Rocker arm detonator
AssigneeRheinmetall Waffe Munition ARGES GmbH
InventorHelge Graf
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Abstract
A rocker arm detonator is provided that includes a detonator head, which includes a pivotably arranged firing pin which is acted upon by a firing pin spring, and has a safety clip, which is pivotably disposed in the same direction of rotation as the firing pin from a starting position, in which it is pressed in the direction of the detonator head to a firing pin release position. To reliably avoid an unintentional detonation of the rocker arm detonator prior to its proper use, when the rocker arm detonator is not in use, the firing pin spring is in its untensioned state and may be tensioned by a separate tensioning lever as soon as the rocker arm detonator is to be properly deployed.
Claims9
A rocker arm detonator comprising:
- a detonator head that includes a pivotably disposed firing pin that is acted upon by a firing pin spring;
- a safety lever pivotably disposed between a starting position and a firing pin release position, the firing pin being supported on the safety lever,
- wherein the detonator head includes a tensioning lever, which is actuatable from an idle position to an armed position and which is connected to the firing pin spring via a tensioning lever shaft such that the firing pin spring is actuatable from an untensioned state to a tensioned state, and
- wherein the firing pin spring is locked in the tensioned state by a securing mechanism only when the safety lever is in the starting position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.