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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, 1994
Filed:
Feb. 01, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mark Walz, Northboro, MA (US);
Richard J Schoon, Southboro, MA (US);
Assignee:
Nuclear Metals, Inc., Concord, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F42B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
102307 ; 102309 ; 102476 ;
Abstract
An explosively forged elongated penetrator including a liner having a central section, an intermediate section and a peripheral section; the axial velocity of the sections being approximately equal; the axial thicknesses of the sections decreasing from the central to the peripheral section; the radial velocity increasing from the central to the peripheral section; and the line profile angle decreasing from the central to the peripheral section, to define an explosively driven, inwardly directed, centrally focused force for forging the penetrator from the liner substantially independently of the axial velocities.