Feeder for a gun
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorDouglas P. Tassie
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Abstract
This invention provides for a feeder tray which is journaled for rotation on a longitudinal axis and which includes two longitudinally extending cutouts, one for receiving fresh rounds of ammunition in sequence from a constant velocity train of ammunition and for transferring each round to the face of the gun bolt in aft dwell, the other for receiving the fired case and for displacing the fired case from the face of the gun bolt, and driven by a cylindrical cam system.
Claims9
An ammunition feeder for a gun having a longitudinally reciprocating gun bolt, including:
- first means driven at a substantially uniform angular velocity, for advancing a train of rounds of ammunition at a substantially uniform linear velocity;
- second means driven at a non-uniform angular velocity, for receiving a round of ammunition from said first means and for transversely translating such round directly onto the face of the gun bolt of the gun, and for transversely translating such round from the face of the gun bolt of the gun;
- driving means for said second means including
- a first cylindrical cam having a first peripheral cam track;
- a second cylindrical cam, coupled to and driving said second means, having a second peripheral cam track;
- a first cam follower disposed in said first cam track;
- a second cam follower disposed in said second cam track;
- and
- link means intercoupling said first and second cam followers, whereby rotation of said first cam causes rotation of said second means;
- said gun bolt being journaled for reciprocation along a first longitudinal axis;
- said second means being journaled for movement about a second longitudinal axis;
- and
- said driving means serves to oscillate said second means about said second longitudinal axis.
An ammunition feeder for a gun having a longitudinally reciprocating gun bolt, including:
- first means driven at a substantially uniform angular velocity, for advancing a train of rounds of ammunition at a substantially uniform linear velocity;
- second means driven at a non-uniform angular velocity, for receiving a round of ammunition from said first means and for transversely translating such round directly onto the face of the gun bolt of the gun, and for transversely translating such round from the face of the gun bolt of the gun;
- driving means for said second means including
- a first cylindrical cam having a first peripheral cam track;
- a second cylindrical cam, coupled to and driving said second means, having a second peripheral cam track;
- a first cam follower disposed in said first cam track;
- a second cam follower disposed in said second cam track;
- and
- link means intercoupling said first and second cam followers, whereby angular movement of said first cam causes angular movement of said second means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.