Rocket retention and ignition assembly

Details Rocket retention and ignition assembly Rocket retention and ignition assembly

1976-03-01

1977-02-15

Brown, David H.

Ordnance

Rocket launching

Having means restraining rocket from movement in launching...

89 1814, F41F 304

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040076601

ABSTRACT:
A rocket retention assembly for use with a rocket launcher and rockets provided with outwardly extending shear rings at their rear ends. Each rocket is provided with a conducting ring extending about the periphery of its rear end. The assembly includes a first support plate for engaging the shear ring when the rocket is placed in the firing position in the rocket launcher and preventing forward displacement of the ring from the firing position. This support plate has a loading hole for each launch tube formed therein. A second support plate engages the shear ring when the rocket is in the firing position and prevents rearward displacement of the shear ring from the firing position. This second support plate has an opening formed therein for each launch tube of the rocket launcher, each opening being located at the rear end of a rocket in a launch tube. An electrical conducting finger for each launch tube is attached to the second support plate and is connected to an electrical plug, also attached to the second support plate. For each electrical plug, there is a corresponding electrical socket attached to the first support plate. By simply placing the rockets in their respective launch tubes and orienting the second support plate with respect to the first support plate in such manner that the electrical plugs are electrically connected to their respective electrical sockets when the second support plate engages the shear rings, the conducting fingers are automatically placed in contact with the conducting rings of the rockets.

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patent: 3753382 (1973-08-01), Rusbach
patent: 3754497 (1973-08-01), Rusbach

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