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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5343795 | Settable electronic fuzing system for cannon ammunition In an ammunition fuzing system, a fuze setter is inductively coupled with an electronic fuze incorporated in the projectile of an ammunition round being fed to a rapid-fire cannon to transmit power supply charging energy and fuze-setting data thereto. A d... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5243896 | Logistical support apparatus for weapons vehicles To resupply a weapons vehicle, a resupply vehicle carries a docking boom which is maneuvered into a docking position to mate a docking head at its free end with a docking port on the weapons vehicle. The weapons vehicle is resupplied with ammunition and f... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5243912 | Arming delay, dual environment safe, fuze This invention provides a safing and arming mechanism for a fuze for a spinning projectile including a ball rotor journaled for rotation within a cavity in the fuze. A firing pin, said cavity and a booster charge lie along the longitudinal axis of the fuz... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5223663 | Automated ammunition handling system To handle the transfer of ammunition between a turret bustle magazine and hull magazines of a military tank, a carriage is mounted for horizontal movement between a stow position and a transfer position and for vertical movement between an upper position ... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5218162 | Double-ended ammunition handling system for rapid-fire guns A double-ended ammunition handling system for feeding a rapid-fire gun comprises a magazine including a plurality of coextensive channels having entry ends presented to a magazine entrance unit and exit ends presented to a magazine exit unit. Live ammunit... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5212338 | Ammunition transfer apparatus for uploading and downloading a magazine To automate the uploading and downloading of a magazine storing rounds of large caliber ammunition in horizontal orientation, a transfer mechanism is equipped with a set of transfer forks and a set of selector gates operating is synchronism with a magazin... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5175388 | Ammunition bucket carriers for magazine conveyors To reliably hold rounds of ammunition on a magazine conveyor, each of a series of ammunition round carriers has a semi-cylindrical bucket providing an axially elongated slot along which are arrayed integral, roller tipped resilient fingers defining a slot... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5170006 | Propellant magazine for field artillery piece A propellant magazine includes a conveyor for mechanizing the handling of propellant charge units into and out of magazine storage. The charge units are contained in open ended tubular packs which are loaded onto the conveyor at a resupplying loading stat... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5151556 | Propellant magazine for field artillery piece A propellant magazine includes a conveyor for mechanizing the handling of propellant charge units into and out of magazine storage. The charge units are contained in open ended tubular packs which are loaded onto the conveyor at a resupply loading station... | 09/29/1992 |
| 5131315 | Magazine conveyor for large caliber ammunition A conveyor for large caliber ammunition includes upper and lower chains mounted within a magazine to run in a compact serpentine path. The lower chain includes platform links on which ammunition rounds (projectiles and propellant canisters) rest in uprigh... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5111729 | Ammunition storage system A helical storage system for linked ammunition, has no outer drum and only two moving parts, providing positive control of the rounds, low friction, and bi-directional load and unload.... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5097742 | Magazine conveyor with ammunition vertical motion restraint An ammunition conveyor is equipped to accommodate projectiles and propellant in alternating carrier positions. Conveyor cross members or rungs carry retainers to engage the projectile and propellant canister bodies and provide lateral restraint preserving... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5094142 | Handling system for merging ammunition rounds from multiple ammunition bays to feed a rapid-fire gun An endless ammunition conveyor includes a set of laterally moveable carriers and a set of laterally fixed carriers arranged in alternating relation with the moveable carriers. Incident with conveyor movement, the moveable carriers are cammed between later... | 03/10/1992 |
| 5074402 | Extensible ammunition conveyor An extensible ammunition conveyor includes telescoping conveyor sections mounting pairs of laterally spaced sprockets adjacent the conveyor section ends. A pair of endless chains are trained about these sprockets in coextensive, transversely spaced relati... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5065662 | Firing mechanism for revolving battery gun In a firing mechanism for Gatling-type guns, separate safing and firing cams are located at a firing position coinciding with a notch in an annular safing ring against which cocking levers ride to maintain their firing pins in pre-cocked conditions. To sa... | 11/19/1991 |
| 4991508 | Electric field enabled proximity fuzing system A proximity fuzing system includes a passive proximity detection section including an electrostatic probe for detecting initial missile entry into the electric field inherently associated with an airborne target. Probe signals are processed to determine t... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4982650 | Modular ammunition packaging and feed system An ammunition handling system is provided with a magazine consisting of a plurality of modular, highly portable magazine packs which are readily installed in a mechanized support frame. The magazine packs contain separate ammunition conveyors commonly dri... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4974490 | Multi-bay magazine for belted ammunition A magazine is provided with anti-syphon members, mounted atop the partitions of a multi-bay magazine, which operate in conjunction with drag-reducing rollers to prevent spurious syphoning movements of an ammunition belt from one bay to an adjacent bay as ... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4972775 | Electrostatic passive proximity fuzing system A proximity fuzing system for missile warhead utilizes an electrostatic probe to detect the electric field inherently associated with an airborne target. The probe plates are oriented perpendicular to the missile longitudinal axis and are short circuit lo... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4972758 | Multiply adaptable magazine assembly An ammunition magazine assembly is provided with a plurality of permanent partitions for subdividing the magazine interior into a plurality of bays and a plurality of optional separators readily removably installed to subdivide selected bays into bay sect... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4972777 | Ammunition for liquid propellant gun A round of ammunition is provided including a stub cartridge case carrying a primer, a booster, and a projectile having a plurality of longitudinally extending grooves in its base which are obturated by the case.... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4967638 | Liquid propellant weapon system A feature of this invention is the provision of an ignition mechanism for a main combustion chamber including an ignition antechamber having a first cross-sectional area, an electrode, and an inlet port for liquid propellant; a conduit having a length ove... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4941390 | Liquid propellant gun A feature of this invention is the provision in an annular piston, annular control valve, liquid propellant gun, of a check valve to permit liquid propellant under relatively low pressure to flow from the supply system into the combustion chamber and to p... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4924752 | Drive system for a Gatling type gun A gun system is provided which includes a Gatling type gun having a housing with a ring gear, a rotor with a cluster of gun barrels, a gun gas drive mechanism with a cylinder, a piston, and a crank with a pinion meshed with the ring gear.... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4924753 | Self powered drive system for a Gatling type gun A gun system is provided which includes a Gatling type gun; a barrel cluster having a torque assist device and coupled to a hydraulic starting subsystem to provide initial acceleration, rotational velocity control, braking and reverse clearing of the gun;... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4920299 | Push-pull fluorescent dimming circuit A diming circuit for a hot cathode fluorescent lamp is operated in a push-pull mode whereby the hot filaments are alternately the cathode and the anode. Both filaments thus experience similar degradation with time at all brightness levels, thereby enhanci... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4916352 | Jacketed fluorescent lamps A fluorescent lamp structure having a light transparent jacket surrounding the lamp. The chamber between the lamp and jacket is filled with a fluid (or mixture of fluids) which transitions between the liquid and vapor phases. The fluid extracts heat when ... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4914967 | Crossover mechanism for guiding a cam follower through a cam track intersection To guide a cam follower through the intersection of crossing portions of a cam track, a crossover mechanism is provided with a pair of crossover cam members which are separately, telescopically reciprocated to momentarily insert cam segments into the inte... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4907511 | Liquid propellant gun A feature of this invention is the provision in an annular piston, annular control valve, liquid propellant gun, of a check valve to permit liquid propellant under relatively low pressure to flow from the supply system into the combustion chamber and to p... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4882972 | Dual caliber ammunition handling system An ammunition resupply system includes a chain ladder ammunition conveyor having carrier elements configured to accept either of two different calibers of ammunition. The ammunition conveyor is trained in a serpentine path back and forth between adjacent ... | 11/28/1989 |
| 4881466 | High velocity sabot for spin stabilized penetrator An assembly of a sabot is provided having a plurality of slots to divide the sabot into a like plurality of petals, each slot terminating in notch, and a base having a like plurality of lugs, each lug adapted to mate with a respective notch. The torque tr... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4876940 | Magazine ammunition conveying system An ammunition feeding system includes an endless, ladder-type conveyor trained throughout the interior of a magazine in a serpentine formation consisting of a plurality of straight line sections and interconnecting turnaround sections. The conveyor includ... | 10/31/1989 |
| 4854216 | Ammunition handling apparatus To provide positive, uninterrupted control and guidance of ammunition rounds being transferred through a transfer zone to and from an ammunition conveyor in an ammunition handling system, a set of commonly mounted, rotary control members are provided with... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4833966 | Low inertia linear linkless ammunition feeding system A linear linkless ammunition feeding system includes a magazine in which a major portion of an endless ammunition conveyor is supported in serpentine formation on upper and lower sets of opposed rails. Screw feeder elements convey this serpentine formatio... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4790012 | Encryption-decryption system In a data encrypting/decrypting system both the encoding and decoding stations are receptive of a common source of time varying digital signals. The digital signals in the encoding station are applied to one or both of circuits for encrypting data supplie... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4747318 | Drive for a machine gun This invention provides the provision of a motor, whose output shaft is fixed to a pinion gear, meshed with two mutually opposed driven pinion gears, each carrying a respective cam roller, which alternatively enter and exit a cam surface on a cam follower... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4726278 | Drive for a machine gun This invention provides the provision of a motor, whose output shaft is fixed to a pinion gear, meshed with two mutually opposed driven pinion gears, each carrying a respective cam roller, which alternatively enter and exit a cam surface on a cam follower... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4700608 | Machine gun This invention provides the provision of a machine gun having a pair of gun barrels fixed to the receiver with a pair of operating mechanism driven by a rocking lever and each operating mechanism including a reciprocating slider which drives a reciprocati... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4662263 | Ammunition feed system interface An interface structure between a recoiling gun and a stationary ammunition supply having a plurality of elongated, individually rigid, guide elements, for providing continuous guide surfaces for the individual elements which are connected to form the endl... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4635529 | Seal assembly This invention provides an enclosure for a naval gun turret having static seals around the access covers and dynamic seals around the gun barrel slot closure, which seals capture and drain off to a sump any leakage within the interfaces or joints of the m... | 01/13/1987 |
