METAL BELT MEMBER FOR ARRANGING IN SERIES OF CARTRIDGES FOR RAPID FIRE ARMS

• US 3,650,176 A
• Filed: 01/06/1969
• Issued: 03/21/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Gustav Lindner
• Original Assignee: Gustav Lindner
• Inventors: Lindner, Gustav
• Primary Examiner(s): Borchelt, Benjamin A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bentley, Stephen C.
• Application Number:
  US04/789,234
• Time in Patent Office: 1,170 Days
• Field of Search: 89/35,35A
• US Class Current: 89/35.02
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 39/08 Cartridge belts

Abstract

A metal belt member for aligning of cartridges on belts for rapid fire weapons which comprises two resilient loops open towards the same side. One of the loops forms the center zone of the belt surrounding with play one of the cartridges, while the other of the loops formed in a pair clampingly surrounds the next adjacent of the cartridges. The other of the loops has a resilient tongue for entrance into a channelure of the cartridge and includes further angularly bent wings, projecting from the marginal edges of the two loop parts forming the loop in pairs and defining a slot therebetween. A rib extends in longitudinal direction of the cartridge belt and projects towards the inside of the loop out of the face of the loop and assumes the tensile stress of the belt, as well as being reduced towards its free end, all loops having slots oriented cross-wise to the longitudinal direction of the belt and aligned on one side of the belt spaced from and parallel to the longitudinal axis of the belt.

Claims

1. A metal cartridge belt member for cartridge belts for aligning of cartridges on belts for rapid fire weapons comprising two resilient loop portions each open towards the same side to constitute openings crosswise to the longitudinal direction of a cartridge belt and aligned parallel to but spaced from the center longitudinal axis of said cartridge belt member, one of said loop portions constituting a center loop forming the center zone of said belt surrounding with play one of said cartridges and substantially complementary throughout its extent to the periphery of said cartridges, the other of said loop portions being formed in a pair of fork spaced loops clampingly surrounding the next adjacent of said cartridges, said fork spaced loops being spaced from each other by a distance greater than the width of said center loop and laterally disposed relative to said center loop, said fork spaced loops having a resilient tongue means for entrance into a channelure of said cartridge and including angularly bent wings projecting from facing marginal edges of said pair of fork spaced loops and defining a slot therebetween, said center loop including a rib curvedly extending in longitudinal direction of said cartridge belt and projecting towards the inside of said center loop out of the face of said center loop for assuming the tensile stress of said belt, said center loop being reduced towards its free end, and two transfer webs each connecting an outer marginal edge of said center loop to an inner marginal edge of one of said fork spaced loops, said transfer webs and said adjacent portion of said center loop forming a bridge portion spaced from a cartridge secured by said fork shaped loops by a distance substantially greater than the thickness of the metal forming said loops.

2. The cartridge belt member, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said center loop continuously reduces in a direction toward its free end.