Modular dispenser for aircraft carried devices

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR SEQUENTIALLY DELIVERING FROM AN AIRPLANE, ALONG ITS DIRECTION OF FLIGHT, A PLURALITY OF MODULES, EACH CONTAINING A PLURALITY OF PAYLOADS, COMPRISING: (A) A CYLINDRICAL TUBE ADAPTED TO BE CARRIED BY THE AIRPLANE WITH ITS LONGITUDINAL AXIS DISPOSED IN THE DIRECTION OF FLIGHT OF THE AIRPLANE, (B) AN OPENABLE CLOSURE DISPOSED AT THE REAR END OF THE TUBE, (C) A PLURALITY OF CYLINDRICAL MODULES DISPOSED IN AXIAL ABUTTING RELATION AND SLIDEABLY FITTED WITHIN THE TUBE AND SUBSTANTIALLY FILLING SAME BETWEEN ITS ENDS, (D) EACH MODULE BEING OF A FRANGIBLE MATERIAL, SUCH AS STYROFOAM, ADAPTED TO DISINTEGRATE AFTER IT LEAVES THE TUBE AND WHEN SUBJECTED TO THE AIRSTREAM OF THE AIRPLANE, (E) EACH MODULE HAVING A PLURALITY OF PARALLEL APERTURES EXTENDING SUBSTANTIALLY BETWEEN OPPOSITE ENDS THEREOF, SAID APERTURES FORMING VOIDS WITHIN THE MAJOR PORTION OF THE VOLUME OF A MODULE, (F) EACH VOID CONTAINING A PAYLOAD, (G) AN OGIVE FAIRING AT THE FORWARD END OF THE TUBE HAVING A CENTRAL CIRCULAR APERTURE THEREIN OF A CROSS SECTIONAL AREA CONSIDERABLY SMALLER THAN THE CROSS SECTIONAL AREA OF THE TUBE, FORMING A METERING ORIFICE THROUGH WHICH RAM AIR MAY ENTER THE TUBE, (H) A SPACE DISPOSED BETWEEN THE REAR END OF THE APERTURE AND THE MOST FORWARDLY DISPOSED MODULE, FORMING A CHAMBER IN WHICH RAM AIR MAY DIFFUSE AND INCREASE IN STATIC PRESSURE, FOR URGING THE MODULES REARWARDLY AND OUT OF THE TUBE AT A DESIRED RATE, DEPENDENT UPON THE RATE AT WHICH RAM AIR MAY ENTER SAID ORIFICE, WHEREBY THE SEQUENTIAL DELIVERY OF THE MODULES ALONG THE LINE OF FLIGHT OF THE AIRPLANE MAY BE PREDETERMINED, AND (I) MEANS FOR OPENING SAID CLOSURE.