Ammunition feed for feeding a belted ammunition
AssigneeRheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH
InventorsHubert Schneider, Andy Mueller, Markus Schweizer
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Abstract
An ammunition feed device of a belted ammunition in a weapon system for delivery before a closure or before a closure head, wherein the ammunition must be drawn from the ammunition belt by a cartridge hook and delivered to the closure. To prevent a misfire, etc., the cartridge hook is integrated in the weapon system separately from the closure. The cartridge hook is carried or placed by the closure, when the closure has covered a distance to the rear or must still cover a distance forward.
Claims20
An ammunition feeding device comprising:
- a belted ammunition in a weapon system for delivery before a breech or a breech head, the breech has a guide as a breech cam in an upper region of the breech;
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- a cartridge hook adapted to extract the ammunition from the ammunition belt and deliver to the breech, the cartridge hook having a pin functionally coupled with the breech, the cartridge hook being incorporated in the weapon system separately from the breech, the cartridge hook being carried along or placed in a deactivating manner by the breech when the breech travels a distance backward or forward.
An ammunition feeding device comprising:
- a belted ammunition in a weapon system for delivery before a breech or a breech head, the breech has a guide as a breech cam in an upper region of the breech;
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- a cartridge hook adapted to extract the ammunition from the ammunition belt and deliver to the breech, the cartridge hook beinq incorporated in the weapon system separately from the breech, the cartridge hook being carried along or placed in a deactivating manner by the breech when the breech travels a distance backward or forward,
- wherein at least one side guiding part comprises a control cam and a guide cam for the cartridge hook, the guide cam having in a front portion a downwardly facing clearance and the control cam partially replicating the control of the cartridge hook.
An ammunition feeding device comprising:
- an ammunition in a weapon system;
- a cartridge hook adapted to extract the ammunition and deliver the ammunition to a breech, the cartridge hook being incorporated in the weapon system separately from the breech;
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- at least one side guiding part comprising a control cam and a guide cam for the cartridge hook, the guide cam having in a front portion a downwardly facing clearance and the control cam replicating the control of the cartridge hook.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.