GEAR FOR GROUP LOADING OF AMMUNITION BODIES BY POTTING METHOD Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: ammunition loading. SUBSTANCE: gear for group loading of ammunition bodies by potting method has sealed heated body including shell, bottom with drain holes and lid with valves and mixing element. Pouring heads are joined to bottom uniaxially to bottom valves. Bottom comes in the form of surface formed by crossing of side surface of cone which vertex faces downwards with surface of regular polyhedron which vertex faces upwards and lies on symmetry axis of cone. Each drain hole is made in lowest point of line crossing side surface of cone with surface of corresponding face of polyhedron. Number of drain holes corresponds to number of faces of polyhedron. EFFECT: provision for complete discharge of explosive mixture from gear, ruling out possibility of stagnant pockets in gear with two, three, four, etc drain holes in bottom of gear. 5 dwg