Ammunition bunker resting against a military-tank turret

Details Ammunition bunker resting against a military-tank turret Ammunition bunker resting against a military-tank turret

1993-01-04

1994-02-08

Bentley, Stephen C.

Ordnance

Shields

Turret type

89 34, F41H 520

Patent

active

052840824

ABSTRACT:
An ammunition bunker rests against a military tank turret. The bunker's outward-facing walls are scored. The bunker wall facing the crew compartment is unscored. The ammunition stowed in the interior of the bunker points away from the crew compartment. The bunker is a separate and totally enclosed housing. The housing rests in a matching niche in the surface of the turret. One wall of the housing faces the crew compartment at a prescribed distance away from its wall. The roof of the housing consists of a number of separate plates resting in the interstices of a stationary grating. When the stowed ammunition explodes and the explosion increases the pressure inside the housing to a prescribed level, the pressure will break the scored walls apart at the scores, mold the wall of the housing that faces the crew compartment against the crew-compartment wall, and lift the plates out of the interstices in the grating.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4454799 (1984-06-01), Gilvydis
patent: 4864913 (1989-09-01), Grunewald et al.
patent: 4928574 (1990-05-01), Golden

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