Arrangement for supporting mortar shell into barrel
AssigneePatria Vammas Oy
InventorsVesa Tapio Toivonen, Kari Matti Reunamäki, Martti Juleani Lehtimäki
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Abstract
The invention relates to an arrangement for supporting a mortar shell into the barrel of a mortar weapon by using a separate support piece fixed to the tail of the mortar shell. In the arrangement the support piece is attached to the tail of the mortar shell with a mechanical joint provided by a separate connecting element (7), the connecting element being manufactured of such material and constructed in such a way that it fractures when the charge of the mortar shell is fired, allowing the mortar shell (1) to detach from the support piece (8).
Claims11
Apparatus for supporting a mortar shell in a barrel of a breech-loading mortar weapon, said apparatus comprising:
- a support piece attachable to an end of the barrel of the breech-loading mortar to close said end,
- the mortar shell having a tail end with a tail tube including an attachment piece containing a primer to fire a propellant charge in the mortar shell, said attachment piece being attached at an end of the tail tube,
- said support piece including a firing mechanism for firing the primer in the mortar shell and thereby the propellant charge to fire the mortar shell from the barrel, and
- an attachment arrangement attachable to the attachment piece in the mortar shell and to the support piece in the barrel to enable the tail end of the mortar shell to be securely supported in the barrel, said attachment arrangement including a separable portion which separates when the propellant charge is fired and the mortar shell is fired from the barrel,
- said attachment arrangement being selectively attachable to the mortar shell to enable the mortar shell to be selectively used with or without the support piece and the attachment arrangement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.