Patent · US Expired

Method and device for handling propelling charges in fully and semi-automatic loading systems for artillery guns

US6446536B1 · kind B1 · utility

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18References

15Claims

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Assignee

Bofors Weapon Systems AB · SE

Inventors

Lars-Olov Lindskog · Karlskoga, SE
Jörgen Bergmark · Västerås, SE
Björn Lundblad · Säter, SE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 27, 2000
Grant date	Sep 10, 2002
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 27, 2020

Classification

Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
CPC primaryF41A9/375
WIPO fieldOther special machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A loading system of artillery guns to enable modular charges that are combinable into larger units to be handled in a main magazine with a number of mutually parallel magazine tubes designed to accommodate the modular charges and a retrieval tube whose infeed/outfeed aperture can be docked with the outfeed aperture of any magazine tube. The retrieval tube is used to transfer a selected number of modular charges from the magazine tubes to a loading pendulum used for loading the gun.

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