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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 1983
Filed:
Jul. 28, 1981
Applicant:
Inventor:
William F Andersen, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F41F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
89-1816 ; 89-1809 ;
Abstract
A shock absorbing pad system for a missile launch tube, wherein the shock absorbing pad system comprises a continuously acting inner sheet, an outer segmented sheet and a plurality of chevron shaped struts disposed between the sheets. The continuously acting inner sheet provides compressive, shear, and tensile forces or a combination thereof to resist lateral shock loads and to restore the missile to its central location within the launch tube.