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A bomb handling system includes a plurality of mobile frames, each having a pair of rails and carrying members on the rails. Each pair of carrying members supporting corresponding ends of a bomb and there being locking mechanisms with separate, common actuators at particular locations along the leng

A bomb handling system includes a plurality of mobile frames, each having a pair of rails and carrying members on the rails. Each pair of carrying members supporting corresponding ends of a bomb and there being locking mechanisms with separate, common actuators at particular locations along the lengths of the rails selectively to arrest a pair of carrying members in transversely aligned positions at a location and to allow such pair to travel past a location. The mobile frames may be attached in a train with their pairs of rails in end-abutting relation and including blocking mechanisms which releasably prevent transfer of a pair of carrying members from one frame to the next. A mobile frame may include a mechanism to elevate its rails so that loaded and positioned bombs may be raised for attachment to an aircraft.

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In a system for handling bombs, the combination of a mobile frame and a pair of rails on the frame disposed in parallel relation thereon to define an entrance end of the rails and a remote end of the rails, a plurality of pairs of carrying members, each pair of carrying members guided along a respec

In a system for handling bombs, the combination of a mobile frame and a pair of rails on the frame disposed in parallel relation thereon to define an entrance end of the rails and a remote end of the rails, a plurality of pairs of carrying members, each pair of carrying members guided along a respective one of the rails and each carrying member having means for cradling a corresponding end of a bomb so that each bomb is supported by a pair of carrying members on the rails while extending transversely thereof, locking means for positively locating the pairs of carrying members at specific transverse, aligned locations along the lengths of the rails from the entrance end toward the remote end of the rails, and control means at each location for loading the mobile frame with a plurality of bombs in reverse sequence toward the entrance end of the rails by selective and separate actuation of the locking means from an inoperative condition in which the carrying members are not arrested at such aligned location to an operative condition in which the pairs of carrying members are arrested at an aligned location.