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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2001
Michael F. Steele, Cincinnati, OH (US);
William Marc Schmidt, Batavia, OH (US);
KDI Precision Products, Inc., Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
A munition incorporating a fuze mechanism adapted to prevent momentary disarming of the mechanism once same is placed in an armed state. The fuze mechanism incorporates a fuze housing having a slide member movable slidably longitudinally between an unarmed position and an armed position. In an unarmed position, a firing pin tip of an arming screw engages a lock post disposed within an opening in the slide member to hold the slide member in the unarmed position. When the arming screw is unscrewed during airborne deployment of the munition, the firing pin tip is withdrawn from the lock post. This enables a spring to urge the slide member into a laterally extended position. As the slide member moves into its laterally extended position, the lock post drops partially out of the slide member into abutting engagement with a bottom cover of the fuze mechanism, thus preventing the slide member from moving back towards its unarmed position. Thus, the lock post prevents momentary movement of the slide member back towards its unarmed position regardless of the orientation at which the munition strikes the ground surface or a target, thus eliminating the possibility of undetonated yet armed munitions remaining on a ground surface or target.