Time Fuse in a Box and a Model of a Torpedo, Robert Fulton, 1810 Canvas Print
Time ignition mechanism in a round brass house, closed on one side with a blind flange with leather gasket on which a inscription. The time ignition mechanism itself consists of a flint lock with movement. The cockerel, which is constantly kept under tension by the spring on the tumbler in the foot, is held back by a lever (the rod) forged in a hook at the head of the rooster; so tumbler and rod are separated. The rod is held in place with an extension resting on a disc with a notch. This disc is mounted on a spring barrel and rotates under the influence of the movement: when the notch reaches the extension of the rod, it tilts and the rooster is released. In the side of the house there is a locking mechanism: a pin that protrudes through the side presses a spring against a gear at the base of the spring barrel, thus blocking the movement. The pen is pushed out through the spring, but can be held in place by a bar by two eyes outside on the house; this bar is missing. The purpose of this locking mechanism was to get the movement by removing the rod. The zundgat is located in the bottom of the house and ends up in the back, where the whole was mounted on a torpedo. The torpedo, shaped by the wooden model, is a cylinder with rounded ends and a rectangular box (a floater) on top. On one of the round ends is indicated the ignition mechanism, the lock and movement drawn with ink. A second, separate floater in the form of a rectangular box is connected to the torpedo with a line, as well as a harpoon. The attacked ship was harped and then pulled the torpedo under it itself due to its progress through the water.
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