US PATENT SUBCLASS 102 / 382
DROP BOMBS


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102 /   HD   AMMUNITION AND EXPLOSIVES

382DROP BOMBS {10}
383  DF  .~> With laterally directed barrels
384  DF  .~> With direction controlling means
385  DF  .~> Fin stabilizer only
386  DF  .~> With drop-retarding means {2}
389  DF  .~> Fragmentation
390  DF  .~> Marine type {1}
393  DF  .~> Cluster type
394  DF  .~> Rebounding or multiple bursting charges
395  DF  .~> Practice
396  DF  .~> Igniting means {1}


DEFINITION

Classification: 102/382

DROP BOMBS:

(under the class definition) Apparatus and corresponding methods having an explosive means to cause damage or destroy an objective or payload and when in use falls without the use of force.

(1) Note. The bombs are usually hurled or dropped from an aircraft or watercraft and are detonated by a timing mechanism or impact.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

200+, for igniting devices or systems which may include only enough bomb structure for supporting them or necessary for their operation.

301+, for blasting means which may be dropped into a hole.

369, for drop bomb with a gas or mist.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

33, Geometrical Instruments, 229+, for a sighting device used in aerial bomb dropping.

89, Ordnance,

1.51+, for bomb, flare, and signal dropping devices.

244, Aeronautics,

3.1+, for missile control or stabilizing means; and subclass 14 for air-sustained, self-propelled aerial torpedoes.