RAMMER OF PROJECTILES MECHANIZED LOADING OF SELF-PROPELLED ARTILLERY MOUNT (SPAM) Russian patent published in 2016 - IPC F41A9/39 

FIELD: military equipment.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to military equipment, is intended for material part of the combat compartment of a self-propelled artillery mount (SPAM), in particular for a projectile ramming from the ground and firing from the ground without the ammunition load consumption in the armoured object tower, as well as for the SPAM ammunition load rearming. Rammer of the SPAM projectiles mechanized loading comprises a crankcase with fixed in it a reduction gear with a drive and a chain. Rammer is additionally equipped with a frame containing a ledge in contact with front rollers of the chain block in the beginning of ramming, an intermediate tray, in the inner cavity of which there are a spring-loaded thrust and connected with it a rod with a lever, and a guide articulated with the crankcase, the frame and an adjustable coupling setting the guide motion kinematics. Herewith at the moment of the projectile ramming into a seat of the conveyor the loading path is free from the rammer elements. In the rammer guide there are shaped link rails, along which the chain rollers run. Motion of the chain guide and motion of the chain itself are interlocked and performed from the same drive.

EFFECT: technical result is higher rate of fire during operation in the mode of loading projectiles from the ground by implementation of a throughout loading path and avoiding a damage to the fuse during ramming from the tray of the projectiles loading from the ground mechanism to the SPAM conveyor seat.

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