Ordnance – Mine-destroying devices
Patent
1997-05-23
1998-12-01
Jordan, Charles
Ordnance
Mine-destroying devices
F41H 1116
Patent
active
058441603
ABSTRACT:
A forwardly-rotatable, driven-drum, land mine clearing tool has a plurality of robust, easily-repairable tool spokes extending radially from the outer surface of the drum. The land mine clearing tool is connected to the front end of a tracked vehicle and is operatively raised and lowered from the tracked vehicle. The drum and tool spokes engage the earth of a land mine field in a milling action, which grinds and destroys some land mines while triggering detonation of other land mines.
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Caterpillar Inc.
Jordan Charles
Montgomery Christopher K.
Pence O. Gordon
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