Apparatus for monitoring the loaded or unloaded condition of a front loading weapon
AssigneeRheinmetall W & M GmbH
InventorKarl Gartz
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Abstract
A front loading weapon includes a barrel for firing ammunition therefrom; a breechblock arranged at a rear terminal portion of the barrel; a firing pin carried by the breechblock; and an apparatus for monitoring load conditions of the barrel. The apparatus includes a body sound sensor mounted on the weapon and emitting a first signal representing body oscillations of the weapon; an electronic evaluating device connected to an output of the sensor for emitting a second signal characteristic of an impacting of a cartridge on a region of the breechblock upon loading the cartridge into the barrel; and a warning device connected to the electronic evaluating device for being actuated by the second signal.
Claims6
A front loading weapon comprising
- (a) a barrel for firing ammunition therefrom;
- (b) a breechblock arranged at a rear terminal portion of said barrel;
- (c) a firing pin carried by said breechblock;
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- (d) an apparatus for monitoring a presence of a cartridge in said barrel;
- said apparatus including
- (1) a body sound sensor mounted on the weapon for detecting an acoustic signal generated when said cartridge impacts with a region of said breechblock upon loading said cartridge in said barrel and for emitting a first signal representing said acoustic signal;
- (2) an electronic evaluating device connected to an output of the sensor for emitting a second signal representing said first signal;
- and
- (3) a warning device connected to said electronic evaluating device for being actuated by said second signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.