Unknown grenade with pull fuze

[sgdbdr]

Good evening,


I just received pictures of an unusual and unknown (at least for me) grenade with a pull fuze.

Does somebody has more information ?



Cheers,

S.

 

[Millsman]

The only grenade I think it looks like is a Dubois. Swiss prototype from September 1916



It may be an earlier version with a friction fuse from before the version in the drawing emerged.

 

[Snufkin]

The full Dubois patent attached.

Sgdbdr - is the fuze like the German Kugel "percussion" fuze shown? It is of course a time fuze, ignited by a spring loaded striker and percussion cap, the striker released when the button is pulled fully up.

 

[sgdbdr]

Snufkin, I just got the info, the fuze is the Swiss "Maitret" percussion fuze. Seems Millsman is right with the Swiss hypothesis !

 

[sgdbdr]

Some of Maitret's work in patents database : https://bases-brevets.inpi.fr/fr/do...99&p=5&cHash=560408c5f836ebe91b8e6d41de93faac

 

[Millsman]

Some of Maitret's work in patents database : https://bases-brevets.inpi.fr/fr/do...99&p=5&cHash=560408c5f836ebe91b8e6d41de93faac

The Dubois patent is there in context.

 

[Snufkin]

Two of the drawings from the French patent showing the development of a striker-initiated time fuzed grenade.


(Sgdbdr - thanks for the pointer to the Maitret fuze. That was new to me.)