Goods & Services

Wire cutters (machines); machines for bomb disposal; parts and fittings thereof. Wire cutters (hand tools); hand tools for bomb disposal; parts and fittings thereof. Counter improvised explosive devices (C-IED) and equipment; Improvised explosive device disposal (IEDD) equipment; demilitarisation of explosives; parts and fittings for all the aforesaid goods.

Abstract

A line-cutter (1) for cutting a line. A blade (5) attached to an arm (3) is pivotable relative to a body (2) of the line-cutter (1). The body (2) includes an attachment portion for attaching a pyro-mechanical actuator device (6) having a piston arranged to move the blade (5) relative to the body (2), via movement of the arm (3), so as to cut a line.

IPC Classes  ?

• B23D 17/06 - Shearing machines or shearing devices cutting by blades pivoted on a single axis characterised by drives or gearings therefor actuated by fluid or gas pressure
• B23D 29/00 - Hand-held metal-shearing or metal-cutting devices

Abstract

An explosive charge (1) comprising an elongate casing (2) with elongate grooves (3,4) running along the casing, each groove locally reducing the thickness of the casing. The grooves are distributed in two or more groups around the circumference of the casing and the edge-to-edge spacing between each adjacent pair of grooves in a group is less than the edge-to-edge spacing between each pair of adjacent groups. Detonation causes the casing to break at a pair of grooves in one of the groups and form a fragment from material between the pair of grooves, the fragment cutting an obstacle (28).

IPC Classes  ?

• F42B 3/02 - Blasting cartridges, i.e. case and explosive adapted to be united into assemblies
• F41H 11/11 - Clearing or neutralising barbed-wire obstacles
• F41H 11/14 - Explosive line charges, e.g. snakes