Patent ID: 9546840
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: F41A

Claim:
1. An active soft recoil control system for use with a mortar weapon system including a breech, and an extendible firing pin, and further employing an entire recoiling mass for initiating mortar cartridge rounds at high quadrant elevation angles exceeding 80 degrees above the horizontal without a misfired round falling back and striking a stationary forward face of the breech causing damage and becoming initiated by an unretracted firing pin, the active soft recoil control system comprising: a bi-directional recoil containment mechanism that is secured to the recoiling mass, and that includes: a rammer; a plurality of pistons that surround the rammer; wherein the rammer is axially disposed relative to the plurality of pistons; and a rear bracket that engages and retains the plurality of pistons; wherein at least one piston of the plurality of pistons includes: a hollow, tubular cylinder: an elastic element disposed within the cylinder, intermediate a recoil piston and a counter recoil piston; wherein the elastic element is allowed to be compressed, axially, bi-directionally, within the cylinder, between the recoil piston and the counter-recoil piston, in order to absorb recoil energy when the recoil containment mechanism is in a recoil state, and to further absorb counter-recoil energy when the recoil containment mechanism is in a counter-recoil state; a firing pin assembly; a pin retraction mechanism; and wherein the pin retraction mechanism includes: a firing cam that travels along a stationary firing cam path by means of a firing cam roller; and a safeing cam that travels along a stationary safeing cam path by means of a safeing cam roller.