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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. 25, 1990
Filed:
Sep. 13, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Lawrence J Puckett, Churchville, MD (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F42B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
102522 ;
Abstract
A sabot for an armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding-sabot penetrator is rovided formed of continuous filaments wherein the sabot is preferably bucket shaped and the filaments are sufficiently long to be wrapped from the obturator rearward around the projectile base, and forward to the obturator on the opposite side of the sabot. The filaments are formed of glass, pyrolytic graphite or other high tensile strength light weight material. The sabot preferably has grooves to mesh with similar grooves on a penetrator body and some of the filaments are angled into at least a portion of said grooves.