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US 4,072,082 AGranted
Recoil converter
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsP. A. Bates, L. R. Folsom, A. J. Haberstroh
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Abstract
A gun is provided having an operating mechanism and an energy storage system which receives and stores energy from the gun housing during the recoil of the gun and which subsequently transfers said stored energy to said operating mechanism during each gun cycle.
Claims11
A gun comprising:
- a stationary gun mount;
- a gun housing journaled for reciprocation relative to said gun mount;
- an operating mechanism carried by said housing;
- an energy absorbtion and return mechanism coupled to said gun mount, said gun housing and said operating mechanism for absorbing and storing energy from the recoil movement of said housing relative to said gun mount, and for transmitting energy to said operating mechanism subsequent to said recoil movement;
- a gun bolt coupled to said operating mechanism;
- a gun barrel coupled to said operating mechanism;
- said gun having a gun cycle from 0.degree. to 360.degree.;
- said housing recoiling from 0.degree. to 180.degree., and counter-recoiling from 180.degree. to 360.degree. of said gun cycle;
- said gun barrel recoiling from 0.degree. to 90.degree., and counterrecoiling from 90.degree. to 180.degree. of said gun cycle;
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- said energy absorbtion and return mechanism absorbing energy from 0.degree. to 180.degree., and transmitting energy to said operating mechanism from 180.degree. to 360.degree. of said gun cycle.
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A gun comprising:
- a stationary gun mount;
- a gun housing journaled for reciprocation relative to said gun mount;
- an operating mechanism carried by said housing;
- an energy absorbtion and return mechamism coupled to said gun mount, said gun housing and said operating mechanism for absorbing and storing energy from the recoil movement of said housing relative to said gun mount, and for transmitting energy to said operating mechanism subsequent to said recoil movement;
- said energy absorbtion and return mechanism including spring means coupled by a first coupling means to said gun mount and by a second coupling means which is spaced from said first coupling means to said housing, so that recoil of said housing causes a progressive increase in the mutual spacing of said first and second coupling means and thereby a progressive transfer to and absorbiton by said spring means of energy from the recoiling housing.
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