Patent · US Expired

Method of and assembly for firing projectiles with controlled gasification of a liquid propellant

US4602553A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Rheinmetall GmbH · DE

Inventors

Raimund Germershausen · Kaarst, DE
Jochen Schmitt · Ludwigshütte, DE
Karlheinz Reinelt · Hermannsburg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 10, 1975
Grant date	Jul 29, 1986
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 10, 1995

Classification

Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
CPC primaryF41A1/04
WIPO fieldOther special machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A projectile seated in a gun barrel is fired by vaporizing a liquid propellant in a loading chamber communicating with the gun barrel through a rising duct. A cluster of filling bodies occupies the entire cross-section of the duct and dips into the liquid propellant within the loading chamber, these bodies forming a multiplicity of passages in which the ignited liquid gasifies upon being driven by its own vapor pressure toward the gun barrel.

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