EP0178484A1 - Chargeur pour canons - Google Patents

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EP0178484A1
EP0178484A1 EP85111886A EP85111886A EP0178484A1 EP 0178484 A1 EP0178484 A1 EP 0178484A1 EP 85111886 A EP85111886 A EP 85111886A EP 85111886 A EP85111886 A EP 85111886A EP 0178484 A1 EP0178484 A1 EP 0178484A1
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Erich Zielinski
Theo Heckenbach
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Rheinmetall Industrie AG
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41A—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE
    • F41A9/00—Feeding or loading of ammunition; Magazines; Guiding means for the extracting of cartridges
    • F41A9/37—Feeding two or more kinds of ammunition to the same gun; Feeding from two sides
    • F41A9/375—Feeding propellant charges and projectiles as separate units
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41A—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE
    • F41A9/00—Feeding or loading of ammunition; Magazines; Guiding means for the extracting of cartridges
    • F41A9/01—Feeding of unbelted ammunition
    • F41A9/06—Feeding of unbelted ammunition using cyclically moving conveyors, i.e. conveyors having ammunition pusher or carrier elements which are emptied or disengaged from the ammunition during the return stroke
    • F41A9/09—Movable ammunition carriers or loading trays, e.g. for feeding from magazines
    • F41A9/10—Movable ammunition carriers or loading trays, e.g. for feeding from magazines pivoting or swinging
    • F41A9/13—Movable ammunition carriers or loading trays, e.g. for feeding from magazines pivoting or swinging in a vertical plane
    • F41A9/16—Movable ammunition carriers or loading trays, e.g. for feeding from magazines pivoting or swinging in a vertical plane which is parallel to the barrel axis

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  • the invention relates to a charging device for guns according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • Such a device for loading storeys and propellant charges stored separately in turrets is known from DE-AS 20 27 586.
  • Space-consuming cross conveyor tracks are required to remove bullets stored on both sides and the rear of the gun barrel in separate projectile and propellant charge magazines and cartridges containing powder charges, and further gripper arms are required to lift the divided ammunition.
  • two devices which are arranged on both sides of the gun barrel and which can be pivoted about the gun vertical direction axis are necessary, one for taking over the projectiles and the propellant charges from the transverse conveyor track to the two pivoting devices in the vertical plane of the Gun barrel arranged longitudinal transport device is required.
  • This device consisting of many individual transport devices, is complex to manufacture and requires a large amount of space, which leads to comparatively high tower silhouettes.
  • This device is further designed such that the projectile and the propellant charge are arranged one behind the other and are transported together by a separate attachment device into the cargo space of the gun barrel.
  • Split ammunition arranged in tandem at the same time requires a large space to be kept behind the weapon for the loading process, which, in order to achieve a maximum pipe elevation, is not the case, for example, with a howitzer.
  • a certain minimum force is required to attach the projectile, which, however, in order to avoid damage to the propellant charge, especially in the case of large pipe heights, should not be transmitted via the propellant charge itself.
  • the gun barrel Due to the two-sided arrangement of the two swivel devices, the gun barrel is difficult to access, so that maintenance is difficult and manual loading of special projectiles is not possible.
  • the invention has for its object to reduce the space requirement of the loading device for split ammunition behind the breech and to the side of the gun barrel so that the pivoting about the gun level direction loading device can follow up to the full elevation of the gun barrel, especially for howitzers, and a separate, automatic and simple supply of the projectile and a preferably unbundled modular propellant charge is possible, as well as simple and safe maintenance and manual loading of special projectiles on one side of the gun barrel.
  • the joint arrangement of a projectile charging shell and a propellant charging shell on only one transfer arm arranged laterally on the gun barrel and pivotable about the gun vertical direction axis advantageously enables a projectile and a modular propellant charge to be transported together on only one gun barrel side into a position parallel to the aligned gun barrel.
  • the position of the propellant charge cradle for receiving the propellant charge modules from an opening in the propellant charge magazine and the position of the charge cradle for receiving the projectile that can be removed from the projectile magazine are also on the same side of the transport arm, so that a time-saving simultaneous reception of the projectile and the propellant charge takes up space only one projectile tube side can be done.
  • the propellant charge shell and the projectile loading shell are pivotally arranged on a common axis connected to the transfer arm, a parallel arrangement of the projectile and the propellant charge on the transfer arm is made possible, so that only a comparatively small space requirement behind the breech block of the gun is required whose maximum height directional angle of the gun barrel can be achieved, for example with howitzers.
  • the common axis of the propellant charge shell and the projectile loading shell further allows simultaneous removal of the projectile and the propellant charge from superimposed removal positions of the propellant charge and projectile magazine, from which, after the pivoting operation of the transfer arm, the projectile loading shell from the top and the propellant charging shell from below in front of the closure opening of the space-saving one after the other Gun barrel is pivotable.
  • a particularly large space saving is achieved if the propellant charge cradle is pivotally arranged on the storey cradle.
  • the swivel arm of the propellant charge cradle can advantageously be shorter than that Swivel arm of the storey charging cradle can be executed.
  • This arrangement also allows a position of the projectile charging cradle between the pivot axes of the projectile charging cradle and the propellant charge shell, whereby small differences in height of the projectile and propellant charge removal positions can be achieved.
  • the arrangement of an unlocking device of the propellant charge magazine makes it possible to meter the propellant charge individually in terms of length, and the modular propellant charge can be supplied in a space-saving manner transversely or in the axial direction to the propellant charge cradle.
  • FIG. 1 and 2 show a rotatably mounted gun turret 25 with a gun barrel 5 which can be pivoted about the vertical axis 4.
  • the gun turret 25 contains on the rear side a projectile magazine 12 in which projectiles 1 are mounted parallel to the plane of the projectile tube axis 17 and laterally offset to the gun tube a propellant charge magazine 13 divided into compartments 21 for storing unbundled modular propellant charges 3.
  • a charging device 26 is arranged on one side of the gun barrel 5, which is attached to a transfer arm pivotable about the vertical direction axis 4 and one Contains charging cradle 8 for the transport of the propellant charge 3 and a charging cradle 9 for the transport of a projectile 1.
  • Both charging cradles 8, 9 are arranged on a common pivot axis 15 connected to the transfer arm 6.
  • the projectiles 1 are pushed into the charging cradle 9 parallel to the projectile tube axis 17 by a pushing device (not shown), while the propellant charge modules 2 located in a collecting trough 18 (FIG. 6) are pushed into the charging cradle 8 by a driving device 20 (FIG. 8).
  • the transfer arm 6 pivots with a received projectile 1 and the propellant charge 4 into the position of the gun barrel oriented at an elevation angle ⁇ , 26 elevation angles 0 ⁇ greater than 50 0 being possible due to the space-saving arrangement of the charging device.
  • the propellant charge magazine 13 consists of a container 27 and is divided into compartments 21 in which the propellant charge modules 2 are arranged one above the other.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates the stacked arrangement of the propellant charge modules 2 within the propellant charge magazine 13.
  • the bottom 28 of the propellant charge magazine 13 is designed as an inclined plane, so that the modules 2 can be transported further into the collecting trough 18 by their own weight.
  • the collecting trough 18 arranged parallel to the projectile tube axis 17 is arranged offset on the propellant charge magazine 13, so that the charging cradle 8 for receiving the propellant charge modules 2 can pivot about the axis 15 into the position 10 corresponding to the receiving trough 18.
  • the L adeschalen 8, 9 each comprise a cranked lever arm pivot levers 29, 30, thereby successively 30 of the projectile loading shell 9 and the lever 29 of the propellant charge shell 8 are pivotable about the axis 15 in front of the shutter opening. 7
  • Each charging cradle 8, 9 contains two pivot levers 29, 30 for storage at the front and rear ends, in each case one pivot lever 29 and 30 is mounted on an axis 15 connected to the transfer arm 6.
  • the projectile charging cradle 9 can be pivoted from above and the propellant charging cradle 8 from below in front of this closing opening 7, the arrangement according to FIG. 5 in each case allows the two charging cradles 8, 9 to be pivoted in exclusively from below in front of the closing opening 7.
  • the pivoting lever 30.1 the projectile charging cradle 9.1 is pivotally mounted about an axis 15.1 arranged above the charging cradle 9.1 on the transfer arm 6.
  • a further swivel axis 16 for receiving the propellant charge cradle 8.1 is attached to it below the storey cradle 9.1 at a distance a.
  • the dimension a exceeds the swivel radius r of the projectile loading cradle 9.1, so that in an intermediate position 31 swiveled back between the transport position 11.1 and the insertion point in front of the closure opening 7, a swivel lever 29.1 smaller than the swivel arm 30.1 of the projectile loading cradle 9.1 performs the swiveling-in movement in the direction 32 in front of the closure opening 7 can.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates the removal positions for the charging trays 8, 9, on the one hand the propellant charge modules 2 from the propellant charge magazine 13 and on the other hand the projectile 1 from a storey magazine 12 known per se.
  • the propellant charge modules can be removed from the collecting channel 18 in the lower position 10.
  • the projectile 1 can be removed from a position 11, which is not shown, above the position 10.
  • FIGS. 7 and 8 illustrate the transport of the propellant charge modules 2 on the one hand into the collecting trough 18, the propellant charge modules 2 being able to be released individually from the compartments 21 by means of an actuatable pivotable locking lever 33 of an unlocking device 22 and on the other hand through one in a longitudinal slot 23 of the collecting trough 18 guided driving fingers 19 of a driving device 20 consisting of a chain hoist are pushed together to different propellant charge lengths in the area of the receiving position 10 of the propellant charge shell 8.
  • Each vertical position of the propellant charge modules can be called up one after the other by unlocking devices 22 assigned to the compartments 21.
  • the propellant charge shell 8 is shown once in the receiving position 10 and once in the pivoted position 7.

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EP0256250B1 (fr) * 1986-08-09 1990-08-29 KUKA Wehrtechnik GmbH Dispositif pour le chargement de canons, surtout pour canons blindés
EP0419758A1 (fr) * 1989-09-27 1991-04-03 Rheinmetall GmbH Dispositif de chargement pour charges de poudre modulaire
EP0557751A2 (fr) * 1992-02-27 1993-09-01 KUKA Wehrtechnik GmbH Obusier blindé comportant un bras de chargement pivotant et un magasin pour munitions du type à chaîne sans fin
FR2755223A1 (fr) * 1996-10-26 1998-05-01 Rheinmetall Ind Ag Tourelle protegee pour vehicules blindes
WO1999045262A1 (fr) 1998-03-04 1999-09-10 Vialle Beheer B.V. Commande d'injection de carburant pour moteur a combustion interne
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EP0256250B1 (fr) * 1986-08-09 1990-08-29 KUKA Wehrtechnik GmbH Dispositif pour le chargement de canons, surtout pour canons blindés
EP0360776A1 (fr) * 1988-09-21 1990-03-28 Ab Bofors Dispositif de chargement
EP0419758A1 (fr) * 1989-09-27 1991-04-03 Rheinmetall GmbH Dispositif de chargement pour charges de poudre modulaire
US5111731A (en) * 1989-09-27 1992-05-12 Rheinmetall Gmbh Loading device for modular propelling charges
EP0557751A2 (fr) * 1992-02-27 1993-09-01 KUKA Wehrtechnik GmbH Obusier blindé comportant un bras de chargement pivotant et un magasin pour munitions du type à chaîne sans fin
EP0557751A3 (fr) * 1992-02-27 1994-03-23 Kuka Wehrtechnik Gmbh
FR2755223A1 (fr) * 1996-10-26 1998-05-01 Rheinmetall Ind Ag Tourelle protegee pour vehicules blindes
WO1999045262A1 (fr) 1998-03-04 1999-09-10 Vialle Beheer B.V. Commande d'injection de carburant pour moteur a combustion interne
WO2004055464A1 (fr) * 2002-12-13 2004-07-01 Krauss-Maffei Wegmann Gmbh & Co. Kg Module de tir
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