Remotely operable machine gun charging apparatus
AssigneeContract Fabrication and Design, LLC
InventorRussell D. Mensch
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Abstract
A remotely operable machine gun charger is provided for selectively controlling the forward-to-rear movement of a machine gun bolt pin. When the bolt pin is released from its safe position the charger permits the bolt pin to be spring-driven back to its armed position substantially instantaneously by the bolt spring without waiting for pin engagement and drive structure portions of the gun to be returned to their forwardmost positions. The charger permits the gun to be fired during such movement of the engagement and drive structure back to their forwardmost positions, and the charger may be mounted on and removed from the machine gun without the use of tools, or the necessity of removing or adjusting any of the internal components of the machine gun.
Claims18
Gun charging apparatus for selectively causing movement of a machine gun bolt pin between safe and armed positions thereof, the bolt pin having a return spring biasing it toward said armed position, said gun charging apparatus comprising:
- an actuating member supported for driven movement between a first position, a second position spaced apart from said first position, and a third position spaced further apart from said first position than said second position;
- said actuating member being:
- (1) operative to engage said bolt pin, drive said bolt pin to said safe position, at a limit location of said bolt pin and then hold said bolt pin in said safe position against the biasing force of said return spring, in response to said actuating member being driven from said first position to said second position,
- (2) operative to release said bolt pin and permit said bolt pin spring to drive said bolt pin back to said armed position in response to said actuating member being driven from said second position to said third position, said actuating member in said third position thereof being translated relative to said limit location of said bolt pin in said safe position thereof,
- (3) operative to drivingly re-engage said bolt pin, after said actuating member is driven from said third position to said first position, in response to said actuating member again being driven from said first position towards said second position, and
- (4) configured to permit said bolt pin to return to its armed position, and reciprocate during firing of the machine gun, during driven return of said actuating member from its third position to its first position;
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- drive apparatus operable to drive said actuating member to said first, second and third positions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.