Retrofit cooling system for gatling machine gun
View Patent ↗A cooling system for a Gatling machine gun can be use to retrofit an existing machine gun or can be incorporated in a newly manufactured gun. The system directs fluid through the housing assembly of the machine gun to a location intermediate barrels of the gun, and discharges the fluid to cool the barrels.
1. In combination with a machine gun including
a gun housing, and
a rotatable barrel assembly mounted on said gun housing and including a plurality of circumferentially mounted barrels,
the improvements comprising a cooling system comprising
(a) at least one fluid conduit having a perforated end extending
(i) intermediate the circumferentially mounted barrels, and
(ii) into and through at least a portion of said gun housing;
(b) a fluid distribution system for directing a cooling fluid through said conduit and out said perforated end intermediate the circumferentially mounted barrels;
(c) a control box assembly mounted on said gun housing and operably associated with said fluid distribution system and comprising
(i) a control box housing;
(ii) a firing control mounted on said control box housing;
(iii) a control system mounted on said control box housing for determining the temperature of the barrel assembly and, when said temperature reaches a selected level, directing a cooling fluid against the barrel assembly.