KR101388481B1 - A Mounting and Guiding Device for Weapons - Google Patents

Abstract

The loading and guiding device for weapons and containers in a military vessel, in particular a submarine, comprises a tube, in which a plurality of guide rails extending in its longitudinal direction are arranged. Adjusting means are provided that allow at least one radial distance of the guide rails to be adjusted with respect to the inner wall of the tube.

Description

A Mounting and Guiding Device for Weapons

The present invention relates to a weapon loading and guiding apparatus in a military vessel, in particular a submarine, having a configuration specified in the preamble of claim 1.

Weapons of submarines guided through the wall of the pressure hull are considered to belong to this mount and guide device. Within these weapon tubes, weapons disposed therein, such as torpedoes, flight objects or submarine mines, are mounted and guided on plastic rails. These plastic rails are screwed onto radially protruding weld bolts welded into the inorganic tube and are sized to allow for radial tube orientation for mounting into the inorganic tube. In the state of being mounted in the weapon tube, the final machining of the plastic rails is carried out by a diameter milling machine, and they are machined to a final size corresponding to the diameter of the weapons.

However, if the plastic rails for mounting and guiding the weapons in the weapons tube are newly mounted, problems arise, and maintenance and repair work must be replaced with new rails. These new installations and maintenance and repairs are very difficult and time-consuming, especially in the case of weapons vessels mounted in submarines, in which precisely fitting plastic rails to the diameter of the weapons being mounted and guided is a Because it is almost impossible.

In order to solve the above disadvantages, an object of the present invention is to provide a weapon loading and guidance device in military ships, especially submarines that can be simply manufactured and play a role.

This object is achieved by a mounting and guiding device having the configuration specified in claim 1. Further configurations of this mounting and guiding device can be understood from the dependent claims, the drawings as well as the detailed description. Here, according to the invention, the configurations specified in the dependent claims can constitute the solution according to the invention and claim 1 in each case as well as in technically significant combinations.

Mounting and guiding devices according to the invention for weapons can be expected for application to military vessels, in particular for submarines. It includes a tube forming a receiving space for at least one weapon. In the context of this tube, it may be the case, for example, of a weapon tube or weapon conduit guided through the submersible hull of the submarine. In this tube, a plurality of guide rails are arranged, which are installed in the longitudinal direction of the tube. Preferably four guide rails are arranged in the tube, which are evenly distributed in the peripheral direction of the tube. According to the invention, it can be said that the adjusting means is provided so that at least one radial distance of all the guide rails can be adjusted with respect to the inner wall of the tube, which can be set. Together with these adjusting means, which are preferably connected to each guide rail in a direct manner, the guide rails can move indefinitely to the side running away from the inner wall of the tube and towards the inner wall. In this way, the position of the guide rails can be adjusted precisely relatively quickly and simply to the aperture of the weapon to be stored in the tube. Post-machining or post-treatment of the guide rails in the tube, as has hitherto been common in the manufacture of mounting and guiding devices, is no longer necessary. Therefore, the manufacture of the mounting and guiding device according to the invention is simplified compared to the devices known to date. In addition, retrofitting and service work are made possible with significantly less effort.

Preferably, these guide rails are mounted on each of the plurality of adjusting means. The adjusting means, which serve to mount the guide rails, are usually arranged in sequence on a straight line essentially distributed over the entire length of the tube. The load acting on the single control means is significantly reduced by the multiple control means. Moreover, a number of adjusting means allow the use of guide rails constructed of several parts, wherein the individual guide rail elements can be arranged in such a way that they are arranged on the adjusting means in turn.

In conjunction with the mounting and guiding device according to the invention, adjusting screws are preferably used as particularly inexpensive adjusting means. By this, the guide rails are mounted in each of a plurality of adjusting screws which are arranged in a line in the longitudinal direction of the tube at a distance from each other in the tube and screwed onto the tube surface. By this, the guide rails can be mounted directly on the screw heads of the adjustment screws designed as flat head screws and are connected to the adjustment screws in a fixed manner in the area of the screw heads. These adjusting screws can all have the same length. However, if, for example, eccentric mounting and guiding of the weapon is required in the tube, it may also be useful to use adjusting screws of different lengths, where the individual guide rails are each mounted on adjusting screws of the same length. .

The screw connection of the adjusting screws can be carried out directly on the inner wall of the tube, in which case corresponding helixed holes for receiving the adjusting screws are formed on the tube wall. However, especially in mounting and guiding devices which are loaded with compression, for example in the arms of a submarine guided through a pressure hull, otherwise it is possible to avoid the weakening of the tube due to the need for spiral holes in the walls of the pipe. To avoid, it is advantageous to screw the adjusting screws in helical bushes attached on the inner wall of the tube. These individual helical bushes are preferably joined on the inner wall of the tube.

Mounting and fastening of the guide rails on the adjusting screws are typically only performed when the required radial distance of the screw heads of the adjusting screws with respect to the inner wall of the tube is correctly set or adjusted. The adjusting screws screwed into the helical bushes are secured against rotation by the locking nuts in order to prevent the distance of the screw heads to the tube inner wall from changing after setting or adjusting the adjusting screws. These locking nuts are each screwed against the end-face of the helical bushes.

In another advantageous design of the mounting and guiding device according to the invention, in each case the guide rail is installed over the entire length of the guide rails and the T-groove for receiving the screw heads of the adjusting screws faces the inner wall of the tube. Formed on the lower surface of the field. Therefore, the groove is installed through the entire length of the guide rail and is widened laterally with respect to the depth of the groove in such a way as to be spaced apart from the lower surface of the guide rail is formed on the flat surface of the guide rail facing the inner wall of the pipe. This widened area serves to receive the screw heads of the adjusting screws which are fastened into the T-groove, by which means the guide rail is fixed by means of shape-fitting in the direction of the radiation tube on the adjusting screws.

Typically, locking nuts are provided in the direction of length extension of the guide rails in order to secure the guide rails on the adjusting screws which are fastened into the T-groove. These locking nuts are screwed onto the adjusting screws and screwed against an edge defining the T-groove of the guide rails, by which means the guide rails are clamped between the screw heads and locking nuts of the adjusting screws. It is clamped and thus fixed in a non-shaped combination in the longitudinal direction of the guide rails.

In yet another advantageous form of the invention, the guide rails in each case form a metal and plastic shape which are tied thereon. Thereby, the metal part provides a more stable and stronger guide rail compared to the guide rails which have been known so far and consist only of plastic, and by this means, if the guide rail is mounted on each If the number of holes is less than the number of joining bolts that have been used so far for mounting plastic rails, undesirable deflection (bending) of the guide rails can also be prevented. This metal part is part of the guide rails facing the inner wall of the tube. Thus, a T-groove in which the adjusting screws are received may also be formed on the metal part. The plastic part of the guide rails whose outer side faces the inner face of the tube forms a guide passage for the weapons and / or containers which are joined on the metal part and mounted in the tube. Due to the very low coefficient of friction compared to other materials, for example PTFE may be used as the material for the plastic part.

The weapon mounting and guiding device according to the present invention has the effect that the position of the guide rails can be adjusted relatively quickly and simply to the aperture of the weapon for storage in the tube. Furthermore, the manufacture of the mounting and guiding device according to the present invention is no longer necessary after-machining or post-treatment of the guide rails in the tube as has been common so far, compared to the devices known to date. There is an effect that is simplified. In addition, retrofitting and service work are made possible with significantly less effort.

1 is a very simplified longitudinal cross section of a weapon tube disposed in the bow area of the submarine,
FIG. 2 is an enlarged cross sectional view of the inorganic tube of FIG. 1 taken along line II-II of FIG. 1;
3 is a view according to FIG. 2 with an eccentric weapon arrangement in the weapon tube, and
4 is an enlarged view of a portion X of FIG. 2.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to one embodiment shown in the drawings.

As the weapon loading and guiding apparatus shown in the drawing, the submarine weapon tube 2 is guided in the bow area of the submarine through the pressure hull angle 4 only implicitly shown in FIG. 1. In the direction of the longitudinal axis A, the inorganic tube 2 is designed in three-parts, wherein the tube part 8 having a larger wall thickness and forming a pressure-resistant hull guide-path is a pressure-resistant hull 4 The pipe part 6 which is connected to the pipe part 6 arrange | positioned inside the inside, and the pipe part 10 arrange | positioned completely outside of the pressure resistance wire angle 4 is connected to the pipe part 8.

The end part of the inorganic pipe 2 arrange | positioned inside the internal pressure line angle 4 is closed by the base closure 12. As shown in FIG. The tip cap 14 which pressure-closes the inorganic pipe 2 is arranged at the end of the inorganic pipe 2 disposed outside the pressure-resistant wire 4. This tip cap 14 can be rotated around the outside of the submarine in an open position to push out the weapon 16 located in the weapon tube 2.

The weapon 16 shown in FIGS. 2-4 is mounted in the weapon tube 2 on four guide rails 18a, 18b, 18c and 18d. These guide rails 18a, 18b, 18c and 18d are uniformly distributed through the inner periphery of the inorganic tube 2, and thus are each disposed at 90 ° to each other. They essentially extend in the longitudinal direction of the inorganic tube 2 over the entire length of the inorganic tube 2.

In particular, as can be understood from FIGS. 2-4, the guide rails 18a, 18b, 18c and 18d are each designed in two-part fashion and directly face the inner wall of the inorganic tube 2. And by the plastic part 22 fixed on the face of this metal part 20 and facing the inner face of the inorganic tube 2. Grooves 21 formed over the entire length of the guide rail 18c and in which the guide pins 23 formed on the weapon 16 are generally disposed are disposed outside the plastic part 22 of the guide rail 18c. It is formed on the surface, and the outer surface faces the inner surface of the inorganic tube (2).

The guide rails 18a, 18b, 18c and 18d are not mounted directly on the inner wall of the inorganic tube 2, but in each case are mounted on a plurality of adjusting screws 24. These adjusting screws 24 are screwed into helical bushes 26 joined on the inner wall of the inorganic tube 2. As is apparent from FIG. 4, the T-groove 28 extending over the entire length of the guide rails 18a, 18b, 18c and 18d is guide rails 18a directly facing the inner wall of the inorganic tube 2. , 18b, 18c and 18d on the outer surface, which stays on the outer surface of the metal part 20 of the guide rails 18a, 18b, 18c and 18d, the outer surface being an inorganic tube ( It is directly facing the inner wall of 2). End regions of the adjusting screws 24 away from the helical bush 26 are soaked into these T-grooves 28, where the screw heads 30 of the adjusting screws 24 are T-grooves. Is accommodated by the widened inner region of 28.

The installation in the inorganic tube 2 of the guide rails 18a, 18b, 18c and 18d is as follows:

First, the helical bushes 26 are fixed by bonding on the inner wall of the inorganic tube 2 at a distance from four rows spaced apart from each other by a 90 ° angle. Thereby, the adjusting screws 24 to which the two lock nuts 32 mils 34 are previously fastened protrude out of the spiral bushes 26 in the spiral holes formed on the spiral bushes 26. They are screwed until their area protrudes out of the helical bushes 26 in the manner required for accurate guidance of the weapon 16 in the weapon tube 2. This can be checked optically by, for example, a laser beam. In this position of the adjusting screws 24, it is finally fixed by screwing the lock nut 32 against the end-faces of the helical bushes 26 facing the inner surface of the inorganic tube 2. Subsequently, guide rails 18a, 18b, 18c and 18d are installed in the inorganic tube 2, where the screw heads 30 of the adjusting screws 24 are guide rails 18a, 18b, 18c and 18d. It is received in the T-groove 28 formed on the (). Thereafter, the guide rails 18a, 18b, 18c and 18d are guide rails 18a, 18b, 18c and 18d in which the locking nut 34 screwed thereon directly faces the inner wall of the weapon tube 2. It is fixed on the adjusting screws 24 by being screwed against the outer surfaces of the < RTI ID = 0.0 >

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, the weapon 16 is centered in the weapon tube 2 such that the longitudinal axis B of the weapon 16 coincides with the longitudinal axis A of the weapon tube 2. Mounted. For this purpose, the outer surfaces of the guide rails 18a, 18b, 18c and 18d facing the inner surface of the inorganic tube 2 all have the same distance to the inner wall of the inorganic tube 2.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 3, a transfer device 36 for discharging the weapon 16 out of the weapon tube 2 is arranged in the lower region in the weapon tube 2. The placement of the delivery device 36 in the weapon tube 2 essentially provides an eccentric arrangement of the weapons 16 in the weapon tube 2. For this purpose, the adjusting screws 24 supporting the guide rail 18a are designed to be significantly longer than the remaining adjusting screws 24 and the adjusting screws 24 supporting the guide rail 18c are guide rails. 18b and 18d are screwed further into the helical bushes 26 than the adjustment screws 24 to which it is fixed. As a result, the guide rail 18c is in direct bearing contact with the inner wall of the inorganic tube 2 in appearance. The weapon 16 is arranged such that its longitudinal axis B is disposed above the longitudinal axis A of the inorganic tube 2.

2: inorganic tube 4: internal pressure hull
6, 8, 10: tube part 12: basal closure
14: Tip Cap 16: Weapon
18a, 18b, 18c, 18d: guide rail 20: metal part
21: groove 22: plastic part
23: guide pin 24: adjusting screw
26: spiral bush 28: T-recess
30: screw head 32, 34: lock nut
36: feeder A, B: longitudinal axis

Claims (8)

A mounting and guiding device for a weapon 16 in a military ship, comprising: a tube and a plurality of guide rails 18a, 18b, 18c, and 18d installed in its longitudinal direction in the inner wall of the tube; With adjusting means such that at least one radial distance of the guide rails 18a, 18b, 18c and 18d can be adjusted,
The guide rails (18a, 18b, 18c and 18d) are mounted on adjustment screws (24) screwed onto the tube surface. delete delete 2. The weapon mounting and guiding device according to claim 1, wherein the adjustment screws (24) are screwed into spiral bushes (26) attached on the inner wall of the tube. 5. The weapon mounting and guiding device according to claim 4, wherein the adjustment screws (24) screwed into the helical bushes (26) are secured against rotation by the lock nut (32). 5. T-groove (28) according to claim 1 or 4, formed over the entire length of the guide rails (18a, 18b, 18c, and 18d) to accommodate the screw head (30) of the adjustment screws (24). Is formed on the lower surface of the guide rails (18a, 18b, 18c and 18d) facing the inner wall of the tube, respectively. 7. The adjusting screw according to claim 6, wherein the guide nuts (18a, 18b, 18c, and 18d) are fastened into the T-groove (28) of the guide rails (18a, 18b, 18c, and 18d) by locking nuts. Weapon mounting and guiding device, characterized in that it is fixed on the field 24. 5. The weapon mounting according to claim 1 or 4, wherein the guide rails (18a, 18b, 18c, and 18d) are each formed from a metal part (20) and a plastic part (22) fastened thereon. And guidance device.

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