General Electric Company

Alma J Pate

Robert A Pate

This invention provides a gun having a combustion chamber (combustor) which is filled with a charge of monopropellant or bi-propellant to less than full volume, (e.g. 30 to 90%) prior to ignition thereof, which is ignited with a tangential flow of ignition gas from the side or rear to establish the desired pattern of combustion gas in the charge.

Liquid propellant gun

This invention provides a gun having a combustion chamber (combustor) which is filled with a charge of monopropellant or bi-propellant to less than full volume. (e.g. 30 to 90%) prior to ignition thereof. which is ignited with a tangential flow of ignition gas from the side or rear to establish the desired pattern of combustion gas in the charge.

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Provo, UT, United States of America

Alma J Pate