SHIPBOARD ARTILLERY INSTALLATION Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC F41A9/01 F41A9/04 F41A9/06 F41A9/37 

FIELD: weapons and ammunition.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to shipboard artillery installations of a medium calibre with a system of continuous supply of an artillery automatic weapon with ammunitions of unitary loading. In the ammunition supply system of the shipboard artillery installation, reloading assemblies of shots from a rotating part of the installation to a swinging part are made in the form of two car conveyers. Each of the conveyors is installed on the appropriate trunnion plate of a machine and includes a tractor chain of a cardan type, which is closed around this trunnion plate, and load trolleys with containers. Each container is equipped with a shot displacer from the container to a receiver of the artillery automatic weapon. Each of the receivers of the artillery weapon is made in the form of a frame so that free passage through it of a shot is provided in a cross direction. This frame is installed on a lever that is hinged to a cradle so that rotation is provided about the axis of journals of the cradle, equipped with a hookup mechanism made so that connection of the lever and the container of the continuously moving load trolley, which is loaded with a shot, is provided, their joint movement through a fixed angle and further separation; it is also equipped with a mechanism of action on the shot displacer from the container to the receiver of the artillery automatic weapon. An unloading assembly of each overloader is made in the form of a pendulum with a rotation support on the cradle journal and is provided with a hookup mechanism similar to the hookup mechanism of the receiver of the artillery automatic weapon.

EFFECT: improvement of reliability of automatic artillery installations of a medium calibre.

2 cl, 17 dwg