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United States Patent | 8,371,206 |
Albrecht , et al. | February 12, 2013 |
A gun with a wedge-type breechblock containing a single make-break junction assembly, located between the stationary mass of the cradle and the breechblock. The make-break junction assembly having a first set of contacts located along the bottom of the ramp structure affixed to the cradle and a second set of contacts housed in a shoe affixed to the bottom of the breechblock, at a location corresponding to the first set of contacts. Such that, when the breechblock is in-battery and the gun loaded, this shoe will be aligned with and adjacent to the first set of contacts, so that the make-break circuit will be completed.
Inventors: | Albrecht; Jeffrey (Schenectady, NY), Woelfersheim; Matthew (Cambridge, NY), Palage; Michael (Loudonville, NY), Papandrea; James (Slingerlands, NY), Badawi; Mohamed (Niskayuna, NY) | ||||||||||
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Assignee: |
The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army
(Washington,
DC)
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Family ID: | 47631854 | ||||||||||
Appl. No.: | 12/749,700 | ||||||||||
Filed: | March 30, 2010 |
Application Number | Filing Date | Patent Number | Issue Date | ||
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61164515 | Mar 30, 2009 | ||||
Current U.S. Class: | 89/28.05; 89/135; 89/28.1 |
Current CPC Class: | F41A 3/10 (20130101); F41A 17/06 (20130101); F41A 19/58 (20130101); F41A 19/69 (20130101); F41A 19/70 (20130101) |
Current International Class: | F41A 19/00 (20060101) |
Field of Search: | ;89/28.05,28.1,28.2,135,18.11 ;42/84 |
4070557 | January 1978 | Ostapovitch |
6085629 | July 2000 | Thiesen et al. |
6543330 | April 2003 | Breuer et al. |
7086319 | August 2006 | Larroque-Lahitette et al. |
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