Patent · US Expired

Carrier projectile

US5042389A · kind A · utility

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5References

4Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Rheinmetall GmbH · DE

Inventors

Udo Sabranski · Celle, DE
Wolfgang Hoffmann · Lippstadt, DE
Siegmar Fischer · Düsseldorf, DE
Gunter Sikorski · Düsseldorf, DE
Ulrich Theis · Mülheim, DE
Joachim Fiebrich · Düsseldorf, DE
Lutz Borngen · Uelzen, DE
Ulf Hahn · Ratingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 23, 1990
Grant date	Aug 27, 1991
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 23, 2010

Classification

Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
CPC primaryF42B12/62
WIPO fieldOther special machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A large-caliber carrier projectile for transporting a payload, with the projectile including an ejection charge and an ejector plate for ejecting the payload from the carrier projectile over a target area. To overcome the problem of the ejector plate colliding with individual bomblets of the payload, and thus causing considerable interference with proper functioning or premature detonations in the air, the ejector plate is an eccentric center of gravity. Alternatively, the ejector plate may be segmented and composed of at least two separable parts which are separated by the action of centrifugal force after ejection from the carrier projectile.

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