Abstract:
A spade grip attachment assembly for securing a spade grip to a minigun clutch includes a first adapter member configured to be secured to the spade grip and a second adapter member configured to be secured to the clutch. The first and second adapter members are configured such that one is receivable in the other. Each adapter member defines a pair of coaxially aligned pin holes that align to form a passage in which a locking pin is receivable when one adapter member is received in the other. The locking pin is receivable in the passage to releasably secure the first adapter member to the second adapter member.
Abstract:
A delinking feeder receives a belt of linked cartridges, separates cartridges from the belt, and feeds the separated cartridges to a minigun for firing. The delinking feeder includes a feeder sprocket a plurality of slots extending outward to an open end at an outer edge of the feeder sprocket body, and each slot is disposed along a curve. The curve decelerates a cartridge disposed in the slot as the cartridge moves outwardly in the slot. A feeder, shaft is adapted to hold the feeder sprocket and a stripper. The shaft includes a section having a plurality of exterior splines, and the feeder sprocket includes an axial hole having a plurality of interior splines configured to mate with the plurality of shaft exterior splines. The stripper sleeve includes an axial hole having a plurality of interior splines configured to mate with the plurality of shaft exterior splines.
Abstract:
A belt-fed machine gun (1) for firing a multiplicity of cartridges (6) encased in sleeves (7), which sleeves are linked to form a belt (8). The machine gun includes a plurality of substantially parallel barrels (2) mounted for circumrotation, a plurality of cradles (5) for supporting the cartridges encased in the sleeves, said cradles being mounted for circumrotation with said plurality of substantially parallel barrels (2) wherein a number of the plurality of cradles in an operative condition are aligned coaxially with corresponding barrels, a housing (9) and a breechblock (10). The housing and said cradles (5) in an operative condition engage sleeves (7) encasing cartridges (6) to form chambers with said breechblock, wherein the breechblock includes a guide (11) for engagement with a follower (15) on the cartridges (6) to urge cartridge and sleeve (7) into engagement with a barrel (2). The gun (1) further includes a firing mechanism for initiating a propellant charge (18) in one or more of the cartridges (6) supported by cradles (5) in the operative condition.
Abstract:
A feeder/delinker for a gatling gun is disclosed. The feeder/delinker comprises a housing having a drive gear rotationally coupled to a ring of gatling gun barrels extending therethrough, A push rod guide with a plurality of push rods slidably received therein is mounted within the housing. The push rods correspond to and are oriented parallel to the gatling gun barrels. The push rod guide is rotationally coupled to the drive gear and a shaft which extends through the push rod guide. The plurality of push rods slide forwardly and backwardly within the push rod guide. A drive subassembly is mounted forwardly of the push rod guide and defines a plurality of cartridge receiving channels corresponding to and aligned with the plurality of push rods. A stripper subassembly is mounted forwardly of the drive subassembly on the shaft and defines a plurality of stripper channels corresponding to and aligned with the plurality of push rods. Each of the plurality of stripper channels is adapted to receive and prevent longitudinal movement of a cartridge link. An exhaust port is provided for expelling cartridge links. A linked cartridge from a belt of cartridges is positioned in one of the drive subassembly channels and the corresponding stripper subassembly channel is urged longitudinally forwardly by the corresponding push rod. The stripper subassembly retains the cartridge link thereby stripping the cartridge from the link, the links being expelled via the exhaust port. A feeder sprocket receives cartridges from the stripper subassembly while an end plate having two parallel guide walls adapted to engage the shoulder of a cartridge guides the cartridge in the feeder sprocket to the gatling gun. A pair of the hatch doors is mounted on the housing and allows the user access to the interior of the housing.
Abstract:
A multiple barrel gun for firing projectiles at an extremely high rate of fire, in the form of a dense cloud of projectiles. In one embodiment, hundreds of gun barrels are rapidly rotated about a fewer number of fixed firing stations. As each group of barrels approach the fixed stations, cartridges are radially fed to the barrels, and the group of barrels are concurrently fired when they become aligned with the stations. During each complete revolution of the multiple barrel gun, all of the gun barrels are successively fired in groups a number of times corresponding to the number of firing stations. The total fire power of the gun for each revolution is accordingly equal to the number of barrels times the number of firing stations. To further increase the fire power, a second series of hundreds of gun barrels are counterrotated in opposition to the first series and are independently fed with cartridges and successively fired in groups in the same manner as the first series of barrels to double the firing rate of the gun. The elevation of the gun barrels can be individually adjusted, or automatically varied, to change the shape or diameter of the cloud of projectiles being fired. The extremely high rate of fire of the gun is permitted by the construction of the gun and the triangular shape of the cartridges that enable the cartridges to be fed and ejected from the gun barrels in a transverse direction without any reciprocatory movement.
Abstract:
A gun has at least a barrel, at least a chamber, means for moving said chamber transversely with respect to said barrel between a non coaxial feed station and a coaxial lock and fire station, means for chambering a fresh cartridge in said chamber and thereby ejecting along a path any misfired cartridge, and means for normally blocking said path and for unblocking said path in the presence of a misfired cartridge.
Abstract:
A Gatling type gun having a plurality of barrels fixed in a rotor, and an endless chain of separable chambers passing along a path around said rotor into and out of alignment with said barrels, and means for rigidly controlling the movement of said chambers along said path.