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US2730928A
US2730928A US319062A US31906252A US2730928A US 2730928 A US2730928 A US 2730928A US 319062 A US319062 A US 319062A US 31906252 A US31906252 A US 31906252A US 2730928 A US2730928 A US 2730928A
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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
    • F41A3/00—Breech mechanisms, e.g. locks
    • F41A3/12—Bolt action, i.e. the main breech opening movement being parallel to the barrel axis
    • F41A3/36—Semi-rigid bolt locks, i.e. having locking elements movably mounted on the bolt or on the barrel or breech housing
    • F41A3/38—Semi-rigid bolt locks, i.e. having locking elements movably mounted on the bolt or on the barrel or breech housing having rocking locking elements, e.g. pivoting levers or vanes
    • F41A3/40—Semi-rigid bolt locks, i.e. having locking elements movably mounted on the bolt or on the barrel or breech housing having rocking locking elements, e.g. pivoting levers or vanes mounted on the bolt

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  • the invention relates to a machine gun of the gas pressure type with tiring during the forward movement of the recoiling parts, in which the reciprocating breechbody in the receiver contains a breech-block and a tiring bolt with tiring-pin longitudinally movable in relation to the breech-block, between which parts locking pawls are so arranged that when the breech-block is in its extreme forward position they will by the forward motion of the bolt in relation to the breech-block be forced outward and engage supporting surfaces in the receiver while at the same time they support the breech-block and thus lock it in its extreme forward position, locking position, whereas before the breech-block has reached that position they v are prevented from being forced outward, thereby stopping the forward motion of the firing bolt in relation to the breech-block, and when locking position has been reached they will by the subsequent return movement of the tiring bolt in relation to the breech-block by suitable
  • the breech-block s enclosed by and preferably resting in a tubular locking device in one with the firing bolt and extending in front of the locking pawls.
  • This tubular locking device is provided with passages which when the tiring bolt is in itsV forward position in relation to the breech-block will coincide with the locking pawls and permit them to be forced out to engage the supporting surfaces in the receiver, whereas when the tiring bolt is in its rear position they are so situated that the locking pawls cannot be carried through them but will rest against the inner wall of the tube.
  • the locking'pawls may according to the invention in manner known per se be loosely mounted in the breech-body with their rounded forward ends resting against corresponding recesses in the breech-block.
  • thepforward edges of the passages in the locking device for the locking pawls may be provided with an inward slope corresponding to external surfaces on the locking pawls which will thereby be forced inwards and out of engagement with the supporting surfaces of the receiver when the striking bolt with the locking device by the locking of the breechblock is moved to the rear in relation to the latter.
  • this disadvantage may be remedied by means of a spring-loaded stop, preferably a lock bushing encasing the head of the striking pin and shiftably mounted in the rearmost part of the locking dcvice, which bushing when the locking pawls at the beginning of the recoil have been carried to their inward position will pass in over suitable parts of the locking-pawls and lock them in their inward position during the remainder of the recoil and the major part of the subsequent advance, the stop being at the end of the advance by a release organ actuated by the trigger removed from the position in which it locks the locking-pawls, most expediently by the bushing being prevented from participating in the rest of the advance.
  • This blocking device entails the further advantage that if the release operated by the trigger has not been actuated, for instance due to an incomplete operation of the charging handle without the trigger being pressed, the locking-pawls will remain blocked in their inward position and the locking device will be unable to cornplete its advance to the extent necessary for the protrusion of the firing-pin.
  • the releasing organ which may expediently be a release lever separately actuated by the trigger, and which by the trigger is carried into the position in which it will actuate the blocking device, may according to the invention by a spring-loaded latch be held in operative position even if the pressure by the trigger ceases, the said latch being provided with a beak so situated that at the beginning of the further advance of the locking device after the locking of the breech-block by the locking pawls it will by means of a stop on the locking device be actuated to release the release member, which thereby, preferably actuated by a spring, will be removed from its operative position unless prevented by the trigger from being so removed.
  • the release member will thereby be kept in inactive position until the trigger is again pressed and the blocking device will therefore continue to keep the locking pawls blocked at all subsequent movements of the breech-body when no pressure has been exerted on the trigger, for instance by an imperfect recoil.
  • the locking of the release member by the latch may b released according to the invention by a safety mechanism comprising a shiftable or otherwise adjustable safety organ which during the rst part of its transfer to safe position will actuate the latch engaging the release member and release that member'while during the latter stage of its motion it will block the release member in non-active position.
  • the release member may according to the invention be so A connected with the trigger that the latter will be vblocked by the lockedrelease member, whereas the bar mechanism normally actuated by the trigger and holding ⁇ the breechbody in its rearmost position and releasing it by a pull on the trigger, will not be blocked.
  • Fig. 1 shows a vertical longitudinal section through part of the gun
  • Fig. 2 a corresponding horizontal section.
  • a barrel 2 In the front part of a receiver 1 a barrel 2 is fastened and at its lower part a trigger furniture with trigger 3 and safety mechanism.V ln the receiver 1 a breech-body 4 is movably mounted and is in the usual manner actuated to advance by a recoil spring 5. Externally the breech-body 4 consists of a hollow, cylindrical locking device 6 closed at the rear by a closer head 7 in the form of a collar bushing into which is inserted the cylindrical base of a striking-pin head 8, which together with closer head is fastened to the locking device by means of a transverse striking-pin head bolt 9. The collar of the closer head is provided with a downward projecting tappet 10, which forms the'stop on the breech-body engaging the bar of the trigger mechanism.
  • the locking device forms bearing for a shiftable cylindrical breech-bolt 11 provided with a central bore s'uitably tapering at front for the passage of the point of a striking pin 12 with reaction spring 13 mountedin the forward part of the bore.
  • the head 8 of the strikingbolt has a far-shaped extension 14 projecting into the bore of the breech-bolt and capable of actuating the striking-pin 12 in the usual manner.
  • the breech-bolt 11 is provided with two cavities serving as bearings for ⁇ the forward ends of two loosely inserted locking pawls 15 which at their rear are provided with contact surfaces 16 to rest against corresponding surfaces of wearing blocks 17 mounted in the receiver, and on their inward sides with tappets 18 eX- tending to the rear.
  • the breech-bolt In the position of the parts shown, the breech-bolt is in its extreme forward position with the firing-.pin in advanced position.
  • the locking-pawls 15 have by the forward slopes of the head of the strikingpin been forced with their rear ends out through slits in the locking device and are held in this position while the head of thestriking-pin is advanced so that byresting against the wearing blocks 17 and the breech-bolt they hold the latter locked in its forward position.
  • the locking device By the return movement of the breech-body which may be caused by the action of the gas cylinder with recoil rod not otherwise mentioned or by the pulling back of the charging handle, the locking device will first ,move backwards whereas due to its locking the ,breech-bolt will remain in its forward position. NVhen the locking device has moved some .distance to the rear', rearward slopes 19 on the .foremost edges of the recesses inthe locking device will slide against the external surfaces of the locking-pawls 15 and during the further movement press the pawls into Vthe interior of the locking device, the .pawls turning into the cavities of the breech-bolt with their .rounded forward ends.
  • the breech-bolt may accompany the lockingdevice in its further rearward moveleent- ⁇ Ifhe cylindrical base of the striking-bolt head which CII projects from the locking device head 7 is of smaller diameter than the internal cylindrical bore of the locking device and in the annular space thus formed a lock-bushing 20 has been loosely inserted over the striking-bolt head which bushing with a collar 21 rests against the internal wall of the locking device. Between the collar 21 and the head 7 of the locking device a compression spring, the lock bushing spring 22, has been inserted tending to press the lock bushing forward.
  • the trigger furniture 3 contains the trigger 23 which with its arm 24 actuates a breast 25 on a bar 27 pivoted on a tappet 26 and formed as a one-armed lever, the beak 2S at the rear end of which by a spring 29 is kept pressed up into a recess in the receiver 1 order to engage the stop 16 on the breech-body.
  • tappet 26 On tappet 26 is further pivoted a two-armed release lever 30, the rearward arm'o'f which 'rests against the lower side of the beak-shaped end of the bar or seer24 and is kept pressed up against it by a spring.
  • the ⁇ forward end of the release'lever is shaped as a stop hook 31 which by depression of the rearmost end of the lever will be carried into the track of the downward projecting stop 3 on the collar 21 of the lock-bushing.
  • Alatch 34 pivoted Von a tappet 33 will under the pressure'of la spring 35 tend to turn into upright position. It is thereby in manner known per se made yto catch and hold the release -lever 30 when Vby a pressure on the rtrigger it is carried into the position with hook 31'raised.
  • YThe latch is extended upwards in the shape of a b ⁇ eak ⁇ 36 which is situated in the track of the stop 10 ofthe breechbody so that at the end of the advance Aof the breechbody the latch will be actuated to release tthe release lever 30.
  • the breech-body When the breech-body is in its penetraterward position held by the beak 28 of the seer and the trigger is pressed the breech-body will be released and advance under the pressure of the recoil spring 5. By the pressure on the trigger the release lever will be tiled with the hook 31 upwards and will be locked in this position by the latch 34.
  • the locking device 6 When the cartridge has been inserted and the breechbolt has reached its extreme forward position the locking device 6 will continue its advance and the head 8 of the striking-bolt will thereby pressrthe locking-,pawls 15 outwards, they having been released by the lock-bushing 20 which by means of tappet 32 has been kept back by the stop hook 31 of the release lever andl thusmdoes not participate in the last partof the advance.
  • the locking-pawls will also at-the end of the advance remain blocked in .their withdrawn position and thereby prevent the locking device with the striking-bolt to make the latter part of the advanceand fire the cartridge.
  • a plate-shaped 4safety organ 37 Vwith handle 38 is shiftably mounted.
  • Plate 37 is provided with a hole 39 and a flange 40.
  • a recoil-operated machine gun having a trigger, a receiver having supporting surfaces, a recoiling slidable system and being adapted to be held in its rearmost retracted position and released therefrom by the action of said trigger, comprising a substantially tubular jacket and, slidably mounted in said jacket, a breech-block, a striking bolt and a striking pin longitudinally movable in relation to said breech-block, laterally swingable locking pawls mounted to the rear of the breech-block in said jacket and at their front ends supporting said breechblock and being adapted to be swung from a retracted position inside said jacket to a locking position wherein their rear ends engage the supporting surfaces of said receiver outside said jacket, thus locking said breechblock in its foremost position, said pawls in their retracted position being positioned in the path of said striking bolt, said bolt being rigidly connected to said jacket so that by moving forwards relatively to said breechblock it forces the rear ends of said pawls to their locking
  • Machine gun wherein a springloaded latch is arranged to cooperate with said release lever so as to lock the release lever in its operative position, said jacket having a pin fixed thereto and latch being provided with a beak so situated that at the beginning of the further advance of the jacket together with the striking bolt, following the locking of the breechblock by the locking-pawls, said latch will, by the action of said pin fixed to said jacket, be actuated so as to unlock the release lever, and a spring actuating said release lever so as to remove said release lever from its active position, pressure on the trigger preventing said removal of said release lever.
  • Machine gun including safety mechanism and wherein said release lever and said latch are adapted to cooperate with said safety mechanism, said mechanism including a stepwise operated movable member which during the irst part of its operation will actuate the latch as to unlock the release-lever and by a subsequent stage of operation will lock said release-lever in a non-active position.
  • the latch cooperating with the release lever is a two-armed lever, one end of said lever being provided with a beak whereby to lock said release-lever and the other end of said lever being shaped as a heel, a slidably mounted plate having a hole into which said heel projects, said plate forming said movable member of the safety mechanism and being so arranged that, when the plate is moved towards its safety position, said heel will be actuated by the edge of said hole so as to move the latch and thereby to unlock said release-lever, the heel remaining during the further shifting of the plate resting on the part of the plate outside the hole therein, and thereby holding the latch in inoperative position, said plate being further provided with a partly cut-off ange, said ange, during the further shifting of the plate, being bushed in under said surface of said release lever, so situated that the lever will be locked in the non-active position thereof.

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