EP0662599B1 - Behälter für das Ausstossen eines leichten Überwasser-Torpedos - Google Patents

Behälter für das Ausstossen eines leichten Überwasser-Torpedos Download PDF

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EP0662599B1
EP0662599B1 EP95400020A EP95400020A EP0662599B1 EP 0662599 B1 EP0662599 B1 EP 0662599B1 EP 95400020 A EP95400020 A EP 95400020A EP 95400020 A EP95400020 A EP 95400020A EP 0662599 B1 EP0662599 B1 EP 0662599B1
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41F—APPARATUS FOR LAUNCHING PROJECTILES OR MISSILES FROM BARRELS, e.g. CANNONS; LAUNCHERS FOR ROCKETS OR TORPEDOES; HARPOON GUNS
    • F41F3/00—Rocket or torpedo launchers
    • F41F3/08—Rocket or torpedo launchers for marine torpedoes
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41F—APPARATUS FOR LAUNCHING PROJECTILES OR MISSILES FROM BARRELS, e.g. CANNONS; LAUNCHERS FOR ROCKETS OR TORPEDOES; HARPOON GUNS
    • F41F3/00—Rocket or torpedo launchers
    • F41F3/04—Rocket or torpedo launchers for rockets
    • F41F3/042—Rocket or torpedo launchers for rockets the launching apparatus being used also as a transport container for the rocket
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41F—APPARATUS FOR LAUNCHING PROJECTILES OR MISSILES FROM BARRELS, e.g. CANNONS; LAUNCHERS FOR ROCKETS OR TORPEDOES; HARPOON GUNS
    • F41F3/00—Rocket or torpedo launchers
    • F41F3/04—Rocket or torpedo launchers for rockets
    • F41F3/055—Umbilical connecting means

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  • the present invention relates to the launching of weapons of the light torpedo type from a surface building, and in particular a container intended to store the weapon with launch to its launch pad.
  • Light torpedo type weapons are generally launched from surface buildings using tubes horizontal launching or catapults. These means of launch are arranged on the deck of the boat where they are generally grouped by two or three. So they are subject to direct exposure to the marine environment and bad weather, risks due to splinters during a fight naval, and in addition they need to be insulated to to protect the organs of the weapon.
  • the launch is implemented by using compressed air bottles.
  • the compressed air bottles are placed in the cylinder head door; the sudden opening of a valve creates an overpressure on the back of the weapon which is then propelled towards the front of the tube and ejected outside the boat.
  • the bottles compressed air supplies energy to a jack that propels the weapon to eject it from the boat.
  • Light torpedo type weapon has batteries used to power the propulsion means and of which priming is done by entering water when leaving tear.
  • a security isolates the case charge arming and is cleared upon departure of the weapon.
  • the torpedo has a socket for remote control connected to the control computer for programming of the machine, and which must be removed the most late possible at launch.
  • a device ensuring the disconnection of the remote control socket by the separation of the weapon from its container which is described in French patent 2301802 in accordance with the preamble of claim 1.
  • the main object of the invention is to provide a container for a light torpedo-type weapon avoiding maximum manipulation of the weapon.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a container of the above type intended to be brought on the launching bench with the weapon held in the storage position.
  • Yet another object of the invention is to provide a container of the above type having the devices for security necessary for launching the weapon, thus avoiding handling of the weapon at the time of its launch.
  • the object of the invention is a container intended to contain a light torpedo type weapon to be launched at from a surface building, said weapon comprising a means of priming power supply batteries for its propulsion, a means of extracting weapon security from launch time and a remote control socket to provide the programming of weapon controls from a computer control, said remote control socket being integral with said container and its disconnection taking place automatically at moment of launching the weapon by separation from the latter and said container].
  • These various means are integral with the container which is brought to the launch pad with the weapon kept in the container in storage position. The activation of the battery priming means and of the means takes place automatically by separating the weapon from its container.
  • the object of the invention is avoid handling the torpedo when it is installed in its firing position.
  • the container according to the invention achieves this goal since it is brought itself with the torpedo it contains, on the launch pad.
  • the preferably cylindrical container 10 has been shown on Figure 1 without its upper part to reveal the torpedo 12 which it contains. Torpedo 12 is immobilized in the container by slides (not shown) to transverse immobilization, and by a terminal sphere 14 for longitudinal immobilization and whose explanation will be given below.
  • the slides, classic, are therefore used for storage torpedo in its container at the same time as sliding the torpedo forward and guiding it at launch.
  • the upper slide includes reservations for the water inlet pin 16, the safety pin of the armament box 18, and the socket remote control 20.
  • this launch module includes a tank of compressed gas and a launch valve.
  • the torpedo is immobilized longitudinally thanks to its terminal sphere 14 held by the device shown in Figure 2.
  • This device has two clamps 30 and 32 which are held in place and immobilize the torpedo via the sphere 14, thanks to locks for immobilizing the clamps 34 and 36 fixed to the rear support plate 38.
  • the valve is opened by means of explosive bolts. This opening brutal releases compressed gas at the same time that it does jump the two immobilization locks of the clamps 34 and 36, which allows the two clamps 30 and 32 to open and thus release the sphere 14. Thanks to the force exerted by the gas under pressure, the torpedo is pushed forward and acquires a speed allowing it to touch the water according to a good tilt.
  • the input device water for priming batteries usually has a water inlet lever 40 which tends to fade in a chamber provided for this purpose under the action of a spring 42. But the lever is actually held in place, so preventing any entry of water, by the pin 44 (in the form of pin) passing through lever 40 in a housing located above the wall of the torpedo 46.
  • the ring of the pin 44 is placed in a carabiner 48 secured a leaf spring 50.
  • the leaf spring 50 is fixed rigidly to the wall of the upper slide of such so, in the rest position shown in the figure 3, the spring is under tension.
  • the pin 44 retained by the carabiner 48 is torn off its housing in the lever 40.
  • the spring 42 projects the lever 40 inside the chamber provided for this purpose, and the water inlet is released which will allow priming the batteries when the torpedo enters in seawater.
  • the leaf spring 50 relaxes and drives the pin laterally in a slide housing provided for this purpose, so that the pin does not not on the empennage trajectory of the torpedo.
  • the remote control socket 60 shown in FIG. 4a is in a fork 62 illustrated in Figure 4b (which is a top view of the assembly while the Figure 4a is an elevational view), when the torpedo is in the process of launching and receiving orders in from a control computer.
  • the fork 62 has a plane tilted which lifts the grip when the torpedo starts its forward movement when opening the launch valve as previously explained.
  • the socket 60 is torn off, and the rod 64 also actuated by the opening of the valve, presses the internal slide lever 66 and propels it rotation.
  • the lever 66 rotates the lever internal tube 68 and discharges the fork hitch on the side 62-outlet 60, which clears the passage where the drift of the torpedo.
  • the opening of the parachute is connected to a rope wound on a drum fixed to the container.
  • the length of the rope is greater than the length of the container for allow the parachute to be put into service after crossing of a safety zone adapted to the boat.
  • the drum is housed in a slide located at the part back of the container. At launch, the cable is unwinds and after a torpedo journey corresponding to the length of the rope, the traction exerted by the rope tears off the opening safety of the parachute which can then open up.

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Claims (8)

  1. Behälter (10) zur Lagerung einer Waffe (12) vom Typ Leichttorpedo, die von einem Überwasserschiff abgeschossen werden soll, wobei diese Waffe mit einer Zündvorrichtung (18) für die Energieversorgungsbatterien, einer Vorrichtung (16) zum Entsichern der Waffe bei ihrem Abschuß sowie mit einem Fernsteuerungsanschluß (20) zum Übertragen der Programmierung der Waffensteuerung vor ihrem Abschuß ausgestattet ist, dieser Fernsteuerungsanschluß mit dem besagten Behälter fest verbunden ist und das Ablösen automatisch bei Abschuß der Waffe durch deren Trennung vom besagten Behälters erfolgt,
       der besagte Behälter ist dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die besagte Zündvorrichtung für die Batterien und die besagte Waffenentsicherungsvorrichtung fest mit dem Behälter verbunden sind, daß der Behälter mit der in ihm lagernden Waffe in die Abschußposition gebracht wird, und daß die Aktivierung der besagten Zündvorrichtung für die Batterien und der besagten Waffenentsicherungsvorrichtung automatisch bei Abschuß der Waffe durch deren Trennung vom besagten Behälter erfolgt.
  2. Behälter gemäß Patentanspruch 1, in welchem die besagte Zündvorrichtung (18) für die Batterien und die besagte Waffenentsicherungsvorrichtung (16) jeweils einen Haltestift (44) enthalten, welcher die Aktivierung der besagten Vorrichtung verhindert, wenn sich der Behälter (10) in Lagerungsposition befindet, wobei der Abschuß der Waffe und deren Trennung vom Behälter das Herausreißen des besagten Haltestifts sowie die sich daraus ergebende Aktivierung der besagten Zündvorrichtung der Batterien oder der besagten Waffenentsicherungsvorrichtung verursacht.
  3. Behälter gemäß Patentanspruch 2, in welchem der besagte Haltestift (44) mit einer Blattfeder (50) verbunden ist, welche am besagten Behälter befestigt und gespannt ist, wenn sich der Behälter in Lagerungspositionbefindet, wobei das Herausreißen des besagten Haltestiftes das Entspannen der besagten Blattfeder und das Einziehen des besagten Haltestifts in eine hierfür im Behälter vorgesehene Aufnahme verursacht, so daß der besagte Haltestift sich nicht im Verlauf der Waffenderivation befindet, wenn diese vom Behälter aus abgeschossen wird.
  4. Behälter gemäß Patentanspruch 1, 2 oder 3, in welchem der besagte Fernsteuerungsanschluß (60) sich in einer mit einer Neigungsebene versehenen Gabel (62) befindet, wodurch das Anheben des besagten Anschlusses und dessen Ablösen bei Abschuß der Waffe vom Behälter (10) aus ermöglicht wird.
  5. Behälter gemäß Patentanspruch 4, in welchem die besagte Gabel (62) mit einem Hebel (66) verbunden ist, welcher von einem Stößel (64) betätigt wird, welcher bei Abschuß der Waffe bewegt wird, so daß die besagte Gabel und der besagte Anschluß seitlich ausgestoßen werden, um somit den Derivationsverlauf der Waffe freizugeben.
  6. Behälter gemäß einem der vorstehenden Patentansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß vor dem Abschuß ein Abschußmodul, welches einen Druckgasspeicher und ein Abschupventil enthält, am hinteren Teil des besagten Behälters befestigt wird, wobei das Öffnen des Ventils das Druckgas freigibt und den Abschuß der Waffe aus dem Behälter bewirkt.
  7. Behälter gemäß Patentanspruch 6, in welchem die abzuschießende Waffe (12) hinten mit einer von zwei Zangen festgehaltenen Kugel (14) versehen ist, um so die Waffe in der Längsrichtung zu blockieren, wobei die beiden Zangen bei Öffnen des besagten Abschußventils gelöst werden und die Kugel freigegeben wird.
  8. Behälter gemäß irgendeinem der vorstehenden Patentansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die abzuschießende Waffe mit einem Fallschirm ausgestattet ist, um so einen günstigeren Kontaktwinkel der Waffe mit dem Wasser zu gewährleisten, wobei das Öffnen des besagten Fallschirms mit einem auf einer am besagten Behälter befestigten Trommel gewickeltem Seil verbunden ist, so daß das Öffnen des besagten Fallschirms erst erfolgt, nachdem die Waffe nach ihrem Abschuß aus dem Behälter eine bestimmte Strecke zurückgelegt hat.
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FR9400160A FR2714964B1 (fr) 1994-01-10 1994-01-10 Conteneur pour le lancement d'une torpille légère à partir d'un bâtiment de surface.
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US08/371,746 US5551368A (en) 1994-01-10 1995-01-12 Container for launching a lightweight torpedo from a surface craft

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