Apparatus for damping the forward and return movements of an automatic firing weapon

US3969982A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon-Buehrle AG · CH

Inventors

• Jacques Pier-Amory · Geneva, CH
• Beat Koch · Waldstatt, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 15, 1974
• Grant date: Jul 20, 1976
• Expiry date: Apr 15, 1994

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F41A25/12
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus for damping the forward and return motion of an automatic firing weapon comprising a weapon mount, a weapon housing and a weapon barrel, movement of the weapon housing is dampened with respect to the weapon mount by a first annular spring, which annular spring is arranged in a damping mechanism externally of the weapon housing. The weapon barrel is displaceably arranged with respect to the weapon housing and the movement of the weapon barrel with respect to the weapon housing is dampened by a second annular spring, and the second annular spring is arranged in the aforesaid damping mechanism.