Ordnance – Machine guns – Revolving barrels
Patent
1992-12-21
1994-05-31
Brown, David H.
Ordnance
Machine guns
Revolving barrels
89 1305, F41F 110
Patent
active
053159136
ABSTRACT:
A Gatling-type gun mechanism has a stationary housing having a camming channel and at least one loading/unloading port. A rotor is mounted inside the housing and can be rotated about a longitudinal axis; the rotor carries a plurality of gun barrels, each fixed to the rotor with a respective barrel axis substantially parallel to the rotor longitudinal axis; a like number of stud assemblies, each having a respective axis aligned with the axis of an associated gun barrel; and a like number of cartridge chambers, each interacting with the housing camming channel, during each rotation of said rotor, for reciprocal motion between a rearward location substantially coaxial about the associated stud assembly and a forward location substantially in abutment with the associated gun barrel and enclosing a volume into which a round of ammunition can be placed and removed by radial movement through the loading/unloading port. Each of the stud assemblies has a mechanism for firing a round of ammunition within the enclosed volume of the associated chamber, when that chamber is at its forward location, and when the rotor moves the associated barrel, chamber and stud assembly to a firing location.
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Proposal for: "25MM Cased Telescoped Weapon System for VADS"--General Electric Co.--Apr. 24, 1973.
Duke Steven R.
Jarvis Stephen A.
Proulx Edward A.
Rossier Glenn E.
Brown David H.
General Electric Company
Krauss Geoffrey H.
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