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The hint for this WIT? is already given in the title to the exercise–that said, can you figure out exactly what is going on here? It is a lot more complicated than you’d think, but at least part of the answer is pretty much a given when looking at the patent drawings. The tricky part of the answer here is knowing how this thing would be so lethal.
Here’s the drawing:
