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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 1982
Filed:
Feb. 02, 1981
Applicant:
Inventor:
Quentan T Sawyer, Milton, VT (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Burlington, VT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F41D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
89 12 ; 89 3 / ;
Abstract
A feature of this invention is the provision of a Gatling type gun having a firing/safing cam assembly having three dispositions: one permitting firing in one direction of rotation; another permitting firing in the other direction of rotation; and yet another precluding firing in either direction of rotation of the rotor, all by means of two independently operated cam elements and a continuum element operated as a function of the respective dispositions of said cam elements.