Ordnance – Shields – For ships
Patent
1982-02-08
1984-08-21
Kelly, Donald G.
Ordnance
Shields
For ships
89 36K, 89 46, F41H 706
Patent
active
044663331
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to an armored vehicle with a revolving turret arranged on or in an armored body having a shieldplate mounted thereon which provides a bearing for a gun carrier which carries a magazine for cartridges. The magazine is a container which is releasably locked in position laterally to the left or right of the gun, at the top or bottom of the gun, or behind the gun.
The cartridges contained in the magazine can be belted or unbelted, and can have different calibers. Accommodating the cartridge magazine in its own container permits carrying larger quantities of cartridges than it would be possible to store in the turret by making use of spaces located elsewhere in the vehicle.
A disadvantage in previously known designs of this kind has been that in attaching the containers to the gun, the loader has had to give up the protection of the armored vehicle. This resulted not only in loss of time but also in increased effort and greater danger to life.
It is the object of this invention to avoid these disadvantages by designing the armored vehicle such that the reloading of the containers can take place on the exterior of the gun carrier located outside the armored body directly from the interior of the vehicle by the aid of mechanical means.
This problem is solved according to the invention by providing a closable opening in the armored body and by providing a horizontal slideway within the armored body. The slideway has a container reloading station located such that at an indexed rotational position of the turret and simultaneously at an indexed vertical angular position of the gun carrier an empty container after having been unlocked can be brought by means of a conveyor downward through the opening in the armored body to the container reloading station on the slideway. The container can then be moved on the container slideway out of the container reloading station by means of a filled replacement container which moves up and occupies the place of the empty container. The replacement container can then be brought out of the container reloading station into the locking position at the gun carrier by the conveyor means.
The invention integrates the gun with the interior of the vehicle in a manner which permits reloading independently of existing turrets--and their size--and, as it were, bypassing the turret with auxiliary means, and this with relatively simple technology and at any event such that the loader need not move out of the protective body of the vehicle for the purpose of reloading. The conveyors can be chains or links actuated by pressure media.
For the conveyor means advantageously a second container slideway can be provided, leading from the container reloading station up to the gun carrier. The container slideway can be tracks and comprise guide elements which cooperate with corresponding guide elements on the containers. The second container track is intended for removal of the emptied container from the gun carrier and for bringing up the replacement container.
The indexed vertical angular position of the gun carrier expediently corresponds to the greatest possible angle of elevation.
An embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a front elevation; and
FIG. 2 is a top view.
In the drawings the reference numeral 4 indicates a portion of the armored body of an armored vehicle from which a part of a turret 3 protrudes. Turret 3 revolves about an upright pivot line AA. A shieldplate 14 rises from turret 3 as unilateral bearing support for a gun carrier 2 which can be directed as to elevation about a horizontal pivot line B--B. Gun carrier 2, which holds the actual gun 9, carries a cartridge magazine in the form of a container 1 located to the outer rear left of gun 9. Magazine is locked in position as indicated by the reference numeral 10.
When magazine 1 is emptied turret 3 is turned to the indexed position 12 (see FIG. 2) and gun carrier 2 is set on the indexed position adjusted to the maximum angle of elevation, as is shown in solid lines in FI
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patent: 3333507 (1967-08-01), De Meiss
patent: 4065999 (1978-01-01), Hultgren
patent: 4092900 (1978-06-01), Hottinger
patent: 4326446 (1982-04-01), Magnuson
patent: 4329909 (1982-05-01), Tidstrom
Kelly Donald G.
Kuka Wehrtechnik GmbH
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