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Great drawings, Michael :) .
Fertile imagination ... the main source for inventions of efective stuff.
I feel pity for the guys that had all the work to build that continuous movement apparatus for the flooding of the castle (tower); the smart Knight will easily get away by using such a brilliant a inflatable vest :cool: .
Fernando

BTW, multi barrel devices are always contemplated ;) .

Very well put, Fernando, :)

Thank you so much,
Michael

HI Michael,

yes, this multi barrel Illustration can be fired, all the barrels with the ignition
of one barrel.(your first picture)
I have a publication of a 12 barrel gun out of the Visser collection with this same principle. Iam in the Monaco at the moment but will place the publication in this thread coming weekend.

Best regards

Hi Cornelis,

I am looking forward to seeing your post! Return quickly! :)

Best,
Michael

Hi Michael,

I think the multi barrel Illustration can be fired, there are 2 different possibilities.

1.Model with separate external vents.
After 3 barrels have been fired, you turn the raster 45 grad and shoot the next 3 cannonballs at the target turn the raster again 45 grad and so on.
same principle as the visser cannon auction at Bonham's Nov 2007.
2.Model where the barrels have internal vents.
All the barrels are fired by a single ignition at the central knot where all the barrels come together. Principle as five barreled flintlock pistol
in the Visser collection. However must say that I don't know where the gunman has to stand without being shot by himself when firing the raster. ;)

best regards

Hi Cornelis,

Thank you so much for this contribution.

The ingnition system based on the internal vents/touchholes reminds me instantly of the superimposed load principle dealt with at large by Colonel D.R. Baxter: Superimposed Load Firearms 1360-1860, Hong Kong, 1966, which has doubtlessly remained the final word on the subject.

Best,
Michael

A 'high tech' adjustable bronze cannon carriage from an early 16th century manuscript.

Michael