Ammunition loading assembly

An ammunition loading assembly for loading a projectile into a barrel of a gun, the loading assembly comprising:

• an urging member for urging the projectile into the barrel of the gun,
• drive means for driving the urging member between a projectile receiving position outside the barrel and a projectile delivery position inside a chamber of the gun, towards the proximate end of the barrel, the drive means including a drive chain assembly connected to the urging member for driving the urging member between the projectile receiving and delivery positions,
• a magazine for storing the drive chain assembly when the urging member is in the projectile receiving position, and
• a first chain-retaining device for limiting curving of the chain assembly out of its linear orientation, when moving the urging member towards the projectile delivery position, the first chain-retaining device being movable with the urging member from the projectile receiving position towards a position intermediate the projectile receiving and delivery positions, where the first chain-retaining device is retained from further movement.

An ammunition loading assembly for loading a projectile into a barrel of a gun, the loading assembly comprising:

• an urging member for urging the projectile into the barrel of the gun,
• drive means for driving the urging member between a projectile receiving position outside the barrel and a projectile delivery position inside a chamber of the gun, towards the proximate end of the barrel, the drive means including a drive chain assembly connected to the urging member for driving the urging member between the projectile receiving and delivery positions,
• a magazine for storing the drive chain assembly when the urging member is in the projectile receiving position,
• a first chain-retaining device for limiting curving of the chain assembly out of its linear orientation, when moving the urging member towards the projectile delivery position, the first chain-retaining device being movable with the urging member from the projectile receiving position towards a position intermediate the projectile receiving and delivery positions, where the first chain-retaining device is retained from further movement, and
• a second chain-retaining device, for guiding the chain when moving out of the magazine.

An ammunition loading assembly for loading a projectile into a barrel of a gun, comprising:

• an urging member for urging the projectile into the barrel;
• and
• drive means for driving the urging member between projectile receiving position outside the barrel and a projectile delivery position inside a chamber of the gun proximate to the end of the barrel, so that the projectile is delivered into the proximate end of the barrel where the urging member stops and the projectile is released by the urging member so that the projectile engraves on rifling the barrel under it's own momentum,
• the drive means including a drive chain assembly connected to the urging member for driving the urging member between the projectile receiving and delivery positions, and
• a first chain-retaining device for limiting curving of the chain assembly out of its linear orientation, when moving the urging member towards the projectile delivery position, the first chain-retaining device being movable with the urging member from the projectile receiving position towards a position intermediate the projectile receiving and delivery positions, where it is retained from further movement.

An ammunition loading assembly for loading a projectile into a barrel of a gun, the loading assembly comprising

• an urging member for urging the projectile into the barrel;
• drive means for driving the urging member between a projectile receiving position outside the barrel and a projectile delivery position inside a_chamber of the gun, proximate to the end of the barrel, so that the projectile is delivered into the proximate end of the barrel where the urging member stops and the projectile is released by the urging member so that the projectile engraves on rifling in the barrel under its own momentum,
• the drive means including a drive chain assembly connected to the urging member for driving the urging member between the projectile receiving and delivery positions,
• a first chain-retaining device for limiting curving of the chain assembly out of its linear orientation, when moving the urging member towards the projectile delivery position, the first chain-retaining device being movable with the urging member from the projectile receiving position towards a position intermediate the projectile receiving and delivery positions, where it is retained from further movement, and
• a second chain-retaining device, for guiding the chain when moving out of the magazine.