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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 1979
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1977
Applicant:
Inventor:
John E Clemens, Xenia, OH (US);
Assignee:
Tesseract Corporation, Tallahasee, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F42B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
89 3 / ; 89 34 ; 214301 ;
Abstract
A handling and loading system for relatively large caliber ammunition used by automatic weapons such as 20 mm to 40 mm rapid fire guns carried by military aircraft. The system includes an apparatus for automatically removing live rounds of ammunition from a belt of indeterminate length having a plurality of individual containers and loading such ammunition into the armament system of the aircraft while simultaneously removing expended shell casings from the aircraft and inserting the same into the containers which can then be returned for reloading.