Gun mount

Details Gun mount Gun mount

1981-08-17

1984-03-20

Bentley, Stephen C.

Ordnance

Mounts

With body protecting devices

89 41M, 248661, F41F 2104

Patent

active

044373848

ABSTRACT:
A feature of this invention is the provision of a three axis gun mount wherein the gun is mounted for movement in elevation and in train (azimuth) with respect to a platform which is disposed in a plane which is at an angle to the horizontal and which platform is mounted for movement about the zenith axis.
An additional feature of this invention is the provision of such a mount wherein said platform is provided with unlimited rotation in either direction about the zenith axis.
A yet additional feature of this invention is the provision of such a mount wherein the three axes of the mount, and the axis of the gun along which the firing impulse is applied to the mount, all have a common intersection.

REFERENCES:
patent: 483130 (1892-09-01), Bex
patent: 2014762 (1935-09-01), Fergus
patent: 2178291 (1939-10-01), Steurelein
patent: 3001289 (1961-09-01), Carbonara
patent: 4280394 (1981-07-01), Singenberger et al.
patent: 4353283 (1982-10-01), Crepin
Maritime Defence, vol. 15, No. 6, Jun. 1980, p. 221.

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