US3397640A - Fuze with improved time delay and self-destruct mechanism - Google Patents

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US3397640A
US3397640A US590432A US59043266A US3397640A US 3397640 A US3397640 A US 3397640A US 590432 A US590432 A US 590432A US 59043266 A US59043266 A US 59043266A US 3397640 A US3397640 A US 3397640A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F42—AMMUNITION; BLASTING
    • F42C—AMMUNITION FUZES; ARMING OR SAFETY MEANS THEREFOR
    • F42C9/00—Time fuzes; Combined time and percussion or pressure-actuated fuzes; Fuzes for timed self-destruction of ammunition
    • F42C9/02—Time fuzes; Combined time and percussion or pressure-actuated fuzes; Fuzes for timed self-destruction of ammunition the timing being caused by mechanical means
    • F42C9/06—Time fuzes; Combined time and percussion or pressure-actuated fuzes; Fuzes for timed self-destruction of ammunition the timing being caused by mechanical means by flow of fluent material, e.g. shot, fluids
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F42—AMMUNITION; BLASTING
    • F42C—AMMUNITION FUZES; ARMING OR SAFETY MEANS THEREFOR
    • F42C15/00—Arming-means in fuzes; Safety means for preventing premature detonation of fuzes or charges
    • F42C15/18—Arming-means in fuzes; Safety means for preventing premature detonation of fuzes or charges wherein a carrier for an element of the pyrotechnic or explosive train is moved
    • F42C15/188—Arming-means in fuzes; Safety means for preventing premature detonation of fuzes or charges wherein a carrier for an element of the pyrotechnic or explosive train is moved using a rotatable carrier
    • F42C15/192—Arming-means in fuzes; Safety means for preventing premature detonation of fuzes or charges wherein a carrier for an element of the pyrotechnic or explosive train is moved using a rotatable carrier rotatable in a plane which is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the projectile
    • F42C15/196—Arming-means in fuzes; Safety means for preventing premature detonation of fuzes or charges wherein a carrier for an element of the pyrotechnic or explosive train is moved using a rotatable carrier rotatable in a plane which is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the projectile by the action of centrifugal or inertia forces on the carrier body, e.g. the carrier having eccentrically mounted weights or eccentric centre of gravity
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F42—AMMUNITION; BLASTING
    • F42C—AMMUNITION FUZES; ARMING OR SAFETY MEANS THEREFOR
    • F42C15/00—Arming-means in fuzes; Safety means for preventing premature detonation of fuzes or charges
    • F42C15/20—Arming-means in fuzes; Safety means for preventing premature detonation of fuzes or charges wherein a securing-pin or latch is removed to arm the fuze, e.g. removed from the firing-pin
    • F42C15/22—Arming-means in fuzes; Safety means for preventing premature detonation of fuzes or charges wherein a securing-pin or latch is removed to arm the fuze, e.g. removed from the firing-pin using centrifugal force
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F42—AMMUNITION; BLASTING
    • F42C—AMMUNITION FUZES; ARMING OR SAFETY MEANS THEREFOR
    • F42C15/00—Arming-means in fuzes; Safety means for preventing premature detonation of fuzes or charges
    • F42C15/28—Arming-means in fuzes; Safety means for preventing premature detonation of fuzes or charges operated by flow of fluent material, e.g. shot, fluids
    • F42C15/285—Arming-means in fuzes; Safety means for preventing premature detonation of fuzes or charges operated by flow of fluent material, e.g. shot, fluids stored within the fuze housing
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F42—AMMUNITION; BLASTING
    • F42C—AMMUNITION FUZES; ARMING OR SAFETY MEANS THEREFOR
    • F42C9/00—Time fuzes; Combined time and percussion or pressure-actuated fuzes; Fuzes for timed self-destruction of ammunition
    • F42C9/14—Double fuzes; Multiple fuzes
    • F42C9/16—Double fuzes; Multiple fuzes for self-destruction of ammunition
    • F42C9/18—Double fuzes; Multiple fuzes for self-destruction of ammunition when the spin rate falls below a predetermined limit, e.g. a spring force being stronger than the locking action of a centrifugally-operated lock

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  • the time-delayed fuze has a centrifugally operated ball and race safing mechanism controlling a spring-loaded firing pin, a ball-rotor type detonator, a pair of centrifugally actuated detent split-rings engaging the ball rotor and a collar on the firing pin, respectively, and a self-destruct mechanism including a ball and groove -arrangement between the collar and the fuze housing.
  • a centrifugally operated ball and race safing mechanism controlling a spring-loaded firing pin, a ball-rotor type detonator, a pair of centrifugally actuated detent split-rings engaging the ball rotor and a collar on the firing pin, respectively, and a self-destruct mechanism including a ball and groove -arrangement between the collar and the fuze housing.
  • This invention relates generally to a time-delayed fuze for ammunition of relatively small calibre and, more specifically, to improvements in the mechanism for effecting a delay between the time of firing of the projectile and the time at which it becomes fully armed and cap-able of detonation, including means causing self-destruction after a pre-determined period in trajectory.
  • artillery be provided with high-explosive amn munition designed to detonate within a defined, relatively short span of time in trajectory. That is, the terrain or tactical situation is often such that the shells pass within a few feet of friendly troops or are likely to encounter objects, such as trees, leaves or branches near the gun emplacement, no their way to the impact area. In addition, in jungle and hilly terrain it is not unusual to have positions controlled by friendly troops on the other side of the target area from the battery or gun position. It is desirable therefore, to provide means to disarm, or otherwise make ineffective, projectiles in the initial-trajectory period, as well as destroy shells which go past the target or otherwise go astray.
  • Means which are designed either to accomplish self-destruction of fuzes, by causing detonation of the main bursting (HE.) charge either on impact or after a certain period of time, or delay the arming time.
  • HE. main bursting
  • Such devices as utilize mechanical escapements (e.g., leaf springs, clock-work mechanisms), unwinding foil, or fusible links, while useful, have left something to be desired in the areas of design reliability and arming time-delay control. In laddition such devices are often complex and costly.
  • a more specific object of the invention is to provide an improved mechanism for controlling the length of the delay after which time an artillery projectile is fully armed, in combination with a self-destruct mechanism, wherein safety and reliability of the fuze and projectile is enhanced in relatively small calibre, low cost projectiles.
  • a fuse having a body portion including a cavity therein, a ball-rotor in the cavity, the ball-rotor having a detonating charge in a geometrically centered bore therethrough, a firing pin,
  • an improved arming-delay mechanism comprising a viscous dampening medium provided between the ball-rotor and the body cavity walls.
  • the effective viscosity of the dampening medium is controllable by several means including variations in viscosity, filler materials and irregularities in the ball rotor'surface, whereby the time-delay is variable for more accurate and reliable control of both the arming and the self-destruct functions.
  • FIG. l is a sectional View taken along a centerline and illustrating, generally, the internal mechanism of a relatively small-calibre fuze incorporating the improved arming-delay means of our invention and showing the fuze mechanism in the unarmed, or unred, position;
  • FIG. 2 is a view illustrating the fuze of FIG. l in the armed position
  • FIG. 3 illustrates the fuze of FIG. 1 at the instant of self-destruction or impact detonation
  • FIG. 4 is a fragmentary, plan view of the surface of a ball-rotor used in another embodiment of our invention.
  • FIG. 5 is a pictorialized representation of a dampening fluid utilized in still another form of our invention.
  • FIG. l shows a fuze having a body or housing indicated generally at 10.
  • the fuze body includes a tapered nose portion 12, a center or base portion 14, and a booster portion 16.
  • the nose portion 12 has a central bore therethrough indicated generally at 18.
  • the bore includes a cavity 20 at the tip of the fuze, the cavity providing a relatively thin-walled frangible nose portion.
  • a closure cap or disc 22 having a cylindrical portion 22a fits in a recess 20a in the nose, the disc being beveled at 22b to form a blunt tip for the projectile.
  • Central bore 18 also has a reduced neck portion 24, a spring retainer. portion 26, and an enlarged, self-destruct mechanism retainer -partial cavity portion 28.
  • the fuze includes means for exploding the projectile including a firing pin and retainer spring assembly, indicated generally at 30.
  • the assembly 30 includes a tiring pin indicated at 32 having an elongated forwardly projecting contact arm portion 34 received in the tapered body bore portion 24, for sliding engagement relative thereto.
  • the firing pin 32 also includes an enlarged, cylindrical body or collar portion, indicated at 36, the collar or body portion being loc-ated intermediate contact arm portion 34 and a striker arm portion 38 of pin 32, 4the latter extending rearwardly of the fuze body.
  • Resilient means in the form of a spring 40 arranged coaxially about striker arm 34 is also provided fOr positioning of pin 32, as hereinafter described in detail.
  • the spring is received in bore 18, .being captured between the forward face, at 36a of the centrally located firing pin body portion 36 and the forward wall at 26a, of bore portion 26.
  • This arrangement accomplishes spring-loading of firing pin 32.
  • the central body portion 36 could also comprise a collar slidable on and fastened to the arms of 34 and 38, respectively, (i.e., tiring pin 32) in the location shown.
  • the central body or base portion 14 of the fuze includes a series of interconnected coaxially-arranged bores, indicated at 42, 44 and 46, respectively, proceeding from front to rear of the fuze.
  • bore 44, intermediate bores 42 and 46 is the same size as bore 24, being adapted to receive the striker arm portion 38 of firing pin 32.
  • Bore 42 is enlarged to the same size as bore 28 in the tapered body portion 12, being adapted to align itself coaxially therewith to form a single central cavity in the fuze within which tiring pin body -or collar portion 36 may move axially back and forth against the force of spring 40.
  • bore 46 of body portion 14 is arranged to retain a ball-rotor detonating mechanism, indicated generally at 50.
  • the ball-rotor detonating mechanism will now be described in detail.
  • Indicated at 52 is rotor body which is bored out at 53 along an axis of symmetry, i.e., the bore center passes through the geometric center of the rotor body.
  • the bore 53 contains a detonating charge, indicated at 54, which, as described hereinafter, will be set-off when contacted-with sufficient force-by striker arm portion 38 of firing pin 32.
  • a flash passage 53a, coaxial with bore S3, is provided at the end of bore 53 opposite the point of impact of the striker arm.
  • the ball rotor is adapted to rotate within the fuze body, being retained in a hemispherical portion 46a at the forward end of bore 46 in body portion 14. In other words, as the projectileand the fuze-spin, ball-rotor 52 rotates in cavity 46a to align itself for detonation.
  • Means to facilitate setting-off the projectile high-explosive (H.E.) charge is further provided in the form of a booster charge 58 contained in a central bore 59 in body portion 16.
  • a booster charge 58 contained in a central bore 59 in body portion 16.
  • flash passage 53a is in line with a thin, fragile wall portion, indicated at 59a, of the booster body 16, which wall portion also provides a cup-shaped depression 59b on the side facing ball-rotor 52 to complete the spherical cavity in combination with cavity portion 46a.
  • the thin wall portion at 59a is breached when the detonator charge 54 explodes, thus setting off the booster.
  • Closure means 60 at the other end of the booster body portion, maintains the charges in the body 16.
  • the tapered body, middle and booster portions, indicated at 12, 14 and 16 respectively, are preferably threadably engaged at 61 and 62.
  • An additional, externally-threaded portion at 63 may be provided to engage suitable threads on the projectile body (not shown).
  • a flange at 64 and a shoulder at 65 are provided to securely seat and maintain the booster-to-middle portion and the middle portion-to-tapered portion threaded connections, respectively.
  • a retainer ring 68 which is generally C-shaped in plan view, snaps into a notch 68a on the collar 36, as seen in FIG. 1.
  • the C- shaped ring 68 supports the firing pin assembly 30 during storage and against set-back forces created when the projectile is accelerating within the gun bore.
  • the ball-rotor is positioned in the spherical seat formed by hemispherical portion 46a and a cup shaped depression 59b, in assembly, with the axis of rotation of the ball-rotor being displaced from the fuze axis.
  • centrifugally actuated detent mechanism comprising another semi-annular, i.e., horizontally-split detent spring 70.
  • Spring 70 in its normally compressed position is retained in a notch or groove 72 in the surface of ball-rotor 52. Notch 72 will be displaced angularly along the ball surface from a first or nominally forward-facing at 52a on the ball-rotor.
  • Ball at 52a and a second at 5217 approximately diametrically opposite thereto, are machined on the ballrotor body to facilitate boring the detonator charge cavity to the required dimensions.
  • annular spring means 70 when the fuze aloneor assembled with a projectile-is in storage or in transit, annular spring means 70 is at its normal diameter and engages notch 72, with a flat side of the spring bearing against forward face 16a of the booster body portion. This, together with spring means 68, provide a dual locking safety device for the detonator means.
  • the self-destruct mechanism indicated generally at 80.
  • this takes the form of a circumferential groove 82 machined in the periphery of the collar or central body portion 36 of the tiring pin assembly 30.
  • Slidably retained in groove 82 are a plurality of locking balls, two of which are indicated at 83-83.
  • Balls 83 are adapted to move radially outwardly of groove 82 in response to centrifugal forces acting on the fuze.
  • the balls 83 move partially out of groove 82, being received in a groove 86, circumferentially extending around the walls of the cavity formed by the mating bores 42 and 28, as showing in FIG. 2.
  • the balls slide off ramp 86a, in groove 86, since they can no longer support the spring forces, and the firing pin 38 is driven into the detonator, as seen in FIG. 3.
  • the operation of the improved fuze mechanisms described above will now be described in detail, with particular reference to the combination time-delay arming improvement of the present invention.
  • the fuze mechanism will be in the safe position shown in FIG. 1, i.e., the retainer or detent spring 70 and spring means 68 are engaged in notch 72 and 68a in the ball rotor and collar respectively, with spring 40 in partial extension and centrifugally-operated balls 83 freely moving in the collar groove or race 82.
  • the spin rate (caused by the barrel riing) rises suiciently to cause the balls 83-83 to move outwardly of the race 82 and onto the initial ramp portion 86a of body groove 86, causing retraction of the tiring pin tip in passage 44.
  • retainer or detent spring 70 will have expanded to release the ball rotor for axial alignment of the detonator ⁇ charge bore 53 with the fuze body bores 42, 44 and 46. Further, as balls 83-83 move out retainer spring 68 likewise moves out of notch 86a into a groove or notch 69 in body portion 12. Both spring means 68 and 70 permanently deform under the effect of centrifugal force. Thus, as seen in FIG. 3, spring 68 does not impede the self-destruct operation.
  • An important feature of our invention thus concerns means for accurately controlling the timing of this alignment, i.e., the movement of the ball-rotor 52 wherein, due to the density of the charge 54 being relatively less than the rotor body, the rotor precesses into position ⁇ such that its maximum moment is aligned with the projectile spin axis.
  • This lposition is shown in FIG. 2.
  • use of this technique enables manufacture of rotors using lower density materials, e.g., aluminum or plastics, to increase both the arming delay time and, at the same time, decrease the ⁇ cost of the ball-rotor itself.
  • the arming delay time was -regulated between 2S and 30 milliseconds, which, in this instance, corresponded to about 90 feet from the gun muzzle.
  • a non-viscous dampened conventional ball-rotor type fuze was armed about feet (4 milliseconds) from the gun. It was also learned that the heat of firing and, in particular, the outside environment experienced in various lgeographic locations 4requires that the attention be paid to the fact that the viscosity of suitable dampening fiuids varies with temperature. Careful selection of proper fluid or viscous medium is of great importance.
  • silicacontaining fluids An example is synthetic silicon grease which, when properly selected, can show a viscosity variation of 3:1 or less, over a 200 F. (e.g., -40 F. to 160 F.) temperature range.
  • the conventional petroleum based (e.g., hydraulic) fluids typically show a viscosity variation in this temperature range of up to 100:1.
  • silicon greases are chemically inert and resistant to breakdown over extreme temperature ranges, Le., 100 F. to 450 F.
  • such compounds are non-toxic, :oxidation and radiation resistant, and water repellant-all advantageous in the manufacture, use and handling of ammunition.
  • Another variation of our improved viscous dampened, arming-delay mechanism includes providing a ball-rotor 92, as shown in FIG. 4, with an irregular surface cornprising a series of depressions or ridges 92a.
  • the result of the surface irregularity is to cause turbulence in the viscous dampening fluid boundary layer (film), thereby increasing the dampening action without adversely affecting temperature characteristics and, consequently, improving control of the alignment or arming time factor.
  • FIG. 5 Another device to improve the dampening characteristics is shown in FIG. 5.
  • the filler 94 may consist of a nonmetallic powder, e.g., Teflon, or minute metallic particles, either of which serve to increase the effective viscosity of the media.
  • Teflon a nonmetallic powder
  • minute metallic particles either of which serve to increase the effective viscosity of the media.
  • an artillery fuze comprising:
  • a substantially spherical rotor located in a second, generally spherical cavity in said housing, said rotor having a diametrical bore therethrough about which axis said rotor precesses for rotation, said bore containing a detonator explosive charge for said fuze;
  • a second resilient member engaging a notch in said rotor ybelow a pre-determined rotating speed of said fuze, said second member expanding permanently out of engagement with said rotor and into a groove at the rear of said second cavity above said predetermined speed;
  • a third resilient member normally partially engaged in a second notch in the walls of said first cavity, said third resilient member bearing against a rearward face of said collar member to restrain said firing pin assembly forwardly below said pre-determined rotating speed, said third member expanding permanently into said second notch and out of engagement with said collar above said pre-determined speed;
  • a fuze arming ⁇ and self-destruct mechanism in said fuze comprising a first circumferential groove in the wall of said first cavity, a second circumferential groove in said collar member axially alignable with said first groove, and centrifugally-responsive means normally received in said second groove, said centifugally-responsive means moving Ipartially out of said second groove and into said first groove, whenever said fuze attains said pre-determined spin rate, securing said collar axially lof said fuze to prevent engagement of said striker point with said rotor detonator change until impact or reduction of said spin rate below said pre-determined level, at which time said tcentrifugally responsive means moves out of said first groove and back into said second groove to permit said first resilient member to drive said striker point into said detonator charge for self-destruction of said fuze; and
  • control means to control the rate of alignment of the spin axis of said rotor with the spin axis lof said fuze housing for arming of said fuze, said control means comprising a viscous dampening medium contained in said spherical cavity intermediate the walls thereof and the surface of said rotor.
  • an artillery fuze comprising:
  • a forward tapered body portion having centrally located, axially-extending bores therein and being interconnected to form a fuze housing of generally circular section;
  • an elongated pin having an impact head end received in a bore of said forward body portion, the other end of said pin having a striker point received in a passage in said intermediate body portion;
  • a fuze arming and self-destruct mechanism in said fuze comprising a rst circumferential groove in the wall of said irst cavity, a second circumferential groove in said collar member axially alignable with said first groove, and centrifugally-responsive means normally received in said second groove, said centrifugally-responsive means moving partially out of said second groove and into said irst groove, whenever said fuze attains said predetermined spin rate, securing said collar axially of said fuze to prevent engagement of said striker point with said rotor detonator change until impact or reduction of said spin rate below said pre-determined level, at which time said centrifugally-responsive means moves out of said first groove and back into said second groove to penmit said first resilient member to drive said striker References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 896,135 8/1908 Meigs et al.
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