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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 1979
Filed:
Sep. 01, 1977
Applicant:
Inventors:
Stephan Kosonocky, Whippany, NJ (US);
Sylvan H Israels, Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F42B / ; F42C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
102 64 ; 102239 ; 102244 ; 102241 ;
Abstract
A hand grenade is provided with a fuze comprising: a firing means, means luding two centrifugally-operated elements movably carried by the grenade housing for arming the firing means, means including an inertia member rotatable relative to the housing and a torsion spring between the inertia member and the housing for spinning the housing to operate the arming elements, and manually-held safety means for preventing arming until the grenade is thrown. Two disclosed embodiments have different arming and firing means with substantially the same spinning means.