Rocket launcher tube post-launch rear closure

Details Rocket launcher tube post-launch rear closure Rocket launcher tube post-launch rear closure

1977-12-12

1979-01-16

Brown, David H.

Ordnance

Rocket launching

Method of making

89 1812, 89 1816, F14F 304

Patent

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041343271

ABSTRACT:
A rear door for a rocket launch tube provided to prevent rocket exhaust gas flow into an empty launch tube from an associated multiple-rocket plenum chamber. The door is maintained in a stored position while a missile is in the launch tube and is activated when the missile leaves the launcher. The door may be latched open and released by a sensor device at a selected position of the missile as it is leaving the launch tube. Preferably, gases from the launching missile power closure of the door, once the door is released from its open latched position. Once the door closes, a second latch locks it in place to seal off the launch tube from the plenum chamber.

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patent: 3076385 (1963-02-01), Barnhoft
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patent: 3228296 (1966-01-01), Neuman et al.
patent: 3645478 (1972-02-01), Madelung
patent: 4044648 (1977-08-01), Piesik

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