Gun mount and gunsight assembly

• US 3,309,962 A
• Filed: 03/01/1965
• Issued: 03/21/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Clarence W. Lykam
• Original Assignee: Clarence W. Lykam
• Inventors: Lykam, Clarence W.
• Application Number:
  US04/435,947
• Time in Patent Office: 750 Days
• US Class Current: 89/41.19
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 23/20 for disappearing guns
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 27/18 for gun turrets F41A27/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 1/3935 Transmission of sight movements to the associated gun
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 3/20 specially adapted for mountain artillery
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 5/266 Periscopes for fighting or armoured vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 23/14 Viewfinders for photographic apparatus G03B13/02

Claims

15. A GUN AND GUN MOUNT ASSEMBLY, AND A PERISCOPIC GUNSIGHT, SAID GUN MOUNT ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A HOLLOW PEDESTAL, A PAIR OF SPACED GUN TRUNNIONS, TRUNNION SUPPORT MEANS ROTATABLY MOUNTED ON SAID PEDESTAL, A GUN MOUNTED ON SAID TRUNNIONS FOR MOTION IN ELEVATION, MEANS FOR MOVING SAID TRUNNION SUPPORT MEANS AND THE GUN IN AZIMUTH, AXIALLY SLIDABLE SLEEVE MEANS WITHIN SAID TRUNNION SUPPORT MEANS FOR MOVING SAID GUN IN ELEVATION, SAID GUNSIGHT HAVING FIXED PERISCOPE TUBE MEANS MOUNTED COAXIALLY WITHIN SAID AXIALLY SLIDABLE SLEEVE MEANS, SAID GUNSIGHT HAVING ROTATABLY MOUNTED AZIMUTH AND ELEVATION MIRROR MEANS MOUNTED ON THE UPPER END OF SAID FIXED PERISCOPE TUBE AND DISPOSED BETWEEN SAID TRUNNIONS, AND MEANS CONNECTING SAID MIRROR MEANS TO SAID ASSEMBLY FOR ROTATING BOTH MIRROR MEANS IN AZIMUTH AND THE ELEVATION MIRROR MEANS ALONE IN ELEVATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH MOTION OF THE GUN IN AZIMUTH AND IN ELEVATION, RESPECTIVELY.