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EP 0166278 A1 19860102 - An aircraft carried smoke bomb.

Title (en)

An aircraft carried smoke bomb.

Title (de)

Nebelbombe zum Abwurf aus Flugzeugen.

Title (fr)

Bombe fumigène aéroportée.

Publication

EP 0166278 A1 19860102 (EN)

Application

EP 85106968 A 19850605

Priority

US 62126384 A 19840615

Abstract (en)

An aircraft carried smoke bomb includes a braking parachute (22) which slows down the bomb after it is released from an aircraft. At some point in its downward travel main parachutes (40) are deployed as the tail and nose sections (12, 16) are ejected. Smoke starts exiting through the opposite ends of the remaining body as the bomb drops down slowly to the ground.

IPC 1-7

F42B 25/02

IPC 8 full level

F42B 10/56 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

F42B 10/56 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

[X] GB 2003588 A 19790314 - OERLIKON BUEHRLE AG
[X] US 3478687 A 19691118 - CRAIG JIMMIE M
[A] US 3834312 A 19740910 - SIMMONS B
[A] US 3499385 A 19700310 - DOUDA BERNARD E
[A] CH 391514 A 19650430 - BOELKOW ENTWICKLUNGEN KG [DE]
[A] DE 264476 C 19130924

Designated contracting state (EPC)

BE DE FR GB IT NL SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0166278 A1 19860102

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 85106968 A 19850605