US Government As Represented by the Secretary of the Army

Richard S Herman

Anthony P Antonuzzi

William E Hagel

Donald M Lawson

Raymond A Wolski

Gasper J Sacco

Melvin Morgen

A process is described which will autonomously map an area, autonomously rch for concentrations of depleted uranium, automatically record the intensity of radiation, and record the exact map location in real time.

Process for autonomously locating and retrieving toxic heavy metal and

The invention relates to lock mechanisms by which a missile or analogous tem may be prevented from undergoing an undesired launch or ignition. Specifically, the invention is a rotating lock mechanism which may be rotated in precise clockwise and counterclockwise steps by an electrical stepper motor or other source of precise rotation, in response to a predetermined sequence of electrical pulses.

High speed lock mechanism

There is disclosed an initiator assembly for a ballistic missile system to ffect fluid flow of a gas from a source thereof to user equipment disposed in a housing therefor including gas inlet and outlet conduits and comprised of a rotor member journalled for rotation in the housing and formed with a mass of an eccentric weight distribution with respect to the axis of rotation and wherein the rotor is provided with an explosive assembly ignited by a striker assembly activated by launch acceleration of the missile and wherein a drive piston of the explosive assembly fractures a closure element disposed in one of said gas conduits.

Initiator assembly

An electrically operated warhead enable switch utilizes a dual solenoid de mechanism in conjunction with a DC lock solenoid mechanism to sense a plurality of unique enable signals and in response thereto permits the driving of a differential which is mechanically coupled to a biased output shaft. The output shaft when rotated a specific number of degrees closes the terminals of a plurality of functioning switches and thereby allows the enabling of a missile's warhead circuitry.

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Clifton, NJ, United States of America

Richard S Herman