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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5151556 | Propellant magazine for field artillery piece A propellant magazine includes a conveyor for mechanizing the handling of propellant charge units into and out of magazine storage. The charge units are contained in open ended tubular packs which are loaded onto the conveyor at a resupply loading station... | 09/29/1992 |
| 5097742 | Magazine conveyor with ammunition vertical motion restraint An ammunition conveyor is equipped to accommodate projectiles and propellant in alternating carrier positions. Conveyor cross members or rungs carry retainers to engage the projectile and propellant canister bodies and provide lateral restraint preserving... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5094142 | Handling system for merging ammunition rounds from multiple ammunition bays to feed a rapid-fire gun An endless ammunition conveyor includes a set of laterally moveable carriers and a set of laterally fixed carriers arranged in alternating relation with the moveable carriers. Incident with conveyor movement, the moveable carriers are cammed between later... | 03/10/1992 |
| 5080209 | Manual override of an automatic ratio controller in a hydromechanical transmission To override the vehicle immobilizing effect of a failed automatic ratio controller in a hydromechanical transmission, the conventional manually shiftable range selector is loosely linked with a ratio arm while the latter is being stroked by the controller... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5074402 | Extensible ammunition conveyor An extensible ammunition conveyor includes telescoping conveyor sections mounting pairs of laterally spaced sprockets adjacent the conveyor section ends. A pair of endless chains are trained about these sprockets in coextensive, transversely spaced relati... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5065662 | Firing mechanism for revolving battery gun In a firing mechanism for Gatling-type guns, separate safing and firing cams are located at a firing position coinciding with a notch in an annular safing ring against which cocking levers ride to maintain their firing pins in pre-cocked conditions. To sa... | 11/19/1991 |
| 5060973 | Liquid propellant inflator for vehicle occupant restraint apparatus To deploy an inflatable member, such as an occupant restraint safety bag in a motor vehicle, a liquid propellant is expelled from a storage reservoir into a reaction chamber through ports created at frangible pressure points in the reservoir wall and igni... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5030177 | Hydromechanical steering transmission with improved high range speed performance To increase the top speed of a multi-speed range hydromechanical steering transmission for tracklaying vehicles, the displacements of the hydraulic motors in the two hydrostatic drive units are abruptly destroked from 100% displacement to 80% displacement... | 07/09/1991 |
| 5019952 | AC to DC power conversion circuit with low harmonic distortion In an AC to DC power conversion circuit including a boost inductor connected in series between a full-wave rectifier and a DC load, a switch is connected to selectively shunt boost inductor current from the load. Switch conduction is controlled by a pulse... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4997412 | Non-synchronous shifting hydromechanical steering transmission An infinitely variable speed hydromechanical steering transmission includes a range-changing mechanism flanked by a pair of hydrostatic units which are commonly driven by a mechanical input to produce respective mechanical and hydrostatic outputs. These o... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4991508 | Electric field enabled proximity fuzing system A proximity fuzing system includes a passive proximity detection section including an electrostatic probe for detecting initial missile entry into the electric field inherently associated with an airborne target. Probe signals are processed to determine t... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4982650 | Modular ammunition packaging and feed system An ammunition handling system is provided with a magazine consisting of a plurality of modular, highly portable magazine packs which are readily installed in a mechanized support frame. The magazine packs contain separate ammunition conveyors commonly dri... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4974490 | Multi-bay magazine for belted ammunition A magazine is provided with anti-syphon members, mounted atop the partitions of a multi-bay magazine, which operate in conjunction with drag-reducing rollers to prevent spurious syphoning movements of an ammunition belt from one bay to an adjacent bay as ... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4972758 | Multiply adaptable magazine assembly An ammunition magazine assembly is provided with a plurality of permanent partitions for subdividing the magazine interior into a plurality of bays and a plurality of optional separators readily removably installed to subdivide selected bays into bay sect... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4972775 | Electrostatic passive proximity fuzing system A proximity fuzing system for missile warhead utilizes an electrostatic probe to detect the electric field inherently associated with an airborne target. The probe plates are oriented perpendicular to the missile longitudinal axis and are short circuit lo... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4951466 | Warm-up control for transmission hydrostatic unit To inhibit potentially damaging cold startup of a hydrostatic unit in a vehicle transmission, a portion of the makeup fluid pump to the hydraulic pump and motor loop circuit of the hydrostatic unit is directed through a branch line including a viscosity i... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4924750 | Electromagnetic launcher with improved current commutating switch performance To improve the performance and life of a charging current-conducting commutating switch in an inductor storage-type electromagnetic launcher, the energy expended in propelling a mass through a breech rail gun section at a high velocity is utilized to gene... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4914967 | Crossover mechanism for guiding a cam follower through a cam track intersection To guide a cam follower through the intersection of crossing portions of a cam track, a crossover mechanism is provided with a pair of crossover cam members which are separately, telescopically reciprocated to momentarily insert cam segments into the inte... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4882972 | Dual caliber ammunition handling system An ammunition resupply system includes a chain ladder ammunition conveyor having carrier elements configured to accept either of two different calibers of ammunition. The ammunition conveyor is trained in a serpentine path back and forth between adjacent ... | 11/28/1989 |
| 4876940 | Magazine ammunition conveying system An ammunition feeding system includes an endless, ladder-type conveyor trained throughout the interior of a magazine in a serpentine formation consisting of a plurality of straight line sections and interconnecting turnaround sections. The conveyor includ... | 10/31/1989 |
