摘要:
A device for picking up and ejecting loads arranged under the girder of a carrier, such as an airplane. The device comprises two identical assemblies intended to cooperate with bore holes provided in the load to be carried, each assembly comprising wedge coupling means, lifting means for bringing the load against the girder, a single locking control, and means actuated by gases to uncouple the load and eject it.
摘要:
A removable weapons rail which is adaptable for bomb racks or missile launchers. Standard couplings mount the rail to an aircraft. A hoist system for moving the loaded or unloaded rail to or from mounting position is internally contained in the rail.
摘要:
In this retractable jettisoning device the ejection piston, whether single or telescopic, mounted in a cylinder of conventional type, is hollow and its inner cavity comprises a tubular distributor close at its outer end but provided adjacent this end with lateral ports adapted to co-act with an inner surface of the piston end for causing its inner space and the rear end of the piston to communicate with the atmosphere when this tubular distributor emerges from the ejection piston at the end of an expansion stroke of the ejection piston whereas the same movement of the tubular distributor uncovers lateral ports formed at the rear end of the piston to cause the fluid pressure in the chamber formed between the piston and the tubular distributor to act against the lower end of the fluid-tight portion of the piston in its cylinder, in order to move the piston upwards.
摘要:
A safety pin system for bomb racks including a pair of spring releasable pin lock and retraction assemblies interconnected via a load dividing pulley reciprocated by a push-pull cable operated by a single release latch with a contoured flag visible when the pins are lockable in the inserted position.
摘要:
A universally movable mounting mechanism in which the mounting mechanism is connected to a fixed ball by spherically shaped friction cups which are spring biased toward one another to lock the mounting mechanism in fixed position on the ball and which can be selectively moved away from one another to either totally eliminate the friction between the friction cups and the ball to thereby free the mounting mechanism for universal motion in response to actuation by a pilot operated handle or in which the friction between the friction cups and the fixed ball is selectively reduced so as to maintain a desired mount positioning force in accordance with operator feel as he moves the mounting mechanism through handle motion.
摘要:
An apparatus for loading loads on an airplane which are releasable from the airplane when the latter is in flight, which includes frame means detachably arranged in a loading chamber in the fuselage of an airplane preferably within the region of the center of gravity of the airplane, while said frame means has displaceably mounted thereon carriage means for suspending a load thereon, said carriage means being adapted to be locked to said frame means in a desired position of said carriage means on said frame means.
摘要:
A mount for securing weapons and other stores to an aircraft and including a housing projecting into the aircraft, an ejector rack on the housing for securing a load partially within the housing, and an inflatable seal which engages the load and conforms to its contours. When the load is detached from the rack the seal extends across the cavity formed by the housing and is generally flush with the exterior surface of the aircraft so that an uninterrupted moldline exists.
摘要:
An electrical connector including a flexible armored sheath having an insulated conductor threaded therethrough and electrically connected between a plug unit and a breech cap which is adapted for applying a firing signal to a pyrotechnic cartridge and which has flanged spring pins formed to function both as ground contacts and as spent cartridge extracting means. A braided sheath encircles the armored sheath and is mechanically connected at one end to the breech cap and at the other end through a turnbucklelike sheath stretching assembly to the plug unit. The stretching assembly enables the braided sheath to be longitudinally stretched so that it tightly grips the armored sheath and forms therewith a more rigid conduit.