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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 1981
Filed:
May. 24, 1979
William J Washburn, Capistrano Beach, CA (US);
Clifford E LaFever, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Hugh B Thompson, Santa Ana, CA (US);
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A termination accumulator for a machine gun has a handling conveyor passing through a supply channel, a bypass channel, and a return channel. The supply channel leads to a feed system of a machine gun. The bypass channel has its other end connected to a return conveyor leading from the feed system. A gate is mounted at the junction of the bypass channel and supply channel operably between two positions, one position directs ammunition on the handling conveyor onto a supply conveyor leading to the feed system and a second position directs ammunition on the handling conveyor through the bypass channel. Upon release of a trigger mechanism operably connected to the gun, the gate moves from its first position to a second position such that the feed system continues its forward operation to clear itself of any live ammunition therein. The handling conveyor maintains a forward mode directing ammunition in to the bypass channel. A reversing mechanism reverses the handling conveyor to retrieve live ammunition from the bypass channel after the feed system is cleared of all live ammunition such that the live ammunition accumulated in the termination accumulator can be then fed to the feed system during the next operation of the machine gun.