Ordnance – Loading – Hoisting apparatus
Patent
1991-10-16
1993-01-05
Johnson, Stephen M.
Ordnance
Loading
Hoisting apparatus
89 331, 89 3304, 89 3305, 89 47, F41A 955
Patent
active
051773180
ABSTRACT:
The invention relation to a device for identifying and checking ammunition on an automatic-loading device of a firearm. The firearm is capable of firing ammunition of different types. The device includes a rotating magazine having adjacent chambers for accommodating an ammunition round. The device further includes at least one fixed code reader arranged on a path of the magazine. The code reader includes optical detectors aligned in parallel with a center line of the ammunition round. Each ammunition round has a cylindrical coding zone on a cartridge thereof. The coding zones consist of annular coding tracks. The device utilizes the coding zones to identify and check the location of ammunition to expedite loading of the firearm. A method of utilizing the device is also provided.
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Bouvet Gerard
Martinez Yves
Johnson Stephen M.
Mecanique Creusot-Loire
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