U.S. patent number 3,686,998 [Application Number 05/001,192] was granted by the patent office on 1972-08-29 for rifle charging mechanism.
This patent grant is currently assigned to Rheinmetall GmbH. Invention is credited to Paul Seifried.
United States Patent |
3,686,998 |
Seifried |
August 29, 1972 |
RIFLE CHARGING MECHANISM
Abstract
An automatic and semi-automatic rifle, respectively, with a
cocking tube disposed parallel to a barrel with a lateral
longitudinal slot for the passage and the guidance of a cocking
lever, which comprises a closure member and a bearing bolt mounted
on the cocking member, and guided displaceably in the cocking tube.
A tube-like breech bolt carrier is guided in the cocking tube and
is adapted to slide backwardly for tensioning of the breech bolt.
The cocking member comprises a cocking slide which extends over the
entire length of the loading lever slot and supports the inner wall
of the cocking tube.
Inventors: |
Seifried; Paul (Badenweiler,
DT) |
Assignee: |
Rheinmetall GmbH (Dusseldorf,
DT)
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Family
ID: |
5722689 |
Appl.
No.: |
05/001,192 |
Filed: |
January 7, 1970 |
Foreign Application Priority Data
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Jan 17, 1969 [DT] |
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P 19 02 275.4 |
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Current U.S.
Class: |
89/1.4 |
Current CPC
Class: |
F41A
3/72 (20130101) |
Current International
Class: |
F41A
3/72 (20060101); F41A 3/00 (20060101); F41d
005/00 () |
Field of
Search: |
;89/1.4K,191 |
References Cited
[Referenced By]
U.S. Patent Documents
Primary Examiner: Borchelt; Benjamin A.
Assistant Examiner: Jordan; C. T.
Claims
I claim:
1. An automatic and semi-automatic rifle, respectively, with a
cocking tube disposed parallel to a barrel with a lateral
longitudinal cocking slot for the passage and the guidance of a
cocking lever, comprising
a cocking member,
a bearing bolt in said cocking member, and said cocking lever being
pivotally mounted about said bearing bolt and said cocking lever
being guided displaceably with said cocking member in said cocking
tube,
a tube-like carrier guided in said cocking tube and adapted to
slide backwardly,
said cocking member comprising a cocking slide extending over the
entire length of said cocking lever slot and supporting the inner
wall of said cocking tube,
coupling means for coupling said cocking lever and said cocking
member, respectively, with a breech bolt member,
said cocking lever having an oblique face within the range of the
passage through said longitudinal slot and corresponding during
pivoting of said cocking lever with the edge of said slot, such
that said cocking member is rotated about its longitudinal axis,
and
said coupling means are disposed on the rearward end of said
cocking member, and coupling said cocking slide with said breech
bolt member.
2. The rifle, as set forth in claim 1, wherein
said cocking lever is mounted on said bearing bolt by means of a
longitudinal slot,
said longitudinal slot extends in longitudinal direction of said
cocking slide in the tilted-up position of said cocking lever,
and
said cocking lever is lockable in this position with said cocking
slide.
Description
The present invention relates to semi-automatic and automatic
rifles, respectively, in particular to the infantry rifle known
under the style of G 3. This rifle has a cocking tube disposed
parallel to the barrel, in which tube is mounted a cocking lever
pivotably mounted in a cocking member and displaceably mounted with
the cocking member in the cocking tube. The cocking member engages
with its end face a closing spring tube connected with the breech
bolt and guided in the cocking tube, which closing spring tube
projects far into the cocking tube in this known rifle. The firearm
is made ready for shooting such, that the cocking lever is pulled
back, whereby the breech bolt is moved rearwardly over the closing
spring tube up to behind the cartridge feed. Upon release of the
cocking lever, the breech bolt with the closing spring tube, as
well as the cocking member with the cocking lever are brought
forwardly again by the closing spring, whereby due to the breech
bolt a bullett is inserted into the barrel.
The cocking tube comprises, in this firearm, for the reason for
weight saving a comparatively thin sheet metal and has in addition
still a longitudinal slot for the passage of the cocking lever. It
happens now occasionally, that by the deformation of the cocking
tube by jolt or hit or by soiling of the wall of the cocking tube
disturbances occur in the function of the firearm, according to
which the closing spring force, as well as the kinetic energy of
the moved masses do not suffice, in order to overcome the occurred
clamping resistance between the closing spring tube and the cocking
tube such, that still a sufficient force remains for insertion of a
bullet and for locking of the breech bolt in its forwardmost
position.
In order to be able to cocking manually in such cases, it is known,
to bring forward the closing spring tube with the breech bolt by
means of the cocking lever. For this purpose, a claw is provided,
in a known embodiment, in the cocking lever, by means of which claw
the cocking lever is capable of being coupled with a dosing spring
tube. The breech bolt can in this manner be moved forwardly by hand
(See German Gebrauchsmuster GM 1,915,840).
The above stated disturbances cannot be reliably avoided by this
known proposal. Slight deformations of the cocking tube and thereby
caused jams permit though possibly still a cocking by hand, not,
however, an automatic closing, because during each forward stroke
of the breech bolt the clamping resistance in the cocking tube must
be overcome. Furthermore, still the danger exists, that by the soil
penetrated the cocking lever slot into the cocking tube and thus
the inside of the firearm during closing and, thereby, likewise
causes disturbances.
It is one object of the present invention to provide a rifle,
wherein the breech bolt and the breech bolt carrier, respectively,
and the cocking device is improved in a firearm of the above
mentioned type, in particular, in a rifle G 3, such that
disturbances of the function due to deformation or to soiling of
the cocking tube is extensively avoided.
It is another object of the present invention, to provide a rifle,
wherein the cocking member of the cocking lever comprises a cocking
slide extending over the entire length of the cocking lever slot in
the cocking tube and supporting the inner wall of the cocking tube.
By this arrangement, on the one hand, the penetration of soil
through the cocking lever slot is extensively avoided, since the
slot is covered also during the closing continuously by the
non-moved cocking slide, and, on the other hand, also possible
deformations of the cocking tube are harmless, since they can be
effective only on the cocking slide operated during tensioning of
the breech bolt by hand, however, do not prevent the automatic
closing process. By the cocking slide extending over the entire
length of the slot the comparatively thin wall of the cocking tube
is supported at its inner periphery, so that deformations are
omitted to a great extent.
The cocking lever is mounted in known manner pivotably and
tiltably, respectively, about a bolt secured in the cocking member
and is maintained by means of a bent spring surrounding the bearing
bolt in the resting position in the state tilted to the cocking
tube.
In order to put the breech bolt by means of the cocking lever by
hand into closing position, the cocking lever has, in an
advantageous embodiment, of the present invention, within the range
of its passing through the longitudinal slot, an inclined face
corresponding during pivoting of the cocking lever with the edge of
the flat such, that the cocking member (cocking slide) is thereby
rotated about its longitudinal axis and is capable of being coupled
by means of coupling members provided at the rear end with the
closing carrier (closing spring tube).
The coupling of the cocking slide with the closing spring tube is
thus operated by the tilting of the cocking lever. If the lever is
released, it engages again due to the force of the bent spring
again then the cocking tube, whereby a further inclined face
corresponding with the edge of the passage through slot provided on
the cocking lever causes a rotation of the cocking slide into its
original starting position and thereby lifts again the coupling
with the closing spring tube. The closing spring of the breech bolt
brings about now the breech bolt and the cocking slide with the
cocking lever again into forward position.
By securing of the cocking lever in its tilted position, in which
the cocking slide is coupled with the closing spring tube, the
breech bolt can also be displaced forwardly by hand.
The manual advancing of the breech bolt by means of the cocking
lever is now simplified in a further advantageous embodiment of the
present invention such, that the cocking lever is mounted by means
of a longitudinal slot on the bearing bolt, whereby the
longitudinal slot extends in case of the tilted position of the
cocking lever in longitudinal direction of the cocking slide and
that the cocking lever in this position can be locked with the
cocking slide. For the manual advancing of the breech bolt the
cocking lever is displaced slightly in its mounting formed as a
longitudinal slot, whereby a claw provided on the cocking lever
interlocks with a bolt. By advancing the cocking lever the breech
bolt can now be brought forwardly into closing position due to the
maintenance of its coupling with the cocking slide.
With these and other objects, which will become apparent in the
following detailed description, the present invention, which is
shown by example only, will be clearly understood in connection
with the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a partial elevation of an automatic rifle;
FIG. 2 is a longitudinal horizontal section the through cocking
tube; and
FIG. 3 is a fragmentary section disclosing the cocking lever in the
tilted position and locked with the cocking slide.
Referring now to the drawings, and in particular to FIG. 1, the
automatic rifle 1 is equipped with a barrel 2 and a cocking tube 3
disposed above and parallel to the barrel 2. The cocking tube 3 has
a forward part 4 consisting of comparatively thin sheet metal, into
which is inserted an abutment member 5 and is secured by means of a
rivet 6. In the rear part of the cocking tube is guided a tubular
like breech bolt member 7 (closing spring tube).
A cocking tube 3 has laterally a longitudinal slot 8, for guidance
of the substantially rectangular cocking lever 9, the arm 9 a of
which is mounted by means of a longitudinal slot 10 disposed in the
direction of the arm 9 a on a bolt 11 in the cocking member 12
(cocking slide). The cocking slide comprises a hollow body, thick
walled in comparison with the wall of the cocking tube, which
hollow body is guided for longitudinal displacement in the cocking
tube and which extends over the entire length of the cocking lever
slot 8, whereby it supports all around the thin rear wall.
The position of the cocking lever shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 is normal
in the normal and resting position, respectively, in which it is
held by a bent spring 13 wound about the bearing bolt 11 in the
state tilted to the cocking tube. The cocking slide engages thereby
with its forward end face the abutment member 5. For tensioning of
the breech bolt, the cocking lever 9 is tilted up and rearwardly
pulled, whereby the breech bolt member (closing spring) 7 is moved
rearwardly by means of the cocking slide 12, in order to insert
again the bullet into the barrel during its forward stroke. The
cocking lever 9 has an inclined face 14 corresponding with the
bottom edge of the longitudinal slot 8 during pivoting and tilting,
respectively, from the resting position, whereby the cocking slide
is rotated. By this arrangement, claws 15 are provided at the
rearward end of the cocking slide behind noses 16 disposed at the
forward end of the closing carrier, whereby the cocking slide 12
and the closing carrier 7 are coupled together. In order to move
forwardly now the breech bolt by hand, the tilted-out cocking
lever, is displaced in its mounting in the longitudinal pin slot
10, whereby it is locked in this position, shown in FIG. 3, with
the cocking slide, by interlocking a claw 17 provided on the
cocking lever with a bolt 18 provided on the cocking slide. Upon
reaching the forward most position, the arm 9 a of the cocking
lever finds a counterbearing on the abutment member, whereby it is
moved rearwardly in the longitudinal slot and the locking is
released. Upon releasing the lever it tilts by the force of the
bent spring again into its resting position, shown in FIGS. 1 and
2.
While I have disclosed one embodiment of the present invention, it
is to be understood that this embodiment is given by example only
and not in a limiting sense.
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