Patent · US Expired

Unbalance-compensating device for a weapons system especially a heavy weapon

US5014594A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Wegmann & Co. GmbH · DE

Inventors

Peter Muhlhausen · Vellmar, DE
Adolf Nausester · Vellmar, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 1, 1989
Grant date	May 14, 1991
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 1, 2009

Classification

Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
CPC primaryF41A27/30
WIPO fieldOther special machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An unbalance-compensating device for a weapons system, especially a heavy weapon, with an assembly that has the tube mounted on it, that pivots in the direction of elevation, and that is mounted on a trunnion in a stationary base, whereby the center of gravity of the pivoting assembly is outside the axis of rotation of the trunnion and wherein a torque that opposes the moment of unbalance is generated by at least one suspension mechanism. The suspension system consists of at least one torsion-bar suspension mechanism, one end of which is non-rotationally secured to the base and the other end of which is secured to the weapon's pivoting assembly by way of a transmission mechanism.

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