Patent · US Expired

Launchable flameless expulsion grenade

US6349650B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 29, 2000
Grant dateFeb 26, 2002
Priority date
Expiry dateAug 29, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF42B27/00
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A tear gas grenade having a pressurized CO2 container oriented with a top in the trajectory direction to a target area and in facing relation to a top-piercing component across a clearance of a tracking compartment therebetween, in the operation of which a fuel-produced gas expands to simultaneously urge the top-piercing component in descending movement puncturing the CO2 container and also sealing the tracking compartment against venting of the fuel-produced gas and, after a time interval of contraction of the fuel-produced gas, the CO2 pressure urges the top piercing component in ascending movement unblocking the puncture opening in a container top and also unsealing the tracking compartment, to thereby correlate the expulsive effect of the CO2 to the time interval of the sealed contraction of the fuel-produced gas contributing to a tear gas consequence adjacent or in the target area.

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