Mindy W Morack

US Patent:

62898175, Sep 18, 2001

Filed:

Aug 31, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/386221

Inventors:

Anthony P. Quebral - Greenbelt MD
Phillip R. Sturgill - Alexandria VA
Mindy W. Morack - Herndon VA
David A. Culhane - Columbia MD
Chris Batchelor - White Plains MD

Assignee:

The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy - Washington DC

International Classification:

F42B 400
F41F 500
B64D 112

US Classification:

102357

Abstract:

A radio frequency receiver, in response to input command signals from some remote source, initiates electrical powering of an electronic firing circuit through which electric pulses are generated and fed through a power cable to impulse cartridges at the upper ends of storage tubes within a payload dispenser. The impulse cartridges in response to such pulses ignites the payloads stored therebelow within the storage tubes closed by retention caps that are ejected with the payload from the dispenser during ignition.