Report of the Chief of Ordnance to the Secretary of WarU.S. Government Printing Office, 1893 |
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Accepts trunnion carriage ammunition Appendix B. L. rifle barrels blank cartridges block boiler bolt bore breech mechanism breechblock Bullet shown caliber cartridge cast cast-iron cent chamber charge Chief of Ordnance Chisel cocking piece complete compression contractor crane diameter disappearing carriage ejector elastic limit extractor feet per minute firing pin forged steel Frankford Arsenal front furnished fuse gear grains Granular groove hoops humerus hydraulic cylinder iron jacket lathe lever Lieut loading locking machine magazine arm manufacture metal mortar muzzle officer operation Ordnance Department pipe plate pressure primer projectile Rammer rear recoil revolver rollers rounds Sandy Hook screw Sept shaft shell shot shown in Pl shrapnel side silky spot single-loader smokeless powder spindle spring Springfield Armory square inch Struck target thick tion tube U. S. Army velocity Watertown Arsenal Watervliet Arsenal weight West Point Foundry Wetteren wheel wire yards
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Page 216 - It is further mutually agreed between the parties hereto that no certificate given or payment made under this contract, except the final certificate or final payment, shall be conclusive evidence of the performance of this contract, either wholly or in part, and that no payment shall be construed to be an acceptance of defective work or improper materials.
Page 539 - SIR: in compliance with your instructions, I have the honor to submit the following report of the...
Page 1 - Jane 30, 1881, with such remarks and recommendations as the interests of this branch of the military service seem to require. The fiscal resources and expenditures of the department during the year were as follows, viz : Amount in the Treasury to the credit of appropriations on June 30, 1*60.
Page 351 - Ordnance upon such reference, he shall have the right to submit the same to the Secretary of War, whose decision shall be final.
Page 130 - ... by the Chief of Engineers, April 22, 1871, will re-assemble at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, July 5, 1871, to conclude its proceedings.
Page 17 - That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the manufacture of magazine rifles of foreign invention until such magazine rifles of American invention as may be presented for tests to the War Department within the next thirty days shall have been tested by a board of officers to be selected by the Secretary of War, which board shall report to the Board of Ordnance and Fortification on or before July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three. If the decision of said board of officers shall...
Page 348 - ... tons per square inch, with an elongation of not less than 20 per cent, of the gauge length measured on the .standard test pieces " A " or
Page 393 - In accordance with your instructions, I have the honor to submit herewith a summary of tests of smokeless powders made at this post up to the present date.
Page 383 - Any doubt as to the meaning of these specifications or any obscurity as to the wording of them will be explained, and all directions and explanations necessary...
Page 351 - If any doubts or disputes arise as to the meaning of anything in the drawings, plans, or specifications, or if any discrepancy appear between the drawings, plans, or specifications and this contract, the matter shall be at once referred to the Secretary of the Navy for determination, and the...