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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 1992
Filed:
Mar. 11, 1991
John W Williams, Bellevue, WA (US);
TechTeam, Inc., Huntsville, AL (US);
Abstract
A missile launcher assembly for launching a missile from an airborne, shipborne, or ground-installed platform has a carriage mounted for limited forward and rearward movement on a track provided on the platform. The carriage supports the missile in fixed relation to the carriage by hooks having an inclined surface that engage mating surfaces within the missile body and a pivotally mounted restraint pawl that engages a surface within the missile body so as to keep the missile from sliding off the hooks. A camming surface engageable with a pawl-restraining rocker link is located on the platform so that when the missile and carriage are moved forward upon ignition of the missile motor, the front end of the link is cammed downward, forcing its rear end upward and releasing the pawl. The pawl, upon being released, rotates upward out of the missible body, allowing the missible to slide off the hook. The assembly avoids the use of appendages projecting from the missile and of mechanisms for retracting of such appendages, reducing the drag of the free-flying missile and the complexity and weight of retracting mechanisms.