CONVEYOR LAYING OF AMMUNITION Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC F41A9/00 F41A9/13 

FIELD: weapons and ammunition.

SUBSTANCE: conveyor laying of ammunition comprises frame, seats, rammer, conveyor drive, including master and slave shafts, each with two sprockets. Frame of laying is equipped with two guides arranged in the form of arcs of two concentric circumferences. Seats with ammunition move along these guides. Centre of circumferences matches axis of gun journals, and geometric axes of seats on part of trajectory move in plane of gun barrel channel axis swinging plane. Rammer is equipped with drive for motion along frame guides. Radiuses of sprockets on master and slave shaft of conveyor drive are in the same ratio as radiuses of frame guide arcs. Frame may be equipped with toothed sector. Drive of motion may include electric motor and reduction gear, outlet pinion of which may interact with toothed sector on frame of laying.

EFFECT: invention provides for ramming of ammunition from laying directly into gun barrel at any angle of its elevation.

2 cl, 2 dwg