Patent ID: 6591733
Filing Date: 2003-07-15
Classification: F41A

Abstract:
A method for handling artillery shells in artillery guns that have an integral shell magazine fixed in the traverse system but independent from an elevating mass which on command outfeeds shells through a shell magazine outfeed aperture one by one with a specific linear velocity along a longitudinal axis of each shell and where each shell after outfeed is transferred laterally in relation to its own longitudinal axis to a gun loading position immediately outside the breech ring partly by a loading pendulum designed to pivot around a trunnion centre of the gun and whose task is to overcome the difference in angle between the shell magazine outfeed axis and the angle of elevation of the gun and partly by a shell loading cradle whose task is to overcome the lateral distance between the location of the shell magazine outfeed aperture and the breech ring wherein the linear outfeed motion of each shell after it has completely left the magazine is braked to zero through a limited linear distance in a dedicated brake module mechanically independent from the loading pendulum and from which module the loading pendulum takes over the shell as soon as the shell has reached a pre-defined stop position for its rear plane.