Derek A Rodriguez

US Patent:

55941923, Jan 14, 1997

Filed:

Mar 10, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/402213

Inventors:

Derek A. Rodriguez - Milton VT

Assignee:

Martin Marietta Corporation - King of Prussia PA

International Classification:

F41A 930
F41A 979

US Classification:

89 3316

Abstract:

A compact ammunition magazine of high storage density contains an endless ammunition conveyor running in a serpentine path. The conveyor includes a succession of units consisting of a pair of rigidly connected tubes that receive ammunition rounds in snug-fitting relation. The tube units are pivotally interconnected by links of a single conveyor chain that is driven by plural drive sprockets to index the tubes to a single magazine port through which uploading/downloading of ammunition rounds is conducted. Guide rollers, fitted on the tubes at positions laterally spaced from the conveyor chain, roll on horizontal tracks within the magazine to provide conveyor support and guidance.

US Patent:

52438961, Sep 14, 1993

Filed:

Dec 23, 1991

Appl. No.:

7/812536

Inventors:

Derek A. Rodriguez - Milton VT

Assignee:

General Electric Company - Burlington VT

International Classification:

F41A 987

US Classification:

89 4007

Abstract:

To resupply a weapons vehicle, a resupply vehicle carries a docking boom which is maneuvered into a docking position to mate a docking head at its free end with a docking port on the weapons vehicle. The weapons vehicle is resupplied with ammunition and fuel through the docking boom. A wire communications link between the vehicles is also established through the boom. The boom docking and resupply operations are remotely controlled from within the resupply vehicle.

US Patent:

58379223, Nov 17, 1998

Filed:

Dec 16, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/768063

Inventors:

David Lord Maher - Burlington VT
Derek Albert Rodriguez - Milton VT
Stephen Austin Jarvis - Colchester VT

Assignee:

General Dynamics Armament Systems, Inc. - Falls Church VA

International Classification:

F41A 939

US Classification:

89 46

Abstract:

An ammunition storage and retrieval system comprises a passive magazine having left and right backs of cells arranged in rows, with each cell accommodating a projectile in vertical, base-down orientation; the cells and cell rows being defined by adjacent pairs of elongated superstructures. A projectile loading head is movably mounted by a traveling beam, in turn, movably mounted by elevated rails, such that the loading head may be translated through a center aisle to address a selected row in either bank and then through the selected row to a selected cell for downloading of a projectile therein. A projectile receiver, dependent from the loading head, includes projectile gripping arms and a projectile lifting foot, which are articulated in coordination with operation of projectile locking members mounted by the superstructures to effect downloading.