PROJECTILE PACKING DEVICE Russian patent published in 2007 - IPC F42B5/16 F41A21/06 

FIELD: device for packing the projectile for assembly of the weapon barrels, when a great number of projectiles (10) is positional one after another in the same axis in the bore (20), each projectile (10) has body (11) coupled to a separate, propellant charge (15).

SUBSTANCE: the device has a rear hole (13), communicating with the cavity (14) provided in the mentioned projectile (10) for placement of the separate propellant charge (15), and front part (16) of the adjoining projectile for a tight engageable with the additional part (17) of the rear hole (13). The device includes surface parts of additional structures so that at an application of a compression load (L) to the projectiles (10) adjoining one another, the separate propellant charge (15) is sealed in the mentioned cavity (14). A chain of separate projectiles coupled by the head of one projectile to the tail of the other with the aid of the lug on one projectile entering the seat of the other is also explosed in the invention.

EFFECT: prevented leakage of hot gases back to the following projectile at an ignition of the charge of the front projectile.

12 cl, 9 dwg