US3413923A - Rifle grenade - Google Patents

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US3413923A
US3413923A US652826A US65282667A US3413923A US 3413923 A US3413923 A US 3413923A US 652826 A US652826 A US 652826A US 65282667 A US65282667 A US 65282667A US 3413923 A US3413923 A US 3413923A
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Baton Boris
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F42—AMMUNITION; BLASTING
    • F42B—EXPLOSIVE CHARGES, e.g. FOR BLASTING, FIREWORKS, AMMUNITION
    • F42B3/00—Blasting cartridges, i.e. case and explosive
    • F42B3/04—Blasting cartridges, i.e. case and explosive for producing gas under pressure
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F42—AMMUNITION; BLASTING
    • F42B—EXPLOSIVE CHARGES, e.g. FOR BLASTING, FIREWORKS, AMMUNITION
    • F42B10/00—Means for influencing, e.g. improving, the aerodynamic properties of projectiles or missiles; Arrangements on projectiles or missiles for stabilising, steering, range-reducing, range-increasing or fall-retarding
    • F42B10/02—Stabilising arrangements
    • F42B10/04—Stabilising arrangements using fixed fins
    • F42B10/06—Tail fins
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F42—AMMUNITION; BLASTING
    • F42B—EXPLOSIVE CHARGES, e.g. FOR BLASTING, FIREWORKS, AMMUNITION
    • F42B30/00—Projectiles or missiles, not otherwise provided for, characterised by the ammunition class or type, e.g. by the launching apparatus or weapon used
    • F42B30/04—Rifle grenades

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  • a rifle grenade having a body of substantially spherical shape, a tubular tail-rod connected at one pole of the sphere, a tubular nipple disposed at the opposite pole of the sphere, a circular plate of the diameter of the body and fixed to the vnipple, a ballistic cap enclosing a firing device and disposed above the plate, a cylindrical casing supported against the plate, the cylindrical body and the tail-rod, and a closed peripheral space below the plate and between the casing and the spherical body.
  • This invention relates to a rifle grenade.
  • a rifle grenade comprising a steel body of substantially spherical shape, a tubular tail-rod connected thereto at one pole of said sphere, a tubular nipple disposed at the opposite pole of said spherical body, a circular plate of the diameter of said body and fixed to said nipple, a ballistic cap enclosing a firing device and disposed above said plate, a cylindrical casing supported against the plate, the spherical body and the tail-rod, and a closed peripheral space below the plate and between said casing and the spherical body.
  • the plate occupying the entire section defined by the calibre can support a firing device or fuse mechanism, which may, for example, be percussion or inertia operated and the 'diameter of which exceeds the diameter of the nipple through which firing of the explosive is initiated.
  • a firing device or fuse mechanism which may, for example, be percussion or inertia operated and the 'diameter of which exceeds the diameter of the nipple through which firing of the explosive is initiated.
  • the primer of this mechanism can, during storage, be in an eccentric position at a suflicient distance from the axis of the grenade.
  • peripheral space enclosed between the said spherical body and the cylindrical casing may accommodate, if desired, one or more fuse parts.
  • the tubular tail-rod of the grenade has an end wall integral therewith the upper surface of which is in the form of a spherical socket the concavity of which corresponds to the curvature of the spherical body.
  • the spherical body of the grenade is axially fixed to the end wall of the tubular tail-rod by means of a screw passing through the wall of the spherical body.
  • the grenade has a ballistic. cap which encloses a firing device (not shown).
  • the bottom edge of the ballistic cap is supported by the corresponding edge of a plate 1a situated above a spherical steel body 2 comprising two substantially hemispherical shells which are welded together at 2a, the plate 1a having the same diameter as the body 2.
  • tail-rod 3 preferably made of light metal (for example an aluminium alloy), the tail-rod being provided with tail fins 4 near its free end.
  • the steel body 2 of the grenade encloses a detonator 5 which is embedded in a hollow cylindrical cake of explosive 6 in contact with the principal explosive 7 occupying the remainder of free space inside the body 2.
  • a screw 8 passing through an aperture formed in the bottom pole of the body 2 engages a tapped bore of an end wall 9 closing the top end of the tail-rod 3.
  • This end wall which is integral with the tail-rod, has a spherical socket-shaped upper surface in which the concave spherical zone corresponds to the body 2.
  • a thin-walled cylindrical casing 10 bears against the lower edge of the plate 1a, the spherical body 2 (at the location of the weld seam 2a) and an annular shoulder of the tail-rod 3.
  • the spherical body is also formed, at its upper pole, with a cylindrical nipple 11 formed with an internal screw thread into which there is screwed a hollow shank which is integral with the plate 1a and which retains the detonator 5.
  • the acceleration produced when the grenade is shot from the rifle causes this cap 12, due to its inertia, to leave its seating and fall into the peripheral space enclosed between the casing 10 and the body 2.
  • a rifle grenade comprising a steel body of substantially spherical shape, a tubular tail-rod connected thereto at one pole of said sphere, a tubular nipple disposed at the opposite pole of said spherical body, a circular pate of the diameter of said body and fixed to said nipple, a ballistic cap enclosing a firing device and disposed above said plate, a cylindrical casing supported against the plate, the spherical body and the tail-rod, and a closed peripheral space below the plate and between said casing and the spherical body.
  • tubular tail-rod of the grenade has an end wall integral therewith and has a top surface in the form of a spherical socket having a concave spherical zone corresponding to said body.

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CH1256666A CH457197A (fr) 1966-08-29 1966-08-29 Grenade à fusil

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BE (1) BE699161A (oth)
CH (1) CH457197A (oth)
DE (1) DE1578066A1 (oth)
ES (1) ES344554A1 (oth)
GB (1) GB1138926A (oth)
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Cited By (2)

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US4016816A (en) * 1975-06-20 1977-04-12 Forenade Fabriksverken Shell especially for mortars
FR2371666A1 (fr) * 1976-11-23 1978-06-16 Alsetex Tube empenne pour grenade a fusil

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SE7906604L (sv) * 1978-09-22 1980-03-23 Sarmac Sa Geversgranat
CN111211021B (zh) * 2020-01-09 2022-03-25 四川蓝狮科技有限公司 快速熔断装置的微型气体发生器

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE79873C (oth) *
FR717204A (fr) * 1930-05-20 1932-01-05 Grenade et lance-grenade
US2408486A (en) * 1945-03-28 1946-10-01 Edward M Shinkle Hand grenade and fuse therefor
US2420661A (en) * 1945-07-03 1947-05-20 Fox William Mervin Grenade adapter

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE79873C (oth) *
FR717204A (fr) * 1930-05-20 1932-01-05 Grenade et lance-grenade
US2408486A (en) * 1945-03-28 1946-10-01 Edward M Shinkle Hand grenade and fuse therefor
US2420661A (en) * 1945-07-03 1947-05-20 Fox William Mervin Grenade adapter

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4016816A (en) * 1975-06-20 1977-04-12 Forenade Fabriksverken Shell especially for mortars
FR2371666A1 (fr) * 1976-11-23 1978-06-16 Alsetex Tube empenne pour grenade a fusil

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AT280104B (de) 1970-03-25
CH457197A (fr) 1968-05-31
NL6709943A (oth) 1968-03-01
GB1138926A (en) 1969-01-01
BE699161A (oth) 1967-11-03
NO122173B (oth) 1971-05-24
DE1578066A1 (de) 1971-09-30
ES344554A1 (es) 1968-10-16

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