摘要 |
<p>This invention relates to a system for automatically halting the operation of a Gatling gun in the event of a non-fire to preclude the possibility of the non-fire becoming a hangfire with an unlocked breech.</p><p>A feature of this invention is the provision of a means to detect the instant that each gun barrel and respective bolt passes the sear point, means to detect the commencement of recoil due the round having fired, means to determine whether the commencement of recoil has been detected within a predetermined period after passage past the sear point and if not so detected then to operate a brake to haltthe rotation of the gun priorto the respective gun bolt unlocking.</p> |