US3724380A - Device for a projectile - Google Patents

Device for a projectile Download PDF

Info

Publication number
US3724380A
US3724380A US00098540A US3724380DA US3724380A US 3724380 A US3724380 A US 3724380A US 00098540 A US00098540 A US 00098540A US 3724380D A US3724380D A US 3724380DA US 3724380 A US3724380 A US 3724380A
Authority
US
United States
Prior art keywords
projectile
sectors
flare
symmetry
open
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Expired - Lifetime
Application number
US00098540A
Other languages
English (en)
Inventor
B Simmons
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
Saab Bofors AB
Original Assignee
Bofors AB
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Application filed by Bofors AB filed Critical Bofors AB
Application granted granted Critical
Publication of US3724380A publication Critical patent/US3724380A/en
Anticipated expiration legal-status Critical
Expired - Lifetime legal-status Critical Current

Links

Images

Classifications

    • 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
    • F42B30/003—Closures or baseplates therefor

Definitions

  • a flare releasing missile has a casing including the propellant charge and a hollow projectile fitted to the casing and housing a flare and a parachute therefor.
  • the projectile including its bottom plate is lengthwise split and the projectile parts thus formed are held together by a cap fitted upon the bottom of the projectile until the same is fired.
  • the cap is forced off thereby freeing the projectile parts and thus the flare with its parachute.
  • the projectile parts are thrown out of the trajectory of the flare by the centrifugal force acting upon the parts due to the spin imparted to the projectile by the rifling in the gun barrel.
  • the present invention relates to a device for a projectile that can be actuated by a charge in a barrel.
  • the projectile has a case enclosing a space in which the charge is arranged so that when theprojectile is fired a gas pressure is developed which acts upon the projec tile via a bottom plate which is arranged at one end of the case. Further, thebottom plate is arranged so that it can be separated from the case when, for instance, a flare placed in said space and carried by a parachute is expelled from the vehicle part.
  • a projectile for said kind can be mentioned a projectile for a pyrotechnical flare, which flare is thus placed in the space in the projectile from which it is released at a predetermined time after the projectile has been fired, after which, ignited and depending from the parachute, it falls down towards the ground.
  • the propelling unit develops the gas pressure that achieves the propelling force for the projectile, and the outside of the bottom plate on the projectile constitutes a substantial part of the surface upon which the gas pressure acts which, however, as a rule also comprises parts of the outside of the case at one end of the case.
  • the bottom plate at least in the case of projectiles of For projectiles of the kind belonging to this category, the massive, heavy bottom plate has involved serious drawbacks, owing to the fact that when the flare depending from the parachute has been expelled from the space in the projectile, the bottom plate has remained in the trajectory of the flare and has followed the flare, so that when its parachute has opened and braked the flare, the bottom plate has hit the parachute, causing damage to this.
  • the present invention relates to a device that solves the above-mentioned problem entirely, without any form of eccentricity of parts of the projectile being necessary, which thus involves that the original high degree of functioning of the projectile itself is retained.
  • the characterizing feature of a device according to the invention is that the bottom plate is composed of a predetermined number of parts, the section surfaces of which extend between the outside and inside of the plate, and further that the bottom plate on its outside is provided with a cap that keeps the parts together and extends at least over the section or sections, and ,which also prevents gas from penetrating into the space and which can also be separated when the flare is expelled from the space.
  • FIG. 1 shows a side view of a complete round consisting of a projectile and a charge
  • FIG. 2 shows a side view and partly in cross-section oneend of a bottom plate arranged on case of the projectile
  • FIG. 3 shows, in perspective, a detailed view of the bottom plate.
  • FIG. 1 shows a charge assembled with a projectile 2, which has a case 3.
  • the charge is arranged so that, when the projectile is fired, it will develop a gas pressure that acts upon the projectile through an actuation surface which consists partly of the outside 4 of the case at one end of the case, and partly of the bottom plate 5.
  • the bottom plate 5 is composed of two identical, sector-formed parts, one of which is shown in FIG. 2.
  • the section surface of the sector-formed parts extends between the outside 5a of the plate and its inside 5b through an axis of symmetry 7 given to the projectile, and the parts moreover, with their semi-arced outer sections, also cover the major portion of the end surface of the case 3 as well as the end surface of a sup porting ring 8 comprised in the projectile, which has a surface 8a which coacts with the inside surface 30 of the case.
  • the bottom plate On its outside 5a, the bottom plate is covered by a cap 9, which is made in such a way that it keeps the two parts of the bottom plate together from the time when the projectile has been fired from the barrel until its flare is to be expelled from the projectile, and also prevents the gases that are developed when the projectile is fired from entering into the space 6 via the section surfaces of the parts.
  • the cap is fastened in the case 3 and can be separated from said case when the flare is expelled from the projectile.
  • the bottom plate composed of the two sector-formed parts substantially has the form of a hemispere, which at the section surfaces gives a pressure stress equal to the pressure stress in the other parts of the bottom plate that have not been cut.
  • the assembled bottom plate shown in the example of the embodiment has an outer form resembling that of a truncated cone, which has its wide part facing the end surface of the case.
  • the reference designation 10 shows a member that coa'cts with the rifling in the barrel in order to obtain the rotation of the projectile around its axis of symmetry.
  • FIG. 3 shows the two sector-formed parts of the bottom plate 5, and with a cut 11 between the sectors.
  • the embodiment shown of the bottom plate causes the sectors comprised in the bottom plate to be pressed against each other as a consequence of the forces developed by the gas pressure acting upon the actuation surface substantially towards one and the same point 12 in the axis of symmetry 7.
  • the parts in the bottom plate when the cap is removed in connection with the flare being expelled from the space, will be thrown far out from the trajectory of the charge in different directions, as a consequence of the centrifugal forces arising owing to the rotation of the plate around its axis of symmetry 7. There is no risk whatsoever that any of these parts will follow the flare and hit its parachute.
  • the comparatively light cap will be braked very heavily by the air resistance when the flare is expelled and thus will not involve any risk whatsoever for the parachute.
  • the bottom plate can be composed of parts of a quantity other than two.
  • the quantity should be at least two, and should be limited only by what is feasible in practice.
  • the invention limited to sector-formed parts of parts of equal size.
  • a device including a separable unit and arranged to be fired from a rifled barrel, said device comprising in combination:
  • a shell casing containing an ignitable gas generating charge and a projectile fitted into an open end of the shell casing to impart a longitudinal and rotary acceleration to the projectile by the gas pressure generated by ignition of the charge in the shell casing, said projectile being hollow and open at its end facing the shell casing for accommodating in the projectile a unit arranged to be expelled from the projectile through the open end thereof a predetermined period of time after firing of the projectile, and'a bottom member abutting against the projectile at the open end thereof to close said end until said unit is expelled from the projectile, said bottom member comprising at least two complementary equally sized sectors abutting in a plane in registry with the axis of symmetry of the projectile, said sectors having sides inwardly slanted from the open projectile end toward the outer ends of the sectors and a cap covering the outwardly facing surfaces of said sectors and overlying said open projectile end for locking the sectors together and detachably securing the same to the projectile.

Landscapes

  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Aiming, Guidance, Guns With A Light Source, Armor, Camouflage, And Targets (AREA)
  • Toys (AREA)
US00098540A 1970-01-08 1970-12-16 Device for a projectile Expired - Lifetime US3724380A (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (1)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
SE00149/70A SE339648B (de) 1970-01-08 1970-01-08

Publications (1)

Publication Number Publication Date
US3724380A true US3724380A (en) 1973-04-03

Family

ID=20256113

Family Applications (1)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
US00098540A Expired - Lifetime US3724380A (en) 1970-01-08 1970-12-16 Device for a projectile

Country Status (5)

Country Link
US (1) US3724380A (de)
DE (1) DE2100482C3 (de)
FR (1) FR2075262A5 (de)
NL (1) NL7018623A (de)
SE (1) SE339648B (de)

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4109577A (en) * 1975-07-04 1978-08-29 Ab Bofors Device for bottom unit for projectile
US10962337B2 (en) * 2019-09-03 2021-03-30 Imi Systems Ltd. Cartridge for providing delayed chaff for use as a decoy for RF radars

Families Citing this family (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
IT1173087B (it) * 1984-01-20 1987-06-18 Simmel Spa Dispositivo antideformazione per proiettili d'artiglieria
FR2644881B1 (fr) * 1989-03-22 1991-05-31 France Etat Armement Dispositif de liaison entre un premier et deuxieme troncon d'un projectile gyrostabilise
SE536997C2 (sv) * 2013-02-22 2014-11-25 Bae Systems Bofors Ab Granat med utskjutningsbar granatbotten

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4109577A (en) * 1975-07-04 1978-08-29 Ab Bofors Device for bottom unit for projectile
US10962337B2 (en) * 2019-09-03 2021-03-30 Imi Systems Ltd. Cartridge for providing delayed chaff for use as a decoy for RF radars

Also Published As

Publication number Publication date
FR2075262A5 (de) 1971-10-08
SE339648B (de) 1971-10-11
DE2100482C3 (de) 1975-05-15
DE2100482B2 (de) 1974-09-26
DE2100482A1 (de) 1971-07-15
NL7018623A (de) 1971-07-12

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
US3877383A (en) Munition
US4648323A (en) Fragmentation munition
US3598057A (en) Canister small arms cartridge
US3565009A (en) Aimed quadrant warhead
US4140061A (en) Short-range discarding-sabot training practice round and self-destruct subprojectile therefor
RU2247922C2 (ru) Ложная цель
US4289073A (en) Warhead with a plurality of slave missiles
EP0597142B1 (de) Übungsgeschoss
US4178851A (en) Dual purpose munition
US4327643A (en) Anti-aircraft projectile with base, high-explosive body, and ogive
US4080900A (en) Projectile
US5648637A (en) Multi-disk shell
US3913488A (en) Ballistic disc
US3444813A (en) Carrier for fin stabilized projectiles
US2457817A (en) Bomb
US6161482A (en) Multi-disk shell and wad
US3724380A (en) Device for a projectile
US3334588A (en) Ammunition round
US3906860A (en) Dual purpose projectile
US2793590A (en) Practice projectile
US3107615A (en) Non-lethal discarding device
US3750587A (en) Projectile having changeable outer form
RU2288428C2 (ru) Способ формирования временных атмосферных изображений
KR20220030251A (ko) 포탄을 포함하는 탄두 내장형 탄약
KR102041828B1 (ko) 분산자탄과 고폭약을 구비한 발사체