EP0742419A1 - Dispositif élevateur à l'intérieur d'un taur - Google Patents

Dispositif élevateur à l'intérieur d'un taur Download PDF

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EP0742419A1
EP0742419A1 EP95116850A EP95116850A EP0742419A1 EP 0742419 A1 EP0742419 A1 EP 0742419A1 EP 95116850 A EP95116850 A EP 95116850A EP 95116850 A EP95116850 A EP 95116850A EP 0742419 A1 EP0742419 A1 EP 0742419A1
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lifting device
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Rudolf Bobinger
Andreas Riegl
Wilhelm Strasser
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Rheinmetall Landsysteme GmbH
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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
    • F41A9/82—Reloading or unloading of magazines
    • F41A9/83—Apparatus or tools for reloading magazines with unbelted ammunition, e.g. cartridge clips

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  • the invention relates to a lifting device in an armored vehicle, with a holder which can be brought into engagement with a body to be lifted, in particular a grenade, and a driven lifting element by means of which the holder can be raised and lowered.
  • grenades In the case of tanks or armored vehicles, it is customary to carry a large amount of ammunition or grenades in a magazine in order to achieve the highest possible combat strength. A grenade can be fed to the weapon from the magazine either manually or with the help of so-called loading aids. Since the grenades are relatively heavy, the manual lifting and moving of grenades is not only very strenuous, but also ineffective in the long run.
  • a loading aid in the form of an essentially vertically pivotable loading arm which carries a holder which can hold the grenade.
  • the loading arm can be raised or lowered either by means of a hydraulic cylinder or due to gravity in combination with a return spring, so that the grenade is off the magazine can be fed to a rammer of the weapon.
  • the grenade In order to be picked up by the loading arm, however, the grenade must assume a predetermined position in the magazine. This requires a rearrangement of the grenades in the magazine and thus a structurally complex magazine structure that is cost-intensive.
  • the loading arm can not be used for any lifting and lowering of grenades within the armored vehicle and therefore cannot be used flexibly.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a lifting device in an armored vehicle with which grenades in particular can be picked up and implemented in a simple and flexible manner.
  • the lifting element is a rope driven by a winch, which is guided on a pivotable, multi-link articulated arm and carries the holder at its lower end.
  • a large area of the interior of the armored vehicle can be covered by means of the swiveling, multi-section articulated arm, so that any grenade which is arranged within the swiveling area of the articulated arm can be picked up in a simple manner with the lifting device according to the invention. Since the lifting element is a rope, the user can make slight position corrections by transverse deflection of the rope without the articulated arm having to be adjusted.
  • the articulated arm is preferably freely cantilevered and comprises a first arm member articulated at one end to the armored vehicle and a second arm member articulated at the other end of the first arm member.
  • a two-part structure of the articulated arm has proven to be advantageous to the articulated arm in to get to a desired position faster and more reliably.
  • the articulated arm can be pivoted essentially in a horizontal plane.
  • the articulated arm In order to lift a grenade from the floor of the interior of the armored vehicle, the articulated arm is thus pivoted in the horizontal plane into a position in which the rope is essentially above the grenade.
  • the rope preferably runs through the articulated arm and extends essentially vertically downward at its free end. In this way, the vertical movement of the grenade is determined solely by the rope and the horizontal movement of the grenade by the articulated arm. This enables easy handling, since the user can carry out the two movement components independently of one another and overlay them in any way.
  • the articulated arm is preferably attached in the ceiling area of the armored vehicle, which leads to a relatively large, vertical extension length of the rope. This in turn enables a user to reach distant areas of the interior of the armored vehicle with the holder attached to the rope by transverse deflection of the rope.
  • the winch is formed by a servo winch known per se.
  • the servo winch enables an electrical weight balance, which enables the user of the lifting device to pick up the grenade with relatively little effort, to move it and to set it down at a desired position.
  • any device that can be picked up quickly can be used as a holder for holding the grenade the grenade enables and ensures their secure mounting. It is preferably provided that the holder has a receptacle into which the grenade to be lifted can be inserted and has a locking element by means of which the grenade can either be fixed in the receptacle or released therefrom.
  • the locking element can be a slidably mounted, spring-loaded locking bolt.
  • Such a projectile gripper is known from the applicant's patent application P 44 42 313.6, the content of which is expressly incorporated by reference.
  • a user When using the lifting device according to the invention, a user will grasp the holder on a handle that may be attached to it. It has proven to be advantageous if a control device for controlling the movement of the winch is also arranged on the holder, so that the user can control the raising and lowering of the grenade from the holder or even its handle. In an advantageous embodiment of the invention it can be provided that the control device has an infrared sensor attached to the holder, which cooperates with a corresponding infrared receiver of the winch.
  • the holder is detachably coupled to the rope. In the event of an electrical fault, the holder can thus be removed from the rope in emergency operation and handled manually. The operator can still engage the holder with a grenade and handle and pick up using the handle attached to the holder. With manual operation it is due to the relatively high weight of a grenade useful and helpful if two operators can grasp the grenade. For this purpose, the holder can have a further handle for the second operator.
  • the further handle does not interfere with the normal operation of the lifting device and takes up too much installation space
  • a further development of the invention provides that the further handle can be extended or folded out from a position that is recessed in the holder.
  • the lifting device can not only be used to remove a grenade from the magazine and place it in a piecer, but also by means of the lifting device the grenades can be stored in the magazine.
  • the grenades must be transported from the outside of the armored vehicle into its interior so that it can be gripped by the lifting device and stored in the magazine.
  • a conveyor device is provided according to the invention, by means of which the grenade can be brought into the pivoting range of the articulated arm from the outside of the tank. The grenade is placed on the conveyor device by an operator on the outside of the armored vehicle and can then be moved into the interior of the armored vehicle.
  • an armored vehicle has a rear entrance hatch on the back, which can be closed by a hatch door and through which personnel and / or material can get into the interior of the armored vehicle.
  • the conveying device has a driven carriage which is displaceably mounted on the access hatch. After the grenade on the If the carriage is set down, the carriage is moved into the interior so that the lifting device can remove the grenade directly from the carriage.
  • the slide together with its guide, is pivotally attached to the door of the entry hatch and can be brought into a rest position which essentially frees the entry hatch. If the conveyor device is therefore not required, it is pivoted into the rest position, in which it lies as close as possible to the inside of the door, so that the effective cross section of the access hatch is only insignificantly reduced. When using the conveyor, it is folded down into its operating position.
  • the lifting device is arranged and designed in such a way that the articulated arm sweeps over all essential areas of the interior of the armored vehicle.
  • a projectile or grenade can be picked up both from the sled used to load the armored vehicle, from the magazine, from any point on the floor area of the armored vehicle and from a tower magazine which is usually present.
  • the grenade picked up with the holder can be placed at any of the locations mentioned, and preferably in the piecing device or directly in the weapon.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 An armored vehicle 10 is shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, which has a weapon 11 arranged on a rotatable turret 16 in a conventional manner.
  • a large number of grenades 14 are stored in the interior 19 of the tower 16, which are either accommodated in a magazine 13 in a substantially horizontal orientation at the rear end of the armored vehicle 10 or are stored standing in a substantially vertical orientation in the interior.
  • several prepared propellant charges 15 are arranged in the interior.
  • a grenade 14 In order to load the weapon 11, a grenade 14 must be inserted into a rammer 12, by means of which the grenade can be fed to the weapon 11.
  • the lifting device 20 comprises a two-part articulated arm 21 with a first arm member 22a, which is articulated at one end to the ceiling of the interior of the armored vehicle is attached. At the other end of the first arm member 22a, a second arm member 22b is articulated.
  • the two arm links 22a and 22b lie essentially in a horizontal plane and can be pivoted in this.
  • a servo winch 24 is assigned to the articulated arm 21, from which a cable 25 extends through the articulated arm 21 to the front end of the second arm member 22b and from there extends essentially vertically downward.
  • a holder 23 with a handle 27 is arranged at the lower end of the rope 25, a holder 23 with a handle 27 is arranged.
  • the holder 23 has a receptacle into which the grenade 14 to be rearranged can be inserted, and a blocking element with which the grenade can be fixed in the receptacle.
  • a control device for controlling the functions or movements of the servo winch 24 is arranged on the holder.
  • the control device comprises an infrared sensor (not shown) attached to the holder, which cooperates with a corresponding infrared receiver on the servo winch 24.
  • the magazine 13 is designed as a drawer magazine, the individual grenades 14 being mounted on a pull-out drawer.
  • the desired grenade 14 is pulled out of the magazine 13 and the articulated arm 21 is pivoted and positioned by the user in such a way that the free end of the second arm member 22b is approximately above the grenade 14 to be accommodated is arranged.
  • the holder 14 is lowered until it is placed around the grenade 14 and has received it.
  • the winch 24 By actuating the winch 24 while simultaneously pivoting the articulated arm 21, the grenade 14 can be removed from the drawer of the magazine 13 and placed in the piecer 12.
  • FIG. 3 the area that can be covered by the outer free end of the second arm member 22b of the articulated arm 21 is shown hatched to clarify the swivel area S.
  • the rope can be deflected by the user in the transverse direction of its longitudinal extension with little effort, the area of the interior of the armored vehicle covered with the lifting device is still enlarged relative to the pivoting area S, so that essentially the entire interior can be reached.
  • the lifting device 10 can also be used to fill the magazine 13.
  • a conveyor device 30, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, is used in particular.
  • the armored vehicle 10 has an access hatch 17 on its rear side which can be closed by a door 18.
  • a holding arm 31 is pivotally mounted in the vertical direction by means of a joint 34.
  • a guide track 32 is formed, on which a carriage 33 is slidably guided.
  • a grenade 14 is placed on the slide 33 by an operator located on the outside of the armored vehicle 10, whereupon the slide 33 is moved along the guideway 32 through the access hatch 17 into the interior 19 of the armored vehicle, which can be done either manually or by means of an appropriate drive device.
  • the grenade 14 located on the slide 33 is then assisted by an operator located in the interior 19 of the armored vehicle 10 of the lifting device is detected by fixing the holder 23 to the grenade 14.
  • the grenade By lifting the grenade by activating the winch and by pivoting the articulated arm 21, the grenade can be removed from the slide 33 and placed in a desired drawer of the magazine 13.
  • the pivotable mounting of the holding arm 31 on the door 18 allows the conveyor device 30 to be pivoted in its entirety into a rest position, in which it is arranged as close as possible to the door 18, so that the access hatch is essentially exposed and the entry and exit Get out is not hindered by the conveyor 30.
  • the rest position of the conveyor 30 is shown in dashed lines in Figure 4.

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  • Aiming, Guidance, Guns With A Light Source, Armor, Camouflage, And Targets (AREA)
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  • Intermediate Stations On Conveyors (AREA)
  • Flexible Shafts (AREA)
  • Lift-Guide Devices, And Elevator Ropes And Cables (AREA)
  • Vehicle Cleaning, Maintenance, Repair, Refitting, And Outriggers (AREA)
  • Conveying And Assembling Of Building Elements In Situ (AREA)
  • Body Structure For Vehicles (AREA)
EP95116850A 1995-05-06 1995-10-26 Dispositif élevateur à l'intérieur d'un taur Expired - Lifetime EP0742419B1 (fr)

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DE19516706A DE19516706A1 (de) 1995-05-06 1995-05-06 Hubvorrichtung in einem Panzerfahrzeug

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AT (1) ATE199593T1 (fr)
CA (1) CA2162090A1 (fr)
DE (2) DE19516706A1 (fr)
DK (1) DK0742419T3 (fr)
ES (1) ES2155493T3 (fr)
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ATE199593T1 (de) 2001-03-15
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NO954355L (no) 1996-11-07
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CA2162090A1 (fr) 1996-11-07

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