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US 4,309,705 AGranted
Chaff ejecting device
AssigneeU.S. Philips Corporation
InventorCarl O. Ulin
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Abstract
A device for ejecting radar interference chaff, comprising a magazine having a number of tubular cells (21) in which bundles of chaff (22) are displaced towards an ejection opening. A plunger device (23) and a wire (29) connected thereto is used for displacing the bundles. The wire runs inside the covers of said bundles between the plunger device and the ejection opening and is used to rip the covers when the bundles pass said opening. Said magazine may comprise one or a number of changeable cassettes, each having a number of said cells.
Claims7
A chaff-ejecting device, including:
- A. an elongate magazine having a plurality of longitudinal, tubular cells containing bundles of the chaff;
- B. displacement means for displacing the bundles in the direction of an ejection end of each cell;
- C. means provided at the ejection ends of the cells for freeing the chaff from the bundles by opening an enclosing cover thereof;
- said device being characterized in that the means for displacing the bundles and freeing the chaff comprises, for each cell:
- D. a plunger device movable longitudinally within the cell;
- E. a wire having one end attached to the plunger device and running inside the enclosing cover of each bundle in the cell, from said plunger device out through the ejection end of the cell;
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- F. driving means for applying a force to the wire and moving the plunger device toward the ejection end, thereby displacing the bundles contained in the cell;
- said wire successively ripping open the covers of the bundles as they successively pass by the ejection end of the cell.
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