Grenade having safety lever with integrated firing pin retaining clip

• US 8,726,810 B2
• Filed: 03/19/2012
• Issued: 05/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Combined Systems Incorporated (PLP-CTS Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Combined Systems Incorporated (PLP-CTS Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kravel, Jacob
• Primary Examiner(s): BERGIN, JAMES S
• Application Number:
  US13/423,509
• Publication Number:
  US 20130239838A1
• Time in Patent Office: 792 Days
• Field of Search: 102/368, 102/482, 102/487, 102/498, 102/502, 102/529, 102/260, 102/261
• US Class Current: 102/487
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/32 the hull or case comprising a plurality of discrete bodies, e.g. steel balls, embedded therein or disposed around the explosive charge
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/56 for dispensing discrete solid bodies F42B12/70 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 27/00 Hand grenades F42B12/00 takes precedence; for practice or training F42B8/12
• CPC Class Codes: F42C 14/02 for hand grenades

Abstract

A grenade includes a body having at least one interior chamber; a fuze assembly attached to the body, that fuze assembly being capable of detonating the grenade and a safety lever movable between a first position to a second position which engages the fuze assembly. A firing pin is engageable with the safety lever to prevent the lever from being moved to the second position. A retaining clip retains the firing pin and prevents premature release of the pin from the grenade wherein the retaining clip is integrated within the safety lever.

Claims

1. A grenade comprising:

a grenade body having at least one interior chamber;

a fuze assembly attached to said grenade body, said fuze assembly having means for detonating said grenade;

a safety lever movable between a first position and a second position which engages said fuze assembly;

a firing pin engageable with said fuze assembly and said safety lever to prevent said safety lever from being moved to said second position, the firing pin having a proximal ring and defined by a longitudinal axis; and

a retaining clip retaining said firing pin and preventing premature release of said firing pin from said grenade, said retaining clip being integrated into said safety lever and including a portion which is disposed above a top surface of the safety lever and edge sections that downwardly extend over the top surface, one of the edge sections including an inverted U-shaped clip that is offset from the longitudinal axis of the firing pin that receives a portion of the proximal ring of the firing pin.

2. A grenade as recited in claim 1, wherein said grenade is a non-lethal grenade.

3. A grenade as recited in claim 1, wherein said retaining clip is fastened to the top surface of said safety lever.

4. A grenade as recited in claim 1, wherein said retaining clip is fabricated as part of the safety lever.

5. A grenade as recited in claim 1, wherein said safety lever is caused to release from said grenade body when moved to said second position.

6. A safety lever for a grenade, said safety lever comprising means for engaging a fuze assembly of said grenade and a retaining clip member for retaining a firing pin of said grenade, the retaining clip member having an upper portion disposed onto a top surface of the safety lever and edge portions that downwardly extend over the top surface, one of the edge portions having an inverted U-shaped clip that is configured to retain a proximal ring of the firing pin.

7. A safety lever as recited in claim 6, wherein the upper portion of the retaining clip member is fastened to the top surface of the safety lever.

8. A safety lever as recited in claim 7, wherein the upper portion of the retaining clip member is welded to the top surface of the safety lever.

9. A safety lever as recited in claim 6, wherein said safety lever includes means for hingably attaching to the fuze assembly of said grenade, said safety lever being movable between a first position and a second position.

10. A safety lever as recited in claim 6, wherein the retaining clip member is integral to the safety lever.