Mounting arrangement for the pivotally openable rudder blades of a guided missile
AssigneeDiehl Stiftung & Co.
InventorsJosef Dommer, Werner Schroppel, Martin Staudenmeir
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Abstract
To maintain control accuracy for the pivotable rudder blades (14), which lie in a combustion chamber, of a guided projectile (12) which can be fired by means of propellent charge, there is provide a mounting arrangement in which the trunnions (20) of the rudder blade holders (16) of the diametrally mutually opposite rudder blades (14) are torsionally stiffly rigidly connected through an associated coupling element (32) which is limitedly resilient in the radial direction of the guided projectile (12).
Claims5
A mounting arrangement for pivotally movable pairs of rudder blades (14) of a guided missile (12) which is fired through the intermediary of a propellent charge gas pressure, wherein each said rudder blade (14) is mounted pivotally openable to a rudder blade holder (16) having a trunnion (20) with a first annular shoulder (24), the trunnion (20) extending radially into a tail structure (10) of the projectile (12), the tail structure (10) is formed with a second annular shoulder (26), a ring element (28) constituted of an inelastic material is arranged between the first and second annular shoulders (24, 26) and the trunnion (20) of each of the rudder blade holders (16) of the pair of rudder blades are axially aligned and the trunnions (20) operatively associated therewith are non-rotatably interconnected by a coupling element (32), wherein a spacing between the first and second annular shoulders (24, 26) of each said trunnion (20) and the tail structure (10) is slightly greater than the thickness of the ring element (28) therebetween so that there is an axial tolerance play (30) between the ring element (28) and the first and second annular shoulders (24, 26), the minions (20) of the respective pair of trunnions are rigidly connected to the coupling element (32), and wherein the coupling element (32) is resilient in the radial direction of the projectile (12).
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