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
A machine gun comprising an ammunition belt feed mechanism comprising a mechanism for ejecting a last two links of an ammunition belt, and an ejecting ratchet configured to push on a penultimate link and actuated by mobile parts of the machine gun wherein the ejecting ratchet is secured to a belt traction mechanism, wherein the belt traction mechanism comprises an advancing ratchet configured to push, in use, against an ammunition item, wherein the ejecting ratchet and the advancing ratchet are formed as a single part.
Claims9
A machine gun comprising:
- an ammunition belt feed mechanism comprising an ejection mechanism configured to eject a last two links of an ammunition belt;
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- an ejecting ratchet configured to push on a penultimate link, wherein the ejecting ratchet is secured to a belt traction mechanism wherein the belt traction mechanism comprises an advancing ratchet configured to push, in use, against an ammunition item, wherein the ejecting ratchet and the advancing ratchet are formed as a single part,
- wherein the ejection mechanism comprises an ejection claw mounted opposite the ejection ratchet and the ejection claw is configured to push on a last link or the penultimate link to eject only the last link or the penultimate link.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.