LOADING DEVICE FOR ARTILLERY GUN FIRE Russian patent published in 1998 - IPC

FIELD: artillery weapon, applicable in designs of separate case ammunition. SUBSTANCE: loading device is furnished with a device for damping the shock waves arising at a shot. This device has an annular bowl secured on the upper end face of the central rod by a threaded ring located flush with the end face of the case, mouth and oriented with the convex external surface towards the case bottom, and a spring-loaded ring located in the case bottom part in a spaced relation to its bottom. The bowl bottom part has an axial cavity forming an annular gap between the bowl bottom part and central rod; the spring-loaded ring has a diameter equal to the inside diameter of the case mouth for overlapping the annular gap between the case neck and bowl, and the ring spring is made in the form of a radial plate. EFFECT: improved design. 2 dwg