Process for manufacturing a sabot arrangement for a sub-caliber fin-stabilized projectile for a large caliber weapon

US4747191A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• Rheinmetall GmbH · DE
• L'Etat Francais, represente par le Delegue General pour l'Armement · FR

Inventors

• Patrick Montier · Bourges, FR
• Pierre A. Moreau · Calgary, CA
• Jean-Claude Sauvestre · Bourges, FR
• Walter Simon · Orpund, CH
• Bernhard Bisping · Ratingen, DE
• Peter Wallow · Düsseldorf, DE
• Klaus Gersbach · Willich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 16, 1985
• Grant date: May 31, 1988
• Expiry date: Sep 16, 2005

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49993
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A sabot arrangement is produced in accordance with an improved manufacturing method. The sabot arrangement includes a rotational symmetrical sabot body having a central axial bore and radial separating grooves or slots. The radial grooves or slots divide the sabot body into a plurality of equal segments. These slots nearly sever the sabot body into separate segments, so that a material bridge remains near a forward edge and a material bridge remains near a rear edge of the sabot body, which material bridges function as fracture zones.