Disintegrating tamper mass
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
InventorsJoseph E. Backofen, Jr., James A. Petrousky, Donald J. Butz, David W. Holmes, Ernest C. Faccini, Arleigh E. McCree
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Abstract
A tamper mass including particulate material held together by a binder in a elf-contained supporting shape surrounding a concavity in a forward face containing an explosive, whereby upon detonation of the explosive, the tamper material provides initial and temporary confinement of detonation products to directing forces forward. After shock loading, the tamper material disintegrates into very fine particles, which individually contain very little energy in dispersion.
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A blast confinement means for temporarily confining detonation products associated with a blast comprising:
- a tamper mass associated with an explosive to enclose a portion of that explosive, said tamper mass including a particulate material and a binder means for binding particles in said particulate material together into a self-supporting structure which temporarily contains the products associated with detonation of the explosive for reducing the loss of such products and enables the detonation energy to be concentrated toward a target and then disintegrates into a multiplicity of low energy particles.
A pellet-like mass comprising:
- a particulate material and a binder means for binding particles in said particulate material together in a self-supporting shape which temporarily retains its shape upon impact with a target to concentrate impact energy toward penetrating that target then disintegrates into a multiplicity of low energy particles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.