GB586589A - Improvements in or relating to fire or like control apparatus for guns or similarly controllable devices - Google Patents

Improvements in or relating to fire or like control apparatus for guns or similarly controllable devices

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GB586589A
GB586589A GB27737/37A GB2773737A GB586589A GB 586589 A GB586589 A GB 586589A GB 27737/37 A GB27737/37 A GB 27737/37A GB 2773737 A GB2773737 A GB 2773737A GB 586589 A GB586589 A GB 586589A
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Prior art keywords
swash
shaft
predictor
sight
gun
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GB27737/37A
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VARIABLE SPEED GEAR Ltd
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VARIABLE SPEED GEAR Ltd
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Priority to GB27737/37A priority Critical patent/GB586589A/en
Priority to US580031A priority patent/US2474739A/en
Priority to ES173389A priority patent/ES173389A1/en
Priority to CH260606D priority patent/CH260606A/en
Publication of GB586589A publication Critical patent/GB586589A/en
Expired legal-status Critical Current

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Classifications

    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41G—WEAPON SIGHTS; AIMING
    • F41G5/00—Elevating or traversing control systems for guns
    • F41G5/04—Elevating or traversing control systems for guns using hydraulic means for remote control
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41G—WEAPON SIGHTS; AIMING
    • F41G5/00—Elevating or traversing control systems for guns
    • F41G5/14—Elevating or traversing control systems for guns for vehicle-borne guns
    • F41G5/18—Tracking systems for guns on aircraft

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Aviation & Aerospace Engineering (AREA)
  • Fluid-Pressure Circuits (AREA)
  • Hydraulic Motors (AREA)
  • Reciprocating Pumps (AREA)

Abstract

586,589. Gun and torpedo fire control. VARIABLE SPEED GEAR, Ltd., and INGOLDBY, M. K. 'Oct. 12, 1937, No. 27737. [Classes 9 (ii), 92 (i) and 92 (ii)] [Also in Group XXIX] A fire control system for use with guns and torpedo tubes to take account of the relative speed of the gun or the like and the target comprises a sight 1, a predictor 23 and gun or the like directing mechanism 63, the movements of the sight in elevation and training being effected by hydraulic swash-plate pump and motor systems 12, 10, 11, 9 respectively controlled by valves or swash-plate angulating means 14, 13. Connections 26, 25 between the sight and the predictor introduce to the predictor the actual movements of the sight, and further connections 29, 27 introduce the rate of change of such movements. The sight is also a range-finder and the range is introduced by a connection 33. The lead angles calculated in the predictor emorge by shafts 35, 34 and are conveyed to the gun or the like by swash-plate pump and motor systems 45, 46 through follow-up hunter gearing. This gearing includes an input gear 36, 37 and an output gear 49, 50 connected by a screwed rotating and sliding shaft 38 which actuates the angulating - member 44 of the swash-plate pump through linkage 41, 43. The lag is measured by an epicyclic gear, the planetary pinions 58 of which are mounted in a swivelling casing 56 and engage a wheel 53 fast with the wheel 50 and a wheel 55 feathered on the shaft 38. The movements of the casing 56 are returned to the predictor, as a measure of the lag, through shaft 61. The output shaft 48 of the follow-up device drives the gun or the like training shaft 82 and the output shaft 64 drives the elevating shaft 83. The gear-box 63 through which these elevating and training drives' are conveyed is. shown in section in Fig. 2 and includes epicyclic gears 71, 77 to ensure that elevation movements are unaffected by training and vice versa. In a modification, the swash-plate motors 5, 6 are controlled by reversing valves, the separate pumps 9, 10 being replaced by a single pump. The swash-plate motor 46 is controlled by a similar reversing valve operated by a cam on the swivelling casing 56.
GB27737/37A 1937-10-12 1937-10-12 Improvements in or relating to fire or like control apparatus for guns or similarly controllable devices Expired GB586589A (en)

Priority Applications (4)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
GB27737/37A GB586589A (en) 1937-10-12 1937-10-12 Improvements in or relating to fire or like control apparatus for guns or similarly controllable devices
US580031A US2474739A (en) 1937-10-12 1945-02-27 Fire control apparatus for guns
ES173389A ES173389A1 (en) 1937-10-12 1946-04-30 IMPROVEMENTS IN CONTROL DEVICES FOR THE ADJUSTMENT OF THE SHOT
CH260606D CH260606A (en) 1937-10-12 1946-06-08 Shooting director device.

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GB27737/37A GB586589A (en) 1937-10-12 1937-10-12 Improvements in or relating to fire or like control apparatus for guns or similarly controllable devices

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GB586589A true GB586589A (en) 1947-01-29

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US (1) US2474739A (en)
CH (1) CH260606A (en)
ES (1) ES173389A1 (en)
GB (1) GB586589A (en)

Cited By (1)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2474739A (en) * 1937-10-12 1949-06-28 Vickers Armstrongs Ltd Fire control apparatus for guns

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US2871660A (en) * 1953-11-09 1959-02-03 Cook Electric Co Remote control system

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US2385348A (en) * 1945-09-25 Ftoe control system for aircraft
US1067859A (en) * 1912-06-24 1913-07-22 Coventry Ordnance Works Ltd Apparatus for aiming guns.
US1360664A (en) * 1919-01-03 1920-11-30 Government Control means for ordnance
US1612118A (en) * 1921-09-27 1926-12-28 Gen Electric Control system for ordnance
US2189823A (en) * 1935-08-01 1940-02-13 Harry F Vickers Apparatus for controlling the movement of heavy masses
GB586589A (en) * 1937-10-12 1947-01-29 Variable Speed Gear Ltd Improvements in or relating to fire or like control apparatus for guns or similarly controllable devices
US2284611A (en) * 1939-11-14 1942-05-26 George E Barnhart Remotely controlled gun mount
US2414102A (en) * 1941-07-23 1947-01-14 Sperry Gyroscope Co Inc Handle control system

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2474739A (en) * 1937-10-12 1949-06-28 Vickers Armstrongs Ltd Fire control apparatus for guns

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CH260606A (en) 1949-03-31
ES173389A1 (en) 1946-06-01
US2474739A (en) 1949-06-28

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