Abstract:
The launching of an unmanned projectile includes pre-packaging a barrel with a projectile, a pusher cup, and a gas generator. The gas generator generates gas to propel the projectile out of the barrel. A pressure chamber increases a pressure of the gas in the barrel. The pressure chamber comprises a front body portion connected to the gas generator; an aft body portion connected to the front body portion and the gas generator; and a vent sleeve positioned around the front body portion and adapted to provide an aperture through which the gas exits the barrel in order to control a level of gas pressure in the barrel. A triggering of the gas generator causes the pusher cup to push the projectile out of the barrel at a predetermined launch velocity in order to attain a predetermined self-propelled flight trajectory, wherein the triggering causes the pusher cup to exit the barrel.
Abstract:
A revolver for firing high velocity ammunition includes a frame, a cylinder, a barrel, and a firing mechanism. The revolver may include one or more of the following, each of which is especially adapted for use in the context of firing high velocity ammunition: spacers for adjusting a barrel-cylinder gap, for eliminating broaching of the rearward surface(s) of the barrel; a forcing cone formed in the rearward opening of the barrel for accommodating deformed projectiles; a reflective surface (e.g., mirrored surface) provided on the cone and/or barrel rearward surfaces, for reducing erosion resulting from using high velocity ammunition; gain-twist rifling in the barrel for a smoother transition to full projectile velocity; a larger diameter, hardened firing pin bushing for minimizing brass flow in the rearward direction; and a front sight assembly that minimizes lateral shift or drift of the sight pin during firing.
Abstract:
A long-distance blast banger including a cartridge loaded with a blast banger made up from plastic material. The blast banger encompasses a sound explosives cup and a delay cup. The sound explosives cup is loaded with a sound explosives agent having components including perchloryl potassium, magnesium powder and aluminum powder. A sufficient sound value is acquired through appropriate compacting of the sound explosives cup, and therefrom realizes uniform shattering of the cup into small fragments that are insufficient to cause injury. Furthermore, at least two helical grooves extending from a bottom to a top of the cartridge are defined on an inner wall thereof, and ear attachments are configured on a base of an outer wall of the blast banger so as to correspond with the helical grooves, thereby engendering a spinning stability effect during flight time of the blast banger, reducing wind resistance, and thus increasing flight range.
Abstract:
A lacquer bullet gun barrel having an inner wall, on which a plurality of projections are circularly arranged. The projections are separated by vent grooves and have top surfaces which form a broken circular circumference around a firing path for a lacquer bullet. Thus a reduced contact surface between the lacquer bullet and the inner wall results.
Abstract:
The rifling in a barrel of a firearm is modified in proximity to the muzzle to reduce the radial difference between the land diameter and the groove diameter to urge a bullet to expand fully into the grooves and ensure rotation of the bullet about its longitudinal axis and without any lateral velocity component. Preferably, the land diameter is increased to a diameter somewhat less than the groove diameter but in the alternative the groove diameter may be reduced to a diameter somewhat more than the land diameter.
Abstract:
Rifling for the barrel of a firearm includes a first gain twist region for increasing the rotational velocity of a bullet as it travels from the breech towards the muzzle end of the barrel, and a second region in which the rifling is of a constant twist so that the bullet exits the muzzle end of the barrel at a constant rotational velocity. The bore defined in the barrel is tapered in a direction from the breech end to the muzzle end so that the diameter of the muzzle opening of the barrel is less than the diameter of the breech opening. The angle of the rifling is variable with the rate of the gain twist of the rifling. The gain twist of the rifling in the barrel is formed by a button, preferably having a sinusoidal shaped periphery, which is pulled through the barrel during the manufacturing process. The smooth periphery of the button prevents shredding of the barrel when the button is twisted at different speeds to provide the variable gain twist of the rifling in different sections of the barrel. In a further aspect of the invention, an apparatus is provided for selectively varying the rotational speed of the button to form the desired gain twist of the rifling during manufacture of the barrel.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a gun tube having a spin curve with a variable spin angle as well as a rifling force R(x) over the path of the projectile (x) through the gun tube when a projectile is fired, as well as a predetermined caliber d, projectile mass m.sub.G, mass moment of inertia J about the longitudinal axis of the projectile, gas pressure force P(x) on the projectile bottom and projectile velocity v(x). In order to realize, within the framework of manufacturing tolerances, an accurate spin curve corresponding to diverse desired characteristics of the rifling force, it is provided that the rifling force R(x) is determined according toR(x)=R.sub.max R.sub.n (x)where R.sub.max is the maximum rifling force value which is a function of a predetermined final spin angle .beta..sub.E and R.sub.n (x) is a predetermined, standardized rifling force curve with a defined onset of spinning, a defined initial spin angle and a defined spin profile, with the development of the spin on the caliber diameter being determined from the following differential equation: ##EQU1## and from R.sub.max for a given final spin angle .beta..sub.E.
Abstract:
The disclosure relates to a method of producing rifled, non-metallic barrels of composite material in the form of a fiber-reinforced thermosetting matrix for rocket and grenade launcher ordnance, and barrels produced in accordance therewith. The characterizing feature of the present invention is that this results in barrels with the same fiber content in both the lands of the barrel rifling and in its rifling grooves which has been realized in that a porous fluffy mat with a high capacity to absorb the matrix material is employed in the rifled portion of the barrel.
Abstract:
The invention discloses a gun barrel with a novel pattern of a rifling curve. The latter proceeds at start of motion from the parabolic curve y=A+Bx+Cx.sup.2 and is supplemented with a constant D, to which is added a freely selectable exponent =d. Due to the freely selected exponent as parameter the ridge force maximum can be displaced at almost equal level between the start of motion and the barrel mouth. At the barrel mouth the ridge force drops to a minimum.
Abstract:
A rifled gunbarrel has stepped relief narrowing width of lands on the sides which normally transmit torque to projectiles, the narrowing extending about one projectile length to the muzzle for isolating the influence of torsional relaxation of gunbarrel, which is normally a trajectory-perturbing factor on projectile emergence, while continuing radial contact for projectile guidance along the gunbarrel axis as the gunbarrel unwinds.