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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 1994
Filed:
Jan. 22, 1993
Thomas Heitmann, Dusseldorf, DE;
Klaus Unterstein, Dusseldorf, DE;
Walter Simon, Herzogenrath, DE;
Dieter Jungbluth, Herschbach, DE;
Rheinmetall GmbH, Ratingen, DE;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of disassembling large-caliber combat cartridges, particularly armor-piercing cartridges, including a combustible casing jacket that conically widens in the direction of the projectile, a casing bottom and a casing cover to which is fastened a sub-caliber projectile equipped with a propelling sabot. To be able, on the one hand, to reduce expenditures for the disassembly of such combat cartridges and, on the other hand, to reuse a major portion of the original combat cartridges for the production of corresponding training cartridges, it is proposed to separate the casing jacket as well as the casing cover starting at their outer circumference, in regions having approximately the same, predetermined diameter D1. This diameter D1 here corresponds to the maximum diameter of the component of the new cartridge to be produced later from the disassembled components. The portion of the casing jacket and of the casing cover disposed between the regions is discarded and is replaced in the production of the new cartridge by a cylindrical casing jacket component having the diameter D1.