EP 0185191 B1 19871223 - FIRING DEVICE FOR AN EXTERNALLY-POWERED GUN
Title (en)
FIRING DEVICE FOR AN EXTERNALLY-POWERED GUN
Publication
Application
Priority
CH 584584 A 19841210
Abstract (en)
[origin: US4672880A] In a Gatling gun containing a rotary weapon barrel assembly and positively reciprocating breechblocks, each of which is operatively associated with one weapon barrel of the weapon barrel assembly, each breechblock is provided with a spring-loaded firing pin and a cocking pin which are cocked and released by two control cams for piercing a cartridge. These two control cams are displaced from a safety or unarmed position into a firing position by a control slide possessing oppositely extending control grooves or slots. This firing apparatus possesses no pivotable parts as opposed to known apparatuses.
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
F41A 17/64 (2006.01); F41A 19/10 (2006.01); F41A 19/18 (2006.01); F41F 1/10 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP US)
F41A 17/64 (2013.01 - EP US); F41F 1/10 (2013.01 - EP US)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
CH DE FR GB IT LI SE
DOCDB simple family (publication)
EP 0185191 A1 19860625; EP 0185191 B1 19871223; BR 8506167 A 19860826; DE 3561262 D1 19880204; JP H0364800 B2 19911008; JP S61140796 A 19860627; US 4672880 A 19870616
DOCDB simple family (application)
EP 85114279 A 19851109; BR 8506167 A 19851209; DE 3561262 T 19851109; JP 27085785 A 19851203; US 80020285 A 19851121