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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4830314 | Recovery system for rocket engine The disclosure is directed to a system for recovery of liquid fuel rocket engines used in space flight. The system comprises a sphere with a normally circumferential open portion for containing a rocket engine. The sphere is fixedly attached to the space ... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4745861 | Missiles An annular expulsion motor (14) is secured around the main nozzle casing (12) of a missile by means of shear bolts (28). The expulsion motor expels and spins up the missile prior to ignition of the missile main motor whereupon the expulsion motor is jetti... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4723736 | Rocket staging system An improved rocket staging system for missiles and the like wherein a carriage borne rocket engine assembly is sequentially employed within separate, generally aligned oxidizer stages which are generally coaxially disposed about the central rocket engine ... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4715565 | Clamping connection assembly for spacecraft An improved clamping connection assembly for separable parts of spacecraft is provided and includes a tension belt for securing a plurality of retainers against camming surfaces on flange members on separable spacecraft component parts. The other peripher... | 12/29/1987 |
| 4714020 | Enabling device for a gas generator of a forced dispersion munitions dispenser An enabling device 24 for a gas generator 42 of a forced dispersion munitions dispenser 10 includes a housing 58 in which and formed a bore 60, an outlet lead 88 and a detonator opening 68 in which is positioned an electrically initiated detonator 70. A p... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4693434 | Self-deploying stabilizing-vane assembly for projectile A vane assembly for a projectile has a carrier carrying a plurality of pivots, having at the pivots respective carrier elements, and adapted to be secured to an end of the projectile. Respective vane elements are each pivotal on the pivots between an inne... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4628821 | Acceleration actuated kinetic energy penetrator retainer A retainer mechanism for releasably securing a kinetic energy penetrator to he forward end of a missile while the missile is stored, transported and subsequently fired at a target such as a tank. The retainer releases the penetrator in flight responsive to... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4625649 | Projectiles A projectile includes forward and rearward stage motors 12 and 10 respectively, and a boost separation device 11 releasably connecting the two together. The boost separation device includes an impingement plate 17 slidably mounted on the rearward stage mo... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4589342 | Rocket-powered training missile with impact motor splitting device A pointed splitter is placed in the body of a soft, rocket-powered training issile with the point toward the rocket motor in the rear. Upon impact, the motor is split and fragments thereof spread transversely so that the force of impact of the motor is red... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4519315 | Fire and forget missiles system A free flight, impulse controlled missile system for directing a warhead to target. The system includes a small diameter weapon which relies on an accurate ballistic delivery to a point and attitude in space and a body fixed sensor for initiating a self f... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4516499 | Quick access splice for missile sections A device for securing two missile sections together and allowing for quick ccess splice and separation of the missile sections.... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4411200 | Short trajectory round A short range trajectory round having an aerodynamic resistance which sharply increases at a predetermined time after discharge of the round from a barrel of a weapon. The round includes a body having a longitudinal axis and a forward tip portion and a re... | 10/25/1983 |
| 4348956 | Artillery shell comprising two sections having complementary coupling members for connecting the sections together An artillery shell is provided comprising two sections having complementary oupling members for connecting the sections together. The complementary coupling members include at least two locking assemblies which can be engaged to prevent relative axial move... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4198896 | Self-propelled engine with separable stages A self-propelled engine, such as a rocket, is described which is intended to be launched from a tube, comprising a front stage and a rear accelerating stage, means for achieving the separation of the two stages at the end of the combustion of the propella... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4183302 | Sequential burst system A system which disperses a payload sequentially. The payload may consist of a number of discrete individual units or a long string of units. The illustrated and described embodiment of the system is utilized in a rocket for dispersing decoy material, such... | 01/15/1980 |
| 4178854 | Multiple sequential burst system A system which disperses a payload in a sequential manner. The payload may consist of a number of discrete individual payload units which are composed of two or more sections. The illustrated and described embodiment of the system is utilized in a rocket ... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4171663 | Tension fracture fitting in missile separation thruster A tension fracture fitting is mounted between two stages of a missile and fractured by separation thruster mechanism at an appropriate time to separate the missile stages and to guide the missile stages and prevent lateral translation between the two sta... | 10/23/1979 |
| 4131065 | Missile system A missile system with geometric constraints having a plurality of booster ages in tandem and carrying a segmented payload which is situated in the annular area between the last stage booster motor, which is smaller in diameter than the booster motors of p... | 12/26/1978 |
| 4065217 | Nose tip locking device The disclosure relates to a mechanism for releasably locking a nose tip to a vehicle utilizing a pawl and ratchet and pinion arrangement.... | 12/27/1977 |
| 4023496 | Ejector motor braking system A two stage separable missile adapted to be expelled from a launch tube by separable ejector motor and propelled along its trajectory by a flight motor ignited after the missile leaves the launch tube. The first stage includes a warhead, flight rocket mot... | 05/17/1977 |
| 3946672 | Rocket propelled projectile The forward end of a rocket motor is attached, by a threaded adapter, to a cylindrical housing that is in turn attached to an elongated tube, the opposite end of which is fitted with a releasable nose cone. The elongated tube is filled with a series of bo... | 03/30/1976 |
| 3934512 | Liquid fuel multistage rocket This invention is a rocket which has a thrust stage located at the lowermost stage and an arbitrary number of propellant stages which are cut off in turn from a propellant stage located at the uppermost stage after exhausting fuel therein.... | 01/27/1976 |
