J. BUBIER.

Gun Carriage.
N0. 432.
Patented Oct. 20, I837.

N-PEIERS, WOTO-UYHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. I10.

 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN BUBIER, OF MARBLEHEAD, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN GUN-CARRlAGES TO BE USED ON BOARD OF SHIPS OF WAR

Speci?cation of Letters Patent No. 1132,. dated October 20, 1837.

To all whom it may concern: but must always come out in the center of the
Be it known that I, JOHN BUBIER, of Mar port. I have likewise a groove and plates
bleh'ead, in the county of Essex and State of on the under part of the slide, of sufficient
Massachusetts, a lieutenant in the Navy of the length to allow the necessary recoil of the
United States, have invented new and useful gun, Fig. 2, to receive the stopper, which
Improvements for the Better Management of I place in the center of the forward axle, Fig.
Naval Artillery, of which the following is a 8.. -I likewise ?xasecuring-bolt to passthrou'gh
speci?cation. ' the cheek into the slide, Figs. 4 and 9, which
The nature of my invention consists in pro serves to keep the gun steady in its place when
viding the gun-carriage with a center slide in or out, and supersedes the necessity of
and train-wheel, the former for keeping the double breechings or cleats in heavy weather.
gun always in a line with the port and giving My train-wheel shaft and screw is con
more precision to the range of the shot by a structed of iron, and of suf?cient dimension
steady and uniform recoil of the piece, and and stability that the after part of the gun is
the latter to facilitate the movement or train worked at all times in training, &e., upon it.
ing of the gun upon the object. This is done by a mortise in the after cheek
But to enable others to understand my inven of the carriage, which allows the shaft D, Fig.
tion, Iwill proceed to describe its construction 5, to ply up and down in it at pleasure, and
and advantages. I make my carriage in the by turning the screw, Fig. 6, con?ned in the
usual manner,to whichIappl y grooved cleats to neck by an iron plate, Fig. 3, I raise the
be ?xed on the inside of the cheeks and resting after trucks from the deck, and my train
on the forward and after axles, as in Figure wheel, having the gun resting upon it, and
1 of accompanying drawings, to receive a slide standing at right angles with the trucks, is
which is tongued exactly to ?t the groove in moved or trained at pleasure without the aid
the cleats, as in Fig. 2, furnished with eye of crows or handspikes-articles so very de~
plates on the upper and lower sides, tov receive structive to the decks and other wood-work
a ?ghting-bolt, which con?nes it by a start of ships of war. (See Fig. 4.) '
to the ships side,the start to be placed in the What I claim as~1ny invention, and desire to
quick-work exactly in the center of the port secure by Letters Patent, is
and on a level with the slide, Fig. 4, allowing The addition of the center slide and train
it to play between the transom and axles, wheel to the gun-carriages now in use on board
Fig. 1. The shoulder of the slide I cut on of ships of war.
an angle, to take the ships side at the greatest JOHN ' BUBIER.
direction or training of the piece before or \Vitnesses:
abaft the beam, Figs. 2 and 3. The gun there JOHN CHANDLER, J r.,
fore never interferes with the port - frame, Jos. I). TURNER.