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PORTE TACHE [1 record]

Record 1 2016-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Small Arms
  • Weapon Systems
DEF

A porte tache, or flask carrier, was a strap designed to carry a powder flask and a bullet pouch, and sometimes a spanner for wheel locks. Normally this strap was attached to the waist belt on the right side and hung straight down. It was most popular during the late years of the sixteenth century and the opening years of the seventeenth.

OBS

porte tache

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes légères
  • Systèmes d'armes
CONT

Il y eut, dans le domaine des munitions et de l'équipement, d'autres progrès, intimement liés à l'apparition de la platine à rouet. (...) Dans certains cas, la manivelle était montée sur la poire à poudre elle-même (...) Une courroie, appelée "portetache", devint d'un emploi généralisé; elle se boutonnait autour de la ceinture et pendait à la droite du tireur; tout le long se trouvaient des crochets, des poches et des agrafes pour y accrocher le sac à balles, la manivelle et la poire à poudre, de façon à en faciliter le port.

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