AMMUNITION FEED SYSTEM OF AUTOMATIC GUN Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: military equipment, gun mounts with belt ammunition feed. SUBSTANCE: ammunition feed system of automatic gun has ammunition magazine comprising several compartments with covers formed by vertical partitions. Compartments come in the form of boxes positioned in housing. Rollers rolling over guides of housing are installed outside of upper part of boxes. Bosses in the form of rollers are mounted with uniform spacing in intervals between rollers. Manual drive of boxes coming in the form of handle with reduction gear, output vertical cardan roller kinematically coupled to two cardan rollers located in horizontal plane around edges of housing is put on housing. Sprockets interacting with rollers and bosses of boxes are put on ends of rollers and are coupled kinematically to them. Spring-loaded jaw clutches engaged by levers hinged in housing are installed in central part of rollers. U-shaped covers have form of bell-cranks contacting vertical wall of box with one arm and ammunition with another arm directed towards feed of ammunition belt. U-shaped arm of cover is smoothly bent upwards to form throat for appearance of ammunition belt from box. Each box is connected to adjacent box by means of springy clamp. EFFECT: raised functional reliability of ammunition feed system of automatic gun with large ammunition equipment. 3 dwg