Machine gun with belt and magazine feed

• US 5,117,735 A
• Filed: 10/12/1990
• Issued: 06/02/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: IMI - Israel Military Industries Limited (IMI SERVICES)
• Original Assignee: State of Israel Ministry of Commerce and Industry
• Inventors: Flashkes, Adi
• Primary Examiner(s): Johnson, Stephen
• Application Number:
  US07/596,331
• Time in Patent Office: 599 Days
• Field of Search: 89/33.01, 89/33.14, 89/33.2, 89/33.1, 89/191.01, 89/185, 89/197, 89/195, 89/196, 89/188
• US Class Current: 89/33.14
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 17/38 Magazine mountings, e.g. for locking the magazine in the gun
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 3/26 semi-automatically or automatically operated, e.g. having a slidable bolt-carrier and a rotatable bolt
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 9/37 Feeding two or more kinds of ammunition to the same gun; Feeding from two sides

Abstract

A dual feed light machine gun comprises a barrel, a receiver, a cartridge lt feed mechanism assembly provided on top of the receiver, a magazine socket positioned at the bottom side of the receiver and essentially opposite the cartridge belt feed mechanism assembly. The machine gun includes a slide assembly having a slide which is essentially formed of an elongated, horizontal, rectangular frame with an integral bolt housing at the top near the rear end thereof and a gas piston attached at its front end. The bolt housing houses a bolt which has a head portion with upper and lower projections adapted, respectively, to drive a cartridge from either a belt or a magazine into the breech of the gun.

Claims

1. A dual feed light machine gun comprising a barrel with a breech, a receiver, a cartridge belt feed mechanism positioned on top of the receiver, a magazine socket, and a slide assembly having an open type bolt,

the magazine socket being positioned at the bottom side of the receiver essentially opposite the cartridge belt feed mechanism;

the slide assembly being positioned in said receiver nd comprising a slide arranged for reciprocating movement inside said receiver, said slide being formed as a substantially horizontal, rectangular, elongated frame having an axis of elongation thereof extending in the direction of movement of the slide, said frame including a bolt housing formed at the top near a rear end of said frame integrally therewith for receiving said bolt, and a gas piston attached at a front end of said frame;

said bolt including a head portion having upper and lower projections adapted, respectively to drive a cartridge from a belt or from a magazine into the breech.

2. A dual feed light machine gun according to claim 1, further comprising cover flaps, said magazine socket being fited with said cover flaps.

3. A dual feed light machine gun according to claim 2, wherein at lest one of said cover flaps serves as a magazine catch.

4. A dual feed light machine gun according to claim 2, wherein at least one of said cover flaps serves as a magazine support.

5. A dual feed light machine gun according to claim 1, wherein said bolt is reciprocal within said bolt housing between depressed and emerged positions and includes a bolt guide which is accommodated within a tortuous inner guiding groove formed in said bolt housing whereby, during reciprocations of the bolt the latter is caused to turn about an axis thereof to lock in and unlock from said bolt housing, said head portion of the bolt including projections adapted for engagement with latches at a barrel extension for locking the bolt during firing.