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Title: Free-piston cutting machine

Abstract

A cutting machine includes a gun barrel for receiving a projectile. A compression tube is disposed in flow communication with the barrel and includes a piston therein. A reservoir is disposed in flow communication with the tube and receives a first gas under pressure. A second gas fills the compression tube on a front face of the piston. And, the pressurized first gas is discharged into the tube on a back face of the piston to accelerate the piston through the tube for compressing the second gas, and in turn launching the projectile through the barrel to impact a workpiece.

Inventors:
 [1];  [1];  [2]
  1. East Setauket, NY
  2. Port Jefferson, NY
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
873273
Patent Number(s):
US 6125834
Assignee:
Brookhaven Science Associates (Upton, NY)
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-98CH10886
Resource Type:
Patent
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
free-piston; cutting; machine; gun; barrel; receiving; projectile; compression; tube; disposed; flow; communication; piston; therein; reservoir; receives; gas; pressure; fills; front; pressurized; discharged; accelerate; compressing; launching; impact; workpiece; flow communication; compression tube; gun barrel; gas fill; cutting machine; /124/83/89/227/

Citation Formats

Ciccarelli, Gaby, Subudhi, Manomohan, and Hall, Robert E. Free-piston cutting machine. United States: N. p., 2000. Web.
Ciccarelli, Gaby, Subudhi, Manomohan, & Hall, Robert E. Free-piston cutting machine. United States.
Ciccarelli, Gaby, Subudhi, Manomohan, and Hall, Robert E. 2000. "Free-piston cutting machine". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/873273.
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year = {Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2000},
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