Apparatus for locking the support of an elevationally aimable weapon
AssigneeIndustrie-Werke Karlsruhe Augsburg Aktiengesellschaft
InventorGert Kaustrater
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Abstract
An apparatus for locking a weapon support in either a zero position or any weapon-firing position relative to the turret of an armored vehicle. The apparatus includes a bore formed in the weapon support, a casing provided in the turret, and a bolt which engages the bore and protrudes through the casing into the interior of the armored vehicle. The bolt is spring-biased axially into engagement with the bore and the casing includes a gate. The bolt includes an index pin which engages the gate, the gate having first, second, and third defined positions for the index pin for latching and unlatching the weapon support.
Claims6
An apparatus for securing and releasing a weapon support of an armored vehicle from inside the turret of the vehicle, comprising a casing fixed in the turret and forming a guideway communicating with the exterior and interior of the turret, a bolt axially received in the guideway having one end exterior to the turret, a handle connected to the other end of the bolt interior to the turret for rotating the bolt about 180.degree. within the guideway, a bore in the weapon support for receiving the one end of the bolt, a spring axially biasing the one end of the bolt into engagement with the bore, an index pin connected to the bolt and extending transverse to the axis of the bolt, a gate in the casing for receiving the index pin, the gate including a helical track and a guide surface opposite the track for engaging the index pin in response to axial movement of the bolt, the index pin communicating with the track and being movable between latching, unlatching, and intermediate latching positions when the bolt is rotated in the casing, and run-on surfaces on the weapon support adjacent to the bore, the one end of the bolt engaging the run-on surfaces when the index pin is in the intermediate latching position whereby swivel movement of the weapon support causes the run-on surfaces to axially move the bolt against the force of the spring and the guide surface to guide the pin into the latching position.
An apparatus for securing and releasing a weapon support of an armored vehicle from inside the turret of the vehicle, comprising a casing fixed in the turret and forming a guideway communicating with the exterior and interior of the turret, a bolt axially received in the guideway having one end exterior to the turret which is slightly conic, a handle connected to the other end of the bolt interior to the turret for rotating the bolt within the guideway, a locking bar fixed to the weapon support, the locking bar including a bore for receiving the conic end of the bolt, means for biasing the conic end of the bolt into engagement with the bore of the locking bar, and an index pin connected to and positioned transverse to the longitudinal axis of the bolt, the casing including a helical track, the index pin communicating with the track and being movable between latching, unlatching, and intermediate latching positions when the bolt is rotated in the casing, the track including an inclined control surface opposite the intermediate latching position for engaging the index pin in response to axial movement of the bolt to guide the pin into the latching position.
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