Ordnance – Automatic – Firing device operation or control
Reexamination Certificate
2007-03-27
2007-03-27
Johnson, Stephen M. (Department: 3641)
Ordnance
Automatic
Firing device operation or control
C089S127000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10790068
ABSTRACT:
A barrel assembly with a barrel is provided. The barrel comprises a plurality of external chambers containing respective propellant charges, a plurality of projectiles stacked nose to tail within the barrel and comprising respective expansion spaces for propellant gases, and a control system configured to ignite the propellant charges to create the propellant gases and propel the projectiles sequentially from the barrel. Each projectile has a corresponding external chamber and an expansion space and each chamber comprises a port that conveys propellant gas from the chamber into the expansion space for propulsion of the respective projectile.
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Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner L.L.P.
Metal Storm Limited
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