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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 1980
Filed:
Dec. 26, 1978
Lothar Post, Duesseldorf, DE;
Rheinmetall GmbH, Duesseldorf, DE;
Abstract
An improved double-feed arrangement for introducing munition shells into the breech of an automatic weapon such as a machine gun. The double-feed arrangement includes a housing having two munition belt inlet openings and two munition belt outlet openings respectively equidistantly disposed from the longitudinal axis of the automatic weapon. A pair of hollow transport shafts rotatable in said housing and adapted to be selectively driven by a driving mechanism which can be energized by the recoil of the automatic weapon. A sprocket wheel having a plurality of equidistantly spaced shell receiving seats is mounted on each hollow transport shaft. The sprocket wheels are adapted to normally rotate in mutually opposite directions in a stepwise manner except when a selective switching from one feed to the other feed if effected, whereby a rotational step is imparted on both feeds by the driving mechanism via switching mechanisms to effect a rotation in the same direction. The shell of a first type is then moved from a firing chamber introducing position to a waiting position while the shells of a second type are now stepwise fed into the firing chamber introducing position by the other feed.