Gunlock (Percussion), Adjustable percussion lock on a small wooden board, representing the lock elevation. The lock consists of three main parts: the hammer, the mounting plate and the spacer with the whistle. The mounting plate is an L-shaped piece of iron with a jaw for the hammer on one side and a bolt for attaching the spacer to the other. In the overhanging piece it has two holes for the bolts with which it is bolted to the lock elevation, one of these holes is oval, so that the bolts can vary in distance relative to each other. The hammer is tilted slightly to hit the whip, which comes next to the mounting plate. The egg-shaped head slides over the shaft and is fixed to the desired position on the shaft with a wing nut. The face of the head is slightly eroded. The pull-off rope runs back through the jaw under the axis of the hammer and has a wooden handle. The spacer is a flat piece of iron, in the middle with an upward arc on which the whistle pipe is mounted. It lies next to the mounting plate on the slot elevation and has an oval hole at the front through which the bolt protrudes from the mounting plate, it is fixed in the desired position with a wing nut., Rijkswerf Hellevoetsluis, 1857, wood (plant material), iron (metal), copper (metal), rope, h 15 cm × w 22.2 cm × d 14.5 cm
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