Apparatus for launching incendiary spheres

    公开(公告)号:US10151560B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-11

    申请号:US15265220

    申请日:2016-09-14

    IPC分类号: F42B12/44 F41F7/00 A62C3/02

    摘要: An apparatus for launching incendiary spheres for prescribed burning is provided. This apparatus receives ‘charged’, or injected, spherical incendiaries, then launches them in a controlled direction at a controlled distance. The charged incendiaries are first emitted from a conventional Plastic Sphere Dispenser (PSD) into the intake of the apparatus whereupon they are moved along a lower pathway by a delivering wheel to a launching point relative to a spinning wheel or a plurality of spinning wheels. These spinning wheels convey velocity to each incendiary sphere, which is thereby launched in a trajectory that is determined by the azimuth of orientation, and the rotational velocity, of the spinning wheels.

    Coupler knuckle
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10196076B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-05

    申请号:US15230047

    申请日:2016-08-05

    IPC分类号: B61G7/00 B61G3/04 B61G1/28

    摘要: An improved coupler knuckle with an improved interior configuration for handling forces imparted on the knuckle and transferring said imparted forces through the knuckle and improving handling of linear force loads and their transmission the interior having a force handling structure that includes spaced apart layers and cavities, with a cavity extending between the nose section and the tail section of the coupler knuckle.