Opposed round parallel path single bay ammunition feed system

Details Opposed round parallel path single bay ammunition feed system Opposed round parallel path single bay ammunition feed system

1991-06-13

1992-09-22

Brown, David H.

Ordnance

Cartridge feeding

With magazine

89 34, 89 3317, F41A 969

Patent

active

051499096

ABSTRACT:
An ammunition feed system wherein a single layer of alternatingly opposing rounds of ammunition is conveyed in a magazine by a single closed loop conveyor disposed along a serpentine path. The opposing rounds are fed into a twister conveyor apparatus which aligns the rounds and conveys the aligned rounds onto a pair of parallel paths. The aligned rounds on the parallel paths are received by a pair of feed rotors for alternate insertion into a single gun feeding conveyor. Spent rounds are withdrawn from the conveyor by a pair of return rotors, which return the spent rounds to a second twister conveyor. The second twister conveyor reorients the rounds into an alternating opposed configuration and returns the rounds to the serpentine path. Each twister conveyor includes two pairs of sprockets oriented in a perpendicular configuration. Each pair of sprockets carries one closed loop of conveyor elements for conveying rounds. The perpendicular orientation of the sprockets produces a 90-degree rotation of rounds conveyed on the respective conveyor assembly.

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