Ammunition and explosives – Igniting devices and systems – Percussion primers or ignitors
Patent
1986-08-06
1987-12-08
Jordan, Charles T.
Ammunition and explosives
Igniting devices and systems
Percussion primers or ignitors
F42C 1908
Patent
active
047111771
ABSTRACT:
An auxiliary booster is used to relay and amplify the detonation wave from a standard configured bomb. An explosive system is placed in an extended fuse well to interface with the main charge. The auxiliary booster is initiated as a second, sequential event by this conventional booster charge. Energy of the conventional booster is transmitted into the auxiliary booster charge and the combined energy of the two charges is focused on the auxiliary charge's tapered metal liner. This tapered metal liner is driven through an air gap into the end of the fuse well at hypervelocity. The design of the device provides controlled packaging of energy for the generation of vaporific effects resulting in the collision of the metal liner of the auxiliary charge with the metallic end of the fuse well for enhanced detonation of the main charge.
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Bilek Andrew G.
Foster, Jr. Joseph C.
Auton William G.
Jordan Charles T.
Singer Donald J.
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
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