Ammunition belt link
AssigneeBAE SYSTEMS plc
InventorsJoshua Matthew Stubbs, Nathan William Rowe
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Abstract
According to the present invention, there is provided an ammunition belt link comprising, a sprung wire, said sprung wire arranged to form a first receiving portion suitable for retaining a first ammunition cartridge, a second receiving portion suitable for retaining a second ammunition cartridge, a spacer between said first receiving and second receiving portions, an ammunition cartridge locator aide, said locator aid locates in an ejector groove of a received cartridge and, the wire ammunition belt link further comprising a support surface suitable for retaining the first and/or second ammunition cartridge.
Claims20
A wire ammunition belt link comprising:
- a support surface suitable for retaining a first and/or a second ammunition cartridge;
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- a sprung wire, said sprung wire arranged to form
- a first receiving portion suitable for retaining the first ammunition cartridge,
- a second receiving portion suitable for retaining the second ammunition cartridge,
- a spacer between said first receiving and second receiving portions, and
- an ammunition cartridge locator aide, said locator aid locates in an ejector groove of a received cartridge.
A method of manufacturing a wire ammunition belt link-ef the method comprising:
- bending a continuous length of sprung wire by a wire forming machine to create said wire ammunition belt link;
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- forming a support surface on said first and/or second receiving portions;
- wherein said wire ammunition belt link includes a sprung wire, said sprung wire arranged to form first and second receiving portions, a spacer, and ammunition cartridge locator aide, the first receiving portion suitable for retaining a first ammunition cartridge, the second receiving portion suitable for retaining a second ammunition cartridge, the spacer between said first and second receiving portions, and the ammunition cartridge locator aide configured to locate in an ejector groove of a received cartridge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.