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US 4,359,928 AGranted
High rate of fire revolving battery gun
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorQuentan T. Sawyer
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Abstract
A feature of this invention is the provision of a Gatling type gun having a firing/safing cam assembly having three dispositions: one permitting firing in one direction of rotation; another permitting firing in the other direction of rotation; and yet another precluding firing in either direction of rotation of the rotor, all by means of two independently operated cam elements and a continuum element operated as a function of the respective dispositions of said cam elements.
Claims5
A Gatling type gun comprising:
- a housing having a longitudinal axis;
- a rotor journaled for clockwise and counterclockwise rotation about said longitudinal axis;
- a gun bolt carried by said rotor and having a firing pin and a cocking pin coupled thereto;
- firing and safing cam means coupled to said housing and having:
- a first disposition for causing said cocking pin to cock and to fire said firing pin during clockwise rotation of said rotor,
- a second disposition for causing said cocking pin to cock and to fire said firing pin during counterclockwise rotation of said rotor, and
- a third disposition for precluding said cocking pin from firing said firing pin during rotation of said rotor,
- said cam means including:
- two independently operated cam elements and
- a continuum cam element and control means to operate said continuum element as a function of the respective dispositions of said two cam elements.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.