Krauss-Maffei Aktiengesellschaft

Markus Spotzl

Erwin Burkle

Ferenc Kotai

Konrad Zweig

Leonhard Pongratz

Erich Drosen

Peter Karlinger

Leo Pongratz

A laminate is made by first forming a substantially closed mold cavity between a pair of mold halves, then injecting a plastified synthetic resin into the cavity under pressure to substantially fill the cavity and at least partially curing the resin in the cavity to form a base body. The mold halves are then separated to leave the partially cured body in one of the mold halves with a face of the body exposed and a deformable sheet is laid over the face of the body in the one mold half. A die having a face conforming at least generally to the shape of the body face is then laid down against the sheet onto the body to press the sheet into intimate contact with the body face and bond the sheet and body together.

System for making a molded laminate

A resin article is made between an outer concave mold part and an inner convex mold part that can fit together so that respective surfaces form a substantially closed mold cavity. This is done by first lining the surface of the outer mold part with a liner sheet and then fitting the lined outer mold part to the inner mold part to form the substantially closed mold cavity. A portion of the surface of the inner mold part is positioned to form a pocket open inward into the cavity and this pocket is filled with a mass of fluent synthetic resin. The surface portion is then pressed inward while the parts are fitted together and without otherwise relatively moving the mold parts to force the resin mass from the pocket into the cavity until the inner-part surface portion lies substantially flush with the rest of the inner-part surface.

System for molding laminated articles of a thermoplastic resin

A synthetic-resin article is molded by plastifying a virgin granulate into a fluent stream and plastifying a recycle granulate into another fluent stream. The recycle stream is then filtered while still plastified to removing particulate impurities from it. Then the filtered recycle stream while still plastified is combined with the virgin stream to form a combined stream and the combined stream is fed into a mold. The stream is mechanically filtered.

System for molding a synthetic-resin using plastic scrap

A device for centering retention of ammunition includes an ammunition receiver having spring elastic holding elements acting in the radially inward direction in the tapering section of the ammunition and gripping elements holding the ring of the cartridge of the ammunition arranged in the bottom area of the ammunition. The holding elements are made up of leaf springs fastened to the ammunition receiver in the direction of the generators of the ammunition in a forward and a rear clamping location in order to assure retention of the ammunition without wear in case of severe jolting movements and to assure safe transfer of the ammunition into the cartridge chamber without damaging it. Each leaf spring comprising a recess or inward protrusion acting on the ammunition in its tapering section and a free end projecting past a forward clamping location in a radially inward direction.

Device for the centering retention of ammunition in an ammunition

A tank turret has a forward crew compartment separated by an armored partition from a rear munitions compartment. The rounds are stored in a nonrotatable sector and are turned toward a space at the centrum of the sector at which a loading device is rotatable to extract rounds from the magazine and feed them through a hole in the partition into the breach opening.

Round-handling system for a mobile weapon

An armored vehicle with a rotatable turret, e.g. a tank, has its gun (cannon) supplied from a munitions bunker behind the turret in which the munitions rounds are stored in tubes inclined at angles less than 90.degree. to the axis of the gun when the breech thereof is aligned with an opening in the magazine through which the rounds are fed from a tunnel in the magazine aligned with the gun. The rounds lie in substantially horizontal planes and are withdrawn from storage tubes by a device movable axially along the tunnel and swingable into alignment with each tube to withdraw the round therefrom and feed it through the opening into the breech of the gun.

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Munich, Germany

Markus Spotzl