Projectile-propelling explosive structure
AssigneeRiver Front Services, Inc.
InventorsAnthony Miles Brown, Donald Ray Brown, Darby William McDermott-Brown
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Abstract
A deployable, linear explosive structure includes a split tube, an explosive coupled to the split tube, and a fragmentable or non-fragmentable projectile disposed with respect to the explosive. The split tube can be rolled into a non-deployed state in which the split tube has a flat, rolled profile. The split tube also can be deployed from the non-deployed state to a deployed state in which the split tube is extended along its length and has a curved cross-section along its length. The split tube provides support of the explosive structure in the deployed state. The split tube also provides smaller storage and transportation volume for the explosive structure when rolled in the non-deployed state.
Claims22
An explosive structure, comprising:
- a split tube having a length, the split tube being rollable into a roll in an undeployed state and deployable into a straight form along its length in a deployed state;
- a nose cone coupled to one end of the split tube;
- an explosive coupled to at least a portion of the length of the split tube;
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- a projectile disposed relative to the explosive.
A method to support an explosive and a projectile along a linear structure for transportation and deployment, comprising:
- providing a bistable, self-deployable structural tape in an undeployed state, the structural tape comprising the undeployed state and a deployed state, the structural tape having a rolled, flat transverse profile in the undeployed state, and the structural tape having a linear, curved transverse profile in the deployed state, the structural tape being stable in the undeployed state and in the deployed state and being unstable when between states such that transitioning one end of the tape from the rolled shape to the linear shape places the tape in an unstable state causing the tape to self-deploy to the deployed state;
- deploying the structural tape into the deployed state;
- disposing an explosive lengthwise along the deployed structural tape;
- coupling a nose cone to one end of the structural tape;
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- disposing a projectile lengthwise along the deployed structural tape and relative to the explosive.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.