RU2834508C1 - Entangling propellant cartridge - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: weapons.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a cartridge of an entangling propellant. Cartridge comprises housing with inner bore channels arranged at horizontal angle to each other and vertically offset from each other. Probes with hooks having barbs and a connecting cable of probes connecting the probes with laying of the cable in the inner cavity of the housing. Also, the cartridge contains a cover or a bursting disc. Barrel channels contain propellant pyrotechnic charges with electric initiation, located in the body of probes or in the barrel channels themselves. Housing has a place for connection to an electroshock weapon or an adapter of an electroshock weapon with outputs of contact points of propellant pyrotechnic charges of electric initiation of probes or barrel channels to the outer surface of the housing. Charges of probes or barrel channels are initiated by bridge, current-conducting or spark type of electric ignition.

EFFECT: creation of a design of a shooting cartridge of reduced dimensions compared to the prototype with simplification of re-equipment with a charge and projectiles, which does not require a housing with a launching device, and used with the help of the most effective NLW remote electric stun gun, and allowing to obtain a synergetic effect of NLW.

3 cl, 9 dwg

Description

Field of technology to which the invention relates

The invention relates to non-lethal weapons (NLW), primarily with a mechanical means of immobilizing offenders, for use in law enforcement agencies.

State of the art

The widely known lasso is chosen as an analogue of the method of the proposed invention. The lasso works by throwing a loop of rope made of various materials onto an object with a predominantly protruding upward part and tightening the loop thrown onto the object by jerking the protruding long end of the loop. In this case, the loop has a self-tightening knot, which makes it relatively easy to tighten the loop with a decrease in its diameter, but does not allow the target to stretch the loop again to the original diameter before tightening. Throwing the lasso at the target (throwing it onto the target) is performed by the muscular force of the user, and the subsequent tightening of the loop on the target object is also performed by the muscular force of the user. The disadvantage of the lasso is that it can only be used by well-trained, physically strong people, and the use of the lasso occurs, as a rule, with a horse by people who are good riders. Another disadvantage of the lasso is that the use of the lasso occurs, as a rule, with an energetic movement of the target or requires a powerful jerk to reliably tighten the loop, that is, the application of significant muscular effort. In addition, the tightening force is limited by the user's muscular strength in the case of using a lasso without the additional muscular strength of a horse or the inertia of the target's movement. In addition, tightening the lasso in the case of a target rapidly approaching the lasso user becomes completely impossible. It is not possible to regulate the degree of tightening of the lasso loop with a given degree of tightening force. The above-mentioned shortcomings serve as an insurmountable obstacle to using the lasso in police practice or for self-defense purposes to immobilize offenders with the suppression of aggression.

The prototype of the proposed invention is the BOLAWRAP system OND according to the patent [1]. BOLAWRAP consists of a housing in which the launcher (trigger) element and a removable firing cartridge are located, in which the pressure source is located, the device for fixing on the target (probes (weights) with hooks having barbs) and a coiled connecting cable (cord) of the probes about 2 m long, connecting the probes to each other. The probes are installed in the barrel channels of the cartridge, hydraulically connected to each other, made at an angle and vertical offset to each other and are hydraulically connected to the pressure source. The BOLAWRAP pressure source is of the firearm (pyrotechnic) type, but can also be of the pneumatic type. BOLAWRAP operates as follows. When the user presses the trigger element, the striker, due to the energy of the spring pre-compressed by the user, acts on the primer of the blank firearm cartridge (pressure source), which, generating compressed hot gas from the combustion of the powder charge, accelerates the probes in the barrel channels of the cartridge and throws them out of the cartridge. When flying to the target (biological target, biotarget, offender), the probes, due to the angular spacing of the barrel channels, begin to diverge from each other, simultaneously pulling the coiled connecting cord of the probes out of the cartridge. During further flight to the target (offender), the probes diverge from each other by the full length of the connecting cord, which flies to the target practically horizontally relative to the vertically standing target. When hitting the target approximately in the middle of the probe cord, its central part is slowed down by the target, and the probes, continuing to fly by inertia, cover the target from both sides and begin to converge due to the angular change in the flight trajectory due to the pulling force of the cord slowed down in the center. As a result, the probes describe a circular trajectory in fact, several turns around the target, enveloping it with a cord while tightening (entangling) the cord around the target with some force, for example, around the legs or body of the target with arms pressed to it, thus depriving it of one or another degree of mobility. After pushing the entangling means out of the cartridge case, the case can be detached for replacement with a new cartridge for the next shot at the target. The advantage of the analogue is the emergence of a new police means of effective immobilization of offenders, currently actively introduced in the police of developed countries. The disadvantage of the analogue is that the initiation of a cartridge shot is possible only in assembly with the case, with a trigger element. Thus, a law enforcement officer must carry with him not only firing cartridges, but also a case with a trigger element. The equipment of a law enforcement officer of developed countries, for example, a US police officer, consists of: 1. A standard firearm (pistol). 2. Two spare magazines for a pistol. 3. Flashlight. 4. Radio. 5. Two pairs of handcuffs. 6. Alcohol wipes. 7. Folding knife. 8. Badge. 9. Rubber gloves for searching. 10. Keys to the official car. 11. Belt clip. 12. Telescopic baton. 13. Pepper spray [2]. But in addition, a police officer in the United States, as a rule, and in the overwhelming majority of states, is already equipped with a remote electroshock weapon (RESW) from Axon International Inc. (USA) of one model or another in the form of a pistol, colloquially called simply a "Taser". At the same time, "Taser" has been recognized for many years by all law enforcement agencies in the world as the most effective OND. "Taser" is statistically the most frequently used of all types of OND used by the police of all US states, to some extent second only to the effectiveness of using specially trained police dogs ("K-9") to capture offenders [3; 4]. Adding to the listed set also a prototype device assembled with at least one spare firing cartridge increases the dimensions and weight of the carried equipment to critical limits not only in terms of convenience and ergonomics of wearing, but also in the prompt selection of the necessary equipment in a given situation among a variety of holsters and covers on the belt. In the Russian Federation, law enforcement officers will also inevitably switch over to the equipment of the police of developed countries over time, although at present much of the set of equipment of US law enforcement officers is also represented by domestic police, including remote electroshock weapons.

Disclosure of invention

The technical problem solved by the claimed invention is the need to create a design for a firing cartridge of reduced dimensions compared to the prototype, with simplified re-equipment with a charge and projectiles, not requiring a housing with a launcher, used with the most effective OND of a remote stun gun and allowing for a synergistic effect of the OND.

The technical result consists in creating a design of a firing cartridge of reduced dimensions compared to the prototype, with simplified re-equipment with a charge and projectiles, not requiring a housing with a launcher and used with the help of the most effective OND remote stun gun and allowing to obtain a synergistic effect of the OND impact.

The specified technical result is achieved in that the cartridge of the entangling throwing means contains a housing with internal barrel channels located at a horizontal angle to each other and vertically offset from each other, probes with hooks having barbs and a connecting cable of the probes connecting the probes with the cable laying in the internal cavity of the housing, a cover or a bursting membrane, the barrel channels contain throwing pyrotechnic charges with electrical initiation located in the body of the probes, or the barrel channels themselves, the housing has a place for connection to an electroshock weapon or an adapter of an electroshock weapon with terminals of contact places of throwing pyrotechnic charges of electrical initiation of the probes or barrel channels on the outer surface of the housing.

An additional feature is that the probe is made of composite metals with different specific gravities or metal and plastic.

An additional feature is that the barrel channels are connected hydraulically.

An additional feature is that the probe or barrel channel charges are initiated by bridge, conductive or spark type electric ignition.

Brief description of the drawings

Fig. 1. External appearance of the cartridge.

Fig. 2. View of the cartridge with the cover removed.

Fig. 3. View of the arrangement of probes in the cartridge body (cover and body removed).

Fig. 4. Section of a probe with an internal charge.

Fig. 5. Section of the probe with a barrel charge.

Fig. 6. Section of a probe with an internal charge of dissimilar metals.

Fig. 7. Cartridge with adapters for installation on various types of electric shock weapons.

Fig. 8. Installation of the adapter on the body of the DEShO "GARD".

Fig. 9. Installing the cartridge on the adapter on the body of the DESH "GARD".

Implementation of the invention

Fig. 1. The cartridge has a housing 1, a cover 2, terminals 3 of the initiation contact points, a place 4 (dovetail) for connecting the housing 1 to an electric shock weapon or an electric shock weapon adapter.

Fig. 2. Body 1, cover 2, barrel channels 5, cable 6 (its exit from the barrel channels), cavity 7 for laying cable 6 (the cable is not shown in the laying), needles with barbs 8.

Fig. 3. Housing 1, cover 2, needles with barbs 8, probes 9, terminals 3, electrical jumper 10 for initiating propellant charges, insulating plug 11 of electrical jumper 10.

Fig. 4. Probe 9, needles with barbs 8, cable 6, insulator 12, initiating electrode 13, propellant pyrotechnic charge 14 of electric spark ignition, placed in the body of the probe.

Fig. 5. Probe 15, needles with barbs 8, cable 6, initiating electrode 13, wad-obturator 16, propellant pyrotechnic charge 14 of electric spark ignition, placed in the wad-obturator when firing the separated from probe 15.

Fig. 6. A composite probe consisting of a head section 17 made of brass, steel, lead or zinc alloy and a tail section 18 made of aluminum alloy or plastic. The parts of the probe are connected by pressing, flaring or threaded connection. Otherwise, the design does not differ from that shown in Fig. 4. The composite probe allows achieving better weight distribution for the probe flight of the end section with needles forward, ensuring the greatest efficiency of hooking the needles with barbs onto the target's clothing. In this case, the place of attachment of the cable to the probe body may be different depending on the selected weight distribution of the probe.

Fig. 7. All models of electroshock weapons produced in the world have a place for attaching a cartridge firing current leads. Therefore, the proposed cartridge can be attached to the electroshock weapon using an adapter. The figure shows the proposed cartridge and adapters for installing it on various models of electroshock weapons. Adapter 19 for installing the domestic models "AIR-107"; "AIR-140", "GROM KD.111"; "SHTORM" on the electroshock weapon. Adapter 20 for installing the models "Taser 3400"; "Taser X26"; "Taser M26" on the electroshock weapon produced by Axon International Inc. (USA). Adapter 21 for installing the "GARD" model on the electroshock weapon produced by JSC "RTECH-NO" [5; 6; 7]. All the adapters shown have mating places 22 for attaching the dovetail places 4 of the cartridge body 1 to them.

Fig. 8. Installation of the adapter on the body of the DEShO "GARD". On the left is the standard DEShO "GARD", on the right is the DEShO "GARD" with the adapter 21 installed.

Fig. 9. Installing the cartridge on the adapter on the body of the DEShO "GARD". On the left is the standard DEShO "GARD", on the right is the DEShO "GARD" with the declared cartridge installed on the adapter 21.

All figures show a cartridge with high-voltage electric spark ignition of propellant pyrotechnic charges of probes or barrel channels. The device of a cartridge with current-conducted ignition (pyrotechnic composition with conductive particles) is practically no different from the one shown, the device of a cartridge with bridge ignition differs only in the presence of a wire or metallized bridge laid in the pyrotechnic charge between the conductive probes and the electric jumper of 10 barrels. In order to reduce the number of figures, in the presented figure one barrel is shown with a propellant charge located in the probe body, and the other barrel with a propellant charge located in the barrel wad-obturator (actually in the barrel) since the probe does not have an inseparable connection with the wad-obturator. In practice, both barrels are loaded with one of the types of equipment shown.

The cartridge operates as follows. One of the shown adapter types is installed on the DEShO used by the law enforcement officer, for example, adapter 19 is attached to the DEShO using a bayonet connection, adapter 20 using latches, adapter 21 using an elastic connection with friction. All types of adapters have conductive conductors leading from the DEShO combat electrodes to the terminals 3 of the cartridge initiation contact points. In this case, the adapters for the proposed cartridges with bridge and conductive ignition must ensure galvanic contact with the DEShO combat electrodes and terminals 3, unlike cartridges with electric spark ignition, where the presence of small gaps between the DEShO combat electrodes, the conductive conductors of the adapter and terminals 3 of the cartridge is allowed, since these gaps are electrically broken down during startup by the high output voltage of the standard models of stun guns specified in the description of Fig. 7. The cartridge is attached to the adapter by sliding its own attachment point 4 into the mating part of the adapter. The attachment points of the cartridge to the adapter may be of various types except for those shown in the figures, for example, with a latch, magnetic retention, with a bayonet-type rotation, etc. The cartridge may also be attached directly to the DEShO that has a mating part of the cartridge attachment point (with a dovetail, latch, magnetic retention, with a bayonet-type rotation, etc.) without an adapter. The law enforcement officer aims at the object and launches the DEShO as for a shot with a standard firing cartridge with current leads. In this case, the high-voltage electric current of the stun gun's combat discharge gets to the contact points 3 of the cartridge initiation via the conductive conductors of the adapter and, passing through the needles 8 of the probes in contact with them and through the metal bodies of the probes, penetrates to the pyrotechnic charges 14, passing through the electrically insulating parts (insulator 12 or wad-obturator 16) through the initiating electrode 13. The electric current passing through the probes from the contact points 3 is short-circuited via the electrical jumper 10, embedded during casting in the body of the cartridge housing 1 cast from thermoplastic or housing 1 made from two halves by ultrasonic welding and electrically connecting the barrel channels 5. The electrical jumper 10 can also be installed in a hole prepared for it and plugged with an electrically insulating plug 11. The short-circuited high-voltage electric current forms in the pyrotechnic charges of the probes or In the obturator wads, a high-voltage spark discharge ignites the pyrotechnic charges. The resulting combustion gases of the pyrotechnic charge throw the probes with the cable 6 placed in the cavity 7 of the cartridge body from the barrel channels 5 to the target. When pushed out of the barrel channels, the probes with their needles tear off the easily secured protective cover 2 from the body 1, which either breaks, allowing the probes to pass to the target, or is torn off and flies off to the side. The cover 2 can be replaced with an easily breakable membrane made of paper, plastic film, metal foil, etc.

The probes in Fig. 4 fly to the target, pushing out of themselves during the combustion of the pyrotechnic composition the insulators 12 remaining in the barrel channels 5. The probes in Fig. 5 are pushed out of the barrel during the combustion of the pyrotechnic composition together with the obturator wads 16, but since the wads are not attached to the probes (the probes are in the wads with a clearance fit), they separate from the probes when the probes fly out of the barrel channels 5. The design of the probe with a barrel charge shown in Fig. 5 in a different version may be different. For example, the pyrotechnic charge may be located in the breech of the barrel channel, and the obturator wad is installed on top of the charge, and the probe is installed on top of the wad. But such a method complicates the re-equipment of the fired cartridge with new charges and projectiles.

During the flight from the barrel channels with angular divergence, the probes fly apart from each other, stretching the cable 6, and when the cable hits the target, they begin to rotate, entangling the target and catching on its clothing with needles 8 with barbs that prevent unhooking. After the shot, if necessary, the user separates the fired cartridge from the adapter and inserts a new cartridge into the adapter for the next shot with entangling the target. To equalize the pressure in both barrels during the shot, the barrel channels 5, in some cases, for example, with low-quality pyrotechnic charges, can be connected to each other hydraulically by an opening connecting them in the breech of the barrel channels, observing measures that do not allow spark discharges to pass in addition to the pyrotechnic charges. Since the blank cartridge in the prototype device takes up 23-23.5% of the total length of the firing cartridge, the placement of propellant charges in the probe body or barrel channels reduces the length of the firing cartridge by the same amount, reducing its dimensions, including weight, and, accordingly, increasing the possible ammunition supply of cartridges carried by the law enforcement officer. The use of a standard law enforcement DEShO as a case in which the cartridge launcher is located, as in the prototype, reduces the amount of equipment carried by the law enforcement officer, facilitating his work, with the possibility of using both mechanical immobilization of the offender and electrical immobilization. The pneumatic type of propellant energy source specified for the possibility of use in the prototype is not considered, since it increases the dimensions of the cartridge even more than the prototype produced by WrapTechnologies, Inc. (USA) already has. The cartridge design shown in the figures uses a sequential ignition chain of propellant pyrotechnic charges with spark ignition, which is most easily implemented using the high striking voltage of today's standard models of stun guns and providing the highest synchronicity of ignition of two charges simultaneously. However, in another design version mainly with bridge (galvanic heat) ignition mainly with low-voltage initiating electric current, it is possible to install a bridge igniter in each barrel with the output of the contacts for initiating each ignition bridge to the outer surface of the cartridge body with their connection both in series and in parallel.

The prototype firing cartridge can be reloaded after firing, using the reloading kit sold for its re-equipment. In this case, the user must install a new blank cartridge (charge) into the body of the fired cartridge, first removing the fired one, and then the cable laying with probes (projectile) and a new cover. In the proposed cartridge with charges in probes, reloading is simplified and to reload the fired cartridge, it is enough to just install the probes in the barrel channels and the cable laying in the cartridge cavity and close the new cover. The proposed cartridge, when used with the domestic model of the DEShO "GARD", is currently the most effective DEShO with target defeat by high-voltage electric current not only in the Russian Federation but also in the whole world, allows to obtain a previously unknown synergistic effect of the OND impact. The DESH "GARD" allows not only to fire the proposed entangling cartridge, but also immediately after the shot, without removing the spent cartridge, to fire multiple shots at the target with current leads in case of its non-compliance with the demands of law enforcement officers after entangling. But the main thing is that the DESH "GARD" can fire the entangling cartridge simultaneously with the current lead shot. In this case, the target is simultaneously immobilized both mechanically and physiologically under the influence of electric current. Thus, a double and heterogeneous effect of the OND on the target is achieved, guaranteeing its immobilization with almost 100% probability. The new super-effect of impact gives domestic law enforcement officers a new quality of target immobilization, for example, especially dangerous and armed ones. The influence of features coinciding with the distinctive features of the claimed invention on the technical result specified by the applicant is unknown from the state of the art. Each essential feature of the proposed invention is necessary, and their totality is sufficient to achieve a quality novelty that is not inherent in features in isolation, i.e. the technical task set in the invention is solved not by the sum of effects, but by a new super-effect of the sum of features. The proposed differences of the proposed invention are not obvious to a specialist in small arms, and do not directly follow from the formulation of the technical task.

List of cited sources:

1. Patent of the Russian Federation No. 2722231.

2. https://vk.com/@pcsmordor-snaryazhenie-oficera-policii-ssha

3. https://www.polfed.org/our-work/operational-policing/taser/

4. https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/less-lethal-weapon-effectiveness-use-force-and-suspect-officer

5. https://www.vesti.ru/article/1350173

6. https://www.mk.ru/politics/2019/02/28/putinu-pokazali-noveyshee-oruzhie-prezidenta-zainteresoval-elektorshoker.html

7. https://www.gardsystems.ru/

Claims (3)

1. A cartridge of an entangling throwing means, comprising a housing with internal barrel channels, located at a horizontal angle to each other and vertically offset from each other, probes with hooks having barbs and a connecting cable of the probes, connecting the probes with the cable laying in the internal cavity of the housing, a cover or a bursting membrane, characterized in that the barrel channels contain propelling pyrotechnic charges with electrical initiation, located in the body of the probes or the barrel channels themselves, the housing has a place for connection to an electroshock weapon or an adapter of an electroshock weapon with terminals of contact places of propelling pyrotechnic charges of electrical initiation of the probes or barrel channels on the outer surface of the housing, wherein the charges of the probes or barrel channels are initiated by a bridge, conductive or spark type of electrical ignition. 2. A cartridge according to item 1, characterized in that the probe is made of composite metals with different specific gravities or metal and plastic. 3. A cartridge according to item 1, characterized in that the barrel channels are connected hydraulically.