Patents by Inventor Klaus von Laar

Klaus von Laar 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).

  • Patent number: 4974491
    Abstract: An automatic muzzle or front loader weapon which possesses a weapon barrel which is pivotable in the direction of elevation or firing, and including a front or leading barrel segment which is latchable with the weapon barrel so as to be in coaxial alignment therewith. The barrel segment is pivotable into a loading position relative to the weapon barrel and which aligns with a loading tray into which there is insertable a projectile which is received from a storage magazine, whereby the projectile is slidable into the front barrel segment from the loading tray, whereupon the front barrel segment will then pivot in such a manner so as to cause the projectile to slide into the weapon barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1990
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Klaus von Laar, Wilhelm Machmer
  • Patent number: 4875414
    Abstract: An explosive charge with a projectile-forming metallic insert which, essentially, possesses the configuration of a spherically-curved dish. The insert should be constituted of a body from a single-crystal. Pursuant to a modification, in an explosive charge of the above-mentioned type which additionally possesses a member for the guidance or deflection of the detonation waves, it is contemplated that this member be also constituted from a single-crystal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1989
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Hansjorg Stadler, Klaus von Laar
  • Patent number: 4867061
    Abstract: A penetrator which is constituted of a heavy-metal, for example, a metal such as tungsten or depleted uranium, and which possesses a differently designed tensile strength and ductility along its length; and a method of manufacturing the penetrator. The penetrator is constituted of a single-crystal of the heavy-metal. The penetrator can be constituted from tungsten; however, it can also be constituted of an alloy whose main component is tungsten, to which rhenium is alloyed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1989
    Inventors: Hansjorg Stadler, Klaus von Laar
  • Patent number: 4852461
    Abstract: An armored vehicle with an overhead or top-mounted cannon or barreled weapon, which is supported in a forked cradle support so as to be elevatable about a bearing trunnion axis, and which includes an arrangement for the storge of the ammunition and the conveyance of the ammunition from a main storage magazine and from an auxiliary storage magazine. A vertically standing projectile loading tube or barrel is rotatable about its longitudinal axis, whose longitudinal axis concurrently consists of the azimuthal or bearing axis of the barreled weapon, and which, in the position of rest of the barreled weapon, intersects at one point with trunnion axis and the tilting axis of the rotary shell or projectile chamber of the barreled weapon. Hereby, independently of the elevation of the barreled weapon, the shell or projectile chamber is movable into a vertical position extending coaxially with the loading tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1989
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Klaus von Laar, Hans Sackenreuter, Werner Heberlein
  • Patent number: 4669357
    Abstract: A weapon system incorporating a barreled weapon, which is supported in a rotatable turret dome of an armored vehicle so as to be pivotable about trunnions in the direction of elevation, which can be loaded with projectiles from the armored vehicle, and wherein the base of the barreled weapon rests at its bottom on a rail which is circular in its radius relative to the axis of the trunnions. The barreled weapon is constructed as a front-loader weapon, and possesses outside of the armored vehicle a forward barrel segment which is separate from the weapon barrel and adapted to be latched with the latter, and which is rotatable about the trunnions up to contacting end stops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1987
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Klaus von Laar, Wilheim Machmer, Cavit Winter
  • Patent number: 4660458
    Abstract: A pivoting or swivable projectile or shell loading chamber for high angle-firing weapons, especially for mortars, which is constructed so as to be barrel-shaped at its lower end and which support itself on the base plate of the mortar, and which can be swung with its upper end outwardly of a position extending coaxially with the weapon firing tube. The upper separating location between the firing tube and the pivoting projectile loading chamber is sealed through a gas pressure-controlled sealing ring. A locking lever is arranged in the upper region of the pivoting projectile loading chamber, which is in operative connection with locking components on the framework of the mortar and with trigger parts of the mortar, and wherein the opening angle of the pivoting projectile loading chamber is restricted by a stop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1987
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Klaus von Laar, Werner Heberlein, Cavit Winter
  • Patent number: 4534294
    Abstract: A fin-stabilized projectile which includes a propellant cage encompassing the projectile body, and with the cage consisting of a plurality of segments retained together through suitable fastening media, and which incorporates, at its leading end, an annular recess extending beyond the overall diameter of the propellant cage, through which there is initiated the spreading apart of the segments subsequent to the exit of the projectile from the weapon barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1985
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Klaus von Laar, Werner Heberlein, Josef Burda