Ordnance – Loading – Hoisting apparatus
Patent
1997-10-24
1999-03-09
Johnson, Stephen M.
Ordnance
Loading
Hoisting apparatus
89 47, F41A 942
Patent
active
058803955
ABSTRACT:
A weapon assembly for an armored vehicle includes a turret; a turret cage attached to and being disposed underneath the turret; a weapon supported in the turret and having a barrel; and a belt magazine received in part in the turret and in part in the turret cage. The belt magazine has a loading belt and a plurality of horizontally disposed, ammunition-accommodating container tubes attached to the loading belt. The belt magazine further has a frontal receiving position above the turret cage and laterally of the turret. A loading tube is swingably supported behind the weapon for movement between a first position and a second position. In the first position the loading tube is in alignment with the container tube when the latter is in the frontal receiving position. In the second position the loading tube is in alignment with the weapon barrel in a rearward receiving position. There are further provided a first loading device for pushing ammunition from the container tube, when situated in the frontal receiving position, into the loading tube and a second loading device for pushing ammunition, in the rearward receiving position, from the loading tube into a loading chamber of the weapon.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1332060 (1920-02-01), Pacilli
patent: 2649840 (1953-08-01), Davidson, Jr.
Becker Wilfried
Krumm Herbert
Weinfurth Udo
Johnson Stephen M.
Kelemen Gabor J.
Rheinmetall Industrie AG
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