US Patent Issued to RHEINMETALL AIR DEFENCE on April 1 for "Feeding device for loading and unloading a radially opening ammunition cup for an automatic gun loading system" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,891, issued on April 1, was assigned to RHEINMETALL AIR DEFENCE AG (Switzerland).

"Feeding device for loading and unloading a radially opening ammunition cup for an automatic gun loading system" was invented by Gerhard Stolz (Zurich) and Thomas Strebel Marzano (Birmenstorf, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeding device for loading and unloading a radially opening ammunition cup for an automatic loading system of a gun, including: a housing, a loading opening and a radially opening ammunition cup. An ammunition can be inserted into the ammunition cup in the radial direction through the cup opening The feeding device incl...