Patents by Inventor Theodor Baechler

Theodor Baechler 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).

  • Arrangement for braking a sabot
    Patent number: 4753152
    Abstract: To brake a sabot accelerated in a launcher of a recoiless rifle tube a mandrel shaped braking sleeve is disposed in the tube and an intermediate space is provided between a tapered surface of the mandrel and the tube into which the material of the front edge of the sabot expanded. In this way when the sabot is accelerated against the mandrel, its front edge slides along the tapered surface, radially outwardly into the intermediate space. This functions to deform and positively stop the movement of the sabot before it leaves the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1988
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventor: Theodor Baechler
  • Recoilless launching device
    Patent number: 4643071
    Abstract: The countermass of a recoilless launching device is composed of a combustible material and has a firing connection with the working space in which the propellant charge burns up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1987
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventors: Theodor Baechler, Josef Amann