Examples of 'breech block' in a sentence

Meaning of "breech block"

breech block ~ a part of a firearm that closes the rear end of the barrel and receives the brunt of the firing force

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It also had a falling wedge breech block.
The breech block was a horizontal sliding type and it fired fixed ammunition.
Weapon with a mobile breech block.
The breech block is then carried rearwards extracting the empty cartridge casing from the chamber.
Due to electric problems the breech block could not be shut.
Additionally, the older stamped slides feature a removable breech block.
In the embodiment shown the breech block is cylindrical and is rotatably mounted.
The rounds are fed one at a time into the breech block.
It uses a Welin breech block that opens downwards and is hydraulically operated.
It is missing breech block.
The newer milled slides are a one-piece unit and do not have a removable breech block.
The howitzers had a Welin breech block and used separate loading bagged charges and projectiles.
Eleventh year type refers to the horizontal sliding breech block on these guns.
It used a semi-automatic breech block with a horizontal sliding wedge.
The cascabel of the gun was cut off and a double action breech block was fitted.

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It also used a vertical breech block mechanism and the same cartridge as the PzB 38.
Rifled breech loader Welin breech block.
It had a horizontal sliding breech block and fired fixed ( one part ) ammunition.
It is a 73 mm low pressure smoothbore semi-automatic gun with a wedge breech block.
It has an interrupted thread type breech block and hydro-spring recoil-mechanism.
Korean breech-loading swivel gun with mug-shaped chamber 17th century Vietnamese breech block.
The horizontal sliding breech block was " quarter-automatic ", it closed automatically once a shell was loaded.
Plate 6 and elbow 7 will preferably be welded to breech block 4.
The gun had a semi-automatic sliding-wedge breech block like the breech block on the F-34 gun.
Said plate 41 can advantageously be directly integrated with breech block 10.
M1A1 - variant with modified breech block and breech ring.
These built-up guns consisted of a tube and 4.5 metre jacket with a hand-operated Welin breech block.
In later models the A-19 gun was modified to have a semi-automatic breech block.

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