Also known as: wood fuze plug.
In the Half Shell Book: This subject is treated in Civil War Artillery Projectiles: The Half Shell Book, p. 36.
| Class | Time fuze |
|---|---|
| Construction | Tapered wooden plug bored with a powder train |
| Setting | Cut or bored to the chosen time |
| Use | Older and simple; largely superseded by paper and metal fuzes |
A simple wooden fuze
The wooden time fuze was a conical wooden plug bored down the center and filled with a powder composition. Graduated along its length, it was cut or bored to expose the train at the chosen burning time and then driven into the fuze hole of a spherical shell.
It was a simple and old form, and during the war it was largely displaced by the paper time fuze and by the metal Bormann-type fuze, though it persisted where those were scarce.
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Sources & further reading
- United States Army, Ordnance Department. The Ordnance Manual for the Use of the Officers of the United States Army. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1862.