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Missile restraining apparatus

US5714708A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 27, 1996
Grant dateFeb 3, 1998
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Expiry dateSep 27, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF41F3/052
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An improved missile restraining apparatus capable of effectively protecting a missile from an external impact and quickly releasing a missile restraining state when launching missile, which includes a pair of protrusions having a circular cross-section and formed in the rear portion of a missile, and a pair of brackets fixed to the inner surface of a launch tube and formed so that a pair of restraining grooves corresponding to said protrusions are formed in a predetermined direction, wherein one end of said restraining groove has a circular cross-section, and the other end thereof is shaped to have an elongating axis longer than the diameter of the protrusion in the radial direction and to have the same shorter axis as the restraining groove in the vertical direction.

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