Kuka Wehrtechnik Gmbh

Rudolf Bobinger

Wolfgang Eyb

Wilhelm Strasser

Josef Jorg

Andreas Riegl

The invention relates to a lifting device in an armoured vehicle. The lifting device comprises a holder, which can be engaged with a body to be raised, particularly a shell. A driven lifting element is also provided, by means of which the holder can be raised and lowered. In order to be able to take up and transfer in simple, flexible manner the shells, the lifting element is a cable drivable by means of a winch, which is guided on a pivotable, multicomponent articulated arm and carries the holder at its lower end. Preferably the cable passes through the articulated arm and its free end extends substantially vertically downwards, the articulated arm being pivotable substantially in a horizontal plane.

Lifting device in an armoured vehicle

An apparatus for loading tubular weapons with a propellant charge chamber comprises a loading arm pivotably mounted on the pivot bearing of the barrel and having a loading tray for a shell and a rammer engaging on the shell bottom and having a drive, the shell being brought by means of the loading arm into a starting position aligned with the barrel bore axis and transported by means of the rammer into the barrel, into whose rifling it is rammed. In order to allow a completely satisfactory ramming, the loading tray can be moved in a guide on the loading arm between the starting position and a support position centered on the barrel and that the rammer has a support retracted in the starting position and engaging on the shell bottom and which can be brought into a stretched position synchronously with the movement of the loading tray into the support position and in said stretched position can be moved in a guide by means of the drive relative to the loading tray and while accelerating the shell into the barrel.

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Nordendorf, Germany

Rudolf Bobinger