Fabrique Nationale Herstal

Fabrique Nationale Herstal S.a.

Fabrique Nationale Herstal En Abrege Fn

Fabrique Nationale Herstal S.a. En Abrege Fn

Fabrique Nationale Herstal En Abrege Fn, Societe Anonyme

Fabriqe Nationale Herstal S.a.

Maurice V Bourlet

Jean-Pierre H Storder

A combined function mechanism for an automatic pistol including a magazine and a magazine housing, which mechanism interrupts the kinematic chain between the trigger and the hammer when the magazine is not fully engaged within its housing, thereby preventing operation of the hammer by the trigger, the mechanism also serving to eject the magazine from the housing when the magazine locking/unlocking device is actuated.

Automatic pistol with combined magazine control safety and magazine

Loader for a machine-pistol or the like, characterized in that it comprises substantially a prismatic tube closed at both ends and having, in the central portion of one of its longitudinal walls, a loading-feeding port, two symmetrical conveying devices being provided within the said tube and bearing each on an end wall of the latter.

Loader for machine-pistol and similar

Improved pistol of the type comprising a body carrying a moving slideway supporting a barrel and a firing-pin, the device actuating the said firing-pin consisting of a kinematic chain comprising a detent pivoting on the body, levers driving a sear and a hammer pivoting on the body, said hammer being subjected to the action of a spring and controlled by the sear, characterized in that the hammer is mounted coaxially with at least one ring having two stops for the hammer, the ring having a notch engageable by the said sear.

Pistol

Pre-fragmented explosive shell, of the type substantially comprising a head and a body containing an explosive charge, a plurality of balls being housed in an annular space provided for between at least a part of the wall of the aforesaid body and the aforesaid explosive charge, in which each of the aforesaid balls consists of a core made from tungsten or tungsten carbide coated with a thin layer of zirconium.

Pre-fragmented explosive shell

Closing device for the slot through which passes the cocking lever of automatic weapons, the slot being provided in the casing of the latter, characterized by the fact that it is mainly made up of: a shaped flap provided with a cut-out portion at each of its ends; two posts which are integral with the casing and pass through each of aforesaid cut-out portions; and a spring hooked by its ends onto aforesaid posts and attached in its center to aforesaid flap, so as to press the latter against the casing and to stress it towards its closing position of the slot.

Closing device for the slot through which passes the cocking lever of

The invention pertains to a visual checking device for machine guns and similar weapons, characterized by the fact that it is made up of a lever or toggle lever, permanently stressed by a return spring in the direction of the location of the successive rounds of the supply belt, in such a manner that aforesaid lever or toggle lever can take up two positions, respectively an upper position when it makes contact with a cartridge, and a lower position when no cartridge is present.

Visual checking device for machine guns and similar weapons

The invention pertains to a device for supplying portable arms by means of cartridge belts and by means of rifle magazines using the same ammunition, characterized by the fact that the weapon is provided with a lateral opening, extended by a sleeve which can serve the purpose of guide for a magazine, aforesaid sleeve being fitted with a flap which is conditioned in such a manner that it can close aforesaid sleeve and be used as guide for the cartridge belt, the bolt having two tenons, one of which is used to act upon the cartridges of a belt, one by one, and the other operating to act, one by one, upon the cartridges of a magazine.

Supply device for a portable firearm by means of cartridge belts or by

The invention pertains to a device for packing and handling cartridge magazines or suchlike, characterized by the fact that it mainly consists of a straight portion of some strong section of which the two longitudinal edges are bent over in U-shape; one of the ends of the section being provided with a retractable flap in one sense, and the other end being foreseen with a hinged handle.

Device for handling cartridge magazines and suchlike

The invention pertains to a belt ammunition box for portable weapons of overall prismatic shape, characterized by the fact that its front face consists of a tightly closing door which, together with a cut away portion of the upper surface of the box, bounds a passage for the belt of cartridges, aforesaid passage being, at the start, closed by a closing element made up of a platelet and a dummy link associated with one of the ends of aforesaid belt.

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Liege, Belgium

Maurice V Bourlet