Patent · US Expired

Pivoting projectile loading chamber for high angle-firing weapons

US4660458A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Diehl GmbH & Co. · DE

Inventors

Klaus von Laar · Achern, DE
Werner Heberlein · Nuremberg, DE
Cavit Winter · Schnaittach, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 10, 1985
Grant date	Apr 28, 1987
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 10, 2005

Classification

Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
CPC primaryF41F1/06
WIPO fieldOther special machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A pivoting or swivable projectile or shell loading chamber for high angle-firing weapons, especially for mortars, which is constructed so as to be barrel-shaped at its lower end and which support itself on the base plate of the mortar, and which can be swung with its upper end outwardly of a position extending coaxially with the weapon firing tube. The upper separating location between the firing tube and the pivoting projectile loading chamber is sealed through a gas pressure-controlled sealing ring. A locking lever is arranged in the upper region of the pivoting projectile loading chamber, which is in operative connection with locking components on the framework of the mortar and with trigger parts of the mortar, and wherein the opening angle of the pivoting projectile loading chamber is restricted by a stop.

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