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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 1982
Filed:
Jun. 12, 1979
Klaus Schreckenberg, Vellmar, DE;
Thyssen Industrie Aktiengesellschaft, Essen, DE;
Abstract
A device for feeding of ammunition, particularly cartridges, by use of an elevator and tubular cartridge receiver for the ammunition, i.e. cartridges, especially for armored vehicles, from an ammunition magazine positioned below a platform. The platform is rotatable about a vertical axis relative to a top mounted gun with zero elevation and positioned on the platform. The elevator is secured at the underside of the platform and includes a tubular cartridge receiver associated with a spring-biased centering mechanism which extends into the free cross-sectional area of the cartridge receiver, and at least one spring-biased holder for the cartridges movable vertically relative to the longitudinal axis of the cartridge receiver. The cartridges, are stored vertically relative to the axis of the bore of the gun in the magazine therefor as well as is also being secured to the platform underside so that the same can be elevated to a point above the platform. The cartridge can then be brought into a position so as to be coaxially aligned with the bore of a gun barrel and the cartridge receiver serves simultaneously as the charging tube in which there is integrated a ram.