Appeal No. 96-0939
Application 07/853,221
other claims in the application, claims 1 through 9 are
subject to a restriction requirement and stand as withdrawn
from consideration. Claim 16, the only other remaining claim
in the application, has been indicated as allowable on page 7
of the examiner’s answer.
The claimed invention is directed to a military-type hand
emplaced ordnance. With reference to Figure 1, the ordnance
comprises an explosive charge 12 and a detonator 14 contained
in an ordnance housing 18. For safety considerations, the
detonator 14 is separated from the booster 16 by a rotatable
blocking disc element 32. The rotatable blocking disc element
has a throughbore or aperture 60 (Figure 2) which aligns the
detonator with the booster 16 when the ordnance is armed. A
drive module 42 is provided to rotate the blocking disc.
Rotation of the blocking disc is also prevented by a latch
means 36, the inward movement of which actuates switch 28 to
energize the drive module to rotate the disc. As shown in
Figure 4, the drive module comprises a stepper motor 70
controlled by a crystal pulse generator.
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