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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 1989
Filed:
Dec. 11, 1987
John H Peck, Fountain Valley, CA (US);
McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Company, Mesa, AZ (US);
Abstract
A linkage is provided between various components within the feed mechanism of an automated gun which allows a feed cover, which includes some of the components of the feed mechanism, to be opened relative to other elements within the feed mechanism in order to allow access or changing of ammunition within the feed mechanism without unlinking the various feed mechanism components. Feed mechanism components within the gun are linked to other feed mechanism components within the rotatable feed cover by means of a ball and bracket combination. The feed cover rotates about a pivot pin on a predetermined axis. The bracket, through which the motive power supplied to the components of the feed mechanism and the feed cover is disposed to lie on and is rotatable about the predetermined axis defined by the pivot pin. The ball, which is disposed on a rotatable lever coupled to feed mechanism components within the remaining portion of the gun, extends into the bracket so that the bracket may rotate about the ball when the feed cover is rotated on the predetermined axis defined by the pivot pin, and yet the bracket and ball remain operatively connected while the lever upon which the ball is disposed rotates about the differently oriented axis of rotation. The ball and bracket coupling is thus never disengaged even when the feed cover and the bracket with it is rotated relative to the ball.