Ordnance – Rocket launching – Having rocket-storage and transfer means
Patent
1980-05-28
1982-12-14
Brown, David H.
Ordnance
Rocket launching
Having rocket-storage and transfer means
89 1805, 414140, 414282, 414283, F41F 304, F41F 900
Patent
active
043632572
ABSTRACT:
A service mechanism for a shipboard missile vertical launch system has a base assembly which rides on a set of parallel tracks spanning a missile housing array. A carriage assembly is mounted for movement along the base assembly in a direction normal to the tracks. A portion of the carriage assembly is disposed for 360.degree. rotation about a vertical axis. A cradle elevator is mounted for movement on vertically running tracks on the rotatable portion of the carriage assembly. A cradle is adapted to engage and hold a missile cannister and is rotatably mounted on the cradle elevator to dispose the missile cannister with its long axis in either a vertical or a horizontal position. The cradle includes a hoist pawl which is adapted to engage one end of the missile cannister to raise or lower the cannister in the cradle when the long axis is disposed vertically. The base assembly is hinged intermediate its ends so that when the vertical launching system is not being serviced the carriage assembly may be positioned adjacent to one end of the base assembly and the other end of the base assembly may be folded upwards to lie alongside the carriage assembly. With the cradle elevator lowered and the cradle disposed in a vertical condition, the base assembly is secured to an elevator which lowers the serice mechanism to a stowed position below the ship's deck.
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Betzold Edward R.
Harris Robert M.
Brown David H.
FMC Corporation
Megley R. B.
Stanley H. M.
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