Small or medium caliber multi-barrel automatic weapon of the gatling type, notably designed for firing telescoped munitions
US5817967A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | May 1, 1997 |
| Grant date | Oct 6, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 1, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
- CPC primaryF41A9/45
- WIPO fieldOther special machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A small or medium-caliber multi-barrel automatic weapon of the GATLING type, notably designed to fire telescoped munitions, having a loading and firing system (SC) having several pivoting chambers (20). Each chamber is mounted pivoting around a stay (30), is associated with a barrel of the weapon and moves from a loading area (ZC) to a firing area (ZT), said chamber (20) being guided during its movement by guiding means formed of a fixed inner cam (32) and a fixed outer cam (34) which are separated from one another by an even distance corresponding to the outer diameter of the chambers (20).
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