Patents by Inventor David M. Scheve

David M. Scheve has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Safe-and-arm arrangement and projectile arrangement therewith
    Patent number: 4982663
    Abstract: A safe-and-arm arrangement for a grenade or other projectile, having an interrupter slide member disposed in the path of an ignition/explosive train, in which said interrupter carries a portion of said train and interlocks with a setback pin to prevent arming except after insertion of the grenade or other projectile into a launch barrel and subsequent launching thereof from the barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1991
    Assignee: AAI Corporation
    Inventors: David M. Scheve, Robert W. Schnepfe, Jr.
  • Grenade arrangement for screening cloud
    Patent number: 4726295
    Abstract: A grenade arrangement for forming a visual and infrared screening cloud, having a frangible body, a hollow cylindrical solid compact cohesive mass of compacted generally mutually adhered fine metal flakes of a copper composition, particularly brass, and of submicron thickness and multimicron in lateral dimensions, a cylindrical mass of HE explosive within such hollow cylindrical mass for aerosoling such metal flakes into the atmosphere, and having HE explosive percussisvely activating detonator means, a launch propulsion charge and pyrotechnic delay means between the propulsion charge and the HE explosive detonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1988
    Assignee: AAI Corporation
    Inventors: Janon F. Embury, Jr., Leonard R. Sellman, Werner W. Beyth, Raymond R. Fry, Jr., Merlin L. Erickson, Leon R. Milstead, Laban R. Lowe, David M. Scheve, Robert W. Schnepfe, Jr.