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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4817532 | Fragmentation shell for grenades, particularly hand grenades Fragmentation shell for grenades, particularly hand-grenades, consisting of a hollow body, the wall of which is made of metal particles embedded in plastic and which has a form stretched out of the spherical, e.g. an egg-shaped. The wall of the fragmentat... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4781118 | Grenade body, in particular for hand grenades A grenade body, in particular for hand grenades, comprising a muti-part fragmentation body which forms a hollow body and which comprises metal particles (7) embedded in plastics material, and an outer casing of plastics material which encloses the fragmen... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4729321 | Shell having pyramid shaped shot A shell formed of a cylindrical casing having a reduced diameter cylindrical package of explosive contained therein and means to ignite the explosive and a plurality of metallic pellets positioned in the annular area between the explosive and the casing, ... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4644867 | Shell case with non-compressible fragments metallurgically bonded to the casing A shell case comprising prefabricated fragments (4), preferably of a material with high density, and a supporting material which surrounds the fragments and together with these forms a connected shell which surrounds the explosive of the shell. The suppor... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4592283 | Explosive shell case An explosive shell case of the kind in which fragments are produced by bursting of the case material into a number of small particles. The case material comprises a completely dense, non-compressible material which is made with embrittling zones (4) which... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4516501 | Ammunition construction with selection means for controlling fragmentation size Ammunition, such as a warhead with an explosive charge comprises a casing which is provided with a material construction of a nature providing at least controlled formation of fragments of a certain preferred mass, coverings for formation of explosion for... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4503776 | Fragmentation body for fragmentation projectiles and warheads Known projectiles with molded fragments are usually produced in the shape of steels or rollers produced with the aid of powder technology or in a flow compression process. The molded fragments are located in a dense packing in the wall of fragmentation bo... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4430941 | Projectile with supported missiles A projectile is shown which has stacked bays to receive packs of flechettes. The flechettes of each pack are bound together and supported by a frangible matrix. The matrix consists of small smooth glass spheres bound together and to the flechettes by a re... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4398467 | Explosive fragmentation devices with coiled wire progressively varied An explosive fragmentation device such as a grenade or a mortar bomb has a casing formed from flat sided notched wire formed into a coil. Instead of coiling the wire so that sides of the coiled wire which are adjacent after coiling lie normal to the longi... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4383468 | Method of producing fragmentable casings and product obtained A method of producing plastic-based casings including preformed metal fragments for ordnance articles, such as hand grenades, weapon-launched grenades or the like, by rotational molding in a shell-mold; a pulverulent thermoplastic polymer material, such a... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4353305 | Kinetic-energy projectile The present invention relates to a new kinetic-energy projectile. The projectile of the invention comprises a piercing head consisting of: a head penetrating means a main penetrating means and a spacing means located between the head penetrating means and the main ... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4351240 | Incendiary fragmentary warhead A warhead comprising an explosive charge surrounded by discrete individual etal fragments is increased in effectiveness by the addition of pyrophoric fragment material combined therewith. For this purpose, misch metal or zirconium-tin sleeves are placed ar... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4351239 | Warhead, incendiary The lethality of a fragmentation warhead is increased by including pyrophc material consisting of spongy zirconium metal rings in combination with the fragmentation material.... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4296180 | Process for the production of metallic formed members A process for producing a formed member, and a formed member which includes spherical fragments embedded in a metallic matrix is effected through round cold forging. The spheres are arranged in the interspace between a basic support member, which may be a... | 10/20/1981 |
| 4174665 | Land mine construction particularly an antipersonnel splinter mine A land mine comprises a mine body having at least a ground facing portion with a casing formed of a surface of revolution and having a multiplicity of projectile splinters arranged therearound in a pattern of enveloping tangents, the normals of which poin... | 11/20/1979 |
| 4129061 | Fragmentation casing for shells, warheads and the like and method of making same A fragmentation casing for shells, warheads and the like, in which pre-shaped fragmentations or splinters of hard or hardenable material are embedded in a supporting structure which is formed by a material that surrounds the fragmentations on all sides. T... | 12/12/1978 |
| 4112847 | Warhead with a disintegrating jacket to house several projectiles A warhead with a disintegrating jacket to house several projectiles, in picular splinter projectiles. The projectiles are each equipped with an ignition and backfiring system and fall to earth individually after disintegration of the warhead jacket. They... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4032335 | Process for making metallic, molded composite bodies A process for producing composite bodies consisting of discrete particles, embedded in a metallic embedding material, in which the particles are positioned relative to the embedding material and the resulting composite is subjected to isostatic compressio... | 06/28/1977 |
| 3945321 | Shell and method of manufacturing the same A shell possessing a substantially cylindrical shell casing in which there is contained an explosive mass and at the inner wall of which casing there bears a layer of substantially spherical-shaped projectiles of the same size which are partially embedded... | 03/23/1976 |
