Abstract: An apparatus for triggering a rapid individual firing at an automatic, rearwardly movably mounted firing weapon, comprising a trigger rod by means of which the trigger of the firing weapon can be actuated by a handgrip. At the trigger rod there is arranged a toggle lever, at which there is hingedly connected a piston displaceable into two positions. Upon return movement of the weapon the piston is displaceable into one position and during forward movement of the weapon into the other position. In one position the toggle lever is extended and in the other position the toggle lever is collapsed or bent and the movement thereof can be controlled by an hydraulic dampening device.

Abstract: A weapon system containing a gun mount upon which there is mounted to be pivotable about an elevation alignment axis an automatic firing weapon or gun containing an ammunition container or magazine. A reloading container having an ammunition outlet opening is arranged at the gun mount. There is provided a conveyor device, by means of which sets of cartridges located in the reloading container can be brought to the outlet opening from which location these cartridges can be refilled into the ammunition container. The reloading container is displaceably arranged at the gun mount and its outlet opening can be brought into alignment with an inlet opening of the ammunition container which has been pivoted into an ammunition loading position. The conveyor device comprises transport elements which can be moved together with the sets of cartridges out of the reloading container into the ammunition container.

Abstract: A spinning projectile containing an electromagnetic ignition current generator, comprising a fuze housing with an inner generator component fixed at the housing and possessing an armature coil and an outer generator component provided with a field magnet. A bearing arrangement having two bearing bodies is housed in a recess of the fuze housing, one of the bearing bodies being arranged at the fuze housing and the other forming part of the outer generator component. Both of the bearing bodies are substantially ring-shaped and possess essentially the diameter of the field magnet and form a bearing means for centering the field magnet. The fuze housing possesses a wall portion which bounds the inside of the recess which is constructed as a circumferential groove.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating an electrical ignition current in the fuze of a projectile to be fired from a weapon, comprising an induction coil arranged in the projectile, a magnet for generating a magnetic field, a bipartite yoke, one part of which is located at the projectile and the other part at the weapon barrel, for producing a change in the magnetic flux upon passage of the projectile through the weapon barrel. According to one embodiment the part of the yoke located at the weapon barrel comprises a number of ferromagnetic rings and paramagnetic rings arranged between the ferromagnetic rings. The part of the yoke located at the projectile body comprises a substantially cylindrical body member having a substantially disc-shaped flange for the reception of the induction coil as well as a soft iron disc. With this arrangement the magnet is a permanent magnet which is disposed between this cylindrical body member and the soft iron disc.

Abstract: An automatic weapon equipped with at least two cartridge magazines from which loose cartridges can be conveyed into a common discharge channel, and a device for switching the cartridge infeed from one cartridge magazine to the other. The switching device embodies mechanism which can be selectively adjusted into two positions independent of emptying of one of the cartridge magazines. By means of the mechanism the cartridges in each instance can be fed, in one position of the mechanism, from the one cartridge magazine into the discharge channel and at the same time are blocked in the other cartridge magazine.

Abstract: A vertical tool head for the headstock of a horizontal drilling-milling machine which is carried by a support means above and displaceable parallel to a horizontal tool spindle and can be clamped in its work position at a headstock projection and drivable by the horizontal tool spindle which is mounted in the headstock projection having a headstock clamping surface. The vertical tool head and the support arm can be selectively positioned, by means of two defined thrust movements of different length and opposite to one another in conjunction with a pivotable movement of the vertical tool head through 180.degree. about an axis arranged above and parallel to the horizontal tool spindle, in a park position and work position. In these positions a tool chuck device located at the end of a vertical tool spindle of the vertical tool head is disposed in front of the support arm.

Abstract: An automatic firing weapon embodying a support, a weapon housing displaceable relative to the support, a breechblock displaceable in the weapon housing. The breechblock is retained in its rearward position by means of a pawl pivotably mounted at the weapon housing and can be released by means of an actuation lever which pivots the pawl. Further, there is provided a trigger arranged at the support and a guide track for triggering series firing. Apart from the aforementioned guide track there is provided a further, curve-shaped guide track for triggering a rapid individual firing operation and by means of which the pawl, during return movement of the weapon housing, is rocked into the path of the breechblock and during the advancing or forward movement of the weapon housing is rocked out of such path. The trigger can be selectively operatively connected through the intermediary of one of both guide tracks and via the actuation lever with the pawl with the aid of a switching mechanism.

Abstract: An electrical fuze for projectiles, especially rockets, comprising a short-circuit connection for bridging a firing chain of a detonator cap and a device for interrupting the short-circuit connection. The short-circuit connection is formed by part of a conductor track provided at a printed circuit board and which adheres to a layer or portion of the printed circuit board forming a fracture or breaking location.

Abstract: An ignition current generator for an electrical projectile fuze comprising a soft iron ring which, viewed in the direction of the projectile, is secured at the rear end face of a substantially ring-shaped permanent magnet which is axially displaceable. The permanent magnet, in a first position thereof, surrounding an induction coil and bearing with its front end face or surface against a flange of a soft iron core. This soft iron core is provided at its outer circumference with a groove in which there is located the induction coil. The stroke of the permanent magnet is of a size such that in a second position of the permanent magnet the induction coil is located externally of the magnetic field produced by the permanent magnet, and the permanent magnet also in its second position is located upon the soft iron core.

Abstract: A circuit for supplying clock or timing pulses to a projectile fuze, comprising an astable multivibrator possessing field-effect transistors and a supply capacitor for controlling and supplying the multivibrator. Between the multivibrator and the supply capacitor there is connected in circuit a resistor and parallel to said resistor there is connected a trimmer capacitor for stabilizing the frequency of the clock pulses.

Abstract: An inhibitor coating for a solid propellant charge for protecting against undesired burning-off, comprising:A. an insulating layer containing a binder and a filler, andB. a protective- and adhesion layer located between the insulating layer and the propellant charge;C. the binder consisting of a castable mass which has poor smoke developing properties;D. the filler consisting of a fine granular cooling agent possessing good packability; andE. the protective- and adhesion layer consisting of a completely set polyisocyanate forming a barrier against plasticizer migration.

Abstract: A testing machine for bevel gears and hyperboloidal gears comprising a machine bed upon which there are displaceably arranged two headstocks each having a work spindle, and a manually actuatable device for displacing at least one headstock. The testing machine can be used as a lapping machine by the addition of a first automatic device for displacing at least one headstock, by the addition of a second automatic device for displacing at least one work spindle in its axial direction and by disconnecting the manually actuatable headstock displacing device.

Abstract: A laser containing a laser resonator possessing a laser rod and an electro-optical modulation device between two mirrors. The modulation device comprises a polarization element and a component embodying an electro-optical crystal at the opposite faces of which there are arranged electrodes. Both faces of the crystal and a polarization prism of the polarization element possess a degree of planeness less than one-tenth of the wavelength of the laser light and with respect to one another a plane-parallelism of less than five arc seconds for increasing the stored energy in the laser resonator and the power output.

Abstract: A method of, and apparatus for, adjusting a projectile fuze after firing the projectile out of a weapon, wherein information is transmitted inductively from a transmitter mounted at the weapon to a receiver located in the projectile fuze. The passage of the projectile through a first element triggers the transmission of pertinent information and after such passage the information is computed and stored. Upon passage of the projectile through a second element the information is transmitted in the form of pulses to the receiver and the frequency of the pulses is coordinated to the time available during passage of the projectile so that all information can be transmitted within this time.

Abstract: A method of producing an inhibitor coating for a solid propellent charge for protecting against undesired burning-off, the inhibitor coating containing an insulating layer composed of a binder and a filler, a protective- and adhesion layer located between the insulating layer and the propellent charge. The binder consists of a castable mass which has poor smoke developing properties, the filler of a fine granular cooling agent possessing good packability, the protective- and adhesion layer of a completely set or cured polyisocyanate forming a barrier against plasticizer migration. For the insulating layer there is initially admixed a pre-adduct with the cooling agent, and subsequently adding an aromatic diamine, an aliphatic plasticizer or an aliphatic polyol.

Abstract: An explosive projectile which comprises a projectile body possessing a hollow compartment for receiving an explosive charge, a rear end surface, a border ring extending rearwardly from the rear end surface. A tracer composition sleeve is secured to the projectile body and possesses a front end surface which sealingly bears at the rear end surface of the projectile body. At least one of said rear end surface of the projectile body and said front end surface of the tracer composition sleeve having a substantially disc-shaped recess forming a substantially ring-shaped sealing contact surface between such rear and front end surfaces.

Abstract: A tool change mechanism for horizontal drilling-milling machines comprising a magazine, a tool spindle, the tools being arranged substantially horizontally and at right-angles to the tool spindle in the magazine. A gripper rocker having a gripper rocker shaft disposed substantially parallel to the work spindle is mounted in a gripper carriage, said gripper carriage being displaceable in the direction of the work tool spindle for the introduction and the removal of the tools, said gripper carriage possessing a double pivotal gripper vane rotatable through an angle of approximately 180.degree.. Guide tracks are arranged at the magazine, said gripper carriage being displaceable at the guide tracks by means of two coupled drives into at least four positions, one drive being attached at the gripper carriage and one drive being stationarily supported in the direction of the guide tracks.

Abstract: An ammunition container having at least one compartment in which there is located a loop of a cartridge belt consisting of two adjacently arranged loop portions. The compartment having a rack-like support and recesses or gaps of such support serving for the reception of a respective cartridge of one loop portion of the cartridge belt.

Abstract: A blocking mechanism for an impact fuze comprising a spring-loaded blocking sleeve lengthwise displaceable in the fuze housing and provided with at least one radially movable blocking body. The blocking body can be brought by means of a spring-loaded blocking bolt lengthwise displaceable within the blocking sleeve into a position blocking the blocking sleeve in the fuze housing. The fuze housing has a recess into which there can engage the blocking body for blocking the blocking sleeve in a first position. The fuze housing has a further substantially wedge-shaped recess which tapers towards the rear in which there can be wedged the blocking body between a wall of this recess and the blocking bolt, in a second position of the blocking sleeve, for the purpose of securing the blocking bolt against displacement towards the rear.

Abstract: A gear cutting machine comprising a tool rotating about a first axis, the first axis being rotatable about a second axis at a first cone-shaped shell or cone, the second axis being rotatable about a second cone-shaped shell or cone about a third axis. There is further provided a gear drive possessing two pairs of bevel gears. The cone apex-cone angles of the bevel gears of one pair of bevel gears are of the same magnitude as the cone apex-cone angles of the bevel gears of the other pair of bevel gears, such cone angles are obtuse, and both of the pairs of bevel gears are connected with one another through the agency of a pair of spur gears.