Ordnance – Accelerating
Patent
1982-08-03
1989-06-27
Brown, David H.
Ordnance
Accelerating
124 3, 200 11A, 200572, 310 12, F41F 102, H01H 2506
Patent
active
048418331
ABSTRACT:
An electromagnetic projectile launcher is provided with a firing switch which alternately opens and closes to repeatedly commutate current from a high current supply to a pair of projectile launching rails. A rotor having a transverse conducting element is rotated within and moved axially along a cylindrical stator. Brush members which have widths which decrease in an axial direction along the stator are shorted by the conducting element between shots for varying lengths of time as the rotor travels axially along the stator.
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Deis Daniel W.
Olsen John W.
Scherbarth David W.
Brown David H.
Griffiths John E.
Lenart R. P.
Westinghouse Electric Corp.
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