EP1686346B1 - Arme à feu à précision de tir en rafale améliorée et dispositif utilisé à cet effet - Google Patents

Arme à feu à précision de tir en rafale améliorée et dispositif utilisé à cet effet Download PDF

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EP1686346B1
EP1686346B1 EP05078043A EP05078043A EP1686346B1 EP 1686346 B1 EP1686346 B1 EP 1686346B1 EP 05078043 A EP05078043 A EP 05078043A EP 05078043 A EP05078043 A EP 05078043A EP 1686346 B1 EP1686346 B1 EP 1686346B1
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Philippe Plumier
Charles Demolin
Giuseppe Librici
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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
    • F41A25/00—Gun mountings permitting recoil or return to battery, e.g. gun cradles; Barrel buffers or brakes
    • F41A25/22—Bearing arrangements for the reciprocating gun-mount or barrel movement
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
    • B66B—ELEVATORS; ESCALATORS OR MOVING WALKWAYS
    • B66B13/00—Doors, gates, or other apparatus controlling access to, or exit from, cages or lift well landings
    • B66B13/02—Door or gate operation
    • B66B13/14—Control systems or devices
    • B66B13/16—Door or gate locking devices controlled or primarily controlled by condition of cage, e.g. movement or position
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
    • B66B—ELEVATORS; ESCALATORS OR MOVING WALKWAYS
    • B66B13/00—Doors, gates, or other apparatus controlling access to, or exit from, cages or lift well landings
    • B66B13/24—Safety devices in passenger lifts, not otherwise provided for, for preventing trapping of passengers
    • B66B13/26—Safety devices in passenger lifts, not otherwise provided for, for preventing trapping of passengers between closing doors

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  • the invention relates to a firearm with improved burst accuracy.
  • the invention relates more particularly to a firearm of the machine-gun type that can fire continuously, the firearm comprising a barrel and a carcass mounted on a support cradle, as described in document US 5,155,292 A .
  • the cradle comprises a cradle provided with a slider that can slide in a longitudinal direction parallel to the axis of the barrel, the carcass being mounted on the one hand on the slider of the cradle by means of a transverse hinge pin and on the other hand on the cradle by means of at least one pad mounted in a slide provided at the cradle.
  • the weapon can be mounted with its cradle on a tripod, on a remote turret, or any other support.
  • the carcass and the barrel can move in the axial direction of the barrel, the carcass being supported by the ram of the cradle and by the pad which is taken up in the slide of the cradle which, in the case of known weapons, is parallel to the axis of the barrel.
  • the slider of the cradle is maintained in an intermediate position by means of a spring or several springs.
  • the slider and the skate allow the guided retreat of the weapon under the effect of the reaction forces of the propulsion gases of the ammunition fired and the spring or the springs, assisted or not by the action of one or more dampers, makes it possible to damp the axial movement of the comings and goings of the carcass during firing of a burst, and to stabilize the position of the carcass around an average axial position.
  • the axis of articulation of the carcass on the cradle allows the tilting of the carcass and the barrel.
  • the first shot When shooting in a burst, the first shot is fired at the weapon's rest position, as in shot-by-shot, and the weapon moves back to the impulse the first time.
  • the barrel is put in place by resuming the games at the moving parts of the weapon and the interface parts such as the skate, and goes into a raised average position and deported around which the barrel oscillates under the effect of the successive blows.
  • This oscillation of the gun contributes to the dispersion of the firing impacts around an average point of impact which is the center of the grouping of the impacts of the successive shots at the first shot of the gust.
  • the object of the invention is to avoid the aforesaid drawbacks and to provide a weapon with improved firing accuracy, making it possible to correct and compensate for the difference between the initial point of impact of the first shot and the point of impact. means of successive strokes.
  • the recoil of the carcass rotates the carcass around the axis of articulation to bring the barrel back to its initial rest position, which results in the fact that the average impact point of the shots fired after the first shot is closer to the initial impact point of the first shot and thus to improved burst accuracy.
  • the firearm comprises at least two slides, each having a carcass pad, these slides being dimensioned with such that a recoil of the carcass and the barrel on the cradle results in a tilting pivoting of the barrel and the carcass about its transverse articulation axis and by a lateral pivot about an axis which is perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the transverse axis of articulation and to the axis of the barrel.
  • the invention also relates to a device for improving the shooting accuracy for a firearm, the device comprising a fastener for the weapon which is mounted on a support cradle which comprises a hoe equipped with a slider slidable in a longitudinal direction parallel to the axis of the barrel, the fastener being mounted on the one hand on the slider of the cradle by means of a transverse hinge pin and on the other hand on the cradle to means of at least one shoe mounted in a slide provided at the cradle, this slide being inclined relative to said longitudinal direction.
  • a known firearm 1 more particularly a machine gun that can shoot in burst.
  • This known firearm 1 comprises a barrel 2 and a carcass 3 mounted on a support cradle 4, the cradle comprising an elastic hoop 5 provided with a slider 6 slidable in the support cradle 4 in a longitudinal direction parallel to the axis of geometry XX 'of the barrel 2 in the rest position.
  • the slide 6 is held in an intermediate free position by means of a return spring 7 so as to allow the movement of the slide, both forwards and backwards.
  • the cradle 4 also comprises one or two dampers 8 for damping the movement of the slider 6 of the cradle 5.
  • the carcass 3 is fixed on the one hand in an articulated manner between two parallel spaced apart ears 9 of the slider 6 of the cradle 5 by means of a transverse hinge pin 10.
  • the carcass 3 is supported by the cradle 4 by means of at least one shoe 11 mounted in a slide 12 forming part of the cradle and being limited by two guide walls 13 parallel to the axis of the barrel XX ' in the rest position.
  • the operation of the firearm 1 is well known.
  • the gun At the first shot of a burst, the gun is in its rest position, with its axis oriented along the X-X 'axis.
  • the point of impact of the first shot is represented schematically by point 14 on the target 15 of the figure 1 .
  • the barrel 2 and the carcass 3 retreat back under the action of the propulsion gases of the fired munition, while being supported. by the slider 6 and the pads 11 which allow movement in the direction of the axis of the barrel XX 'in the rest position.
  • the barrel 2 and the carcass 3 oscillate around a retracted middle position M characterized by a displacement A relative to their rest position, this oscillation movement being damped or not and stabilized by the action of the spring 7 or return springs 7 and shock absorber or dampers 8.
  • the barrel 2 and the carcass 3 are straightened under the action of the propulsion gases by the resumption of the games at the moving parts of the weapon 1 and the interfaces parts such as the pads 11 in the slides 12.
  • the barrel 2 oscillates in rotation about a mean direction Y-Y 'which forms an angle B with the direction X-X' of rest.
  • This burst fire dynamics explains that the impacts of the successive shots at the first shot of the burst, are grouped in an area 17 whose center is called the average impact point 18 which is at a distance C above the initial point of impact 14.
  • FIGS. 3 to 7 show an improved firearm 19 according to the invention which is similar to the firearm 1 of the figure 1 but for which the pads 11 of the carcass 3 are mounted in slides 12 which are such that a retreat of the carcass 3 results in a pivoting of the carcass 3 and the barrel 2 around the axis of articulation 10 of the carcass 3.
  • the slides 12 are inclined relative to the direction XX 'of the axis of the barrel 2 in the rest position, that is to say that the guide walls 13 of the rails 12 form an angle E with the 'axis XX' as shown in the figure 4 , so that the guide direction ZZ 'of the slides 12 is located in a plane perpendicular to the hinge axis 10 of the carcass 3.
  • the lugs 9 supporting the transverse hinge pin 10 are fixed on a support piece not shown, forming part of the slider 6 of the cradle 5, this support piece being pivotable laterally around a pivot whose axis UU 'is perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the transverse hinge axis 10 and to the axis of the barrel XX' as shown in figures 3 and 4 .
  • the effect of the slide 23 is that a retreat of the carcass 3 gives rise to a lateral offset of the mouth of the barrel 2 by pivoting the carcass 3 and the barrel 2 around the axis UU 'of the pivot of the workpiece support of the hinge axis 10.
  • the lateral faces 23 of the pads 11 are in contact with the guide planes 22 and have a convex shape.
  • the operation of the firearm 19 according to the invention differs from the operation of the known weapon 1 by the fact that, the retreat of the carcass 3 and the barrel 2 after the first shot of a burst is translated by a slope the barrel 2, for example down, and a lateral offset of the mouth 2A of the barrel 2, for example to the right, because of the inclination of the slides 12 and 23 relative to the axis of the barrel XX 'in rest position.
  • the figure 4 corresponds to the rest situation, while the Figures 6 and 7 correspond respectively to the position of the moving parts after the first shot and the average position of these parts during the continuous shooting.
  • angles of inclination E and F, respectively of the slides 12 and 23, relative to the axis XX ' are chosen so that the average point of impact 18 is brought back to the point of initial impact 14 by eliminating the vertical deviation C and the lateral deviation D, as illustrated by the figure 3 .
  • the burst accuracy is improved substantially since a better grouping of all the firing impacts is obtained, including the initial impact 14 of the first shot and the impacts 16 of the successive shots of the burst.
  • the invention is not limited to machine guns, but is also applicable to other automatic or semi-automatic firearms that can fire gusts.
  • sliders can be used separately for burst correction, for example vertically and laterally.
  • the correction does not have to be in the vertical or horizontal plane.
  • pads 11 can be used other guidance means, such as carts, balls, etc..
  • the firearm is not mounted directly on the cradle but through a fastener.
  • the cradle and this fastener together form a device on which one can mount a firearm in order to improve the shooting accuracy of this firearm.

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  • Aiming, Guidance, Guns With A Light Source, Armor, Camouflage, And Targets (AREA)
  • Portable Nailing Machines And Staplers (AREA)
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  • Fire-Extinguishing By Fire Departments, And Fire-Extinguishing Equipment And Control Thereof (AREA)
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