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US 4,282,813 AGranted
Two piece caseless round and gun therefor
AssigneeCalspan Corporation
InventorGerald A. Sterbutzel
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Abstract
The projectile and propellant portions of two-piece cartridge are separately fed to a gun. In one embodiment, the gun is of the type having a cylinder defining a plurality of chambers and a single barrel. The cylinder rotates through a number of positions during each revolution during which the projectile and propellant portions of a cartridge are separately loaded into each chamber, the cartridge is fired and the chamber is cleared.
Claims2
A two-piece non-telescoped caseless cartridge including a projectile portion and a propellant portion which are separately fed to a firing chamber of a gun, said propellant portion including:
- a shaped propellant charge;
- an ablator material disposed at an end portion of said propellant charge adjacent said projectile;
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- a heat shrinkable polyester film encapsulating said propellant charge and said ablator material separately from said projectile.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.