US2870681A - Container for a cartridge belt - Google Patents

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US2870681A
US2870681A US737910A US73791058A US2870681A US 2870681 A US2870681 A US 2870681A US 737910 A US737910 A US 737910A US 73791058 A US73791058 A US 73791058A US 2870681 A US2870681 A US 2870681A
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Linke Johannes
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Rheinmetall Air Defence AG
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Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon Buhrle AG
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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
    • F41A9/61—Magazines
    • F41A9/79—Magazines for belted ammunition

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  • the invention relates to a container for a cartridge belt for automatic weapons stored in zig-zag layers, said container having compartments separated from one another by partition walls, wherein the cartridges lie parallel to a vertical plane including the axis of the weapon.
  • Such containers hereinafter referred to as belt boxes, are known in themselves.
  • the accommodation of the store of ammunition either requires much space in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the weapon or, with a given space, sets narrow limits to the quantity of ammunition which can be stored.
  • a container for a cartridge belt of an automatic firearm comprising in combination: end walls, side walls, a bottom and a top, parti tion walls dividing the container into separate compartments, passages for the belt being arranged in the side walls of adjacent compartments on the same side thereof alternately near the top and bottom thereof, and an oblique conduit lining up the said passage near the bottom of one compartment with the said passage near the top of the adjacent compartment, the said cartridge belt being folded zig-zag fashion in each compartment with the cartridges substantially parallel to a vertical plane containing the axis of the said firearm, and being passed from one compartment to the next adjacent compartment through the said passages and conduit connecting the same.
  • the belt can accordingly be conducted to the weapon substantially without change of direction of the cartridges.
  • the belt box according to the invention may be used for example for the storing of the cartridge belt on its way to an automatic firearm which is mounted on an annular turntable gun mounting built into a vehicle in which the ammunition has to be accommodated primarily Within one half of the cylindrical space bounded by the annular turntable, alongside the weapon.
  • ICC Fig. 1 shows the belt box together with the gun, in plan view.
  • Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the belt box.
  • Fig. 1 is the rotary ring of the upper gun mounting, on which the weapon 2 is mounted in a manner not shown in detail, is denoted by 1.
  • the upper gun mounting is rotatable together with the weapon about the vertical azimuth laying axis Z.
  • Y is the elevation laying axis of the gun.
  • From the belt box 4 lixedly connected to the upper gun mounting the cartridge belt 5 is passed into the belt feeder device 3 of the weapon 2.
  • the free space on the left hand side between the weapon and the annular turntable is occupied by the gunner.
  • the belt box -according to the invention is a rectangular container which is subdivided by the partition wall 6 into the two compartments 4a and 4b, the compartment 4a being made for example wider at the bottom than at the top, for enlarging the useful space thereof.
  • the walls 7 and 8 lying on the same side of the belt box slot-shaped passages 9 and 10 for the cartridge belt are provided parallel to the bottom of the box, namely in the wall 7 near the bottom and in the wall 8 near the top. From the lower passage 9 of the compartment 4a a conduit 11 is passed obliquely to the upper passage 10 of the compartment 4b.
  • This conduit is straight at its middle portion and curved towards the passages 9 and 10, and runs out tangentially towards the frontand rear-edges of the box.
  • the obviously 15 of the belt outlet conduit 14 leading from the belt box compartment 4a upwardly rises towards the front. ln the interior of the compartments, behind the passages 9 and 10, deflector rollers 12 and 13 for the cartridge belt are arranged, which are journalled on axes parallel to these passages.
  • the connecting line of the centers of the cartridges combined in a belt is indicated in chain-dotted lines, and the storing of the belt is illustrated diagrammatically.
  • the belt S is put into loose zig-zag layers beginning at the bottom of the rear compartment 4b and extending over the full width of the compartment in such a manner that the cartridges point their projectiles forward and the axes of the projectiles lie parallel to the side walls of the belt box.
  • the belt runs over the deflector roller 13, through the conduit 11, through the passage 9 and over the deflector roller 12 into the compartment 4a where it is put into loose zig-zag layers just as in the compartment 4b, and after its uppermost layer, it is passed through the outlet passage 14 to the belt feeder device 3 of the weapon.
  • the compartments of the belt box are emptied in the inverse order of loading the same.
  • the compartment 4a is empty, the: part of the belt stored in the compartment 4b is discharged through the conduit 11, the belt after the deflector roller 12 being pulled directly upward into the outlet conduit 14.
  • the belt box may alternatively be composed of more than two compartments arranged one behind the others.
  • a third compartment 4c is indicated in thin lines in Fig. 2.
  • an entrance passage 16 has to be provided in the side wall of the compartment 4b and an outlet passage 17 in the side wall 18 of the compartment 4c, lying on the same side.
  • the belt is piled up in zig-zag layers in the compartment 4c as in the compartments 4a and 4b, and is passed through a conduit from the outlet passage 17 of the compartment 4c to the entrance passage 16 of the compartment 4b.
  • the two passages could obviously be provided alternatively in the other side walls of the belt box. It is only essential that the outlet passage of one compartment lies on the same side as the entrance passage of the adjacent preceding compartment.
  • a container for a cartridge beltof an automatic rearm comprising in combination: end walls, side walls,
  • a container as claimed in claim 1, comprising deflector rollers for the cartridge belt journalled in the said compartments adjacent the said passages.

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DE (1) DE1058406B (en, 2012)
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Cited By (5)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4840109A (en) * 1987-02-02 1989-06-20 Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon-Buhrle Ag Apparatus for delivering ammunition from a container structure to a firing weapon
US4951548A (en) * 1988-05-26 1990-08-28 Lucas Industries Apparatus and method for supply of belt-linked ammunition
EP0430655A3 (en) * 1989-12-01 1992-03-11 General Electric Company Multiply adaptable magazine assembly
US5245908A (en) * 1988-01-13 1993-09-21 Sanderson Paul H Plank-mounted aircraft armament system having improved ammunition magazine apparatus and associated mounting structure
RU2825476C1 (ru) * 2023-08-14 2024-08-26 Андрей Вячеславович Малков Штурмовая патронная коробка для автоматического стрелкового оружия

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Cited By (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4840109A (en) * 1987-02-02 1989-06-20 Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon-Buhrle Ag Apparatus for delivering ammunition from a container structure to a firing weapon
US5245908A (en) * 1988-01-13 1993-09-21 Sanderson Paul H Plank-mounted aircraft armament system having improved ammunition magazine apparatus and associated mounting structure
US4951548A (en) * 1988-05-26 1990-08-28 Lucas Industries Apparatus and method for supply of belt-linked ammunition
EP0430655A3 (en) * 1989-12-01 1992-03-11 General Electric Company Multiply adaptable magazine assembly
RU2825476C1 (ru) * 2023-08-14 2024-08-26 Андрей Вячеславович Малков Штурмовая патронная коробка для автоматического стрелкового оружия

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FR1198257A (fr) 1959-12-07

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