{"id":4878,"date":"2018-03-30T12:39:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T12:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/30\/halls-patent-clock-gun-a-shot-every-hour-on-the-hour\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T15:09:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T20:09:14","slug":"halls-patent-clock-gun-a-shot-every-hour-on-the-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/30\/halls-patent-clock-gun-a-shot-every-hour-on-the-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall&#8217;s Patent Clock Gun: A Shot Every Hour, On The Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LnvzgCzgV9k?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Sold for $3,450.<\/p>\n<p>Patented by one John Hall of Cumberland, England in 1902, this is a device intended to scare birds out of a field at regular intervals. It has twelve chambers for 12-gauge pinfire shotgun shells, which are fired by falling steel weights. Those weights are held up by thin cotton strings which are connected to the face of a clock dial inside the box. The hour hand on the clock has a small razor edge on it, which will cut the strings when the hand reaches them. Once the string is cut, the weight falls and fires a shell. The clock face has slots at 15-minute intervals, so one can select exactly when one wants each shell fired, up to the maximum capacity of 12 shells and the maximum time period of 12 hours. Neat!<\/p>\n<p>You can see Hall&#8217;s patent here: <a href=\"https:\/\/worldwide.espacenet.com\/publicationDetails\/originalDocument?CC=GB&#038;NR=190207756A&#038;KC=A&#038;FT=D&#038;ND=3&#038;date=19021204&#038;DB=&#038;locale=en_EP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/worldwide.espacenet.com\/publicationDetails\/originalDocument?CC=GB&#038;NR=190207756A&#038;KC=A&#038;FT=D&#038;ND=3&#038;date=19021204&#038;DB=&#038;locale=en_EP<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy Forgotten Weapons, check out its sister channel, InRangeTV! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sold for $3,450. Patented by one John Hall of Cumberland, England in 1902, this is a device intended to scare birds out of a field at regular intervals. It has twelve chambers for 12-gauge pinfire shotgun shells, which are fired by falling steel weights. Those weights are held up by thin cotton strings which are&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/30\/halls-patent-clock-gun-a-shot-every-hour-on-the-hour\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hall&#8217;s Patent Clock Gun: A Shot Every Hour, On The Hour<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14395,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878\/revisions\/14395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}