Thyssen Industrie Ag

Klaus Schreckenberg

Heinrich Grosser

Hubertus Lutke

Hermann Dierkes

An apparatus for clearing land mines. The apparatus is provided with clearing elements which can freely move up and down independently of one another, and which are disposed in a movable carrier which is embodied as an attachment for a tracked or wheeled vehicle. Each clearing element is a small, rigid clearing plate having a supporting arm, which is suspended on a support associated with the movable frame, and is movable about a horizontal pivot axis which extends transverse to the direction of travel. The supporting arms of all of the clearing plates are the same length. All of the clearing plates, without contacting one another and at a slight distance from one another, are disposed in a compound arrangement which is parallel to the support and is arranged behind the latter in the direction of travel. The compound arrangement is either V-shaped, having its point facing in the direction of travel, or extends continuously at an angle to the direction of travel.

Apparatus for clearing light land mines

A weapon mount for a weapon on an armored vehicle, wherein the weapon is mounted above the roof of the vehicle and the weapon is adjustable both as regards azimuth and elevation, and has a symmetrically arranged magazine. The weapon mount is provided with trunnion arms which engage the trunnion of the weapon, is connected to the rotatable inner race of a bearing disposed in the vehicle roof which bearing supports the turret roof and provides the azimuth alignment, and is supported with its lower one-piece end in a support bearing disposed at the floor of the vehicle. The support bearing is arranged coaxially with the azimuth bearing in the vehicle roof and the section of the weapon mount which is disposed in the vehicle between the two superposed bearings is non coaxial with the bearing and generates a surface of revolution when the mount is rotated about the bearing axis, i.e., the section of the bearing mount either has an oblique longitudinal axis or has a bend in it.

Weapon mount for armored vehicle

A device for feeding of ammunition, particularly cartridges, by use of an elevator and tubular cartridge receiver for the ammunition, i.e. cartridges, especially for armored vehicles, from an ammunition magazine positioned below a platform. The platform is rotatable about a vertical axis relative to a top mounted gun with zero elevation and positioned on the platform. The elevator is secured at the underside of the platform and includes a tubular cartridge receiver associated with a spring-biased centering mechanism which extends into the free cross-sectional area of the cartridge receiver, and at least one spring-biased holder for the cartridges movable vertically relative to the longitudinal axis of the cartridge receiver. The cartridges, are stored vertically relative to the axis of the bore of the gun in the magazine therefor as well as is also being secured to the platform underside so that the same can be elevated to a point above the platform. The cartridge can then be brought into a position so as to be coaxially aligned with the bore of a gun barrel and the cartridge receiver serves simultaneously as the charging tube in which there is integrated a ram.

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