Explosive shrapnel shell

US4524696A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Rheinmetall GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Ernst-Wilhelm Altenau · Duisburg, DE
• Ulf Hahn · Ratingen, DE
• Udo Sabranski · Celle, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 5, 1983
• Grant date: Jun 25, 1985
• Expiry date: Jul 5, 2003

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F42B12/32
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An explosive shrapnel shell has a bursting charge having a front end, a layer of shrapnel laterally surrounding the charge except at the end, a fuse mounted on the front end, and shrapnel in the fuse. The fuse includes a detonator charge lying between the fuse shrapnel and the bursting charge. The shell is generally centered on an axis extending through the front end and the fuse includes an axially rearwardly extending tube. The detonator charge is in and axially behind the tube and the fuse shrapnel form a ring circumferentially surrounding the tube. An intensifying charge can lie between the detonator charge and the bursting charge.