Explosive shrapnel shell

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1983-07-05

1985-06-25

Tudor, Harold J.

Ammunition and explosives

Shells

Shrapnel

102473, F42B 1318

Patent

active

045246963

ABSTRACT:
An explosive shrapnel shell has a bursting charge having a front end, a layer of shrapnel laterally surrounding the charge except at the end, a fuse mounted on the front end, and shrapnel in the fuse. The fuse includes a detonator charge lying between the fuse shrapnel and the bursting charge. The shell is generally centered on an axis extending through the front end and the fuse includes an axially rearwardly extending tube. The detonator charge is in and axially behind the tube and the fuse shrapnel form a ring circumferentially surrounding the tube. An intensifying charge can lie between the detonator charge and the bursting charge.

REFERENCES:
patent: 94647 (1869-09-01), Richards
patent: 911008 (1909-01-01), Heldt
patent: 4129061 (1978-12-01), Bedall et al.
patent: 4303015 (1981-12-01), Bourlet

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