Patent · US Expired

Cannon ammunition having combustible cartridge case

US5544587A · kind A · utility

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12References

21Claims

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Assignees

Rheinmetall Industrie AG · DE
WNC Nitrochemie GmbH · DE

Inventors

Stefan Thiesen · Willich, DE
Eckhard Rahnenfuhrer · Dormagen, DE
Josef Kohler · Aachen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 8, 1994
Grant date	Aug 13, 1996
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 8, 2014

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10S102/70
WIPO fieldOther special machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In cannon ammunition including a cartridge case containing a propellant charge, a case bottom to which the cartridge case is connected, a charge igniter, and a primmer element positioned in the case bottom, the improvement in which the cartridge case is combustible, is connected to the primer element, and includes a combustible material and a pyrotechnical mixture which is embedded within the combustible material and which is composed of at least one reducing agent and at least one oxidizing agent which form a pyrotechnical redox system; and the charge igniter consists of the cartridge case.

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