Claims
- 1. A multi-store launcher that uses electrical pulses to generate sufficient gas pressure to discharge, sequentially, store assemblies packed therein, comprising:
- a. a launch container for sequentially holding in unique chambers a plurality of stores and being removeably fastened to a transporting vehicle, and having at its breach end plate means to receive an electric pulse;
- b. control module means containing a plurality of resistors of varied values and gas charge generating cartridges connected to said means to receive the pulse and to change the electric pulse into a gas charge; and
- c. a plurality of flow means connecting said control module means to separate one of said unique chambers to channel the gas charge thereto.
- 2. A multi-store launcher as described in claim 1 wherein said container is tubular.
- 3. A multi-store launcher as described in claim 1 wherein said control module means comprises:
- a. an electric pulse transmitting;
- b. a plurality of pulse conducting leads connected thereto;
- c. a plurality of gating means connected to said leads to receive the electric pulse, and selectively transfer said pulse; and
- d. a plurality of propellant cartridges adjacent said gating means.
- 4. A multi-store launcher as described in claim 2 wherein said pulse receiving means is a metallic contact plate.
- 5. A multi-store launcher as described in claim 3 wherein said gating means comprises a plurality of resistors wherein each said resistor has a different, unique value.
- 6. A multi-store launcher as described in claim 3 wherein said flow means comprises a plurality of tubular passageways.
- 7. A multi-store launch that can be removeably fixed to a vehicle to receive an electrical pulse therefrom, comprising;
- a. a tubular launch container having a discharge end and an oppositely disposed breech end;
- b. a metal contact plate at the breech end;
- c. a plurality of pulse conducting leads;
- d. a plurality of resistors, connected to said leads, each having an increasingly higher value than the succeeding ones;
- e. a plurality of gas charge generating propellant cartridges connected thereto; and
- f. a flow tube leading from each said cartridge into the container.
STATEMENT OF GOVERNMENT INTEREST
The invention described herein may be manufactured and used by or for the Government of the United States of America for governmental purposes without the payment of any royalties thereon or therefor.
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