Back to results
US 4,395,936 AGranted
Device for automatic transfer of rounds
AssigneeAktiebolaget Bofors
InventorsLars Lundin, Rune Svanstrom
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Loading patent…
Loading patent…
AssigneeAktiebolaget Bofors
InventorsLars Lundin, Rune Svanstrom
Estimating the term…
A device for automatic transfer of rounds of ammunition is utilized for a large-calibre firearm, for instance for ships or the like. The firearm comprises a magazine arranged on its elevating mass, and the firearm is set at a predetermined elevation at the loading of the magazine. Rounds are conveyed from an ammunition store via the underside of the mounting to the top of the mounting. A laterally displaceable cassette is arranged to receive rounds fed to it in an infeed position, and in an outfeed position to transfer rounds to the magazine when this has assumed the loading position. For the transfer of rounds from the cassette to the magazine of the firearm the potential energy of the rounds is utilized, so that no special transferring means working in the magazine need be utilized for this transfer.
A device for automatic transfer of rounds for an artillery piece having a firearm installed in a mounting means, a magazine mounted on an elevating mass of the firearm, and a round feeding channel which leads from an ammunition store below the mounting to the top of the mounting, said device comprising a cassette means arranged displaceably between an infeed position for the rounds and an outfeed position, in which the cassette is set with an outfeed opening facing an infeed opening on said magazine when the firearm is in a predetermined elevation wherein the rounds can be transferred from the cassette means to the magazine via said openings, said cassette means being arranged displaceably in a direction substantially parallel to an axis of elevation of the firearm, said cassette means being arranged so that in said outfeed position it will be at a level higher than that of the magazine of the firearm so that a potential energy given to the rounds in the cassette means can be used for transfer of the rounds from the cassette means to the magazine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.