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US 4,015,508 AGranted
Burst dispersion control
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsFredrick M. Blodgett, Jr., Peter B. Schuyler
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Abstract
A Gatling-type gun is disclosed having a cam plate with a plurality of transversely elongated, gun-barrel receiving cam slots to guide the distal ends of the respective gun barrels. Each distal end of the gun barrel is free within the length of its cam slot, but does remain in a neutral position in said slot when the gun is not firing. During firing, gun vibration, centrifugal force and recoil motion combine to produce an apparently random cantilevered movement of the distal end of the gun barrel within the length of its slot and, thus a random barrel dispersion.
Claims6
A gun comprising:
- a stationary housing;
- a rotor having a plurality of longitudinally extending gun barrels and journaled for rotation about a longitudinal axis within said housing;
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- control means operable while said rotor is operating for varying the longitudinal alignment of at least one of said gun barrels with respect to said longitudinal axis;
- said control means including
- a muzzle constraint adjacent each of said barrels at its respective distal end,
- said muzzle constraint having an oversize diameter bore receiving said one of said gun barrel and permitting free, cantilever, transverse vibrational movement of the distal end of said one of said gun barrels within said bore.
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