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US 7,210,391 B2Granted
Adjustable gun carriages
AssigneeHeckler & Koch GmbH
InventorRudi Beckmann
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Abstract
Adjustable gun carriages are disclosed. An example gun carriage includes: a coarse height adjustment brake; a coarse side-to-side adjustment brake; a fine height orientation adjustment mechanism; a fine side-to-side orientation adjustment mechanism; a first control to actuate the coarse height adjustment brake; a second control to actuate the fine height orientation adjustment mechanism; a third control to actuate the coarse side-to-side adjustment brake; and a fourth control to actuate the fine side-to-side orientation adjustment mechanism.
Claims38
A gun carriage for a firearm comprising:
- a coarse height adjustment brake;
- a coarse side-to-side adjustment brake;
- a fine height orientation adjustment mechanism;
- a fine side-to-side orientation adjustment mechanism;
- a first control to actuate the coarse height adjustment brake;
- a second control to actuate the fine height orientation adjustment mechanism;
- a third control to actuate the coarse side-to-side adjustment brake;
- a fourth control to actuate the fine side-to-side orientation adjustment mechanism;
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- first and second handles located at a rear of the gun carriage, and wherein the first handle comprises the first control and the first handle may be turned to transition the coarse height adjustment brake between a locked state and an unlocked state.
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A gun carriage for a firearm comprising:
- a coarse height adjustment brake;
- a coarse side-to-side adjustment brake;
- a fine height orientation adjustment mechanism;
- a fine side-to-side orientation adjustment mechanism;
- a first control to actuate the coarse height adjustment brake;
- a second control to actuate the fine height orientation adjustment mechanism;
- a third control to actuate the coarse side-to-side adjustment brake;
- a fourth control to actuate the fine side-to-side orientation adjustment mechanism;
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- first and second handles located at a rear of the gun carriage, and wherein the first handle comprises the third control, and the first handle may be turned to transition the coarse side-to-side adjustment brake between a locked state and an unlocked state.
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A gun carriage for a firearm comprising:
- a coarse height adjustment brake;
- a coarse side-to-side adjustment brake;
- a fine height orientation adjustment mechanism;
- a fine side-to-side orientation adjustment mechanism;
- a first control to actuate the coarse height adjustment brake;
- a second control to actuate the fine height orientation adjustment mechanism;
- a third control to actuate the coarse side-to-side adjustment brake;
- a fourth control to actuate the fine side-to-side orientation adjustment mechanism;
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- first and second handles located at a rear of the gun carriage, and wherein one of the first control or the second control comprises a first control gear which is located at an end of the first handle, and one of the third control or the fourth control comprises a second control gear which is located at an end of the second handle.
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A gun carriage for a firearm comprising:
- a coarse height adjustment brake;
- a coarse side-to-side adjustment brake;
- a fine height orientation adjustment mechanism;
- a fine side-to-side orientation adjustment mechanism;
- a first control to actuate the coarse height adjustment brake;
- a second control to actuate the fine height orientation adjustment mechanism;
- a third control to actuate the coarse side-to-side adjustment brake;
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- a fourth control to actuate the fine side-to-side orientation adjustment mechanism, wherein the fine height orientation adjustment mechanism and the fine side-to-side orientation adjustment mechanism are coupled to a gun mounting which is horizontally and vertically adjustable, and wherein a first self-locking spindle transmission comprises a bevel gear coupled to the second control via a bell crank transmission, and a second self-locking spindle transmission comprises a bevel gear coupled to the fourth control via a bell crank transmission.
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A gun carriage for a firearm comprising:
- a coarse height adjustment brake;
- a coarse side-to-side adjustment brake;
- a fine height orientation adjustment mechanism;
- a fine side-to-side orientation adjustment mechanism;
- a first control to actuate the coarse height adjustment brake;
- a second control to actuate the fine height orientation adjustment mechanism;
- a third control to actuate the coarse side-to-side adjustment brake;
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- a fourth control to actuate the fine side-to-side orientation adjustment mechanism, wherein the fine height orientation adjustment mechanism and the fine side-to-side orientation adjustment mechanism are coupled to a gun mounting which is horizontally and vertically adjustable, and wherein the gun mounting is coupled via a joint with two degrees of freedom with a pivot fork, and wherein the joint with two degrees of freedom comprises a joint rod having two end sections and a middle section, a first flattened adapter couples a first one of the end sections to the middle section, and a second flattened adapter couples a second one of the end sections to the middle section.
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A gun carriage for a firearm comprising:
- a coarse height adjustment brake;
- a coarse side-to-side adjustment brake;
- a fine height orientation adjustment mechanism;
- a fine side-to-side orientation adjustment mechanism;
- a first control to actuate the coarse height adjustment brake;
- a second control to actuate the fine height orientation adjustment mechanism;
- a third control to actuate the coarse side-to-side adjustment brake;
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- a fourth control to actuate the fine side-to-side orientation adjustment mechanism, wherein the fine height orientation adjustment mechanism and the fine side-to-side orientation adjustment mechanism are coupled to a gun mounting which is horizontally and vertically adjustable, and wherein the gun mounting is coupled via a joint with two degrees of freedom with a pivot fork, and wherein the pivot fork is suspended in a pivot dish via two trunnions to permit coarse height adjustments, and wherein the pivot dish is mounted on a drum via a pivot pin to permit coarse side-to-side adjustments.
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A gun carriage for a firearm comprising:
- a coarse height adjustment brake;
- a coarse side-to-side adjustment brake;
- a fine height orientation adjustment mechanism;
- a fine side-to-side orientation adjustment mechanism;
- a first control to actuate the coarse height adjustment brake;
- a second control to actuate the fine height orientation adjustment mechanism;
- a third control to actuate the coarse side-to-side adjustment brake;
- a fourth control to actuate the fine side-to-side orientation adjustment mechanism;
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- an actuator associated with the first handle or the second handle to fire a firearm mounted on the gun carriage, wherein the actuator operatively engages a first hydraulic piston, a hydraulic line, and a second hydraulic piston, the first hydraulic piston operatively engages a connecting rod which is in operative engagement with the actuator, and the second hydraulic piston operatively engages a trigger of the firearm mounted on the gun carriage.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.