US2501082A - Delayed-action electric flare fuse - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to setting off the fuze of a bomb within a predetermined adjustable time after the bomb is released from aircraft.
- the nature of the invention is that the fuze is energized when the plate current of a vacuum tube reaches a given value.
- the drawing is a diagrammatic showing of the invention.
- the fuze has a fine low melting wire In which is melted by a given current from battery ll through plate l2 of vacuum tube l3 (which may be the commercial type 884),
- the tube l3 has a grid l4 connected to its cathode IS.
- a starting switch 16 is so arranged as to be closed when the bomb is released.
- a filament rheostat I! has a knob which indicates the amount of resistance hence the time required for I operation on a graduated scale l8.
- the rheostat I1 is adjusted, according to scale l8 for the desired time.
- the switch I6 is closed and energizes the filament or cathode l which takes a predetermined time to heatto electron emission temperature depending for that time on the setting of rheostat IT.
- the time may be accurately set over the ranges of two to thirty seconds with accuracies of plus or minus one-tenth sec-- ond.
- the filament reaches a certain critical temperature the plate current begins to flow, rising suddenly to a relatively high valve in the plate circuit l2 in sufiicient quantity to melt fuze wire II].
- a control system for bombs comprising a fuse having a lo-w-melting-point fine wire, which upon melting sets off the bomb, a gaseous tube having a cathode and an anode, said cathode having a predetermined thermal time lag characteristic and a critical temperature at which said tube will "fire, a battery, means connecting the battery, the cathode and anode of said tube and said wire in series, means for heating the cathode, and adjustable resistance means in series with said cathode for presetting the time of operation of said control system, whereby after the elapse of said time the cathode reaches said critical temperature which triggers said tube producing a relatively high anode current through said fuze causing it to melt.
- a control system for bombs comprising a fuze having a low-melting-point fine wire, which upon melting sets oiT the bomb, a gaseous tube having a cathode and an anode, said tube having a critical anode-potential-to-cathode temperature point at which the tube fires to produce a relatively high anode current for melting said fuze, said cathode having a predetermined thermal time lag characteristic, a battery, means connecting the battery, the cathode and anode of said tube and said wire in series, means for heating the cathode, and adjustable means in series with said cathode for presetting the time of operation of said control system, whereby after being preset the cathode reaches said point after a predetermined lapse of time, triggering the tube to produce said current thereby melting said fuze.
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March 21, 1950 N. J. OLIVER 2,501,082
DELAYED ACTION ELECTRIC FLARE FUSE Filed on. 10, 1944 Fuzs Nap/V4 O4 l/E/Q Patented Mar. 21, 1950 DELAYED-ACTION ELECTRIC FLARE FUSE Norman J. Oliver, Fall River, Mass, assignor to the United States of America as represented by the Secretary of War Application October 10, 1944, Serial No. 558,014
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The invention described herein may be manufactured and used by or for the Government for governmental purposes, without the payment of any royalty thereon.
This invention relates to setting off the fuze of a bomb within a predetermined adjustable time after the bomb is released from aircraft.
The nature of the invention is that the fuze is energized when the plate current of a vacuum tube reaches a given value.
The drawing is a diagrammatic showing of the invention.
In the drawing the fuze has a fine low melting wire In which is melted by a given current from battery ll through plate l2 of vacuum tube l3 (which may be the commercial type 884), The tube l3 has a grid l4 connected to its cathode IS. A starting switch 16 is so arranged as to be closed when the bomb is released. A filament rheostat I! has a knob which indicates the amount of resistance hence the time required for I operation on a graduated scale l8.
In operation, the rheostat I1 is adjusted, according to scale l8 for the desired time. When the bomb is released the switch I6 is closed and energizes the filament or cathode l which takes a predetermined time to heatto electron emission temperature depending for that time on the setting of rheostat IT. The time may be accurately set over the ranges of two to thirty seconds with accuracies of plus or minus one-tenth sec-- ond. When the filament reaches a certain critical temperature the plate current begins to flow, rising suddenly to a relatively high valve in the plate circuit l2 in sufiicient quantity to melt fuze wire II].
I claim to have invented:
1. A control system for bombs comprising a fuse having a lo-w-melting-point fine wire, which upon melting sets off the bomb, a gaseous tube having a cathode and an anode, said cathode having a predetermined thermal time lag characteristic and a critical temperature at which said tube will "fire, a battery, means connecting the battery, the cathode and anode of said tube and said wire in series, means for heating the cathode, and adjustable resistance means in series with said cathode for presetting the time of operation of said control system, whereby after the elapse of said time the cathode reaches said critical temperature which triggers said tube producing a relatively high anode current through said fuze causing it to melt.
'2. A control system for bombs comprising a fuze having a low-melting-point fine wire, which upon melting sets oiT the bomb, a gaseous tube having a cathode and an anode, said tube having a critical anode-potential-to-cathode temperature point at which the tube fires to produce a relatively high anode current for melting said fuze, said cathode having a predetermined thermal time lag characteristic, a battery, means connecting the battery, the cathode and anode of said tube and said wire in series, means for heating the cathode, and adjustable means in series with said cathode for presetting the time of operation of said control system, whereby after being preset the cathode reaches said point after a predetermined lapse of time, triggering the tube to produce said current thereby melting said fuze.
NORMAN J. OLIVER.
REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:
UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,769,203 Buckley July 1, 1930 2,060,206 Hammond Nov. 10, 1936 2,255,245 Ferrel Sept. 9, 1941 2,297,006 Lohman Sept. 29, 1942 2,403,567 Wales, Jr July 9, 1946 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 43,753 Norway Feb. 21, 1927
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US2255245A (en) * | 1938-04-26 | 1941-09-09 | Ferrel Ordnance Inc | Firing device |
US2297006A (en) * | 1941-03-07 | 1942-09-29 | Lane Wells Co | Gun perforator firing system |
US2403567A (en) * | 1942-01-13 | 1946-07-09 | Jr Nathaniel B Wales | Electrically energized fuse |
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US1769203A (en) * | 1929-04-30 | 1930-07-01 | John P Buckley | Helicopter |
US2060206A (en) * | 1935-02-06 | 1936-11-10 | Jr John Hays Hammond | Torpedo |
US2255245A (en) * | 1938-04-26 | 1941-09-09 | Ferrel Ordnance Inc | Firing device |
US2297006A (en) * | 1941-03-07 | 1942-09-29 | Lane Wells Co | Gun perforator firing system |
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