Global Patent Index - EP 0185191 B1

EP 0185191 B1 19871223 - FIRING DEVICE FOR AN EXTERNALLY-POWERED GUN

Title (en)

FIRING DEVICE FOR AN EXTERNALLY-POWERED GUN

Publication

EP 0185191 B1 19871223 (DE)

Application

EP 85114279 A 19851109

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

F41D 7/04; F41D 11/04; F41C 17/04

IPC 8 full level

F41A 19/10 (2006.01); F41A 17/64 (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