In the integration of guns on ships or in fixed land positions, various problems are encountered with respect to the amount of work and effort involved in the installation work and with respect to the geometric reproducibility of the installation. Especially on ships, although the mounting sites for the guns are predetermined by the necessary deck fixtures, integration on the deck is very complicated. In addition, in the case of large guns, it is necessary to break through the deck.
DE 102 54 786 A1 discloses, for example, the integration of a large-caliber gun on a ship. In this connection, the turret of a land gun is installed on the ship by means of an adapter plate and a shock-absorbing gun mount. As a result of the modular construction, no significant modifications need to be made on the ship.
The object of the present invention is to allow fast and simple mounting of a naval or land gun on a ship or ground foundation.
Pursuant to this object, one aspect of the present invention resides in an ISO pallet-concept gun, having a lower gun mount, standardized corners on the lower gun mount, and supports for mounting the corners on a ship or a permanent ground foundation.
The invention is based on the idea of using a lower gun mount, which is mounted in a standardized way on the ship or a permanent ground foundation, so that the gun can be mounted with minimal effort quickly, reproducibly and without slip, and later dismounted.
This idea is based on the ISO standardization of the lower gun mount already introduced with the applicant's own Skyshield 35-mm Revolver Gun (ISO=International Organization for Standardization).
This standardized lower gun mount is now mounted geometrically correctly on a foundation or ship by means of new, so-called standardized ISO corners, which can be fixed in place on supports specially provided for this purpose, and a mounting frame that assists the mounting. This makes it possible for the gun to be mounted rigidly and without play. The modular solution acts in the tension and compression directions (during operation of the gun). Purely mechanical connection is involved, so that it is maintenance-free. In the operation of the gun, a reduction of the scattering of the gun may be expected. Another advantage is that an internationally standardized interface is created for guns on land and sea.
The invention is explained in greater detail below with reference to the specific embodiment illustrated in the drawings.
a-2d show individually modified supports.
As shown in
To realize statically determined mounting, each ISO corner 2 requires a geometrically individually designed support 3.1-3.4 (
The support 3.1 (
The support 3.3 according to
The support 3.2 according to
On the other hand, the support according to
Each ISO corner 2 is positively locked by means of the bolt connection 8 in one or more directions in space, depending on the type of bearing.
Although the present invention has been described in relation to particular embodiments thereof, many other variations and modifications and other uses will become apparent to those skilled in the art. It is preferred, therefore, that the present invention be limited but by the specific disclosure herein, but only by the appended claims.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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10 2007 036 458.1 | Aug 2007 | DE | national |