US3380341A - Safing means for high rate of fire multi-barrel automatic weapon - Google Patents

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US3380341A
US3380341A US603573A US60357366A US3380341A US 3380341 A US3380341 A US 3380341A US 603573 A US603573 A US 603573A US 60357366 A US60357366 A US 60357366A US 3380341 A US3380341 A US 3380341A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41F—APPARATUS FOR LAUNCHING PROJECTILES OR MISSILES FROM BARRELS, e.g. CANNONS; LAUNCHERS FOR ROCKETS OR TORPEDOES; HARPOON GUNS
    • F41F1/00—Launching apparatus for projecting projectiles or missiles from barrels, e.g. cannons; Harpoon guns
    • F41F1/08—Multibarrel guns, e.g. twin guns
    • F41F1/10—Revolving-cannon guns, i.e. multibarrel guns with the barrels and their respective breeches mounted on a rotor; Breech mechanisms therefor
    • 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
    • F41A17/00—Safety arrangements, e.g. safeties
    • F41A17/64—Firing-pin safeties, i.e. means for preventing movement of slidably- mounted strikers

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  • a typical Gatling-gun type of automatic weapon comprises a housing enclosing and supporting a rotor assembly, the rotor assembly, in turn, supporting a plurality of ba-rrels.
  • These weapons use percussion or electrically fired ammunition and usually carry la mainspring in the cartridge-carrying lbolt assembly for each firing pin.
  • interaction between the housing and the rotor by means of cams .and/or gearing causes the various weapon actions. In this way, ammunition is delivered to the gun bolts, the cartridges chambered, the bolts locked for firing, the cartridges fired, and the empty cartridge cases extracted and ejected.
  • a more specific object of the invention is to provide, for use in cooperation with the ring pin mechanism of Ian improved very high rate of fire, automatic, multibarrel weapon, sang means operable to effectively deactivate the mainspring of the weapon to prevent its actuating the firing pin or striker mechanism and setting olf the cartridge.
  • the invention is shown to comprise, in combination, a manually operated safng mechanism including means mounted on a unique bolt assembly access cover, the cover forming a sector of the gun housing and supporting an improved cam arrangement on the interior surface thereof for locking la bolt assembly carrying a live cartridge in the firing position, and unlocking the bolt when the cartridge has been tired.
  • the saiing mechanism includes a latching arm pivotally mounted on the outer surface of the cam supporting cover.
  • the latching arm intermediate body portion slidingly received in a rst slot in the cover, is out of contact with a restraining pin mounted on a plunger operating a single mainspring mounted externally on the cover, the pin extending transversely of the plunger and being captured in a second slot in the cover.
  • the restraining pin and latching :arm are so located with respect to each other that movement of the mainspring plunger required for actuation of the tiring pin carried in ⁇ a bolt assembly, which has been positioned for ring, is permitted--unless and until the weapon is to be safed.
  • the latching arm When saling is desired, the latching arm is pivoted .about its cover mounting point which moves one end thereof out of a third slot and olf a detent on the housing and into contact with the restraining pin.
  • the moving arm and pin move the plunger, resulting in initially moving, i.e., compressing, the mainspring out of range of contact with a firing lever.
  • Further movement of the latching farm completely disengages the end of the arm from the housing slot, permitting the bolt vaccess cover or cam supporting means, together with the arm and mainspring, to be fully rotated about a hinge pin at one edge of the cover, completely removing the primary tiring pin actuation means, i.e., the weapons mainspring, from alignment with an part of the gun bolt assembly.
  • FIG. l is an external view of an improved automatic weapon of the Gatling-gun type incorporating the safing mechanism of my invention
  • FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the weapon of FIG. l taken along line 2 thereof;
  • FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the weapon of FIG. 1
  • FIG. 4 is an expanded plan view of the external surface of the gun housing illustrating several of the cooperating parts of the tiring mechanism of the improved weapon and my novel sang mechanism, the weapon parts being shown in the ready-to-fire position and the latching arm in an alternate configuration;
  • FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the cam cover housing sector illustrating the latching arm slot and support arrangement.
  • FIGS. l and 2 the major components of an automatic weapon of the Gatling-gun type shown incorporating my invention are: (1) a rotor assembly, indicated generally at 10; (2) a gun housing, indicated generally at (3) a housing bolt access cover or cam member, indicated generally at (4) a guide bar assembly, indicated generally at 4S; (5) front and rear gun supporting means 50 and 55, respectively; (6) a plurality of barrels, one of which is indicated at and (7) barrel clamping means, indicated at and 80. Also indicated in FIG. 1 is an arrangement for actuating all of the firing pins by a single mainspring 142 mounted externally of the bolt assemblies, i.e., in a bolt access cover or cam supporting member 30.
  • the safing mechanism of my invention is indicated generally at 120.
  • the rotor assembly 10 which is a main structural component, it will be noted that the rotor is supported in the housing 20 at either end by bearings 11a-11b to permit relative rotation therebetween.
  • the front part of the rotor body also supports the barrel cluster.
  • a plurality of openings in this instance six in number, one of which is indicated at 12. Each opening is threaded for engagement with a threaded end 14 of a barrel 60.
  • Each barrel end has a shoulder portion adapted to seat in a coutnerbore 10a in the rotor body face 10b, whereby the extreme rearward end or chamber portion 60b of the barrel is aligned with the locking well portion 16 of the rotor.
  • the barrels may also be fixed in place by other suitable locking means, such as cams, lugs, or pins.
  • the rotor body in this instance, is machined in one piece and has a plurality of bolt slots or grooves, indicated generally at 18, broached or otherwise cut axially of the body and spaced circumferentially thereabout. As seen in FIG. 3, the rotor slots 18 include a plurality of guide ways or tracks which cooperate with mating parts of the bolts assembly, hereinafter described in detail.
  • each track or slot 18 includes an upper lateral support or cam roller guide way 21.
  • the bottom or radially inward boundary of the guide way 21 is formed by a pair of laterally-projecting walls 22-22.
  • the space between the projecting walls forms a recess or guide-way 23 for the main body portion of the bolt assembly indicated at 100.
  • the ways or grooves 18 in the rotor body are further cut away beneath the projecting walls 22-22 to form a guide way 24 for the head portion of a roller shaft locking or guide pin as well as extractor lugs, which are parts of the bolt assembly illustrated.
  • groove 18 has a bottom wall 26 providing clearance for the body portion of the bolt assembly.
  • the tracks or Ways 18 could also be formed by fastening to the rotor body-at the diameter of the guide way 26, a plurality of machined pieces having the necessary laterally-projecting portions to form the required track dimensions to receive the bolts.
  • a drive gear 28 held by a retainer plate 29 fastened to the rotor by a plurality of s:rews, one of which is indicated at 29a.
  • the rearward portion 10c of the rotor body ends in a groove 32 which comprises one extremity of a stepped-down middle portion of the rotor incorporating a continuation of the guide ways 22, 23 and 24.
  • Groove 32 is provided for clearance of the rear end of the bolt assembly depicted in FIG. 2, in particular, the head end of the guide pin, to faciiitate a removal of the bolt assembly.
  • a pair of clearance slots 33-33 are provided in the rotor body to permit extension into the rotor body of a plurality of cartridge delivery ngers of the cartridge guide bar assembly, indicated generally at 45.
  • a locking well 16 At the forward end of the middle rotor poriton is a locking well 16.
  • the locking well includes a breech lock surface 36 adapted to be engaged by a pair of locking lugs on the bolt.
  • Surface 37 on the forward maximum diameter portion of the rotor body contains the barrel holes 12 and provides a forward boundary wall in the locking well 16.
  • a recess or shoulder portion 38 adapted to receive the front bearing means 11a for rotatably supporting the rotor within housing 20 at pad 42.
  • another reduced diameter portion 41 having a pad 43 adapted to tightly abut and support rear bearing means 11b.
  • the outer surface of portion 41 may be provided with lugs 41a or other means suitable for fastening the gun to a supporting member and/or to externally mounted gun accessories (not shown), which may include an ammunition storage and feed system.
  • the housing include a main cam 44 or track having a quasielliptical shape.
  • each bolt assembly is reciprocably moved longitudinally-axially-of the gun to pick up and deliver the runds to the chamber, and return the spent case for ejection on relative rotation of the rotor and housing.
  • a pad portion, indicated generally at 45a, is also provided for support of the cartridge guide bar assembly 45.
  • a number of support pads are cast or formed integrally with the housing, including pads 46a and 46b used to pivotaly support a plurality of actuating members or levers.
  • a further pad 242 also provides a latching slot for latching arm 120 and many contain a detent mechanism 243 for the latching arm of my invention.
  • FIG. 2 ⁇ at the front of the rotor is a retainer plate 52 fastened by bolt 53 to the rotor face.
  • bolt assembly Another major component of the multi-barrel automatic weapon of FIG. l is the bolt assembly, indicated generally at 100, in FIG. 2.
  • bolt assembly includes an elongated generally rectangular body portion 110.
  • the body portion supports cam follower means for engaging the housing cam track and rotor guides comprising a follower roller 112, an anti-friction roller 114, a roller shaft 116 and a guide pin 118.
  • a hammer Positioned in the bolt body, in a longitudinally extending central passageway 119, is a hammer, indicated generally at 122, a striker or firing pin, indicated at 124, and a retractor spring 126.
  • a closure wall member or recoil plate 129 is force-fitted in the body at the forward end thereof, the recoil plate 129 having an aperture 129:1 therethrough adapted to receive striker 124 to permit the latter to contact the cartridge primer for ignition of the round.
  • body 110 preferably a cast or forged piece, also includes means cooperating with cam means on the housing to lock and unlock the bolt assembly during operation of the weapon.
  • a generally L-shaped lug 131 is provided, including an unlocking, forward facing tang 131a and an outer locking surface 131b.
  • the forward end of the bolt body also includes integral cartridge-carrying lug means 132a-132a, best seen in FIG.
  • Locking lugs 134:1, as also best seen in FIG. 3, are incorporated on the body portion 110. Lugs 134a-134a or 132a 132a ride outwardly and inwardly, respectively, of guide walls 22-22 of rotor body 10, during operation of the weapon.
  • the head of the roller shaft locking and guide pin 118 is enlarged at 118a.
  • the guide pin head is adapted to ride in slot 24 in the rotor body, bearing on the inner and the outer walls thereof, for controlled relative longitudinal movement of the bolt assembly 100 with respect to the rotor.
  • the guide pin head 118a is always to the rear of the rotor slot 32, while the forward end of the bolt is held in place by the above described engagement of the locking and extractor lugs with the guide ways.
  • a feature of the disclosed weapon is the provision of a single mainspring mounted externally of the primary firing mechanism of the weapon. That is, in FIGURES 3 and 4 it will be seen that secured to pads 48a and 48b of the housing by a hinge pin 48e received in a hole 48d is a cam member or bolt access cover, indicated generally at 30.
  • the curvature of portion a is provided to conform the cover to the circular shape of the generally cylindrical walls of the housing 20, of which the cover forms a part when closed. When opened, the cover provides access to the bolt assemblies for repair or replacement thereof. This arrangement greatly facilitates maintenance on the weapon, when, for example, any one of six bolt assemblies may require work.
  • the bolt access cover or cam member 30 is so interlocked with the firing pin actuation mechanism that the mainspring is automatically deactivated and incapable of causing the gun to fire whenever the cover is opened for maintenance.
  • this feature provides a manual saling device for use during maintenance on any part of the gun or its associated equipment.
  • the cover member 30 also functions as an external mounting platform for the single mainspring operable to actuate the tiring mechanisms described herein, as well as to support and locate the several cam means necessary to actuate bolt locking and unlocking.
  • the outer surface of the cover includes a pair of ribs 133--133 extending from the hinge pin tunnel or boss portion 132 toward a similarly enlarged edge portion 134 at the opposite lateral side of the body portion 30a. Extending partially longitudinally of edge portion 134 is a recess or hole 135, the forward or bottom wall of which opens to a smaller Passage 136, which, in turn, opens at the forward edge of the body portion 30a.
  • Latching mechanism or means 120 includes a latching bar or cam 240 pivotally mounted adjacent one end thereof on the cover body by means of a pin 241 inserted in a hole 241a in a boss formed on the exterior or outer surface of the cover body 30a.
  • a slot 242a is provided in pad 242 on the housing to receive a portion of arm 240.
  • a spring actuated detent may also be provided, as indicated generally at 243, of the ball and plunger variety to maintain the cam 240 in slot 242m Passage 135 at the rear edge of body 30a receives mainspring 142 and plunger 144 associated therewith.
  • the mainspring rests between the bottom wall of passage 135 and a head or shoulder 144a at one end of the plunger.
  • the opposite end of the plunger has a hole 146. Projecting laterally of the plunger and into slot 137 for relative sliding movement therein, in accordance with the sang feature of my invention, is a pin 147 which is tightly fitted in the transverse hole 146 in the plunger body.
  • cam member 30 preferably Ysupports means provided for cooperation with a plurality of levers, indicated generally at and 162, for operating the hammer 122.
  • a locking cam indicated generally at 164
  • a cocking lever stop lug indicated generally at 165
  • a retractor cam indicated generally at 166
  • an unlocking cam indicated generally at 168.
  • the cocking lever stop lug projects inwardly of the housing during operation of the weapon, and includes a pair of bearing surfaces 165a and 165b each adapted to contact the cocking lever 160 during one portion of the firing cycle.
  • Locking cam 164 located adjacent the forward edge of body portion 30a, includes an initial locking ramp portion 164rz, a holding ramp portion 164b and a clearance ramp portion 164e, serially arranged along its interior surface.
  • Unlocking cam 168 of generally L-shaped configuration, is pinned to the cover 30 by means 16811 and has a tang 168b adapted to engage tang 131a of bolt assembly 100. Tang 16811 overlies clearance ramp 164C of locking cam means 164.
  • Retractor cam 166 projects from the surface with its longitudinal axis skewed from a plane parallel to the general direction of surface 165b, i.e., a plane normal to the gun axis.
  • the retractor cam includes an initial contact surface or ramp portion 166a, which proceeds at an angle back along the cam body to a small at ramp portion 16617 at the eX- treme end of the effective length of the cam body.
  • the retractor cam is positioned to contact hammer 122 shortly after the hammer disengages both the cocking and iiring levers 160, 162.
  • both cocking lever 160 and firing lever 162 are pivotally mounted on pins 170 and 172, respectively, supported in the housing 20.
  • the cocking lever is generally triangular, having a hammer contact arm 174, a stop contacting or bearing surface 175, and a ring lever contact or driving arm 176.
  • the tiring lever 162 has a driven arm 177, a power arm 178, and a hammer contact arm OPERATION
  • the conventional multi-barrel, high rate of re automatic weapon of the Gatling-gun variety includes a rotor supporting a plurality of barrels for rotation about a common axis, the rotor also having tracks or guideways for a plurality of cartridge-carrying bolt assemblies.
  • the bolt access cover 30 of the improved weapon illustrated herein is opened for removal, for example, of a jammed cartridge case, the possibility 0f a cartridge partly locked in the breech being tired is prevented. As seen in FIGS.
  • the bolt access cover 30 supports the plunger 144 and mainspring 142. While the spring is shown mounted in the cover it will be understood that it could also be mounted directly to housing 30 and interlocked with the cover.
  • cam member 30 is locked in position by means of latching arm or cam 240 as follows. As shown in FIG. 4 (latched), arm 240* has been pivoted counter clockwise about pin 241, a portion of the latching arm entering slot 242 on housing 20. The latch is retained in slot 242, if desired, by the detent mechanism, indicated at 243. In this position, pin 147 extends transversely of plunger 144, riding in the open-ended slot 137 in the cover 30.
  • cocking and tiring levers and the mainspring may be provided to accomplish the described misalignment of the mainspring and the bolt hammer and striker.
  • an alternate arrangement would be to pivotally attach the firing and cocking levers to the underside of the bolt access cover.
  • the latch arm 240 could be mounted to the cover in such a way as to be pivotable--or movable-into position to physically block rotation of the rotor by hand, if desired, thus preventing advancement of a bolt assembly to a position where the cartridge primer could be struck by other means.
  • the above described safing means o is also useful as a quickly operated, completely reliable means for manually safing the weapon when it is desired to work on other parts of the weapon. That is, even in the absence of jamming or need to have access to the bolts, for example, to solve problems connected with the rotor drive or associated equipment, the weapon can be worked on in complete safety.
  • An improved multi-barrel, high rate of fire automatic weapon comprising:
  • an externally-powered rotor assembly coaxially supported within said housing for relative rotation with respect thereto, said rotor assembly including a body portion having a plurality of guide ways circumferentially spaced about the periphery and a plurality of barrel receiving ports at one end thereof, a plurality of cartridge-carrying bolts each slidably received in one of said rotor ways, each of said bolts having follower means cooperating with said housing cam means for longitudinal reciprocal movement of said bolts with respect to the rotor assembly and a firing pin assembly including a hammer radially projecting outwardly of the bolt;
  • means for actuating said tiring pin assembly including a mainspring and a plurality of lever members pivotally mounted in said housing and operably connected between said mainspring and said hammer, wherein respective ones of said lever members are sequentially engaged and disengaged by said hammer, responsive to said longitudinal reciprocal movement, to pivot said lever members for successively compressing and releasing said mainspring;
  • a cover member pivotally mounted on and forming a sector of the generally cylindrical housing when closed, said member including,
  • cam means on an interior surface thereof, (2) a rst mounting pad extending along a lateral edge of the cover and projecting upwardly of the exterior surface thereof ⁇ and having a central bore therethrough, said bore including an axially aligned recess of reduced diameter at one end thereof, said mainspring being received in the larger portion of said bore,
  • a plunger member for said mainspring having one end slidingly received in said bore recess, the other end thereof having a shoulder restraining said mainspring in the larger portion of said bore, said shoulder normally contacting one of said lever members',
  • a latching arm pivotally mounted on said second pad, said latching arm having an intermediate portion thereof slidingly received in said rst slot inwardly of said pin, wherein said latching arm is movable outwardly of said first slot to engage said pin, thereby moving said plunger out of contact with said lever member to make said mainspring inoperable to tire said weapon.
  • said housing includes a third pad located adjacent said cover opening in the housing, said third pad having Ia third slot lying in the same plane as said first slot, said third slot receiving one end of said latching arm for retaining said arm therein to lock said cover in the sector forming position.
  • said third slot includes detent means for securing said one end of said latching arm therein, and wherein said latching arm is movable completely out of said third slot for pivoting movement of said cover, said mainspring, and said latching arm and pin through a substantially 180 arc to completely deactivate said weapon and provide easy access to said bolts with disassembling said weapon.
  • an automatic weapon having a plurality of barrels circumferentially arranged about a common axis, a rotor assembly supporting said barrels, said rotor assembly having a plurality of cartridge-carrying bolts mounting in axial ways thereof having cam follower means thereon, a housing circumferentially spaced about and rotatably supporting said rotor, said housing including cam means cooperating with said bolt follower means for reciprocal longitudinal movement of said bolts to and from a forward ring position responsive to the relative rotation of the rotor and housing, the improvement of saug means for said weapon comprising, in combination:
  • lever means pivotally mounted interiorly of said housing adjacent to and operably connected with said mainspring, said lever means including arms projecting radially inwardly of said housing and operable to successively engage said firing mechanisms to cause the ring mechanisms of said bolts to be driven into contact with catridges for ring of same;
  • a cover member including means pivotally mounting said cover member at one lateral edge thereof on the housing to form a sector thereof when in a closed position, a pad projecting outwardly of the exterior surface and along the opposite lateral edge of said member, said pad having a first recess receiving said mainspring and a second smaller recess opening into said first recess at one end thereof, a rst slot extending transversely of said pad partially along the length thereof and underlying said second recess;
  • a Contact member having a reduced end portion slidingly received in said second recess, the other end thereof having a shoulder restraining said mainspring in said first recess, said shoulder normally contacting one of the arms of said lever means; a latching arm pivotally mounted on said cover and slidingly received in said first slot; and a latching member extending transversely of said contact member adjacent said one end thereof, said latching member being received in a second slot lying in a plane perpendicular to and intersecting the plane of said first slot, said latching member normally being positioned outwardly of said latching arm in said first slot, wherein on pivoting movement of said latching arm outwardly of said lirst slot, said latching member is contacted by said arm for disengage- -ment of said shoulder from said one lever arm to make said mainspring inoperable to fire the weapon.
  • an automatic weapon having a plurality of barrels circumferentially arranged for rotation about a common axis, a rotor supporting said barrels, a housing circumferentially spaced about and rotatably supporting said rotor, ⁇ a plurality of bolt assemblies mounted in ways on the rotor for reciprocal longitudinal movement thereof to and from a forward firing position, said bolt assemblies each including a firing mechanism, and actuating means including a mainspring and a plurality of lever means connected thereto, respective ones of said lever means being normally successively engaged and disengaged by said tiring mechanisms, responsive to said longitudinal movement, for successively compressing Iand releasing said mainspring, whereby said actuating means operates successive ones of said firing mechanisms to discharge cartridges carried by said bolt assemblies, the improvement of means incapacitating the tiring mechanisms of said bolt assemblies comprising:
  • latching means operable between a first position on said cover, wherein said cover is in a closed position forming a sector of said housing, and a second position, wherein said cover is pivotable to open said housing for access to the -bolt assemblies, said latching means comprising:
  • a restraining member laxially slidably received for limited movement in a second slot in said cover, said second slot being perpendicular to and intersecting said first slot, and

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