GB938739A - Improvements in systems comprising a cluster of rockets carried by a launching machine - Google Patents

Improvements in systems comprising a cluster of rockets carried by a launching machine

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Publication number
GB938739A
GB938739A GB6281/61A GB628161A GB938739A GB 938739 A GB938739 A GB 938739A GB 6281/61 A GB6281/61 A GB 6281/61A GB 628161 A GB628161 A GB 628161A GB 938739 A GB938739 A GB 938739A
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Prior art keywords
rocket
switch
primer
ignition device
lowest
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GB6281/61A
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Brev Aero Mechaniques S A
Brevets Aero Mecaniques SA
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Brev Aero Mechaniques S A
Brevets Aero Mecaniques SA
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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
    • F41F3/04—Rocket or torpedo launchers for rockets
    • F41F3/06—Rocket or torpedo launchers for rockets from aircraft
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B64—AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; COSMONAUTICS
    • B64D—EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT SUITS; PARACHUTES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSION TRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT
    • B64D1/00—Dropping, ejecting, releasing, or receiving articles, liquids, or the like, in flight
    • B64D1/02—Dropping, ejecting, or releasing articles
    • B64D1/04—Dropping, ejecting, or releasing articles the articles being explosive, e.g. bombs
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B64—AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; COSMONAUTICS
    • B64D—EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT SUITS; PARACHUTES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSION TRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT
    • B64D1/00—Dropping, ejecting, releasing, or receiving articles, liquids, or the like, in flight
    • B64D1/02—Dropping, ejecting, or releasing articles
    • B64D1/04—Dropping, ejecting, or releasing articles the articles being explosive, e.g. bombs
    • B64D1/06—Bomb releasing; Bomb doors
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41A—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE
    • F41A19/00—Firing or trigger mechanisms; Cocking mechanisms
    • F41A19/58—Electric firing mechanisms
    • F41A19/64—Electric firing mechanisms for automatic or burst-firing mode
    • F41A19/65—Electric firing mechanisms for automatic or burst-firing mode for giving ripple fire, i.e. using electric sequencer switches for timed multiple-charge launching, e.g. for rocket launchers

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Aviation & Aerospace Engineering (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Toys (AREA)
  • Aiming, Guidance, Guns With A Light Source, Armor, Camouflage, And Targets (AREA)
  • Automotive Seat Belt Assembly (AREA)
  • Transmission Devices (AREA)

Abstract

938,739. Launching rockets from aircraft. BREVETS AERO-MECANIQUES S.A. Feb. 21, 1961 [March 7, 1960], No. 6281/61. Classes 9 (1) and 9 (2). A cluster of rockets 2 is suspended as in Specification 846,246, each rocket having an electric ignition device comprising a transformer, whose primary and secondary windings are shown at 12, 14, respectively, a primer 15, a switch 9 and a flap 5 rotatable from a rearwardly retracted position to a downward vertical position. In the vertical position the flaps 5 serve as rocket supports and operate switches 9 to form a continuous supply line from a source 6 via switch 7 to the lowest rocket (the first to be launched). The flap of a supporting rocket is caused to retract by the propelling gases of a supported rocket when launched and in the retracted position the supply line is connected via contact 10 to the ignition device. Hence when switch 7 is closed a current flows through the supply line to the lowest rocket, whose flap is retracted, and thence through the primary winding 12 and conductor 13 to the rocket casing, which together with the other rocket casings and the metallic body of the aircraft, are in electrical contact to serve as an earth. According to the invention, there is at this stage insufficient potential difference existing between the transformer windings to ignite the primer, but on breaking the circuit by opening switch 7 a sufficiently high potential is induced in the secondary winding to ignite the primer. The system, therefore, is such that the ignition device of the lowest rocket only is in circuit and two distinct operations of switch 7 are required to fire it, thereby avoiding the possibility of launching more than one rocket at a time. A second embodiment employs the same double action for firing, but the ignition device comprises a condenser and associated rectifiers instead of a transformer. When a rocket is not connected to another rocket the switch 9 automatically short-circuits the primer 15 (see Fig. 3). Specification 738,870 also is referred to.
GB6281/61A 1960-03-07 1961-02-21 Improvements in systems comprising a cluster of rockets carried by a launching machine Expired GB938739A (en)

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LU38347 1960-03-07

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US (1) US3122058A (en)
CH (1) CH368059A (en)
DE (1) DE1175115B (en)
ES (1) ES265329A1 (en)
GB (1) GB938739A (en)
LU (1) LU38347A1 (en)

Cited By (1)

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GB2234335A (en) * 1980-07-07 1991-01-30 Marconi Co Ltd Systems for firing propellant charges

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US3316451A (en) * 1964-12-07 1967-04-25 Robert L Silberman Intervalometer
US3670180A (en) * 1969-11-19 1972-06-13 Concord Control Inc Intervalometer
US4135455A (en) * 1977-02-03 1979-01-23 Tracor, Inc. Multiple payload cartridge employing single pair of electrical connections
FR2660749B1 (en) * 1990-04-05 1994-07-08 Lacroix E Tous Artifices CONTROLLED AND AUTOMATIC SEQUENTIAL TRIGGERING SYSTEM OF A PLURALITY OF PYROTECHNIC PAYLOADS.

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US1441451A (en) * 1923-01-09 Altes w
US2059243A (en) * 1934-07-25 1936-11-03 Harry E Kennedy Ignition system for internal combustion engines
US2125035A (en) * 1935-10-18 1938-07-26 Smits Wytze Beye Electric ignition system and sparking plug for internal combustion engines
US2275052A (en) * 1939-10-07 1942-03-03 Hasler A G Werke Fur Telephoni Magneto
US2297006A (en) * 1941-03-07 1942-09-29 Lane Wells Co Gun perforator firing system
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Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB2234335A (en) * 1980-07-07 1991-01-30 Marconi Co Ltd Systems for firing propellant charges
GB2234335B (en) * 1980-07-07 1991-06-26 Marconi Co Ltd Systems for firing propellant charges

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DE1175115B (en) 1964-07-30
US3122058A (en) 1964-02-25
ES265329A1 (en) 1961-08-16
CH368059A (en) 1963-03-15
LU38347A1 (en)

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