Apparatus using the energy produced by the explosion of a machine gun cartridge (shell)

Claim 2

Feeding apparatus for a cartridge fired device adapted to feed belted elements, said feeding apparatus including a pair of rigid rotative members which are mounted so as to receive said belted elements between their peripheries and which include means for being rotated about axes which are parallel to each other, with one such axis being located on each side of the barrel axis of said device, and including a plurality of notches formed in the peripheriEs of each of said rotative members for receiving and supporting the belted elements therebetween.

Claim 3

Apparatus as in claim 1, including driving means for rotating both of said rotative members simultaneously by engaging notches formed in said rotative members.

Claim 4

A flexible belt for supplying a repeating cartridge fired device with elongated projectiles comprising a plurality of links for carrying an equal number of projectiles, each link having at least two annular parts for respectively carrying separate portions of a single projectile, both of said annular parts having an identical outer diameter which is greater than the outer diameter of said projectiles, said annular parts being spaced from one another and held in place by interconnecting band means, and including flexible interconnecting means for joining the annular parts of a given link with corresponding annular parts of adjacent links, said flexible interconnecting means being of substantial lesser thickness than said annular parts, such flexible interconnecting means which extend from one annular part being secured on that annular part of two diametrical opposite points.

Claim 5

A flexible belt for supplying a repeating cartridge fired device with elongated projectiles comprising a plurality of links for carrying an equal number of projectiles, each link having at least two annular parts for respectively carrying separate portions of a single projectile, both of said annular parts having an identical outer diameter which is greater than the outer diameter of said projectiles, said annular parts being spaced from one another and held in place by interconnecting band means, and including flexible interconnecting means for joining the annular parts of a given link with corresponding annular parts of adjacent links, said flexible interconnecting means being of substantial lesser thickness than said annular parts, such flexible interconnecting means which extend from one annular part being secured on that annular part of two diametrical opposite points.

Claim 6

The flexible belt as in claim 3 wherein said projectiles are nails and wherein said annular parts of a given link surround head and body portions respectively of a single nail.

Claim 7

Flexible belt as in claim 3 wherein said two annular parts are formed by a cylinder means having an open end for surrounding the head of a nail, and an opposite end which is perforated for surrounding a body portion of the nail.