Device for controlling bird strike hazards
AssigneeEtienne Lacroix Tous Artifices S.A.
InventorsRaymond Tougeron, Daniel Casenave
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Abstract
A device for dispersing birds in airport areas, including a self-propelled projectile with a delayed firing element (15, 18, 27, 29) and a sound-effect charge (9) designed to scare birds away and housed in said projectile.
Claims13
A pyrotechnic device for combating the threat caused by birds, characterized in that it consists of a self-propelled projectile containing a detonator, a propulsion motor (5) initiated directly by the detonator and an element for the delayed ignition of an acoustic-effect charge (9) intended to scare birds and which is housed in said projectile, said delayed-ignition element comprising a pyrotechnic delay (27) arranged between the propulsion motor (5) and the acoustic-effect charge (9) and a device (15, 18) for initiating said pyrotechnic delay (27).
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