Adjustable mount for gun pod and the like
AssigneeFord Aerospace & Communications Corporation
InventorCarl W. Croissant, Jr.
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Abstract
A mounting device for a gun pod has a threaded bolt with a head fixed to an airplane wing. The threaded bolt engages a threaded aperture of an inner sleeve rotatably mounted in an aperture of a middle sleeve. The aperture of the middle sleeve is eccentric with respect to the axis of rotation thereof. The middle sleeve is rotatably mounted in an aperture through an outer sleeve. The aperture through the outer sleeve is also eccentrically positioned the same amount from the axis of the outer sleeve. The outer sleeve is rotatably mounted in a retainer mounted in an aperture in the gun pod. The gun pod is also pivotably mounted to the airplane wing at a position spaced from the mounting device such that adjustment of the mounting device adjusts the vertical and azimuth angles of the gun pod with respect to the wing.
Claims7
An adjusting mechanism for adjusting the distance and alignment of a first object with respect to a second connected object comprising:
- a first sleeve with a circular cross section rotatably mounted to the first object;
- said first sleeve having a hole with a circular cross section therein.
- said hole having an axis offset from the axis of rotation of the first sleeve;
- a second sleeve having a circular cross section rotatably mounted in the hole of the first sleeve;
- the second sleeve having a hole with a circular cross section therein;
- said hole of the second sleeve having an axis offset from the axis of rotation of the second sleeve;
- a third sleeve with a circular cross section rotatably mounted in the third hole.
- said third sleeve having a central cylindrical aperture longitudinally extending therethrough;
- means for retaining the first, second and third sleeves rotatably mounted with respect to each other;
- a bolt means fixed to the second object and extending in the cylindrical aperture;
- means for adjusting the bolt means relative to the apertures in a plurality of longitudinal fixed positions;
- means for rotating the first and second sleeves with respect to each other and with respect to the first object such that first object is moved with respect to the second object in a direction transverse to the axis of the bolt means.
A gun adjusting mechanism for adjusting the azimuth and elevation of a gun pivotably connected to a support structure comprising:
- means for fixedly mounting the gun to a gun pod substantially covering the gun;
- means for pivotably mounting the gun pod to the support structure;
- means connected to the gun pod and support structure spaced away from the pivoting means for adjusting the gun pod azimuth and elevation from one location on the exterior of the gun pod;
- said adjusting means includes:
- one of the gun pods or support structures having a first hole of circular cross section therein;
- a first sleeve with a circular cross section rotatably mounted in the first hole;
- the first sleeve having a second hole with a circular cross section therein;
- the second hole having an axis offset from the axis of rotation of the first sleeve;
- a second sleeve having a circular cross section rotatably mounted in the second hole;
- the second sleeve having a third hole with a circular cross section therein;
- the third hole having an axis offset from the axis of rotation of the second sleeve;
- a third sleeve with a circular cross section rotatably mounted in the third hole;
- the third sleeve having a central cylindrical and threaded aperture longitudinally extending therethrough;
- a bolt means fixed to the other of the gun pod or support structure in a substantially vertical direction and threadably engaging the aperture means for the rotating the third sleeve with respect to the bolt means from adjusting the elevation of the gun with respect to the support structure;
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- means for rotating the first and second sleeve with respect to each other and with respect to the gun pod and support structure such that the gun pod is pivoted from its pivotable connection to the support structure in a substantially lateral direction to control the azimuth of the gun.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.