and 20-Centimetre Guns. Schneider-Canet Turrets for in its travel by rollers which turn in the slides fixed within the ammunition tube. When the charge has reached the platform, it is received by an oscillating table carried by a horizontal frame. A lever placed within reach of the gunner on the platform enables him to check the chain at the moment when the hoisting of the holder carrying the charge is completed. Closed-In Turret for 24-Centimetre (9.449-In.) Gun (Figs. 846 to 851, Plates CXLV. and CXLVI.).—The turret to be now referred to is a type which Messrs. Schneider and Co. have designed especially for the armament of protected coastguard ships. It contains four main parts, namely : the mounting and its slide ; tlie turret and its mechanism ; the training apparatus ; and tlie hoists. The mounting consists of a carriage formée! of a recoil cylinder, and provided with tlie trunnion plates. The i valve; this falls back on its seat when recoil is spent, and j the flow of the liquid ceases. The gun remains run in, until a valve placed on a pipe that establishes communication from one cylinder to the other, is turned by hånd, when the gun runs out again under the action of gravity. The turret is arrangée! for central charging, and consists of : («) The movable platform, with two longitudinal teams placed underneath the mounting cheeks. (6) The path on which horizontal rollers turn, placed at the top of a frame formed like a truncated cone, which surrounds the central tube ; this frame is made with a roller path for the vertical rollers. (c) The central tube, made in two parts joined by a piece which serves also as a support for a circular line for the ammunition service. (c?) Tlie hydraulic cylinder, which acts as a pivot