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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2016
Applicant:
Simmonds Precision Products, Inc., Vergennes, VT (US);
Inventor:
Martin Edwy Buttolph, Leicester, VT (US);
Assignee:
Simmonds Precision Products, Inc., Vergennes, VT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F42B 10/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F42B 10/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
A lock block for use in a flight vehicle to deploy and lock wings in a deployed position with the lock block having a forward end and an aft end and including a support member, a resilient member adjacent the aft end of the lock block, a first deploy pin extending from the resilient member, a second deploy pin extending from the resilient member, and a wedge located on a bottom side of the resilient member. The first deploy pin and the second deploy pin are each configured to engage a groove in a wing of the flight vehicle to push each wing into a deployed position.