Flexible ammunition channel
AssigneeWerkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon-Buhrle AG
InventorsAlfred Vonlanthen, Heinz Lienhard
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Abstract
A flexible ammunition channel comprising a multiplicity of elements connected with one another by hinges or pivots. The side walls of the ammunition channel, which are directed perpendicular to the bending plane of such ammunition channel, are constituted by flexible guide elements extending through the individual elements of the ammunition channel. The ammunition is precisely guided with small resistance against forward feed or advance thereof.
Claims7
A flexible ammunition channel for the infeed of ammunition between a magazine and a weapon, comprising:
- a plurality of elements for forming the ammunition channel;
- means for hingedly connecting said elements to one another to form a flexible ammunition channel bendable in only one predetermined bending plane;
- said means for hingedly connecting said elements to one another having hinge axes directed essentially perpendicular to said one bending plane of the ammunition channel;
- flexible guide bands forming side walls of the ammunition channel and directed essentially perpendicular to said one bending plane;
- said elements including a first end element at which there are secured said flexible guide bands;
- said elements including a second end element provided with recess means;
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- said flexible guide bands being guided by said elements and protruding into said recess means of said second end element.
A flexible ammunition channel for the infeed of ammunition to a weapon, comprising:
- a plurality of elements for forming the ammunition channel;
- means for hingedly interconnecting said elements to one another to form a flexible ammunition channel bendable in only a single predetermined bending plane;
- said means for hingedly interconnecting said elements to one another having hinge axes directed essentially perpendicular to said single bending plane of the ammunition channel;
- said plurality of elements having inner side walls directed essentially perpendicular to said single bending plane;
- flexible guide bands extending along said inner side walls of all of said plurality of elements;
- one of said plurality of elements constituting an end element;
- means for securing said flexible guide bands at said one end element;
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- said flexible guide bands being guided to be lengthwise displaceable through all of the remaining elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.