Patent ID: 8356554

Claim:
An arrangement for supporting a shell into the barrel of a breech-loading weapon, the arrangement comprising a support member to be fastened to a shell tail, the support member comprising: a support element provided with a rim flange; a fastening device configured to fasten the support element to the shell tail; a firing member in the support element for firing the actual primer of the shell for firing the shell, wherein the fastening device comprises a sleeve-like fastening element having grooves for the tail fins of the shell and, between the grooves, jaws settling onto the shell tail tube, the outer surfaces of the jaws being outwardly bevelled at least up to the ends of the jaws, and wherein the fastening element and the support element are provided with matching threads in such a manner that rotating them relative to one another changes their axial position relative to one another; and a sleeve-like clamping element placed around the fastening element and comprising grooves for the tail fins of the shell and able to move in the axial direction thereof relative to the fastening element, whereby rotating the support element relative to the fastening element in such a manner that the support element shifts towards the fastening element, the support element at the same time pushing the clamping element in the same direction in such a manner that the clamping element is pushed along the outwardly bevelled surfaces of the jaws of the fastening element and presses the jaws of the fastening element to the shell tail.