HIGH EXPLOSIVE ANTITANK SHELL

• US 3,613,585 A
• Filed: 10/24/1958
• Issued: 10/19/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/1958
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Stanley Dubroff
• Original Assignee: Stanley Dubroff
• Inventors: Dubroff, Stanley
• Primary Examiner(s): Borchelt, Benjamin A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jordan, C. T.
• Application Number:
  US03/769,515
• Time in Patent Office: 4,743 Days
• Field of Search: 102/56,56HC,6,87,90,52
• US Class Current: 102/476
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/10 with shaped or hollow charge shaped or hollow charges per se F42B1/02 ; mines having hollow charges F42B23/04
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/44 of incendiary type F42B12/46 takes precedence

Abstract

1. In a projectile of the hollow charge type wherein a jet of metal is formed by the detonation of an explosive material in response to the impact of said projectile, said projectile having a body, an ogive forward of said body, said ogive being hollow; the combination therewith of the improvement whereby the behind the barrier effectiveness of the projectile is increased, said improvement comprising: a container mounted within said ogive, said container being imperforate and enclosing an inflammable material, said inflammable material being distributed substantially uniformly and continuously in both longitudinal and transverse directions such that there is always a mass of said inflammable material along the axis of said projectile, whereby, upon detonation of said projectile the jet formed thereby, traveling along the axis of said projectile, passes through said inflammable material carrying a substantial part of said inflammable material through and behind a target barrier.

Claims

1. In a projectile of the hollow charge type wherein a jet of metal is formed by the detonation of an explosive material in response to the impact of said projectile, said projectile having a body, an ogive forward of said body, said ogive being hollow;

the combination therewith of the improvement whereby the behind the barrier effectiveness of the projectile is increased, said improvement comprising;

a container mounted within said ogive, said container being imperforate and enclosing an inflammable material, said inflammable material being distributed substantially uniformly and continuously in both longitudinal and transverse directions such that there is always a mass of said inflammable material along the axis of said projectile, whereby, upon detonation of said projectile the jet formed thereby, traveling along the axis of said projectile, passes through said inflammable material carrying a substantial part of said inflammable material through and behind a target barrier.

2. In a projectile as in claim 1, said container having a recess at its rear end, whereby the formation of said jet is facilitated.

3. In a projectile of the hollow charge type wherein a jet of metal is formed by the detonation of an explosive material in response to the impact of saiD projectile, said projectile having a body, an ogive forward of said body, said ogive being hollow;

the combination therewith of the improvement whereby the behind the barrier effectiveness of the projectile is increased, said improvement comprising;

a container mounted within said ogive, said container being imperforate and enclosing white phosphorous, said white phosphorous being distributed substantially uniformly and continuously in both longitudinal and transverse directions such that there is always a mass of said white phosphorous along the axis of said projectile, whereby, upon detonation of said projectile the jet formed thereby, traveling along the axis of said projectile, passes through said white phosphorous carrying a substantial part of said white phosphorous through and behind a target barrier.

4. In a projectile as in claim 3, said container having a recess at its rear end, whereby the formation of said jet is facilitated.