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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Bofors Defence Aktiebolag, Karlskoga, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C06D 5/06 ; F42B 1/202 ; F42B 1/220 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C06D 5/06 ; F42B 1/202 ; F42B 1/220 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a propellant charge module for artillery guns, of the type which is usually referred to by the term “modular charges” (,). A special feature of this type is that, in an otherwise empty pyrophoric relay tube (,) arranged axially in the longitudinal direction of the charge, it has a firing charge which is made up of a plurality of successive powder rings (,), the different ring-shaped parts of this firing charge having distancing members (,) which are directed towards each other and give rise to narrow ignition gaps (,) between them.