US2039198A - Gun carriage - Google Patents

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US2039198A
US2039198A US739050A US73905034A US2039198A US 2039198 A US2039198 A US 2039198A US 739050 A US739050 A US 739050A US 73905034 A US73905034 A US 73905034A US 2039198 A US2039198 A US 2039198A
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Sutter Charles
Dugied Eugene Albert
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41H—ARMOUR; ARMOURED TURRETS; ARMOURED OR ARMED VEHICLES; MEANS OF ATTACK OR DEFENCE, e.g. CAMOUFLAGE, IN GENERAL
    • F41H5/00—Armour; Armour plates
    • F41H5/06—Shields
    • F41H5/16—Shields for ordnance or tanks
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41A—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE
    • F41A23/00—Gun mountings, e.g. on vehicles; Disposition of guns on vehicles
    • F41A23/28—Wheeled-gun mountings; Endless-track gun mountings
    • F41A23/32—Wheeled-gun mountings; Endless-track gun mountings with split trails
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41A—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE
    • F41A27/00—Gun mountings permitting traversing or elevating movement, e.g. gun carriages
    • F41A27/06—Mechanical systems
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41G—WEAPON SIGHTS; AIMING
    • F41G1/00—Sighting devices
    • F41G1/38—Telescopic sights specially adapted for smallarms or ordnance; Supports or mountings therefor
    • F41G1/393—Mounting telescopic sights on ordnance; Transmission of sight movements to the associated gun

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  • Said gun-carriage comprises a carriage-support carried by a two-wheel axle and the two rear trails, and in order to permit aiming in direction, a pivoting support with respect to said carriage support and on which the fire-arm cradle may rock in order to permit of aiming for elevation.
  • the carriage according to the invention is characterized by a number of special arrangements which secure important advantages.
  • Figs. 1, 2 and 3 are respectively an elevation, a plan and an end view of the carriage and wheels according to the invention in the firing position.
  • Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of the central portion of the carriage.
  • Figs. 5 and 6 illustrate diagrammatically through partial plan views the mounting of the rear trails on the center pivot, in closed and open positions respectively.
  • Fig. '7 is a sectional plan view of a modified form of gun-carriage in the firing position, illustrating the mounting of the trails and carriagebody unit on the wheel axle.
  • Fig. 8 is a sectional elevation along the axis of the axles, showing in chain-dotted lines the possible inclination the axle may assume with respect to the carriage body.
  • Fig. 9 is a sectional plan view of the carriage in position for transport, showing in chaindotted lines the pivoting cradle support.
  • Fig. 10 is a cross-section on X-X, Fig. 9.
  • Fig. 11 is a longitudinal view of the carriage in the position for transport, with the right trail removed.
  • Fig. 12 is a cross-section on XII-XII, Fig. 11.
  • the carriage according to the invention has two rear trails I and la pivotally mounted through the medium of their cheeks 2 and 2m (Fig. 4) engaging in alternating relation on a tubular axle pivot 3, on which is likewise mounted a pivoting cradle support 4.
  • a tubular axle pivot 3 On said pivot 3 is rigidly fixed the main body 5 of the carriage which carries in front a shaft 6 about which can rock a wheel-carrying axle I.
  • Said axle can,
  • the trails may take up two positions: the closed position (Fig. 5) for transport, and the open position (Fig. 6) for firing.
  • a hooking device comprising (Fig. 2) a strap I I mounted on the trail I and within which may engage a bolt I2 carried by the trail Ia.
  • a latch I3 In the 15 closed position the carriage body 5 is prevented from moving sideways, due to the fact that the faces Id and Ma of the trails I and la abut against corresponding faces of the carriage body 5 (Fig. 5).
  • the open position (Fig. 6) the carriage body is likewise prevented from moving, due to the fact that the faces I5 and I5a. of the trails bear against the faces of the carriage body.
  • the pivoting support 4 may swivel on the central pivot I9 engaged in the tubular pivot 3. This movement permits aiming in direction.
  • the cradle 26 carrying the fire-arm is rigidly connected to the axle I by a stirrup 48 hinged to the cradle at 49 (Fig. 1) and which may be fixed by the peg 50 in a strap 5
  • This arrangement eliminates during transport any risk of damage to 45 the mechanisms for aiming for direction and elevation which might be caused by the vibrations due to jolts. 0
  • the cam 8 (Fig. 4) is brought into unlocking position, which enables the two clutch members 9 and ID to be released.
  • the carriage-body 5 can thus rock freely about the axis of the spindle 6. With this arrangement, the rear ends of the trails l and la will always rest on the ground, whatever differences of level there may be, and irrespective of the inclination assumed by the axle '7. Furthermore the spades will always act,
  • the component parts of the gun-carriage which has just been described have great freedom of movement for firing, but for transport, where such freedom of movement would be harmful, it is necessary to eliminate same by making connections which entail additional operations in order to pass from the firing to the transport position or vice versa.
  • the heads of the rear trails are each extended forwardly by an arm having a boss at its end.
  • both bosses are brought into contact with corresponding bosses carried by the axle.
  • the unit formed by the trails and the carriage body which, in the first form of the device, could, when in the firing position swivel freely about an axis substantially perpendicular to the axis of the axle, and substantially horizontal, is now locked on the axle in one position only. In this manner the first additional connection is $6- cured.
  • connection of the pivoting support on the one hand and the cradle, on the other hand, with the trails, carriage-body and axle block are obtained by encastration of the pivoting support and the have thus been made .to the fact that it is retained between the two faces [5 and l5a of the trails.
  • the pivoting support 4 may swivel about the pivot 3. This movement which permits of aiming in direction, is controlled by any suitable mechanism, not illustrated, such as a worm and segmental worm wheel.
  • the pivoting support 4 is first returned, by rotating the wheel 2! for aiming in direction,
  • the fire-arm cradle 26 may rock about the horizontal pin 26a of the pivoting support 4 (Fig. 11). This movement, which permits of aiming for elevation, is controlled by any suitable mechanism, not illustrated, such as a worm and worm wheel, similar for example to the one illustrated in Fig. 4.
  • any suitable mechanism not illustrated, such as a worm and worm wheel, similar for example to the one illustrated in Fig. 4.
  • the fire-arm is first brought into its position of maximum elevation by operating the aiming hand-wheel.
  • a junction member 15 secured to the cradle (Figs. 11 and 12) is engaged in two housings 16-16a of the rear trails, thus preventing any rotational movement about the pin 26a.
  • the gun-carriage is brought into in battery position from the transport position in the following manner:
  • the rear ends'of the trails l-la are unlatched and the trails are separated until their faces l5-Hia abut against the carriage body 5.
  • the trails are kept apart by any suitable device such as the stay '77 illustrated in Fig. '7. The carriage is then in firing position.
  • the aiming wheels are operated in order to bring the fire-arm into the plane bisecting the rear trails and into the position of maximum elevation; then the stay 11 which held the trails apart (Fig. 9) is swung down sideways, the trails are closed together and their ends latched.
  • the gun-carriage is then in transport position.
  • a wheeled gun carriage comprising in combination, a trail body having a depending beam pivot, two trail beams both mounted on said pivot and adapted to assume a closed and a spread position, means for locking said beams in closed position, a cradle support mounted on said trail body for traversing rotation, abutment faces on said trail body and beams behind said beam pivot and engagement members on said rotatable cradle support and trail beams, said abutment faces and engagement members being adapted to respectively engage with one another when said beams are in closed position to directly fasten together said trail body, rotatable cradle support thereon and trail beams.
  • a wheeled gun carriage comprising in combination, a trail body having a depending beam pivot sleeve, two trail beams both mounted on said pivot sleeve and adapted to assume a closed and a spread position, means for locking said beams in closed position, a cradle support having a depending pivot engaged in said pivot sleeve and adapted to rotate on said trail body for traversing, abutment faces on said trail body and beams behind said pivot sleeve and engagement members on said rotatable cradle support and trail beams, said abutment faces and engagement members being adapted to respectively engage with one another when said beams are in closed position to directly fasten together said trail body, rotatable cradle support thereon and trail beams.
  • a wheeled gun carriage comprising in combination, a rigid trail body having a forwardly directed axle pivot and a depending beam pivot behind same, a two-wheel axle mounted on said axle pivot for transverse rocking on sloping ground, two trail beams both mounted on said beam pivot and adapted to assume a closed and a spread position, means for locking said beams in closed position, a cradle support mounted on said trail body and adapted to rotate thereon for traversing, means for fastening together said trail body and beams when the latter are in closed position, front members on said beams extending forwards of said beam pivot and crosswise of said axle and adapted to spread when said beams are closed, two spaced bosses on said axle and engagement members on said rotatable cradle support and trail beams, said front members, bosses and engagement members being adapted to respectively engage with one another when said beams are in the closed position to directly fasten together said rocking wheel axle, rotatable cradle support on said trail body and trail beams.
  • a wheeled gun carriage comprising in combination, a rigid trail body having a forwardly directed axle pivot and a depending beam pivot behind same, a two-wheel axle mounted on said axle pivot for transverse rocking on sloping ground, two trail beams both mounted on said beam pivot and adapted to assume a closed and a spread position, means for locking said beams in closed position, a cradle support mounted on said trail body and adapted to rotate thereon for traversing, a cradle mounted on said cradle support for elevating rotation, means for fastening together said trail body and beams when the latter are in closed position, front members on said beams, extending forwards of said beam pivot and crosswise of said axle and adapted to spread when said beams are closed, two spaced bosses on said axle, a rigid connection member on said cradle and recesses in said beams, said front members, bosses, connection member and recesses being adapted to respectively engage with one another when said beams are in closed position to directly fasten together said wheel axle
  • a wheeled gun carriage comprising in combination, a trail body having a depending beam pivot, two trail beams both mounted on said pivot and adapted to assume a closed and a spread position, means for locking said beams in closed position, a cradle support mounted on said trail body for traversing rotation, a cradle mounted on said cradle support for elevating rotation, means for fastening together said trail body and beams when the latter are in closed position, engagement members on said rotatable cradle support and trail beams, a rigid connection member on said cradle and recesses in said beams, said engagement members, connection member and recesses I being adapted to respectively engage with one another when said beams are in closed position to directly fasten together said cradle, cradle support on said trail body and trail beams.

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2439564A (en) * 1944-02-28 1948-04-13 Heintz Mfg Co Mobile gun mount
US2500959A (en) * 1945-06-28 1950-03-21 John P O'sullivan Travel lock and movable shield plate for field gun mounts
US9739561B1 (en) * 2017-02-28 2017-08-22 H & H Tool Shop, Llc Mounting assembly for a firearm
CN113237377A (zh) * 2021-06-11 2021-08-10 中国人民解放军陆军装甲兵学院 一种大口径火炮爆发装填装置的弹巢装置

Cited By (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2439564A (en) * 1944-02-28 1948-04-13 Heintz Mfg Co Mobile gun mount
US2500959A (en) * 1945-06-28 1950-03-21 John P O'sullivan Travel lock and movable shield plate for field gun mounts
US9739561B1 (en) * 2017-02-28 2017-08-22 H & H Tool Shop, Llc Mounting assembly for a firearm
US10006735B1 (en) 2017-02-28 2018-06-26 Mark E. Hagedorn Mounting assembly for a firearm
CN113237377A (zh) * 2021-06-11 2021-08-10 中国人民解放军陆军装甲兵学院 一种大口径火炮爆发装填装置的弹巢装置

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