GB548302A - Improvements in mountings for guns, searchlights and similar directional elements - Google Patents

Improvements in mountings for guns, searchlights and similar directional elements

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GB548302A
GB548302A GB360441A GB360441A GB548302A GB 548302 A GB548302 A GB 548302A GB 360441 A GB360441 A GB 360441A GB 360441 A GB360441 A GB 360441A GB 548302 A GB548302 A GB 548302A
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guns
sun
wheel
platform
elevation
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PERCY SMALLWOOD
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PERCY SMALLWOOD
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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
    • F41A27/00—Gun mountings permitting traversing or elevating movement, e.g. gun carriages
    • F41A27/06—Mechanical systems
    • F41A27/08—Bearings, e.g. trunnions; Brakes or blocking arrangements

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  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
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Abstract

548,302. Searchlight mountings. SMALLWOOD, P. March 17, 1941. No. 3604. [Class 75 (iii)] [Also in Group XXI] Guns, searchlights and other projectors are directed by a combined elevating and training movement, the projector being mounted for elevation on a planet wheel which meshes during training with a sun-wheel and pure training being effected by bodily rotation of the sun and planet wheels about the axis of the sun-wheel. In the form shown, two machine guns 16 are for elevation geared by planetary-pinions 15 on shafts 14 to a sun-wheel 8 fixed to a shaft 7 upstanding from a platform 3. The gun trunnions are carried by a frame 12 on a turntable 9 rotatable with respect to the platform 3 on a roller race 10, this rotation causing automatic elevation of the guns through the medium of the sun-and-planet gears. The platform 3 is mounted for bodily rotation on a roller race 23 and for tilting on a transverse axis by gearing 5, 4: Pointers, movable over graduated arcs, indicate the angular movements about the various axes. The application of the invention to a battery of four guns is also described.
GB360441A 1941-03-17 1941-03-17 Improvements in mountings for guns, searchlights and similar directional elements Expired GB548302A (en)

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Cited By (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR2408110A1 (en) * 1977-11-04 1979-06-01 Oerlikon Buehrle Ag ARTILLERY PART FOR SHIPS
EP0040871A2 (en) * 1980-05-23 1981-12-02 Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon-Bührle AG Naval gun for firing at airborne targets
WO1988003637A1 (en) * 1986-11-03 1988-05-19 Contraves Ag Device for the alignment of a sighting axis element on a sighting point
GB2437591A (en) * 2006-03-30 2007-10-31 Raytec Ltd Adaptive illumination device

Cited By (9)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR2408110A1 (en) * 1977-11-04 1979-06-01 Oerlikon Buehrle Ag ARTILLERY PART FOR SHIPS
EP0040871A2 (en) * 1980-05-23 1981-12-02 Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon-Bührle AG Naval gun for firing at airborne targets
EP0040871A3 (en) * 1980-05-23 1982-04-21 Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon-Buhrle Ag Naval gun for firing at airborne targets, especially at targets passing zenith
US4469005A (en) * 1980-05-23 1984-09-04 Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon-Buhrie AG Marine firing weapon for fighting airborne targets, especially in zenith
US4674393A (en) * 1980-05-23 1987-06-23 Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon-Buhrle Ag Marine firing weapon for fighting airborne targets, especially in zenith
WO1988003637A1 (en) * 1986-11-03 1988-05-19 Contraves Ag Device for the alignment of a sighting axis element on a sighting point
US4953443A (en) * 1986-11-03 1990-09-04 Contraves Ag Device for the alignment of an aiming axis body at a target position
GB2437591A (en) * 2006-03-30 2007-10-31 Raytec Ltd Adaptive illumination device
US7529478B2 (en) 2006-03-30 2009-05-05 Raytec Limited Adaptive illumination lighting system

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