Packaging container for a large-caliber cartridge

US6827206B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Rheinmetall W & M GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Holger Brase · Bergen, DE
• Thomas Heitmann · Unterlüß, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 6, 2002
• Grant date: Dec 7, 2004
• Expiry date: Dec 7, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F42B39/00
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A packaging container is provided for a large-caliber cartridge having a thin-walled cartridge case and a projectile, whose projectile head projects out of the front of and is connected to the cartridge case. The packaging container has an outer container and an inner container, which receives the cartridge. To secure the projectile of the cartridge inside the packaging container, with respect to a possible displacement of the projectile toward the rear end of the container, the projectile head of the cartridge is disposed in the inner container in a frictional lockup. For this purpose, the inner container has a one-piece projectile-head shaped receptacle at the front, to which a first half-shell that partially surrounds the cartridge case is connected, and a second half-shell, that is hinged to the first half-shell and can be secured to it.