Gun mount

• US 4,345,504 A
• Filed: 04/08/1980
• Issued: 08/24/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: General Dynamics Armament Systems, Inc. (General Dynamics Corporation)
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Kirkpatrick, Robert G., Snyder, Ronald R.
• Primary Examiner(s): BENTLEY, STEPHEN
• Application Number:
  US06/138,473
• Time in Patent Office: 868 Days
• Field of Search: 89/12, 89/37 R, 89/37 B, 89/37 E, 89/37 GM, 89/44 R
• US Class Current: 89/37.14
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 25/24 using ball or roller bearings
• CPC Class Codes: F41F 1/10 Revolving-cannon guns, i.e. multibarrel guns with the barrels and their respective breeches mounted on a rotor; Breech mechanisms therefor

Abstract

A feature of this invention is the provision of a mount for a Gatling type gun having a muzzle clamp which is journaled for rotation in a reciprocable mass and which reciprocable mass is journaled for longitudinal reciprocation with respect to stationary support guides. Additionally, the housing is coupled to the support structure by a combination of a recoil adapter and a rigid guide, one end of the adapter and one end of the guide having a common transverse attachment to the support structure, the other end of the adapter having a pivot to the housing which is journaled for longitudinal reciprocation to the guide. This arrangement increases the recoiling mass without significantly increasing the total weight, precludes bending of the recoil adapters, and reduces frictional interferences.

Claims

1. A gun comprising:

a housing;

a rotor having a plurality of gun barrels journaled for rotation about a longitudinal axis with respect to said housing;

clamp means secured to said plurality of gun barrels;

ring mass means having a longitudinal bore therein;

first antifriction bearing means journaling said clamp means for rotation with respect to said ring mass means about said longitudinal axis;

first stationary support means;

second antifriction bearing means journaling said ring mass means to said first stationary support means for displacement along said longitudinal axis of said first antifriction bearing means and said ring mass means with respect to said first stationary support means.

2. A gun according to claim 1 further including:

second stationary support means;

an elongated cylindrical recoil adapter having two extremities, one of said extremities being fixed to said second stationary support means;

the other of said extremities being fixed to said housing;

third stationary support means;

third antifriction bearing means journaling said housing to said third stationary support means for longitudinal displacement with respect to said third stationary support means;

having a mode of operation such that said second and third stationary support means in combination permit said recoil adapter to undergo longitudinal displacement and preclude angular or bending displacement.

3. A gun according to claim 2 wherein:

said first antifriction means is an annular ball bearing assembly.

4. A gun according to claim 3 wherein:

said second antifriction means is a ball bearing assembly operating in a channel in said second stationary support means.

5. A gun according to claim 4 wherein:

said third antifriction means is a ball bearing assembly operating in a channel in said third stationary support means.