Ordnance – Loading – Hoisting apparatus
Patent
1987-08-10
1989-04-25
Kyle, Deborah L.
Ordnance
Loading
Hoisting apparatus
89 45, 89 3305, F41F 904, F41F 910
Patent
active
048236756
ABSTRACT:
In an apparatus for loading guns, particularly tank howitzers, from a rotary magazine containing the shells and positioned below and alongside the gun barrel, for simplifying construction and movement sequences a substantially vertical loading arm pivotable about a vertical axis between a reception position in the vicinity of the rotary magazine and a position below and upstream of the gun barrel is provided, the loading arm having at least one gripper for a shell and in the last-mentioned position is pivotable about an approximately horizontal axis at right angles to the core axis of the gun barrel into a loading position from which the shell aligned with the core axis can be transported by a rammer into the gun chamber.
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Kaustrater Gert
Schiele August
Johnson Stephen
Kuka Wehrtechnik GmbH
Kyle Deborah L.
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