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US 4,470,336 AGranted
Armored missile launch/shipping container
AssigneeGeneral Dynamics, Pomona Division
InventorsLynn J. Swann, Larry D. Wedertz
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Abstract
A missile launch system includes a missile launch support structure mounted on a launch platform and including a pair of spaced apart rails having longitudinal slots formed therein, and a cooperating missile launch container having a cylindrical bore for receiving and supporting a missile for launching includes radially extending ribs spaced and oriented to engage and slide along the slots in the rails for supporting the missile launch container for launching of the missile.
Claims26
A missile launch systems comprising:
- a missile launch container having a cylindrical bore for receiving and supporting a missile for launching,
- a missile launch support structure including a pair of spaced apart rails for releasably supporting a missile launch container, and
- said missile launch container including a pair of spaced apart rail engaging members disposed at about a 90.degree. angle to one another about the axis of said cylindrical bore for engaging said rails for supporting said container on said rails.
A missile launch system comprising:
- a missile launch container having a cylindrical bore for receiving and supporting a missile for launching,
- a missile launch support structure including a pair of spaced apart rails each including an elongated slot for releasably supporting a missile launch container, and
- said missile launch container including spaced apart rail engaging elongated ribs extending radially outward and longitudinally along the outer surface of said launch container for engaging said rails for supporting said container on said rails wherein said container includes four ribs equally angularly positioned about the axis of said container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.