Ammunition box and ammunition magazine intended to receive such a box
AssigneeNexter Systems
InventorsMaxime Carre, Steve Baert, Alexis Conte, Rémi Raymond
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Abstract
An ammunition box that is intended to equip a magazine of a gun turret. The box is substantially parallelepipedic and comprises a pivoting handle formed by two arms that are articulated on the side walls and are connected by a grip allowing the extraction and transportation of the box. The handle comprises a protuberance disposed in the vicinity of at least one of the articulated arms and in the vicinity of its pivot pin on the walls, which protuberance is intended to engage with at least one guide groove provided on the magazine of the turret. A further aim of the invention is a magazine capable of receiving such a box.
Claims17
An ammunition box that is configured to equip a magazine of a gun turret, the ammunition box being substantially parallelepipedic and comprising two end walls that are parallel to one another and two side walls that are parallel to one another and perpendicular to the end walls, the ammunition box comprising a pivoting handle formed by two arms that are articulated on the side walls and are connected by a grip allowing extraction and transportation of the ammunition box, wherein the handle comprises a protuberance provided at at least one of the arms and in a vicinity of a pivot pin of the handle on the walls, the protuberance being an overthickness of the handle in a direction parallel to the pivot pin, so that the protuberance is able to engage with at least one guide groove provided on a magazine of a turret.
An ammunition magazine secured to a gun turret and receiving at least one ammunition box, the at least one ammunition box configured to equip the ammunition magazine, the at least one ammunition box being substantially parallelepipedic and comprising two end walls that are parallel to one another and two side walls that are parallel to one another and perpendicular to the end walls, the ammunition box comprising a pivoting handle formed by two arms that are articulated on the side walls and are connected by a grip allowing extraction and transportation of the ammunition box, wherein the handle comprises a protuberance provided at at least one of the arms and in a vicinity of a pivot pin of the handle on the walls, the protuberance configured to engage with at least one guide groove provided on the ammunition magazine;
- the ammunition magazine comprising at least two panels delimiting an inner volume able to receive the at least one ammunition box, wherein at least one of the panels comprises at least one groove that emerges on at least one substantially cylindrical housing, the groove being intended to ensure guiding of the protuberance of the handle of the at least one ammunition box, the cylindrical housing being intended to cooperate with the protuberance so as to ensure locking of the at least one ammunition box once the at least one ammunition box is placed and the grip of the handle is tilted in a low position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.