Rotary storage magazine

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F - Mech Eng,Light,Heat,Weapons

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89/1

F41A 9/50 (2006.01) F41A 9/21 (2006.01) F41A 9/26 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 1260301

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A rotary storage magazine usable below the level of the deck of a vehicle or structure, so that munitions may be stored and thereafter quickly delivered on an as-needed basis to an intermediate position for the reloading of a weapon. This intermediate position can be on the deck, alongside the weapon to be reloaded, or else outboard of the weapon. Our rotary storage magazine comprises fore and aft rotary support devices disposed below deck level a spaced distance apart, which distance is less than the length of the munitions to be stored. The rotary support devices each have a plurality of support arms, such that a like number of munitions disposed in a generally parallel array may be cradled between corresponding support arms of the fore and aft rotary support devices. The rotary support devices are rotatable together, and have a common axis of rotation. We provide electric power for driving the rotary support devices in one rotative direction during the loading of munitions into the storage magazine, and for driving the rotary support devices in the opposite direction during the delivery of the munitions to the deck level of the vehicle. We prefer to use releasable restraint arms on the support arms of the rotary support devices, such that the munitions will not be accidentally dislodged during rotation of the rotary support devices. In the preferred embodiment, an elevator operational in timed relation to the rotary support devices serves as a munitions transporter that makes possible the ready loading as well as the rapid unloading of munitions from the rotary storage magazine.

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