Ammunition Cartridge Disassembly Mechanism for Mobile Safety

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current ammunition disarming processes are inefficient, requiring manual or semi-automatic methods, large infrastructure, and high energy consumption, with incomplete disassembly and incompatibility with different ammunition types, leading to safety and environmental issues.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for automatically disassembling ammunition cartridges into their components, using an extraction head with retaining means and circulating clamps, which separates the bullet from the casing without the need for furnaces, and includes verification elements to ensure correct operation, allowing for easy adaptation to various gauges and minimizing operator involvement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If manual or semi-automatic disarming processes are used, then operator control is maintained, but productivity is low and completeness is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedisarming speedVSAvoidautomation level

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSExtent of automation

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses verification elements that automatically check if disarming operations are correct without human intervention. The control system monitors the disarming process and verifies completion, allowing the system to self-correct and ensure completeness while maintaining high speed automation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

Manual mechanical operations are replaced with automated mechanical extraction heads and control systems. The verification elements use sensors and control logic to automatically detect and verify disarming completion, replacing manual inspection and decision-making.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Adaptability or versatility

If large infrastructure is built for disarming, then complete disassembly can be achieved, but the system cannot be moved and requires fixed location

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemobile capabilityVSAvoidsystem size

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The disarming system is divided into modular functional units including extraction heads, verification elements, and control systems that can be independently assembled and transported. This segmentation allows the complete system to be disassembled for mobile deployment while maintaining full functionality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The extraction heads and verification elements are designed to handle multiple types of ammunition cartridges through adjustable mechanisms. This universality allows a single mobile unit to serve various disarming needs without requiring specialized fixed infrastructure for each ammunition type.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Reliability

If furnaces are used to render hazardous elements inert, then safety is improved, but energy consumption increases and environmental pollution occurs

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovesafetyVSAvoidenergy consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and separates hazardous elements (powder, lead, steel, brass) from ammunition cartridges in their original states without thermal processing. By mechanically separating components and rendering them inert through physical means rather than combustion, the system eliminates the need for high-energy furnace operations while maintaining safety.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of using furnaces to destroy hazardous materials, the system converts the potential harm into benefit by carefully separating and preserving the materials in recyclable states. The verification elements ensure hazardous components are properly neutralized while maintaining their material value for recycling, turning a destructive process into a constructive one.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

4Adaptability or versatility

If mechanisms are designed for specific ammunition types, then manufacturing precision is improved, but adaptability to different gauges is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveammunition type compatibilityVSAvoidextraction accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The extraction heads incorporate adjustable and reconfigurable mechanical elements that can dynamically adapt to different cartridge dimensions and bullet configurations. This dynamic adjustability allows the same mechanism to maintain precise extraction for various ammunition types without sacrificing accuracy through rigid specialization.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS9709369B2Disarming system and method for disarming ammunition cartridges

Publication Date: 2017.07.18 MAXAMCORP HOLDING SL

AI summary

A dismantling system (5) for separating ammunition cartridges (10) comprising a casing (12), a bullet (11) and powder among its components, the system being characterized in that it comprises an extraction head (53) for extracting the bullet (11) from the casing (12), and retaining elements (52) for retaining the casing (12) in an extraction position while extracting the bullet (11). The invention also comprises a disarming system and a method for separating the components of an ammunition cartridge (10).