DEVICE FOR PROTECTION OF TANK GUN BARREL Russian patent published in 2004 - IPC

FIELD: devices of tank gun armament. SUBSTANCE: the device is provided with an electromagnet, double-arm levers, pressure springs, metal belts, wiring with a button on the gun layer's control board. The stopper can be opened, and its lower edge is linked with the axle of the clamp bolt, on both sides of which on threaded bosses the bases of the left-hand and right hand double-arm levers are fixed. The upper arms of the double-arm levers are hinge-joined to the middle part of the opening stopper and pressed by springs to the muzzle end of the gun. The lower arms of the double-arm levers are rigidly interconnected and hinge-joined to the core of the electromagnet, whose body is fixed by metal belts from below on the gun barrel, the contacts of the electric circuit of the electromagnet coil windings are connected to the button on the gun-layer's control board for opening the gun bore. EFFECT: enhanced reliability and fighting efficiency of the tank gun armament. 1 dwg