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The bomb consists of a cylindrical body with a dome-shaped nose cap welded on. The after body of the bomb consists of 8 sheet steel body cone. This after cone section is welded to a steel tail plate, which is press-fitted into the after end of the central cylinder. A small notch is cut out at one point on the circumference of the tail plate. A projection from the end of the central body engages in this notch, properly positioning the tail plate and tail assembly. A steel tube, running axially through the bomb, is welded to a buster container at the nose end, and passes through a central hole in the tail plate at the tail end. The fuse adapter is threaded to this tube abaft the closure plate, holding the closure plate and tail assembly tightly in the bomb body.
Three banks of flares are placed in the central body cylinder. The ignition ends of the flares bear against one of two equispaced, primed cambric discs. A primed cambric tube is in¬serted in the central tube, and holes in the cen¬tral tube provide a lead out to each of the primed cambric discs.
An ejection plate is located just before the first bank of flares and just abaft the hollow nose portion of the bomb. This-ejection plate h welded to the central tube. In the nose is a short burster container with a flash hole in its after end, and additional flash holes located circum-frenetically around its upper portion. These lat¬ter holes lead into the empty cavity formed by the nose portion of the bomb and the ejection plate.
The Bomb No. B.29 is the only bomb of this series which does not contain candles. It is similar to the Bomb No, B.2, but has no primed cambric tube in the central tube, and no primed cambric, cardboard, or millboard washers in the bomb body. The bomb is filled with a quantity of powdered, colored pigment.
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