METHOD OF AND AN ASSEMBLY FOR FIRING PROJECTILES WITH CONTROLLED GASIFICATION OF A LIQUID PROPELLANT
Assignee
RHEINMETALL INDUSTRIE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Filed
Feb 10, 1975
Granted
Jul 29, 1986
Location
DUSSELDORF DE
Abstract
A projectile seated in a gun barrel is fired by vaporizing a liquid propellant in a loading chamber communicating with the gun barrel through a rising duct. A cluster of filling bodies occupies the entire cross-section of the duct and dips into the liquid propellant within the loading chamber, these bodies forming a multiplicity of passages in which the ignited liquid gasifies upon being driven by its own vapor pressure toward the gun barrel.
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35 USC §181 Secrecy Order
Imposed
Jan 29, 1982
Rescinded
Jan 30, 1985
Duration
3 years
Inventor
- 1RAIMUND GERMERSHAUSEN
Record Details
- Patent number
- US 4602553
- Application
- 05549382
- Aerospace match
- Yes
- Dataset source
- 35 USC §181 SO records
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