Feed device incorporated in a tank

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1989-10-12

1991-02-05

Jordan, Charles T.

Ordnance

Loading

Hoisting apparatus

89 47, F41A 942

Patent

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049894943

ABSTRACT:
A tank (1) is designed with an overlying gun (3) and a crew turret (2). The traverse movements of the gun and the crew turret are coordinated. A complete ammunition handling system (9, 11) for reserve ammunition (10) is provided ancillary to the standard feeding and loading system. The reserve system includes an ammunition tube which is guided by a linkage system (9) between a rest position and a position in an extension of the bore axis (5). The ammunition tube is provided with its own ramming means (11a). At a predetermined traverse position for the gun and the crew turret, reserve ammunition may be transferred to the system when this assumes an initial position. The reserve system may be actuated in a per se known manner so that the ammunition tube assumes a position in association with the breech, where the ammunition unit may be longitudinally displaced into the gun with the aid of the above-mentioned ramming means (11a).

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patent: 4429616 (1984-02-01), Grosser
patent: 4852461 (1989-08-01), Von Laar et al.

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