DEVICE FOR CONNECTION OF CARTRIDGE BELTS Russian patent published in 1999 - IPC

FIELD: military equipment, applicable at ammunition stowage of automatic guns with belt feed. SUBSTANCE: device for connection of cartridge belts comprises a cartridge and a body. Cartridge case is installed relative to the link for contact with the link detent. The cartridge tip is installed in the hole of the body having a screw drive with a feed rib resting on the link upper surface and made in the form of a lever. One end of the lever is hinge-joined to the body. Made in the middle section of the feed rib are longitudinal grooves, in which a slide is fastened on axles for movement along the feed rib, with its boss it fixes the front flange of the link. Hinge-joined to the other end of the feed rib is a double-arm lever-detent, whose one arm is hinge-joined to the bracket of the screw drive installed in the screw groove. The other arm is made in the form of a cylindrical surface engageable with the plane of the double-arm lever hinge-joined in the body and fixing the cartridge case bottom by the other arm. EFFECT: enhanced reliability of operation of automatic guns of self-propelled mounts and increased ammunition stowage. 2 dwg