Machine gun
AssigneeFn Herstal S.A.
InventorsPascal Marcel Henri Denis Franssen, Damien Nicole Freddy Verhaegen, Robert Beckers, Paul Michotte, Antoine Godbille
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Abstract
The invention relates to a machine gun (1) comprising a feedway having a main surface (3) for sliding an ammunition belt (5), side faces (8, 23) that guide the ammunition (18) belt (5) during use, and at least one surface (25, 29) for retaining the belt (5), arranged on the upper edge of the side faces (8, 23), said retaining surfaces (25, 29) facing the sliding surface (3) and said retaining surfaces (29, 25) being open so as to allow the insertion of the ammunition (18) belt (5).
Claims10
A machine gun comprising a feed channel comprising a main slip surface for a belt of ammunition items, two lateral faces configured to guide, in use, the belt of ammunition items, and one or more holding surfaces for the belt positioned at a top edge of each of the two lateral faces, said one or more holding surfaces facing the main slip surface and said one or more holding surfaces being separated by an opening, so as to allow an introduction of the belt of ammunition items in the opening, wherein said one or more holding surfaces are disposed such that the introduction of the belt requires either a flexible deformation of the one or more holding surfaces or a separation of the one or more holding surfaces.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.