Vehicle flare assembly and launcher

Details Vehicle flare assembly and launcher Vehicle flare assembly and launcher

1977-01-03

1978-01-24

Pendegrass, Verlin R.

Ammunition and explosives

Igniting devices and systems

102 376, 102 378, 116DIG40, F42B 426

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040697614

ABSTRACT:
A flare assembly including a flare mounted in a base and a plurality of wire legs pivotably connected to the base has its legs folded and the entire assembly inserted in a cup-shaped pusher element in a launch tube mounted beneath a vehicle. A spring under compression, when released by a trigger mechanism actuated from the vehicle dash, will force the pusher element through the tube to catapult the flare assembly into a roadway. The flare has a flint wheel in frictional engagement with the interior of the launch tube so when the flare assembly is launched, the wheel will ignite the flare. The flare will catapult from the vehicle and land on the legs which open to support the flare in an upright position, to warn oncoming vehicles of the distressed vehicle.

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patent: 2049407 (1936-07-01), Clark
patent: 2620763 (1952-12-01), Smith et al.
patent: 2751582 (1956-06-01), Kuykendall
patent: 3224232 (1965-12-01), Dzvonik
patent: 3294056 (1966-12-01), Gouger
patent: 3319596 (1967-05-01), Walter
patent: 3752082 (1973-08-01), Kernan

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