Wegmann & Co. Gmbh

Firma Wegmann & Co. Gmbh

Erich Wallwey

Heinrich Heldmann

Henrich Heldman

Wolfgang Becker

A device for setting fuzes in large-caliber shells, wherein the fuze is coaxial with the point of the shell and has one section secured stationary to the shell and a second section rotatable around the shell's axis. Each section has a groove in the surface which extends along a plane through the shell's axis. The device has a housing which is essentially round and has a handle extending out of it radially. The housing accommodates two concentric rings. A motor rotates one ring by way of a torque limiter. The second ring can either rotate independently of the first ring or be secured to and rotate along with it. The inner circumference of both rings matches the outer circumference of the fuze. The inner surface of the first ring has a pin that slides radially outward against the force of a spring. The inner surface of the second ring has a stationary radial pin. The pins are positioned to ensure that, when the device is applied to a fuze, the first pin will point toward the stationary section and the second pin toward the rotating section of the fuze.

Device for setting fuzes in large-caliber shells

An ammunition positioner for upright ammunition shells has an arm mounted on a base, capable of being extended parallel to the plane that the shell stands on. The positioner has a pincher-like pickup with two jaws that pivots parallel to that plane. The pickup and its jaws are both controlled by a motor that is secured to the base. The motor's output wheel is coupled to the intake wheel of a transmission by way of a rotating splined shaft and a hollow shaft. The splined shaft is mounted in the base and parallel to the positioning arm. The hollow shaft is coaxial with the splined shaft and is mounted in and parallel to the positioning arm. A sleeve travels back and forth on the splined shaft and couples the hollow shaft to the splined shaft such that the former will rotate along with the latter. The transmission has two cogwheels, one of which is always coupled to the intake wheel and the other of which is coupled to and can be uncoupled from the intake wheel by a gear that can be disengaged. One cogwheel activates controls that shift the pickup jaws out of a phase wherein they maintain the shell stationary, through a phase wherein they lift the round to a prescribed level, and into a phase wherein they tighten around the shell to position it. The other cogwheel activates other controls that induce the pivoting motion of the pickup.

Ammunition positioner, especially for a combat vehicle

An ammunition magazine for a combat vehicle, wherein the shells are stowed upright and perpendicular to the floor and when they are removed automatically by an ammunition positioner that has an arm with a pivoting pickup at its end, with several magazine shafts, wherein the shells are stowed with their base against a base plate and secured by a shell holder. The shell holder has at least two pairs of tongs-like shell-securing arms that at least partly surround the jacket of the shell, one side of which rests against a stationary guide, on the opposite side, that pivot one above another toward the longitudinal axis of the magazine shaft and, closing subject to a resilient force, around another axis that parallels the first outside the magazine shaft, and that, when closed, can be locked closed by a mechanism that can be unlocked by a component on the positioning arm that activates an unlocking mechanism when the shell is grasped as the automatic pickup removes it.

Ammunition magazine for a combat vehicle

A mounting for an ammunition container for mounted rapid-fire weapons comprising a yoke disposed on a bracket which yoke is pivotable about a horizontal axis disposed at about the level of the upper edge of the ammunition container to be contained therein, the yoke being secured at its lowermost position by a catch means. Disclosed in the application is such a mounting in which means are provided to urge an ammunition container toward a rapid-fire weapon. Means are also provided to dispose the ammunition container precisely within the mounting, to rapidly remove any container top so as to permit the rapid feed of ammunition into the weapon. A device for insuring that the yoke bears against the ammunition is provided by which inadvertent release of the same is precluded.

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Erich Wallwey