US3286947A - Wire magazine for missiles - Google Patents

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US3286947A
US3286947A US396854A US39685464A US3286947A US 3286947 A US3286947 A US 3286947A US 396854 A US396854 A US 396854A US 39685464 A US39685464 A US 39685464A US 3286947 A US3286947 A US 3286947A
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Erickson Carl Julius
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H49/00—Unwinding or paying-out filamentary material; Supporting, storing or transporting packages from which filamentary material is to be withdrawn or paid-out
    • B65H49/02—Methods or apparatus in which packages do not rotate
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41G—WEAPON SIGHTS; AIMING
    • F41G7/00—Direction control systems for self-propelled missiles
    • F41G7/20—Direction control systems for self-propelled missiles based on continuous observation of target position
    • F41G7/30—Command link guidance systems
    • F41G7/32—Command link guidance systems for wire-guided missiles
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F42—AMMUNITION; BLASTING
    • F42B—EXPLOSIVE CHARGES, e.g. FOR BLASTING, FIREWORKS, AMMUNITION
    • F42B15/00—Self-propelled projectiles or missiles, e.g. rockets; Guided missiles
    • F42B15/01—Arrangements thereon for guidance or control
    • F42B15/04—Arrangements thereon for guidance or control using wire, e.g. for guiding ground-to-ground rockets
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/44—Mechanical structures for providing tensile strength and external protection for fibres, e.g. optical transmission cables
    • G02B6/4439—Auxiliary devices
    • G02B6/4457—Bobbins; Reels
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02G—INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES, OR OF COMBINED OPTICAL AND ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES
    • H02G11/00—Arrangements of electric cables or lines between relatively-movable parts
    • H02G11/02—Arrangements of electric cables or lines between relatively-movable parts using take-up reel or drum

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  • the present invention relates to an improvement in missiles of the type which are guided from a stationary control transmitter through electric wires which during the flight of the missile are wound off from wire magazines disposed in the missile.
  • the magazines have a casing with a funnel-shaped outlet, through which the wireis dravm out, and a stationary spool is arranged in said casing, on which spool the wire is wound and which is arranged so that the wire is reeled off over one end of the spool.
  • a broad object of the invention is to reduce the danger of rupture of the wire while it is being wound off. It was found that this object can be achieved -by arranging in the funnel-shaped outlet of the casing a deecting member which during winding deects the wire toward the axis of the funnel.
  • FIGURE 1 shows a wire magazine in longitudinal cross-section
  • FIGURE 2 is a perspective view showing the missile in flight and illustrates how the wire magazines are arranged in the missile.
  • the wire magazine comprises a cylindrical casing 1, which is closed at one end by an end-wall 2 and is provided at the opposite end with a tapering outlet member 3 with an outlet tube 4 which is arranged at a slight angle to the center axis of the magazine.
  • a spool body 5 is arranged in the casing 1 coaxially therewith and the wire 6 is wound around said body 5 with its end extending through the funnel 3, 4 to be connected to the stationary equipment (not shown) from which the missile is launched in order to provide electrical connection to electrical control means in suchstationary equipment. Connection to the electrical guidance means within the missile is achieved by means of electrical connecting members provided in the magazine and indicated at 7.
  • the wire 6 which as above mentioned is attached wit-h its free end to the stationary launching equipment to enable control signals to -be transmitted to the missile, is reeled oif from each spool 5 over the end portion 8 thereof which faces the outlet funnel 3, 4.
  • the wire is very tine (diameter, e.g. about 0.2 millimeter), and the wire is reeled olf at a high speed, wherefore the danger that the wire may be torn off is great.
  • a wire magazine for mounting in a missile, controllable by means of a stationary transmitter via electrically conductive thin wires which during the flight of the missile are wound off from the magazine, said magazine comprising a casing continued on one end into a funnelshaped outlet portion, a wire reel having a wire wound thereupon, said reel ⁇ being mounted in said casing substantially coaxially therewith and in substantial registry with the wide end of said funnel-shaped outlet portion for unreeling the wire over the periphery of the reel at the end thereof adjacent to the wide end of the outlet portion and guiding the wire while being reeled off through said outlet portion out of the casing, and an annular deflecting member mounted in said outlet portion spaced apart from said reel end in axial direction, said deflecting member constraining the wire into a path closer to the center axis of the casing and the reel than an imaginary straight line connecting any point of the periphery of said reel end with the outer end of said outlet portion.
  • said deilecting member comprises a ring mounted in the funnel-shaped outlet portion coaxial therewith, the inner diameter of said ring being less than the diameter of the reel at the side thereof over which the wire is wound off.
  • said deflecting member comprises a ring mounted in said funnel-shaped outlet portion coaxially with the casing and the reel, the inner diameter of said ring being less than the diameter of the reel at the end thereof over which the wire is wound of.

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  • Aiming, Guidance, Guns With A Light Source, Armor, Camouflage, And Targets (AREA)
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US3395669A (en) * 1967-06-23 1968-08-06 Navy Usa Torpedo launching tube door
US3417994A (en) * 1965-04-08 1968-12-24 George W. Rohrbaugh Jr. Arrow with integral trailing device
US3521834A (en) * 1969-02-14 1970-07-28 Phelps Dodge Magnet Wire Corp Dereeling apparatus
US3831879A (en) * 1970-03-11 1974-08-27 Us Navy Wire dispenser
US3926386A (en) * 1974-07-09 1975-12-16 Us Air Force Spool for wire deployment
US4196333A (en) * 1977-12-29 1980-04-01 Dsd Welding wire and apparatus for dispensing the same
US4271761A (en) * 1979-04-23 1981-06-09 The United States Of America As Represented By The Administrator Of The National Aeronautics And Space Administration High acceleration cable deployment system
US4326657A (en) * 1980-05-19 1982-04-27 The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Army Optical fiber dispenser
US4624185A (en) * 1985-08-05 1986-11-25 The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Army Missile ballast assembly
US4991793A (en) * 1989-06-26 1991-02-12 Optelecom, Inc. Optical cable payoff system
US5005930A (en) * 1990-02-23 1991-04-09 Hughes Aircraft Company Multi-directional payout fiber optic canister
EP0458133A1 (de) * 1990-05-23 1991-11-27 Hughes Aircraft Company Flexibles Ausgaberohr
US5104057A (en) * 1989-11-01 1992-04-14 Hughes Aircraft Company Gas damped filament dispenser

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US5058969A (en) * 1990-05-09 1991-10-22 Hughes Aircraft Company Optical fiber dispensing system
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FR2703863B1 (fr) * 1993-04-06 1995-07-07 Aerospatiale Bobine de fil de communication entre un aéronef et une station au sol.
FR2712272B1 (fr) * 1993-11-09 1996-01-05 Gerard Thominet Procédé de décalage des couches d'un bobinage et dispositif de mise en Óoeuvre.

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US1815532A (en) * 1930-02-18 1931-07-21 Vesey Henry Augustus Wire dispensing means
US2629566A (en) * 1951-06-16 1953-02-24 John W Gottschalk Mfg Company Spool operating device
US3156185A (en) * 1960-12-20 1964-11-10 Hermann Joachim Triggering device for a movable body
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US1793092A (en) * 1928-11-24 1931-02-17 Western Electric Co Strand-tensioning device
US1815532A (en) * 1930-02-18 1931-07-21 Vesey Henry Augustus Wire dispensing means
US2629566A (en) * 1951-06-16 1953-02-24 John W Gottschalk Mfg Company Spool operating device
US3163711A (en) * 1958-08-20 1964-12-29 Ludwig Bolkow Cable-controlled flying objects and cables therefor
US3156185A (en) * 1960-12-20 1964-11-10 Hermann Joachim Triggering device for a movable body

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3417994A (en) * 1965-04-08 1968-12-24 George W. Rohrbaugh Jr. Arrow with integral trailing device
US3395669A (en) * 1967-06-23 1968-08-06 Navy Usa Torpedo launching tube door
US3521834A (en) * 1969-02-14 1970-07-28 Phelps Dodge Magnet Wire Corp Dereeling apparatus
US3831879A (en) * 1970-03-11 1974-08-27 Us Navy Wire dispenser
US3926386A (en) * 1974-07-09 1975-12-16 Us Air Force Spool for wire deployment
US4196333A (en) * 1977-12-29 1980-04-01 Dsd Welding wire and apparatus for dispensing the same
US4271761A (en) * 1979-04-23 1981-06-09 The United States Of America As Represented By The Administrator Of The National Aeronautics And Space Administration High acceleration cable deployment system
US4326657A (en) * 1980-05-19 1982-04-27 The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Army Optical fiber dispenser
US4624185A (en) * 1985-08-05 1986-11-25 The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Army Missile ballast assembly
US4991793A (en) * 1989-06-26 1991-02-12 Optelecom, Inc. Optical cable payoff system
US5104057A (en) * 1989-11-01 1992-04-14 Hughes Aircraft Company Gas damped filament dispenser
US5005930A (en) * 1990-02-23 1991-04-09 Hughes Aircraft Company Multi-directional payout fiber optic canister
EP0458133A1 (de) * 1990-05-23 1991-11-27 Hughes Aircraft Company Flexibles Ausgaberohr

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CH427519A (de) 1966-12-31

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