Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 513
ained — or when it is being run in or out.U. S. Navy Pivot-Carriage.—Guns which are to be fired at greater elevations than are admittedby the dimensions of an ordinary port are mounted upon pivot-carriages, which give an elevation of20° to the gun, and a much larger arc of train than the broadside… … ORDNANCE—GUN-CARRIAGES. 493 back tendency of short and high carriages, and the consequent downward strain on the deck and Vavasscurs Carriage is represented in Fig. 3278. The arrangement for checking the recoil of thegun consists of a steel screw H, square in cross-section and of 30 in. pitch,…
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