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US 4,411,199 AGranted
Booster for missile fuze with cylindrical wall holes
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
InventorsPatrick A. Yates, Patrick M. McInnis
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Abstract
An improved booster construction having a metallic covering with a plural of apertures therein encases a booster charge which, in turn, is encased in a nonmetallic cup having a low temperature melting characteristic permitting the booster charge to expand during thermal cook-off to prevent reaching critical temperature pressure relationships.
Claims13
A booster for a missile warhead detonation system comprising:
- a sleeve having cylindrical walls and a shouldered open end and an open end and a plurality of apertures extending through said cylindrical walls;
- a metallic cup fitting within said sleeve to be sealingly supported by said shouldered open end;
- a booster explosive charge fitting in and supported by said metallic cup in alignment with said plurality of apertures in said sleeve wall;
- a nonmetallic cup fitted within said sleeve and in cooperative arrangement with said metallic cup enclosing said booster charge and dimensioned to extend in proximate alignment with the open end of said sleeve;
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- means connected to the open end of said sleeve for retaining said metallic cup, said booster charge, and said nonmetallic cup within said sleeve.
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