Ammunition and explosives – Miscellaneous
Patent
1990-10-03
1993-03-23
Jordan, Charles T.
Ammunition and explosives
Miscellaneous
102473, 102499, F42C 1400, F42C 1900, F42B 1258
Patent
active
051966468
ABSTRACT:
A dual purpose fuze for a projectile which can activate a quantity of material selected from a group including high explosive, low explosive, propellant and pyrotechnic compounds. The fuze includes a charge holder having a socket therein facing the quantity of material to be activated. A fuze charge located in the socket has a depression in it so formed as to cause the fuze charge to explode in a jet directed outwardly from the socket of sufficiently high energy to activate a high explosive in a high explosive projectile, the fuze charge being sufficiently small to prevent rupture of containment for a propellant in a cargo projectile. The fuze further includes mechanisms for arming and detonating the fuze charge as well as for activating detonation. A safety mechanism is provided to prevent premature detonation of the fuze charge.
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Title: Fluid Jet Impact Sensitivity Manual; Author: John K. Klesterman and Paul N. Worsey; Date: Jul. 1988; pp. 1, 2, 45-91 and 142-152.
Curators of the University of Missouri
Jordan Charles T.
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