Sub-ammunition object for vapor generation

US5992327A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Buck Werke GmbH & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Norbert Wardecki · Heuweiler, DE
• Herwig Feldmeier · March, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 8, 1998
• Grant date: Nov 30, 1999
• Expiry date: May 8, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F42B12/70
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to a sub-ammunition object for vapor generation for a spinstabilized carrier projectile with axial sub-ammunition discharge, consisting of a stackable, flat, disk-shaped, stamped part of identical caliber, which, at a height/width ratio of about 1:1.5 to 1:5, contains red phosphorus as the primary active substance and is designed to retain its structural and form stability during firing, discharge, and stacking as a result of fibers embedded in the active substance and/or a shell, with the combustion time being chemically and/or physically adjustable through the height, compression pressure and/or composition of the active substance. It is preferred that the active substance be located in a container with at least one blower aperture and one oxygen donor as the energy supply needed for combustion of the red phosphorus in the container.