US Government As Represented by the Secretary of the Army

Eugene Michael Ivankoe

Moon S Kim

Charles U Pittman, Jr

Robert E Golz

Tor P Schultz

Darrel D Nicholas

Leonard L Ingram, Jr

Edward Recke

Aaron Hemphill

Glenn Dean

Margaret Berkowitz

Ahmed Kabir

Lichang Wang

Steve Ruffini

Margaret Wilson

Frank Sniezek

A universal tie down assembly includes first and second longitudinal belts comprising reinforced webbing made from a flexible fabric material. Each belt includes a buckle end and an anchor end. The anchor end is a loop of the reinforced webbing. At least one longitudinal slot is woven into an edge of at least one of the belts. The length of the slot is at least as great as the width of the belts. The assembly includes a novel open under load buckle having a receiving part (female part) and an insertion part (male part). The buckle end of one of the belts is adjustably disposed in a belt opening of one of the insertion part and the receiving part and the buckle end of the other of the belts forms a sewn loop that loops through a belt opening of the other of the insertion part and the receiving part.

Universal tie down assembly

Flexible restraint devices (MARS units) are provided for holding ammunition and ammunition packaging containers, mounted through wall mounting rails onto the interior of an ambush protected vehicle, or the like.

Modular ammunition restraint system for ambush protected vehicles

A method and process for treating wood. The steps include preparing isocyanate-based reactive prepolymer resins for impregnation, impregnating wood with these impregnation resins, curing the impregnated wood at elevated temperatures, preparing isocyanate resin-based coating materials and applying these coating materials on the cured impregnated wood and curing the coatings at room or elevated temperatures. The resulting treated wood has substantially improved de-contaminability of the chemical warfare agent VX both initially and after long exposure to degradation effects from sunlight.

Modified wood with surface coatings

A sealed metal ammunition container for holding at least one round of ammtion. The container body is sized to hold the ammunition and has an opening at one end thereof. A metal bottom flange is fixedly attached to file container body at the one end and includes an opening therein sufficiently large to vent pressure from ignited energetic contained therein. A metal top flange is provided for attachment to the bottom flange, the top flange also having a similar opening therein. A fuse formed from a material having a melting point below the ignition temperature of the ammunition is positioned between the top flange and the bottom flange to form a meltable closure at the open end of the body. A rubber flange gasket is positioned between the bottom flange and the fuse to form a hermetic seal when compressed upon closure thereof. Equally spaced screws mount the top flange, fuse, and flange gasket to the bottom flange to form a hermetic seal. The fuse is preferably formed from a synthetic material having a melting point between 190.degree. F. and 270.degree. F. Most preferred is an ionomer plastic material reinforced with glass fibers and has a melting point of about 250.degree. F. to about 270.degree. F.

Container fuse for enhanced survivability

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Chatham, NJ, United States of America

Eugene Michael Ivankoe