US 4,393,747 AGranted

Loading table

AssigneeAktiebolaget Bofors

InventorsOlle Gustavsson, Goran Sundmar

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Abstract

A loading table including a stable frame with a flat depositing plane (13) for shells (14) lying beside each other and feeding means for removing the shells, one at a time, from the plane, through lateral displacement. The feeding means utilize holding trough segments arranged in an endless chain with two stories of which the upper story comes into connection with the depositing plane. The segments are fastened in the links (16) of two drive chains which by means of the step drive mechanism can be actuated so that at a certain actuation of the step drive mechanism, holding troughs (15) for the shells, which can be composed of holding trough segments in the upper story, are moved forwards one spacing distance. The pairs of holding trough segments are arranged in such a way that said holding troughs which are formed are capable of receiving new shells directly from above under parallel displacement substantially at right angles to the depositing plane in a number corresponding to the number of shells removed from the plane. The holding troughs can then receive two or more shells simultaneously when these are arranged parallel to each other.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A firearm loading table for receiving a plurality of ammunition units and individually depositing said ammunition units comprising:

an endless chain supported by first and second sprockets, forming upper and lower horizontal chain segments;
a plurality of holding trough segments connected to said endless chain, and perpendicular therewith, pairs of said holding trough segments abutting each other along said upper segment to form a trough member for receiving an ammunition unit, said holding trough segments having a rear edge at the center thereof for coacting with a front edge of a section of the ammunition unit for fixing the ammunition unit against forward motion;
stop means;
a support member for holding said stop means an adjustable preselected distance from one end of said trough members to form an adjustable stop means whereby motion of an ammunition unit in a direction of said one end is restricted;
and
means for rotating said sprockets to incrementally move said endless chain a distance substantially equal to the distance between centers of said holding troughs, whereby said segments on said upper horizontal segment advancing towards the end of the said horizontal segment separate, releasing an ammunition unit, the rear segment of a trough pushing said released ammunition unit into a receiving plane.

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Facts

Application: 06/217,635Filed 18 Dec 1980
Priority: SE 791043618 Dec 1979
Granted: 19 Jul 1983
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

F41A 9/04
Feeding of unbelted ammunition: using endless-chain belts carrying a plurality of ammunition
B65G 17/36
Individual load-carriers: having concave surfaces, e.g. buckets
B65G 2201/02
Indexing codes relating to handling devices, e.g. conveyors, characterised by the type of product or load being conveyed or handled: articles
F41A
Functional features or details common to both smallarms and ordnance

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