Ammunition bunker in which the shells are inserted in individual storage tubes

US4562765A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Wegmann & Co. GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Peter Grunewald · Bocholt, DE
• Heinz-Jurgen Schlomer · Vellmar, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 9, 1983
• Grant date: Jan 7, 1986
• Expiry date: Dec 9, 2003

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F41A9/64
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An ammunition bunker has a plurality of storage tubes arrayed in rows next to and above each other. A doorway at the rear ends of the tubes is provided through which shelves are inserted and removed from the tubes. The doorway extends over an area which is less than that of the array of tubes such that given tubes lie outside the area of the doorway. In order to access these tubes, the given tubes are mounted at the front ends thereof for pivoting movement at the rear ends of each towards the doorway. Storage tubes disposed adjacent the given tubes in the direction of pivot have cutout portions so as to enable the extraction openings of the pivoted given storage tubes to be in approximately the same position as in the extraction openings of the cutout storage tubes.