EP0281793A2 - Cartridge feeding assembly for smooth-bore guns with semi-automatic or pump operation - Google Patents
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- a gun with smooth-bore barrel whatever its operating system, necessarily has feed (recocking) assemblies such as to cause, at every fired round, the passage of a new cartridge from the magazine, generally tubular in shape, into the cartridge chamber of the barrel.
- the gun will be termed semiautomatic in operation; if the passage occurs, at each fired round, manually, by means of the movement of the cocking rod, the gun will be termed manually or pump operated.
- the backward opening stroke of the bolt assembly has always been used, in various manners, to synchronize the movements of the lever (or levers) for stopping the cartridge in the magazine, for the exit of a single cartridge at a time, with those of a lifter cup on which said cartridge is arranged, in exiting from the magazine, to be raised to a position suitable for introduction into the barrel.
- feed systems suitable for the type of operation (semiautomatic or pump) with which the firearm is provided, generally comprising two levers for stopping the cartridge in the magazine and shaped so as to be moved by the bolt of the firearm, or even partly arranged directly on said bolt.
- buttons mounted separately, prepare the firearm, in a more or less complicated manner, for the manual passage of the cartridge in the barrel from the magazine or for the momentary locking of the cartridges in the magazine for changing the one in the barrel.
- Simpler feed systems having a single cartridge stop lever, developed with the onset of the semiautomatic operating system of the firearm, but, mostly, are only operable with this operating system and do not allow the manual passage of the cartridges from the magazine to the cartridge chamber of the barrel of said firearm, unless highly complicated and delicate mechanisms are used.
- the object of this invention is to overcome the limitations and the complexity of systems hitherto known by providing a new feed assembly applicable to guns with different types of operation (semiautomatic, manual pump and combined: semiautomatic/pump) and capable of selecting, in a simple and safe manner, the exit of the cartridges from the magazine independently from the operating system of the firearm and without the need for preventive manual presetting.
- a cartridge feeding assembly for delivering cartridges from a tubular magazine into the barrel of a smooth-bore firearm having a casing, a bolt slidable with respect to the casing, a lifter cup for the cartridge, a hammer and a trigger, the feeding assembly further comprising:
- a fragmentarily illustrated rifle comprises a casing 33, a magazine 16, a trigger 17 protected by a guard 5, and a hammer 18.
- the feed assembly substanivelytially comprises a cartridge descent lever 1, pivoted to the firearm on a pivot 2 and held in resting position, with its resting plane 3 against the abutment plane 4 provided on the guard 5, by a spring 6 pivoted on a pivot 7.
- the spring 6 rests with its stem 8 on a tab 9 of the cartridge descent lever 1, and it exerts upon the tab a downward force so as to ensure the contact between the above described planes 3 and 4.
- a hammer 18 When trigger 17 of the firearm is pulled (fig. 3), a hammer 18 is pushed by a spring 19 guided on a sliding bush 20 , and turns about its pivot 2 until it imparts to the firing pin 21 an energy sufficient to cause the explosion of the cartridge in the barrel 22 .
- the cartridge 15 leaving the magazine tube 16 is forced (fig. 6) by the plane 32 of the casing 33 to slide along the plane 34 of the cartridge stop lever 12 .
- This movement causes the cartridge stop lever 12 to turn anticlockwise on its pivot 13 , thus recompressing the return spring 27 until it returns to the position of fig. 2, i.e. with its front plane 14 in a position preventing the second cartridge 35 in the magazine from leaving the magazine 16 .
- the plane 23 of the sliding bush 20 no longer pushes against the tab 24 of the cartridge descent lever 1 .
- the descent lever 1 rotates on the pivot 2 until it returns to its rest position determined by the resting plane 3 on the abutment plane 4 of the guard 5.
- the cartridge stop lever 12 prevents the exit of the second cartridge in the magazine, even when the cartridge 15 no longer rests on its flat 11, since the front plane 34 of said cartridge stop lever 12 makes contact with the side 29 of the lifter cup 30 which is moved into a raised position, such as to allow the introduction of said cartridge 15 in the barrel.
- the said effect of pulling the trigger is valid whether the firearm has semiautomatic operation (regardless of the inertial, gas intake or recoiling barrel type), or it has manual pump-type operation or convertible operation (semiautomatic and/or manual pump).
- the feed assembly is part of a firearm with manual pump operation or with "convertible" operation, (where the manual operation is also available), it is required that the cartridge passes, without pulling the trigger, from the magazine tube into the barrel, merely by opening the bolt of the firearm by means of its cocking rod.
- Such short time (fig. 9-10) is sufficient to prevent the flat 10 of the cartridge descent lever 1 from continuing to act as rest for the flat 11 of the cartridge stop lever 12 .
- the cartridge stop lever 12 no longer resting on the cartridge descent lever 1 , rotates (fig. 10) about its pivot 13 as an effect of the return spring 27 until its flat 28 rests on the side 29 of the lifter cup 30. Because of this rotation, the front plane 14 of the cartridge stop lever 12 no longer prevents the cartridge from exiting from the inside of the magazine tube.
- the new cartridge feed system thus performs all its functions regardless of the type of operation of the firearm to which it can be applied.
- the cartridge descent lever 1 is also provided with a tab 44 protruding, externally to the firearm, from the lower plane 45 of the guard 5 .
- Said cartridge in positioning itself on the lifter cup, presses against the rear part of the cartridge stop lever causing it to rotate anticlockwise and preventing thereby the exit of a second cartridge from the magazine.
- the lifter cup controlled by the bolt which, in the meantime, as an effect of the firing, has completed the retrograde opening stroke of the firearm extracting and expelling the case in the barrel, rises automatically, while said bolt returns to a closed position, raising the cartridge in a position suitable for the insertion into the chamber.
- the new cartridge descent lever executes its rotational movement, as described in paragraph "A", by virtue of an adapted tab thereof on which the bolt acts during the retrograde opening motion obtained by means of the cocking rod (pump system).
- the configuration of the new cartridge descent lever is such as to ensure the operation of the system both if the actuation for its rotation is imparted by the spring of the cock and if said actuation is imparted by the bolt.
- a cartridge feed assembly is thus provided essentially composed of a new cartridge descent lever which, together with a cartridge stop lever which can be made integral therewith, simply and securely selects the exit of the cartridges from the magazine without the need for preventive adjustments and regardless of the operating system of the firearm, be it semiautomatic, of the manual pump type or combined (semiautomatic and/or manual pump type), all the movements of the new cartridge descent lever being in any case synchronized and compatible with the operating system of the firearm to which it can be coupled.
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Description
- A gun with smooth-bore barrel, whatever its operating system, necessarily has feed (recocking) assemblies such as to cause, at every fired round, the passage of a new cartridge from the magazine, generally tubular in shape, into the cartridge chamber of the barrel.
- If this passage occurs automatically at each fired round, the gun will be termed semiautomatic in operation; if the passage occurs, at each fired round, manually, by means of the movement of the cocking rod, the gun will be termed manually or pump operated.
- In order to achieve, in either case, the passage of the cartridge from the magazine to the cartridge chamber of the barrel, the backward opening stroke of the bolt assembly has always been used, in various manners, to synchronize the movements of the lever (or levers) for stopping the cartridge in the magazine, for the exit of a single cartridge at a time, with those of a lifter cup on which said cartridge is arranged, in exiting from the magazine, to be raised to a position suitable for introduction into the barrel.
- Various feed systems are known, suitable for the type of operation (semiautomatic or pump) with which the firearm is provided, generally comprising two levers for stopping the cartridge in the magazine and shaped so as to be moved by the bolt of the firearm, or even partly arranged directly on said bolt.
- In all these cases, suitable buttons, mounted separately, prepare the firearm, in a more or less complicated manner, for the manual passage of the cartridge in the barrel from the magazine or for the momentary locking of the cartridges in the magazine for changing the one in the barrel.
- These systems are extremely complex and expensive and are generally used only on firearms with pump operation.
- Simpler feed systems are also known, having a single cartridge stop lever, developed with the onset of the semiautomatic operating system of the firearm, but, mostly, are only operable with this operating system and do not allow the manual passage of the cartridges from the magazine to the cartridge chamber of the barrel of said firearm, unless highly complicated and delicate mechanisms are used.
- The object of this invention is to overcome the limitations and the complexity of systems hitherto known by providing a new feed assembly applicable to guns with different types of operation (semiautomatic, manual pump and combined: semiautomatic/pump) and capable of selecting, in a simple and safe manner, the exit of the cartridges from the magazine independently from the operating system of the firearm and without the need for preventive manual presetting.
- The invention achieves the above and other objects, such as will appear from the following disclosure, by means of a cartridge feeding assembly for delivering cartridges from a tubular magazine into the barrel of a smooth-bore firearm having a casing, a bolt slidable with respect to the casing, a lifter cup for the cartridge, a hammer and a trigger, the feeding assembly further comprising:
- a) a cartridge descent lever pivoted on the casing, and having a first leg directed toward the cartridge magazine and having a nose, and an integral second leg directed away from the magazine;
- b) a spring mounted on the casing and normally biasing the cartridge descent lever to a rest position its nose being lifted, the lever being swung away from its rest position by the hammer during shooting;
- c) a cartridge stop lever pivoted on the casing and having a nose interacting with the nose of the cartridge descent lever so that the cartridge stop lever retains a cartridge in the magazine while the cartridge descent lever is in its rest position and allows the cartridge to slide out of the magazine when the cartridge descent lever swings from its rest position.
- The invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment thereof, as installed in a rifle of which all the parts operating in a conventional manner are omitted. The preferred embodiment will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
- figure 1 is a fragmentary axial cross section of the firearm ready to fire and having: bolt in closure position, cocked hammer, loaded tubular magazine and feed assembly in a condition to prevent the exit of the cartridges from the magazine;
- figure 2 is a fragmentary transverse cross section view of the firearm in the same conditions described above;
- figure 3 is a fragmentary axial cross section of the firearm during percussion of the cartridge in the barrel with the bolt still in closure position, unarmed hammer, tubular magazine loaded and feed assembly already preset for the exit of a cartridge from the magazine;
- figure 4 is a fragmentary transverse sectional view of the firearm in the same conditions described for fig. 3;
- fig. 5 is a fragmentary axial sectional view of the firearm in a stage subsequent to the percussion of the cartridge in the barrel with the bolt in opening movement which is recocking the hammer and the feed assembly which has allowed the complete exit of a single cartridge from the magazine;
- fig. 6 is a fragmentary transverse sectional view of the firearm in the same conditions described for fig. 5;
- fig. 7 is a fragmentary axial sectional view of the firearm in a stage subsequent to the preceding one with the bolt which, having completed the backward opening stroke, is returning to the closure position; the feed system raises the cartridge exited from the magazine for its introduction in the cartridge chamber of the firearm, at the same time retaining in the magazine the cartridges still contained therein;
- fig. 8 is a fragmentary transverse sectional view of the firearm in the same conditions described for fig. 7;
- fig. 9 is a fragmentary axial sectional view of the firearm in an intermediate stage of its operation, in which the feed assembly is arranged for delivery of a cartridge from the magazine even when the hammer has not been uncocked (for percussion) and the bolt performs its backward opening motion after a manual actuation by the user (condition of pump-like actuation, firearm unloading or change of cartridge in barrel);
- fig. 10 is a fragmentary sectional view of the firearm in the same conditions described for fig. 9.
- With reference to Fig. 1, a fragmentarily illustrated rifle comprises a
casing 33, amagazine 16, atrigger 17 protected by aguard 5, and ahammer 18. - The feed assembly according to the invention substantially comprises a cartridge descent lever 1, pivoted to the firearm on a
pivot 2 and held in resting position, with itsresting plane 3 against theabutment plane 4 provided on theguard 5, by aspring 6 pivoted on apivot 7. Thespring 6 rests with itsstem 8 on atab 9 of the cartridge descent lever 1, and it exerts upon the tab a downward force so as to ensure the contact between the above describedplanes - In this position (see also fig. 2) the outer part of the flat 11 of the
cartridge stop lever 12 rests on the flat 10 of the cartridge descent lever 1 , and is pivoted to the firearm at thepivot 13 and conveniently preset in such a manner that, in this position, thefront plane 14 of saidcartridge stop lever 12 prevents thecartridge 15 from leaving the inside of themagazine tube 16 . - When
trigger 17 of the firearm is pulled (fig. 3), ahammer 18 is pushed by aspring 19 guided on a slidingbush 20 , and turns about itspivot 2 until it imparts to thefiring pin 21 an energy sufficient to cause the explosion of the cartridge in thebarrel 22 . - Simultaneously to this percussion action, the
front plane 23 of the slidingbush 20 strikes on atab 24 of the cartridge descent lever 1 causing the clockwise rotation of the latter until theplane 25 of said cartridge descent lever abuts withplane 26 provided on theguard 5. - This rotational movement (figs. 3-4), prevents the flat 10 of the cartridge descent lever 1 from acting as rest for the flat 11 of the
cartridge stop lever 12. Thecartridge stop lever 12 no longer rests on the cartridge descent lever 1 , and rotates about itsfulcrum 13 as an effect of thereturn spring 27 until its flat 28 rests on theside 29 oflifting cup 30. - As a consequence of this rotation (fig. 4), the
front plane 14 of thecartridge stop lever 12 no longer prevents thecartridge 15 from sliding out of themagazine tube 16 . - While the
bolt 31 starts its backward opening stroke (fig. 5), thus pulling thecartridge case 22 from the cartridge chamber of the firearm in a conventional manner with respect to the type of operation of the firearm (inertial closure, gas intake, recoiling barrel, etc.), thecartridge 15 is already completely out of the magazine tube. - The
cartridge 15 leaving themagazine tube 16 , is forced (fig. 6) by theplane 32 of thecasing 33 to slide along theplane 34 of thecartridge stop lever 12 . This movement causes thecartridge stop lever 12 to turn anticlockwise on itspivot 13 , thus recompressing thereturn spring 27 until it returns to the position of fig. 2, i.e. with itsfront plane 14 in a position preventing thesecond cartridge 35 in the magazine from leaving themagazine 16 . - While the
bolt 31 continues its backward stroke (fig. 5), thehammer 18 is recocked and itsspring 19 , guided on the slidingbush 20 , is recompressed to a cocking position. - The
plane 23 of the slidingbush 20 no longer pushes against thetab 24 of the cartridge descent lever 1 . As an effect of the thrust of thestem 8 ofreturn spring 6 , the descent lever 1 rotates on thepivot 2 until it returns to its rest position determined by theresting plane 3 on theabutment plane 4 of theguard 5. - In this condition, the flat 10 of the cartridge descent lever 1 already overlaps the flat 11 of the
cartridge stop lever 12 . These flats, however, are not (fig. 6) in mutual contact as in fig. 2, since thecartridge 15 forces the flat 11 of thecartridge stop lever 12 to stay slightly ajar from the flat 10 of the cartridge descent lever 1 . - In other words, it is the
cartridge 15 leaving themagazine tube 16 that, by holding thefront plane 14 of thecartridge stop lever 12 against the bottom of thesecond cartridge 35 in the magazine, momentarily prevents its exit. - Therefore (see fig. 5), as the
bolt 31 continues its backward opening stroke, the contact of thetab 36 of the cartridge descent lever 1 with thecam surface 37 of thebolt 31 , although it causes a clockwise rotation about thepivot 2 of said cartridge descent lever 1 to bring it for a short time in the position of fig. 3, does not cause, at this stage, thesecond cartridge 35 to leave the magazine. - After the completion of the backward opening stroke, and the consequent conventional expulsion of the case of the cartridge exploded in the barrel, the
bolt 31 , pushed by thespring 38 visible in fig. 1 when the firearm was in closed position, tends to return to the same closure position described above. - As soon as it reverses its movement, the
bolt 31 , together with thebolt stop tooth 39 pivoted to thelifter cup 30 on thepivot 40 , causes, fig. 7, according to what similarly occurs in known feed systems, the lifting of thecartridge 15 exited from themagazine 16 . - During this stage (fig. 8), the
cartridge stop lever 12 prevents the exit of the second cartridge in the magazine, even when thecartridge 15 no longer rests on its flat 11, since thefront plane 34 of saidcartridge stop lever 12 makes contact with theside 29 of thelifter cup 30 which is moved into a raised position, such as to allow the introduction of saidcartridge 15 in the barrel. - It is thereby apparent (fig. 7) that, similarly to what has been described above for the firearm opening stage, as the
bolt 31 continues its (forward) firearm closure stroke, the imminent contact of thetab 36 of the cartridge descent lever 1 with thefront plane 41 of thebolt 31 , although it causes a clockwise rotation about thepivot 2 of said cartridge descent lever 1 until it is momentarily in the conditions of fig. 3, does not cause, even in this stage, the exit of thesecond cartridge 35 from the magazine. - Once the firearm closure step is completed (see fig. 3) with the introduction of a new cartridge in the barrel, all the above described feed stages will be repeated by merely pulling the
trigger 17, and this will be possible, round after round, until the cartridges previously inserted in the magazine tube of the firearm are exhausted. - The said effect of pulling the trigger is valid whether the firearm has semiautomatic operation (regardless of the inertial, gas intake or recoiling barrel type), or it has manual pump-type operation or convertible operation (semiautomatic and/or manual pump).
- If the feed assembly is part of a firearm with manual pump operation or with "convertible" operation, (where the manual operation is also available), it is required that the cartridge passes, without pulling the trigger, from the magazine tube into the barrel, merely by opening the bolt of the firearm by means of its cocking rod.
- In this condition (fig. 9), the
bolt 31 reaches the point in which itscam surface 37 makes contact with thetab 36 of the cartridge descent lever 1 , causing its rotation about itspivot 2 until it is momentarily brought into the conditions of fig. 3. - This momentary condition will be maintained for the entire time required for the flat 42 of the
bolt 31 to slide, relatively to its backward movement, on the flat 43 of thetab 36 of the cartridge descent lever 1 . - Such short time (fig. 9-10) is sufficient to prevent the flat 10 of the cartridge descent lever 1 from continuing to act as rest for the flat 11 of the
cartridge stop lever 12 . - The
cartridge stop lever 12 , no longer resting on the cartridge descent lever 1 , rotates (fig. 10) about itspivot 13 as an effect of thereturn spring 27 until its flat 28 rests on theside 29 of thelifter cup 30. Because of this rotation, thefront plane 14 of thecartridge stop lever 12 no longer prevents the cartridge from exiting from the inside of the magazine tube. - Once the cartridge has left the magazine, all the operating conditions described above in the first operating mode are repeated up to the complete return of the
bolt 31 to a closure position after the introduction in the barrel of said cartridge coming from the magazine tube. - At this point it is possible to continue the feeding of the firearm from the magazine tube, manually opening and closing the bolt by means of its cocking rod or acting directly on the trigger of said firearm, to fire the round in the barrel.
- In the former case the cartridges will pass from the magazine into the barrel and will immediately be expelled from the firearm up to the complete exhaustion of the cartridges in the magazine; in the latter case, the cartridges from will pass from the magazine into the barrel, will be immediately struck and will explode in the barrel and will then be expelled from the firearm until the magazine is empty.
- The new cartridge feed system thus performs all its functions regardless of the type of operation of the firearm to which it can be applied.
- There is, however, a further possibility of actuating the new cartridge feed system, limited to the first stage of exit of the cartridge from the magazine, when it is desired to actuate neither the trigger of the firearm nor its bolt cocking rod.
- With reference to fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings, it can be seen that the cartridge descent lever 1 is also provided with a
tab 44 protruding, externally to the firearm, from thelower plane 45 of theguard 5 . - If, with the finger which actuates the
trigger 17 , the user pushes thetab 44 of the cartridge descent lever 1 upwards, inside theplane 45 of the guard 5 a rotation of said cartridge descent lever 1 about itspivot 2 is caused, similarly to what happens both by acting on the trigger and by acting on the cocking rod of said firearm as extensively described above. - Also in this case it is thus possible to cause the exit of a cartridge from the magazine tube, and thus complete the feed cycle as described above.
- To summarize, the operation of the new feed system is as follows:
- At the moment of firing (bolt closed and cartridge in barrel), the spring of the cock, while it imparts to the cock the energy required for percussion, also causes the vertical rotation of the cartridge descent lever. This movement disengages, shortly before percussion, the cartridge descent lever from the cartridge stop lever which, by effect of its return spring, rotates clockwise, allowing thereby the exit of one cartridge from the magazine tube.
- Said cartridge, in positioning itself on the lifter cup, presses against the rear part of the cartridge stop lever causing it to rotate anticlockwise and preventing thereby the exit of a second cartridge from the magazine.
- The lifter cup, controlled by the bolt which, in the meantime, as an effect of the firing, has completed the retrograde opening stroke of the firearm extracting and expelling the case in the barrel, rises automatically, while said bolt returns to a closed position, raising the cartridge in a position suitable for the insertion into the chamber.
- The spring of the cock, meanwhile, already recompressed by the bolt in stop position, has left the cartridge descent lever free to resume its resting position, engaging it thereby again with the cartridge stop lever which will thus finally retain the cartridges still in the magazine until a new round is fired.
- The same operating scheme described above in the case of application to a firearm with semiautomatic operation is repeated; naturally the opening movement of the bolt will not be automatic, as an effect of the shot, but will occur upon a manual actuation of the shooter by means of the movement of the cocking rod (pump system).
- If one acts repeatedly on the cocking rod without firing the round in the barrel, excluding thereby any movement of the spring of the cock, one can obtain, similarly to what is possible with hitherto known systems, the repeated replacement of the cartridge in the barrel until the magazine is empty.
- The new cartridge descent lever, in this case, executes its rotational movement, as described in paragraph "A", by virtue of an adapted tab thereof on which the bolt acts during the retrograde opening motion obtained by means of the cocking rod (pump system).
- Naturally the configuration of the new cartridge descent lever is such as to ensure the operation of the system both if the actuation for its rotation is imparted by the spring of the cock and if said actuation is imparted by the bolt.
- In any case the two actuation possibilities do not interfere with one another and are in any case synchronized and compatible without the need for adjustments.
- Also in this case the operating possibilities described in the preceding paragraphs "A" and "B" are repeated.
- A cartridge feed assembly is thus provided essentially composed of a new cartridge descent lever which, together with a cartridge stop lever which can be made integral therewith, simply and securely selects the exit of the cartridges from the magazine without the need for preventive adjustments and regardless of the operating system of the firearm, be it semiautomatic, of the manual pump type or combined (semiautomatic and/or manual pump type), all the movements of the new cartridge descent lever being in any case synchronized and compatible with the operating system of the firearm to which it can be coupled.
- The invention can be carried out in other embodiments, different from the one described, within the scope and the essential technical features of the invention itself.
- The above arrangements are therefore to be considered as illustrative and non-limitative; all the changes falling within the attached claims are assumed included therein.
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AT88102157T ATE76962T1 (en) | 1987-03-12 | 1988-02-14 | AMMUNITION SUPPLY DEVICE FOR SEMI-AUTOMATIC OR HAND-PULSED SHOTGUNS. |
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IT8744009A IT1210375B (en) | 1987-03-12 | 1987-03-12 | TUBULAR TANK CARTRIDGE FEEDING SYSTEM FOR RIFLES WITH SMOOTH BODY AND SEMI-AUTOMATIC MANUAL PUMP OPERATION OR CONVERTIBLE FROM ONE TO THE OTHER TYPE |
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