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US2993416A
US2993416A US798243A US79824359A US2993416A US 2993416 A US2993416 A US 2993416A US 798243 A US798243 A US 798243A US 79824359 A US79824359 A US 79824359A US 2993416 A US2993416 A US 2993416A
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    • 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
    • F41A27/30—Stabilisation or compensation systems, e.g. compensating for barrel weight or wind force on the barrel

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  • the inventor uses very simple means to solve this problem in that he provides for a tension spring acting on a roller chain secured to a rotatable segment rotatable simultaneously with a vertically pivoted gun, the chain rolling otf this toothed segment.
  • Various points on the periphery of the segment vary in distance from the pivot, these distances being so selected as to ensure perfect balance of the gun at any elevation.
  • the radius of every single point on the periphery of the segment corresponds with both the spring tension and the unbalance of the gun in this particular position.
  • FIG. 1 shows the gun in its horizontal position
  • FIG. 2 in its elevated position
  • FIG. 3 shows segmented, chain and tension spring with the gun in its horizontal position on an enlarged scale
  • FIG. 4 shows the same items represented in FIG. 3 with the gun in its elevated position.
  • the toothed segment 2 rotates likewise, this segment being secured to the pivot carrying the gun.
  • One end of the roller chain 4 is secured to the segment 2 in such a way that the chain can roll off this segment.
  • the other end of the roller chain 4 is secured to the tension spring 5 which, in turn, is suspended from a cross bar 6 mounted within the armoured cupola.
  • a change in elevation of the gun 1 results in a variation of the travel of the tension spring 5, diflFerent rates of spring tension acting on segment 2 over roller chain 4 and, thus, different forces acting on different radii.
  • the arrangement provides that a small pull is exerted on a long radius and a large pull on a small radius in such a manner that in every position of the gun, throughout its entire range of adjustment, a momentum of rotation is produced which keeps the gun in its state of equilibrium.
  • the gun I when disposed in the horizontal position is subject to a predetermined tension or torque determined by the effective length of the gear segment 2, i.e. the distance the end of the chain 4 connected to the spring 5 is spaced from the center of the pivot 3.
  • the eifective length mentioned above gets shorter and at the same time more tension is applied to the spring 5.
  • the balancing force is maintained substantially constant due to the changing tension and efiective length of the gear segment.

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DEU5185A DE1097319B (de) 1958-03-10 1958-03-10 Gewichtsausgleich fuer Waffen, deren Schwerpunkt nicht in der Schildzapfenachse liegt

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US2564360A (en) * 1939-11-09 1951-08-14 Hammar Victor Balancing system for gun elevating mechanism
US2408110A (en) * 1944-07-10 1946-09-24 United Shoe Machinery Corp Gun-charging mechanism
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