摘要:
A multipurpose powerhead having a barrel member internally shaped with a chamber for receiving a cartridge is coupled to an axially aligned body member. A firing pin member projects above the surface of the body member and reaches into the cartridge chamber. A cylindrically shaped mass having an axial bore is slidably carried on the body member and a helical biasing spring urges the mass toward the firing pin member. When the powerhead is deployed by a rapidly accelerating surgical-rubber-tubing speargun, the inertial drag of the cylindrical mass overcomes the biasing force of the biasing spring. A resiliently mounted spur secured to the cylindrical mass overrides and engages a retaining rim to cock the powerhead during the deployment stage. When the muzzle of the barrel member impacts against a target, such as a large fish, the powerhead is arrested from further travel. Meanwhile, the forward momentum of the cylindrical mass pulls the resiliently mounted spur from its engaged position on the annular retaining rim. This forward momentum is augmented by the biasing force of the biasing spring which accelerates the cylindrical mass toward the firing pin member at an increasing velocity. The combined force attributed to the forward momentum and the biasing force is sufficient to detonate the cartridge when the cylindrical mass strikes the firing pin. Having all the moving parts exposed to the ambient water prevents the collection of impurities and the consequent jamming of the powerhead.
摘要:
A disposable, explosive spear head with a frangible nose section weakened in a predetermined manner and including a gas expansion chamber to burst the nose portion with an explodable cartridge arranged in the chamber and in a fixed position relative to the main spear casing and in the path of travel of a firing pin captivated in the spear and adapted to be driven into the firing pin against a spring-biasing means to ignite the cartridge and burst the nose portion.
摘要:
Underwater ammunition is disclosed, in which a flechette projectile is enclosed within the air-filled bore of a watertight sealed disposable barrel adapted to be removably inserted into a carrier cylinder or block for firing. The projectile is suspended by and between a rear-end-cradling pusher sabot, and a frangible guiding-and-supporting unit including a soft rubber nosesupporting cradle slug having a forward relieved surface. A propellant charge and percussion primer are disposed rearwardly of the pusher sabot which is initially anchored by a shear pin, and the projectile is propelled forward by primer ignition of the propellant to shear the shear pin and impart forward motion to the pusher sabot, which in turn drives the projectile through a frangible sealed front barrel convexly domed cover. Forward motion of the sabot is stopped by successive incremental energy absorption through the shearing of an external helical shear thread on the forward section of the pusher sabot at the forward end of its travel, the shearing and compaction of which shear thread, as well as the resultant compaction of a soft malleable length of material in the thread grooves, also seals in the propellant gases within the barrel bore at the end of the sabot forward travel. One or more pressure dropping annular expansion grooves on the rear section of the pusher sabot are employed to obviate blowby of propellant gases during forward motion of the sabot.