Abstract: A system and method for selectively transferring storable units, particularly artillery propellant charge units, between a storage space and a location outside of the storage space, the system including a storage magazine having a plurality of parallel, axially elongated chambers opening at an end of the storage magazine, a shuttle having a transfer mechanism tube movable relative to the storage magazine between positions of axial alignment with each of the plurality of elongated chambers and the location outside of the storage space, and a feed mechanism to move the units between the transfer tube and the elongated chambers.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 3, 1999
Date of Patent:
January 9, 2001
Assignee:
General Dynamics Armament Sys., Inc.
Inventors:
Joseph F. Bender-Zanoni, Anthony R. Steward, Ned S. Ashton, Derek A. Rodriguez, Glenn P. Livingston