Each pan with touch hole had a sliding gate to cover it.

For each touch hole, a small flash pan was created at the cylinder's surface.

Too late to yell, I saw powder trickling from the touch hole into the pan!

Unlike cannon, it was not necessary (or desirable) to place priming in the touch hole itself.

Instinctively, the way that any human being would, he put his fingers over all four of the touch holes before he began to blow.

It is fired two handed by igniting the black powder through a touch hole on the barrel.

Sometimes called the fuse hole or the touch hole.

Aboli thrust his burning match into the touch hole.

The flash from the pan travels through the touch hole to cause the main charge of gunpowder to explode.

The back of each chamber had a small touch hole drilled through the side of the cylinder.

An iridium-platinum alloy was used for the touch holes or vent pieces of cannon.

Because of this, "double firing" was tried where the gunner lit the fuse and then the touch hole.

It would take mere moments for them to haul away the canvas covers on the weapons and set flame to the touch holes."

He gestured for the men on the tackle to train it a point left then stepped forward and held the burning match to the touch hole.

The chief gunner would then pin the cartridge through the touch hole and pour priming powder.

With a file he enlarged, ever so gently, the touch hole and rammed in a graver which would thread it.

When a trigger was pulled, the lever would rotate and allowed the match to come in contact with the touch hole, discharging the weapon.

A touch hole lock was added to prevent accidental misfiring when the breech was open.

Other members of the crews leaned forward over their fellows, bracing the guns, to pour more black powder into the cannons' touch holes.

The flash from the primer travelled through the touch hole igniting the main charge of propellant in the gun barrel.

Each charge is accompanied by a corresponding touch hole that allows ignition of that charge.

In the simplest case, the matchlock, each touch hole is individually primed and ignited with the match, front to rear.

Four touch holes gave the LIFE pitches and a wide variety of combinations of notes.

Flintlocks using superposed charges often involved a sliding lock, that slid along the barrel and locked in place at each successive touch hole.