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US 4,363,397 AGranted
Z-Transfer device for ammunition
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
InventorsEarl D. Richey, Franklin A. Dobson
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Abstract
A Z-transfer device transfers rounds of ammunition between laterally misaned feeding and receiving apparatus by permitting the rounds to slide laterally with respect to each other while remaining parallel. Each round is retained in a bucket which is permitted to slide on a shaft with respect to adjacent buckets and each bucket is guided in a Z-shaped path between in-bearing and off-bearing apparatus.
Claims4
A transfer device for rounds of ammunition comprising:
- a plurality of buckets each adapted for receiving one of the rounds of ammunition at a first location and for delivering it to a second location, said first and second locations being laterally offset from each other;
- means for linking said buckets in an endless chain;
- means for guiding said buckets from said first location to said second location;
- said means for linking being effective to permit adjacent ones of said buckets to be laterally displaced from each other and being further effective to maintain all of said buckets parallel to each other;
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- means for retaining said rounds in said buckets during transfer thereof.
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