Ordnance – Cartridge feeding – With magazine
Patent
1983-10-05
1986-06-10
Bentley, Stephen C.
Ordnance
Cartridge feeding
With magazine
89 3613, 89 46, F41F 902
Patent
active
045936005
ABSTRACT:
On a device for feeding shell ammunition within an armored vehicle (1) featuring a rotatable turret (3) with a shield (4) rising on it as a bearing for a weapon carrier (8) which carries sideways its shell magazine fashioned as a container (11, 11') there is provided, inside a vehicle (1), a horizontally extending container switching chute (12) within which there are located two container reloading stations (13, 13') which are so arranged, below openings (14, 14') in the ceiling armor (5), that they will be in alignment with two container shoes (15, 15') fitted to both sides of the weapon support (8), in an angular position of the turret (3) coinciding with an index position and at an elevation angle coinciding with an index position. The space between container reloading station and container shoe is being bridged by transport facilities (16). Two containers (11, 11') can be arranged on the two sides of the weapon support (8) in a detachably lockable and ejectable manner.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2951422 (1960-09-01), Bobkowski
patent: 3045553 (1962-07-01), Mosle
patent: 3683743 (1972-08-01), Stoner
patent: 4092901 (1978-06-01), Gustavsson et al.
patent: 4381693 (1983-05-01), Dumez
Bentley Stephen C.
Kuka Wehrtechnik GmbH
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