Under-water kite
Item
Title (Dublin Core)
Under-water kite
Subject (Dublin Core)
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
Safety-First in Mine-Sweeping
Caption 1: The dangerous occupation of sweeping the sea for mines charged with from four hundred to nine hundred pounds of T. N. T. has been rendered less hazardous by the invention of an under-water kite which first gently touches a mine and signals to the officers on board the ship
Caption 2: The Under-Water Kite and How It Works. Beneath the roof-shaped kite, an arrow-shaped control is suspended by three small wires. When the two forward wires of the arrow-shaped control release a latch by which the attaching cable is secured to the kite, a bell is rung on board the ship, indicating that the entire apparatus has come in contact with a mine to be removed.
Caption 3: Releasing Mechanism of the Under-Water Kite. The hook of a rocker arm enters an eve in the end of a rod suspended from the attaching cable of the kite. When the arrow-shaped control strikes a mine, the latch by which the end of the rocker arm is held in place is released. Hence the hook is withdrawn from its eye and the attaching cable freed from the kite so that the kite is suspended only by the loop of cable. The sudden slackening of tension on the cable causes the bell on the ship to ring.
Language (Dublin Core)
eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
Date Issued (Dublin Core)
1918-03
Is Part Of (Dublin Core)
pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
354-355
Rights (Dublin Core)
Public Domain (Google digitized)
Source (Dublin Core)
Archived by (Dublin Core)
Filippo Valle
Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)