ES367988A1 - Ammunition handling system for dispensing discrete rounds and gun system embodying same - Google Patents

Abstract

Improvements in the construction of systems for handling unattached loose items, characterized in that each system comprises in combination means for transferring articles having an input power transfer section and an output power transfer section; article entry feeding means for transporting said articles in succession to said input feeding section and for distributing said articles in succession to said transfer means; article receiving means comprising an article receiver, means for supporting said receiver to move through said output feeding section and means for driving said receiver; said transfer means comprising a rotary article transfer wheel having a plurality of circumferentially separated article receiving cavities that open laterally through the circumference of said wheel, means that rotatably support said wheel so as to rotate said cavities in succession through said sections in an alternating sequence such that each cavity receives an article of said input feeding means in said input feeding section during movement or displacement of the respective cavity through said section of input feeding and further conveying its contained article to said output feeding section, means for driving said wheel in unison with the movement of said article receiver through said output section and means of ejecting articles in said feeding section of s alida to perform the movement of transfer of output power of each article from its cavity containing it to said article receiver during the rotation of the respective cavity to said output power section, so that the said transfer means work for transferring said articles in succession from said input feeding means to said article receiver in a synchronization relationship with the movement of the receiver through said output feeding section. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)