Kuka Wehrtechnik Gmbh

Firma Keller & Knappich Wehrtechnik Gmbh

Kuka Wehtechnik Gmbh

August Schiele

Gert Kaustrater

Wolfgang Huber

Helmut Janda

An installation for the mechanized loading of an armored weapon with large caliber cartridges consists of a conveyor device leading from the bottom of the loading area into the turret in the rear of the breech of the weapon with a conveyor container for holding the cartridge and a continuous belt driven by a motor, a guide device which has roller sets arranged in the area of each end of the transport container and two guide tracks, each assigned to one roller set, which lead the transport container with the inserted cartridge from an approximately vertical position on the bottom of the loading area to a horizontal position, level with the weapon, in front of the breech, and a rammer, accelerating the cartridge with open weapon breech into the weapon chamber.

Device for loading an armored weapon

In an apparatus for loading guns, particularly tank howitzers, from a rotary magazine containing the shells and positioned below and alongside the gun barrel, for simplifying construction and movement sequences a substantially vertical loading arm pivotable about a vertical axis between a reception position in the vicinity of the rotary magazine and a position below and upstream of the gun barrel is provided, the loading arm having at least one gripper for a shell and in the last-mentioned position is pivotable about an approximately horizontal axis at right angles to the core axis of the gun barrel into a loading position from which the shell aligned with the core axis can be transported by a rammer into the gun chamber.

Apparatus for loading guns, particularly tank howitzers

For supplying a cartridge belt comprising individual, separable belt members from a magazine to a machine gun, a guide channel is provided which has an outwardly pivotable channel portion. The channel portion can be pivoted between a position aligned with the guide channel and a position aligned with a replacement ammunition channel, a pivoting device being provided which separate the two belt members located in the partial channel between the channel portion and the machine gun and connects same to a belt member in the replacement ammunition channel, so that without manual activity it is possible to fill an ammunition magazine and after pivoting back the channel portion the filled belt can be joined to the belt located above the separating point.

Apparatus for supplying cartridge belts from a magazine to a machine gun

A device for automatically loading a large-caliber cartridge into the gun bore of a gun carried by a tank turret, comprises a revolving magazine mounted for rotation about the rotational axis of the turret, and independently of the rotation of the turret. The revolving magazine includes two vertical levels of magazine compartments lying radially in the magazine with cartridges facing toward the rotational axis. The revolving magazine includes an elevator which can lift a cartridge from the uppermost level of magazine compartments into a breach opening area of the gun barrel whereat the cartridge can be rammed into the gun barrel bore. In a forward trough area of the tank carrying the tank turret, a second magazine is provided having a plurality of chutes each with at least three cartridges stacked one on top of the other. The lower end of the second magazine is positioned above the lower level of magazine compartments of the revolving magazine so that, with a cartridge pickup device cartridges can be transferred from the second magazine into vacant compartments of the revolving magazine. A rammer is provided for this purpose.

Automatic gun loading device for a tank

A container is open on both sides and is used for the pickup and feed of a cartridge having a bottom flange. The container is a component of a magazine revolving behind a cannon across the bore axis thereof on an endless-track disposed in the turret of a tank, or especially of an armored car. In the container, the cartridge lies in the grip of at least two pincers, which are in interconnection with the container in jacket perforations thereof and which can be tightened by means of a cam interacting with a sliding sleeve.

Container for the pickup and feed of a cartridge

A cartridge magazine comprising tubular containers each equipped for the pickup and feed of one cartridge case, these containers being in parallel to each other and aligned with the bore axis of the cannon barrel. The containers are on an endless track revolving in mutually superposed horizontal planes and the tubular containers on both of their faces are linked to conveyor chains carried in guide rails by means of a trunnion, and are guided in additional magazine fixed guide rails, of which one is restricted, to an endless-trackless deflecting section, by means of two pilots attached to each container outside the circular track of this trunnion to the effect of maintaining a constantly positioned rotation of the containers.

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Augsburg, Germany

August Schiele