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US2010742A
US2010742A US745316A US74531634A US2010742A US 2010742 A US2010742 A US 2010742A US 745316 A US745316 A US 745316A US 74531634 A US74531634 A US 74531634A US 2010742 A US2010742 A US 2010742A
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Sutter Charles
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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
    • F41A9/00—Feeding or loading of ammunition; Magazines; Guiding means for the extracting of cartridges
    • F41A9/29—Feeding of belted ammunition
    • F41A9/34—Feeding of belted ammunition from magazines

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  • Machine guns as at present in service aregenerally fed by means of loaders containing a predetermined number of cartridges, and which are locked on the fire-arm which, for this purpose, is equipped with suitable hooking means.
  • loaders containing a predetermined number of cartridges
  • suitable hooking means When the cartridgesof a loader are exhausted, the latter iswithdrawn and replaced by a fresh loader. A certain interval of time is required for withdrawing a loader and putting a fresh'loader in place, during which time firing is interrupted. Due to these dead periods, the rate of firing of the arm is considerably below the theoretical rate.
  • the object of the present invention is to obviate this drawback, and it enables the practical rate of firing to be brought as near as possible to the theoretical rate, by reducing to a minimum the duration of the dead periods required for changingtheloaders.
  • a loader-feeding trough which runs to the loading aperture of the fire-arm, for all positions of the latter, in site and in azimuth, and in which a replacement loader may be engaged while the loader in serviceis still inposition and feeds the arm, which replacement loader is thus in waiting position, and after the cartridges of the loader in service have been exhausted and the latter withdrawn, need only be made to slide down said guiding trough to be brought in its turn above the loading aperture, Where it will be locked ready to feed the fire-arm.
  • the loading case rests on rollers which facilitate the forward movement.
  • An inclined plane acting on the rollers carried by the loading case, presses said case downwardly against the loading aperture and reliably latches it in front in the correct position.
  • the trough may be swung down on the side, and is to this end pivotable about a lateral axis and may be locked in its n0rma1 position by any suitable latching device.
  • Said loading trough is mounted on the upper part of the cradle 4 of the fire-arm, relatively to which in' the caseillustrated, the machine gun 5 may move upon recoil.
  • Said fire-arm 5 has, 'in'the usual manner, a loading aperture 6, in which maybe locked, at'the rear, by any suitable means not shown, a loading case i containing cartridges'which pass singly into the inside of the fire-arm.
  • the loading trough joins up with two rails 8-80; which run to the loading aperture 6, the edges 9 and 9a of which form extensions of the rails in question.
  • the loading cases used in combination with a trough in conformance with the invention, may be loading cases of standard type; however, they are provided on each of their lateral faces with a roller l0 rolling on the upper edge of the cheek l-la or of the corresponding rail 88a.
  • the arm carries rollers H and l la on which the under facev of the loading case rolls after leaving the trough l-,la.
  • a first server may place a fresh replacement loader 1a in the trough
  • This operation which demands a certain exertion of force, especially in the case of firearms of large calibre, may be effected without haste and consequently with less fatigue, since firing is not at the time interrupted.
  • the trough l--Ia may swivel about alpin I4 carried by the cradle, as may be seen inFigVB, which shows the trough in its swung-overposition.
  • a feeding trough comprising two cheeks and rollers mounted between said cheeks, said feeding trough delivering to the loading aperture, of said'fir-arm, a loader adapted to be engaged in ,said feeding trough for conveyance to said loading aperture by riding over said'-rollers, --rails extending said feeding trough and leading to said loading aperture, androllers associated with said loader and adapted to roll on the cheeks of said feeding trough and on said rails.
  • a feeding trough comprising two cheeks andlrollers mounted between said cheeks, said feeding trough delivering to the loading aperture of said fire-arm,'i
  • a loader adapted to be engaged in said feeding V V 3.
  • said feeding trough (de:

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Cited By (5)

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US2722865A (en) * 1951-07-10 1955-11-08 Brev Aero Mecaniques S A Soc Magazine mounting means for automatic firearms
US3318189A (en) * 1965-02-06 1967-05-09 Rheinmetall Gmbh Automatic weapon, mounted in an armoured turret
US3333507A (en) * 1964-11-07 1967-08-01 Brevets Aero Mecaniques Armored vehicles including a turret fitted with an automatic gun fed from cartridge belt sections packed in boxes
US3855899A (en) * 1971-04-06 1974-12-24 Thomson Csf Loading device for a multibarrel weapon
EP0148423A2 (de) * 1983-12-29 1985-07-17 KUKA Wehrtechnik GmbH Vorrichtung zum Zuführen von Geschossmunition in einem Panzerfahrzeug

Cited By (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2722865A (en) * 1951-07-10 1955-11-08 Brev Aero Mecaniques S A Soc Magazine mounting means for automatic firearms
US3333507A (en) * 1964-11-07 1967-08-01 Brevets Aero Mecaniques Armored vehicles including a turret fitted with an automatic gun fed from cartridge belt sections packed in boxes
US3318189A (en) * 1965-02-06 1967-05-09 Rheinmetall Gmbh Automatic weapon, mounted in an armoured turret
US3855899A (en) * 1971-04-06 1974-12-24 Thomson Csf Loading device for a multibarrel weapon
EP0148423A2 (de) * 1983-12-29 1985-07-17 KUKA Wehrtechnik GmbH Vorrichtung zum Zuführen von Geschossmunition in einem Panzerfahrzeug
EP0148423A3 (en) * 1983-12-29 1986-04-09 Kuka Wehrtechnik Gmbh Ammunition feeding device in an armoured vehicle

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