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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2001
Sven-Erik Engström, Karlskoga, SE;
Bofors Defence AB, Karlskoga, SE;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and a device for handling artillery shells ( ) when loading artillery guns ( ) that have an integral shell magazine ( ) fixed in the traverse system but independent from the elevating mass, which magazine on command feeds out shells ( ) one by one with a specific linear velocity in the longitudinal axis of each shell. Each shell is subsequently transferred to the loading position for the gun by a loading pendulum ( ) and cradle ( ). The basic idea behind the present invention is that the outfeed velocity of the shells ( ) from the magazine ( ) shall be braked to zero in a brake module ( ) mounted on the gun while they lie in a shell carrier ( ) mounted on the loading pendulum ( ). Immediately after the linear velocity of the shell has been braked to zero and its rear plane has been reversed to a pre-defined position the shell carrier ( ) takes over the handling of the shell and re-angles it to coincide with the angle of elevation of the gun, and transfers the shell to a laterally displaceable shell loading cradle ( ).