General Electric Company

General Electric Corporation Gmbh

Robert G Kirkpatrick

Ronald R Snyder

Lincoln L Sibley, Jr

Stephen Austin Jarvis

A feature of this invention is the provision of a mount for a Gatling type gun having a muzzle clamp which is journaled for rotation in a reciprocable mass and which reciprocable mass is journaled for longitudinal reciprocation with respect to stationary support guides. Additionally, the housing is coupled to the support structure by a combination of a recoil adapter and a rigid guide, one end of the adapter and one end of the guide having a common transverse attachment to the support structure, the other end of the adapter having a pivot to the housing which is journaled for longitudinal reciprocation to the guide. This arrangement increases the recoiling mass without significantly increasing the total weight, precludes bending of the recoil adapters, and reduces frictional interferences.

Gun mount

A feature of this invention is the provision of a Gatling type gun having a reduced diameter main cam provided by a rear dwell increment of angular rotation of the rotor which in turn is provided by a feed system wherein the bolt comes forward out of rear dwell after the round is placed upon the face of the gun bolt but before the round is centered on the face of the gun bolt. This is accomplished by permitting controlled longitudinal motion of the round while it is still being provided with transverse motion by the sprocket.

Sprocket arrangement in a high rate of fire revolving battery gun

Rotor

A feature of this invention is the provision of a gun bolt for a Gatling type gun having a carriage with a head journaled therein and a firing pin journaled in said head together with a cocking pin disposed in a slot passing through the firing pin, the head and the carriage with a detent disposed in a longitudinal bore of said head aft of said firing pin and having a portion thereof extending forwardly through a longitudinally extending bore in said firing pin and into a cavity in said cocking pin with a spring means disposed in said longitudinal bore of said head aft of said detent and biasing said detent into engagement with said cocking pin.

Gun bolt for high rate of fire revolving battery guns

A feature of this invention is the provision for a Gatling type gun of a gun bolt of the oscillating head type having a gun bolt carriage with substantially radially projecting slides and a head with substantially radially projecting locking lugs, wherein the length of the radial projection of the slides is significantly greater than the length of the radial projection of the locking lugs.

Gun bolt for a high rate of fire revolving battery gun

A feature of this invention is the provision of a Gatling type gun whose gun barrels are arranged in a truncated cone and whose gun bolts are coaxial with their respective gun barrels.

High rate of fire revolving battery gun

A feature of this invention is the provision of a Gatling type gun having the minimum, yet adequate, longitudinal clearance between the locking lugs of the rotor and the locking lugs of the gun bolts, by having the helical main cam track of the gun which reciprocates the gun bolts between forward dwell and aft dwell during each gun cycle also provide a subcycle of reciprocation of each gun bolt while it is in front dwell. This subcycle provides adequate clearance of the lugs of the rotor and the gun bolts to permit free rotation of the bolt into and out of lock, while providing no clearance during actual firing.

Control for gun bolts in a high rate of fire revolving battery gun

This invention provides for a clamp system for the cluster of barrels of a Gatling type gun which locks each barrel in the cluster against rotation about its own longitudinal axis and which minimizes relative transverse movement of each of the barrels.

Clamp

A drum ammunition system has drum partition which ensure a rotation of the case about its own longitudinal axis within the drum partitions as the case is advanced parallel to the drum longitudinal axis along the drum partitions by the helix.

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Shelburne, VT, United States of America

Robert G Kirkpatrick