US653071A - Apparatus for supplying ammunition to turret or barbette guns. - Google Patents

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US653071A
US653071A US73464399A US1899734643A US653071A US 653071 A US653071 A US 653071A US 73464399 A US73464399 A US 73464399A US 1899734643 A US1899734643 A US 1899734643A US 653071 A US653071 A US 653071A
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41WEAPONS
    • F41AFUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE
    • F41A9/00Feeding or loading of ammunition; Magazines; Guiding means for the extracting of cartridges
    • F41A9/01Feeding of unbelted ammunition
    • F41A9/06Feeding of unbelted ammunition using cyclically moving conveyors, i.e. conveyors having ammunition pusher or carrier elements which are emptied or disengaged from the ammunition during the return stroke
    • F41A9/09Movable ammunition carriers or loading trays, e.g. for feeding from magazines
    • F41A9/10Movable ammunition carriers or loading trays, e.g. for feeding from magazines pivoting or swinging
    • F41A9/13Movable ammunition carriers or loading trays, e.g. for feeding from magazines pivoting or swinging in a vertical plane
    • F41A9/16Movable ammunition carriers or loading trays, e.g. for feeding from magazines pivoting or swinging in a vertical plane which is parallel to the barrel axis

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  • Figure 1 is a longitudinal section
  • Fig. 2 is a plan
  • Fig. 3 is a transverse section, of a turret with a pair of'gun's mounted side by side therein, with apparatus according to our invention for supplying the guns with ammunition.
  • Fig. 4 is a plan of the lower part of the ammunition-hoist.
  • a carrier 20 which has wheels re- 0 volving one. circular rail w.
  • the carrier has internal teeth gearing with a pinion y on an upright shaft, worked'by winch-handles and worin-gearz. Successive projectiles can thus be brought around to an opening through the 3 5 gun-platform to be raised by suitable elevating mechanism and transferred to a. convenient loading-tray, neither of which isshown in the present application.
  • the charges of explosive which are stored c in the magazine below are brought up to the turret through a hoist-shaft 1, which revolves with the turret.
  • a hoist-shaft 1 which revolves with the turret.
  • a-pair of sprocket-wheels 2 worked by hand-winches 3 or an electric mo- 5 tor 9.
  • sprocket-wheels 2 worked by hand-winches 3 or an electric mo- 5 tor 9.
  • Some of the charges loaded on these arms are deliv- 5o ered in the turret in a position whence they can be lifted by hand to charge the gun.
  • a subsidiary pair 7, with sprocketwheels are mountedat the top of the shaft, '5 5 these chains having curved projecting blades 8, arranged to passthrough the intervals between the blades 6 of 'the main chains.

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m. 653,07I. Patented July 3, I900. A.- T. DAWSON & .1. HORNE.
APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING AMMUNITION TO TURRET 0R BARBETTE GUNS.-
' (Application filed Mar. 9, 1900.)
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No. 653,071. Patented July 3, I900.
A. T. DAWSON & J. HORNE. v APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING AMMUNITION TO TUBRET OWBABBETTE GUNS.
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Patented July 3, ,IQOO.
APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING AMMUNITION TO TURBET OR BARBETTE GUNS.
(Application filed. Mar. 9, 1900.)
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ARTHUR 'rnnvon DAWSON, OFLONDON, AND JAMESHORNE, or BARROW- mmunnnss, ENGLAND, Assrenons TO THE vIoKnRs, sons & MAXIM, ,LIMITED, on SHEFFIELU, ENGL'A'NB.
APPARATUS FOR'SUPPLYING AMMUNITION TO TURRET R BARB ET TE GUNS.
' SIEGIFIOATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 653,071, dated July 3, 1900.
' Original application filed October 24, 1899, Serial No. 734,643. Divided and this application filed March 9, 1900. Serial No; 8,050. (No model.)
Tea/ll whom it may concern:
Be it known that we,AR'rHUR TREvoR DAW- SON, residing at 28 Victoria street, Westminster, London, and JAMES HORNE, residing at Barrow-in-Furness,county of Lancaster,England,citizens of England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Supplying Ammunition to Turret or Barbette Guns, (for which we have applied for e a patent in Great Britain, dated May 4, 1899,
No, 9,416,) of which the following is a specification.
This invention, originally described in the specification accompanying our application for Letters Patent filed October 24, 1899, Se-
rial No. 734,643, of which this is a division, relates to apparatus for supplying ammunition to a gun or a pair of guns mounted in a turret or barbette, as we shall describe, re-- ferring to the accompanying drawings.
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section, Fig. 2 is a plan, and Fig. 3 is a transverse section, of a turret with a pair of'gun's mounted side by side therein, with apparatus according to our invention for supplying the guns with ammunition. Fig. 4 is a plan of the lower part of the ammunition-hoist. For supplying projectiles a number of these are laid on a carrier 20, which has wheels re- 0 volving one. circular rail w. The carrier has internal teeth gearing with a pinion y on an upright shaft, worked'by winch-handles and worin-gearz. Successive projectiles can thus be brought around to an opening through the 3 5 gun-platform to be raised by suitable elevating mechanism and transferred to a. convenient loading-tray, neither of which isshown in the present application.
The charges of explosive which are stored c in the magazine below are brought up to the turret through a hoist-shaft 1, which revolves with the turret. In the lower part of this shaft is mounted a-pair of sprocket-wheels 2, worked by hand-winches 3 or an electric mo- 5 tor 9. Around these wheels and around another pair of sprocket-wheels 4, at the top of the shaft, pass a pair of chains 5 having curved projecting arms 6, each adapted .to carry two half explosive charges. .Some of the charges loaded on these arms are deliv- 5o ered in the turret in a position whence they can be lifted by hand to charge the gun. Besides the main chains 5 and their sprocket wheels a subsidiary pair 7, with sprocketwheels, are mountedat the top of the shaft, '5 5 these chains having curved projecting blades 8, arranged to passthrough the intervals between the blades 6 of 'the main chains. By causing the subsidiary chains 7 tetrayel faster than the main chains 5 the blades 8 lift some of the charges from the blades ,6 and deliver them on the one hand, while the blades 6 of the main chains deliver others of the charges on the other hand. v
Having thus described the nature of this invention and the best means We know for I carrying the same into practical effect, we claim- 1. In combination with a revolving gun tur-- ret or barbette, a hoist-shaft attached to and revolving with said turret or barbette, sprocket-wheels arranged in the upper and lower portions of said hoist-shaft, endless chains traveling about said sprocket-wheels, endless chains arranged in the upper part of the hoist- 7 5 shaft parallel to the first-mentioned chains and traveling about sprocket-wheels, means for causing said last-mentioned chains to, travel faster than the-chains first named, and curved projecting blades carried by each set of chains and adapt-ed to carry 0 u'ges of explosive, and the blades on the ins ,er-moving chains operating to remove, a pmtion of the charges from the blades on the slower-mow ing chains, substantially as described. 85 2. The combination with a revolving gun turret or barbette, a hoist-shaft r tached to and revolving with said turret or barbette, an endless carrier arranged in said hoist-shaft and provided with curved projecting holders each adapted to lift a plurality of charges, said holders operating to discharge the charges travel faster than the elevator-carrier, said auxiliary carrier being provided with curved projecting holders arranged to travel between the holders on the elevator-carrier and operating to remove a )ortion of the charges from the latter and disc; arge them on the side opposite to the elevator-carrier, substantially as described. 7
' In testimony'whereof wehave hereunto set i our hands in presence of the subscribing wlt- I5 nesses.
ARTHUR TREVOR DAWSON. JAMES HORNE. Witnesses to the signature of the abovenamed Arthur Trevor Dawson:
HENRY KING, G-Eo. H. BRIDGES. Witnesses to the signature of theabovenamed James Horne:
R. B. V. BURTHEN, W.-I-I. ATKINSON.
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US2474975A (en) * 1944-05-11 1949-07-05 United Shoe Machinery Corp Gun-loading mechanism
US3818794A (en) * 1972-03-16 1974-06-25 Oerlikon Buehrle Ag Armored vehicle with a laterally alignable mortar
US3937125A (en) * 1973-04-02 1976-02-10 Ab Bofors Device for loading an artillery piece
US4640181A (en) * 1980-05-07 1987-02-03 Kuka Wehrtechnik Gmbh Automatic gun loading device for a tank

Cited By (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2474975A (en) * 1944-05-11 1949-07-05 United Shoe Machinery Corp Gun-loading mechanism
US3818794A (en) * 1972-03-16 1974-06-25 Oerlikon Buehrle Ag Armored vehicle with a laterally alignable mortar
US3937125A (en) * 1973-04-02 1976-02-10 Ab Bofors Device for loading an artillery piece
US4640181A (en) * 1980-05-07 1987-02-03 Kuka Wehrtechnik Gmbh Automatic gun loading device for a tank

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