Ballistically deployed restraining net system
AssigneeFoster-Miller, Inc.
InventorsArnis Mangolds, Michael David Farinella, Daniel Rene Deguire, Robert Lee Cardenas
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Abstract
A ballistically deployed restraining net system including a cartridge receivable within a barrel, the cartridge having a base and an opposing open end. There is a restraining net packaged in the cartridge and a set of weights attached to the restraining net and packaged within the cartridge between the base of the cartridge and the restraining net. A deployment charge ejects the restraining net and the set of weights out of the barrel and out of the cartridge and a spreader charge deploys the weights after the net and the set of weight exit the cartridge so that the weights overtake the net in flight.
Claims3
A method of packaging a restraining net, the method comprising:
- attaching weights to the restraining net;
- positioning the weights about a separator to maintain a proper orientation of the weights;
- drawing the net longitudinally with a lengthy hollow member;
- inserting the separator and weights into the lengthy hollow member;
- removing the separator from the lengthy hollow member;
- and
- compressing the net longitudinally and circumferentially into a bullet shape wherein the weights are located in a rear portion of said bullet shape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.