Normally-closed explosive-actuated valve

Claim 1

A NORMALLY-CLOSED EXPLOSIVE-ACTUATED VALVE, WHICH COMPRISES AN ELONGATED VALVE BODY HAVING A STRAIGHT ELONGATED VALVE CHAMBER FORMED LONGITUDINALLY THEREIN, THE VALVE OF SAID CHAMBER BEING A SURFACE OF REVOLUTION ABOUT A CENTRAL AXIS, AN ELONGATED RAM MOUNTED LONGITUDINAL IN SAID CHAMBER FOR LONGITUDINAL MOVEMENT THEREIN, SAID RAM HAVING AT LEAST ONE END PORTION THEREOF A SURFACE REGION WHICH IS SLIDABLY AND ROTATABLY ASSOCIATED WITH SAID WALL OF SAID CHAMBER, SAID RAM BEING SHAPED AT AN INTERMEDIATE PORTION THEREOF WITH AT LEAST ONE PLANAR SURFACE WHICH IS PARALLEL TO THE AXIS OF SAID CHAMBER AND IS SPACED AWAY FROM SAID WALL OF SAID CHAMBER, FIRST AND SECOND ELONGATED NIPPLE ELEMENTS FIXEDLY MOUNTED IN SAID VALVE BODY ON DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID CHAMBER, SAID NIPPLE ELEMENTS HAVING FRANGIBLE BLIND INNER ENDS EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY OF SAID PLANAR SURFACE INTO RECESS MEANS IN SAID INTERMEDIATE RAM PORTION, SAID FRANGIBLE BLIND INNER ENDS BEING ADAPTED TO BE SHEARED OFF IN RESPONSE TO SHIFTING OF SAID RAM FROM NORMAL POSITION TO ACTUATED POSITION, AT LEAST ONE OF SAID NIPPLE ELEMENTS HAVING AN OUTER PORTION ADAPTED SUBSEQUENT TO SHEARINGOFF OF SAID BLIND INNER ENDS TO ENGAGE SAID PLANAR SURFACE AND THEREBY PREVENT ROTATION OF SAID RAM ABOUT LONGITUDINAL AXIS THEREOF, SQUIB MEANS COMMUNICATING WITH SAID CHAMBER AND ADAPTED WHEN FIRED TO SHIFT SAID RAM LONGITUDINALLY OF SAID CHAMBER FROM NORMAL POSITION ACTUATED POSITION, MEANS TO STOP SAID RAM AT A PREDETERMINED ACTUATED POSITION AND TO PREVENT SHIFTING OF SAID RAM AWAY FROM SAID PREDETERMINED ACTUATED POSITION, AND PORT MEANS FORMED IN SAID INTERMEDIATE RAM PORTION IN SPACED RELATION FROM SAID RECESS MEANS, SAID PORT MEANS BEING SO LOCATED IN RELATION TO SAID STOP MEANS THAT SAID PORT MEANS IS REGISTERED WITH THE OUTER PORTIONS OF SAID NIPPLE ELEMENTS WHEN SAID RAM IS IN ACTUATED POSITION, WHEREBY A STRAIGHT-THROUGH FLOW PASSAGE IS FORMED THROUGH SAID OUTER PORTIONS OF SAID NIPPLE ELEMENTS AND THROUGH SAID PORT MEANS WHEN SAID RAM IS IN ACTUATED POSITION.