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Gas dynamic sabot stripper

US4022103A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateSep 12, 1975
Grant dateMay 10, 1977
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Expiry dateSep 12, 1995

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF41A21/46
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A sabot stripper for stripping a sabot within its confines without rotatil forces or mechanical contact, having a gas restricting chamber of a uniform diameter greater than the bore diameter of a weapon, connected to the bore of the weapon by a transition chamber of increasing cross-sectional diameter from the bore to the gas restricting chamber.

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