Gun silencer arrangement

US5461962A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Rheinmetall GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Herbert Krumm · Kaarst, DE
• Karl Wiemers · Bochum, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 27, 1994
• Grant date: Oct 31, 1995
• Expiry date: May 27, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F41A21/30
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A silencer arrangement for large-caliber guns (3;33,34) including at least one silencer (5;54,55). In order for the system characteristics of the gun (3;33,34) not to be negatively influenced by the heavy weight of the silencer (5;54,55), the silencer is not fastened (5;54,55), as in the case of small-caliber weapons, on the weapon tube or barrel itself, but instead, is arranged on a separate silencer gun carriage (6;39) which is mechanically decoupled from the gun (3;33,34), with the gun carriage (6;39) preferably being configured such that the silencers (5;54,55) may be moved in synchronism with the movement of the gun barrel.