US 11,754,381 B2
Sabot of the push-pull type having mutually separate parts for the push and pull function
Ulrich Keller, Unterluess (DE); Michael Gowin, Hermannsburg (DE); and Konstantin Arzt, Adelheidshof (DE)
Assigned to RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION GMBH, Suedheide (DE)
Filed by Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH, Suedheide (DE)
Filed on Mar. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/697,676.
Application 17/697,676 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2020/074420, filed on Sep. 2, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 125 128.1 (DE), filed on Sep. 18, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0205767 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. F42B 14/06 (2006.01)
CPC F42B 14/062 (2013.01) 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sabot comprising:
mutually separate sabot parts including at least a first sabot part having a surface upon which propellant gases act and at least a second sabot part having a surface upon which the propellant gases act, each of the first and second sabot parts being positively connected to a projectile to accelerate the projectile when acted upon by the propellant gases,
wherein the first sabot part and the second sabot part are positioned on the projectile such that the propellant gases first act on the surface of the first sabot part, such that the first sabot part performs a pull function by causing tension to accelerate the projectile and the second sabot part performs a push function by causing pressure to accelerate the projectile.