Projectile with secondary projectiles and firing apparatus for such projectile

• US 3,916,794 A
• Filed: 09/17/1973
• Issued: 11/04/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Cornelius Mayer
• Original Assignee: Cornelius Mayer
• Inventors: Mayer, Cornelius
• Primary Examiner(s): Feinberg, Samuel
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jordan, C. T.
• Application Number:
  US05/397,809
• Time in Patent Office: 778 Days
• Field of Search: 102/92.2,56,57,58,69,7.2,92.3,92.4,92.6,38 89/1.816,1.817
• US Class Current: 102/489
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/58 Cluster or cargo ammunition, i.e. projectiles containing one or more submissiles F42B12/32 takes precedence

Abstract

A projectile or shell with secondary projectiles which are arranged in a number of adjacent situated rows behind one another and located in a projectile or shell jacket of polygonal crosssection having rounded edges. There are provided at most four rows of secondary projectiles, each row being located in one corner of the projectile jacket. The invention also concerns a firing mechanism for use with such projectiles or shells and equipped with a number of containers, the lengthwise axes of which are essentially in parallel with one another. The cross-section of each container is polygonal and at most has four rounded edges.

Claims

1. In a rocket comprising a rocket jacket and a substantially circular-cylindrical housing secured at the rearward end of the rocket jacket and containing a propellant charge, said rocket jacket containing a plurality of adjacently situated substantially circular-cylindrical projectiles, the improvement comprising said rocket jacket having a substantially polygonal cross-section having a plurality of corners and containing in each corner thereof at least one of said secondary projectiles, said propellant charge housing having the same diameter as a circle inscribed within the outer contour of said polygonal cross-section of the rocket jacket.

2. In a rocket firing apparatus comprising a plurality of tubes, the lengthwise axes of said tubes being essentially in parallelism with one another, each tube containing a rocket therein, each of said rockets comprising a rocket jacket and a substantially circular-cylindrical housing secured at the rearward end of the rocket jacket and containing a propellant charge, said rocket jacket containing a plurality of adjacently situated substantially circular-cylindrical secondary projectiles, the improvement comprising said tubes and said rocket jackets having a substantially polygonal cross-section with rounded corners, each of said rocket jackets containing in each corner thereof at least one of said secondary projectiles, said housing having the same diameter as a circle inscribed within the outer contour of said polygonal cross-section of the rocket jacket, said housing having a number of generatrixes along which the rocket is guided in its associated tube, and said rocket jacket having a number of generatrixes, the spacing from the rocket axis of which is equal to said generatrixes of the housing.

3. The rocket firing apparatus as defined in claim 2, wherein the radius of curvature of the corners of the cross-section of the rocket jacket is larger than the radius of curvature of the corners of the cross-section of the tubes.