Miner machine guns
The manufacturer of the Bergmann machine guns , the Theodor Bergmann hand weapon factory , weapon construction department in Suhl , belonged to Bergmann Industriewerke GmbH.
Model 1901
The first machine gun from Bergmann was a belt-fed and water-cooled machine gun developed by the designer Louis Schmeisser , which was named Model 1901. The weapon was a recoil loader , the breech of which rose vertically into a barrel extension and whose three-legged frame was mostly made of wood. Today it is just as little known whether the cartridges were ejected forwards from a rigid or flexible belt, and it is also not known whether the cartridges only got into the barrel by gravity (this is considered likely) or by mechanical aid.
Successor model 1902
The 1902 model, which appeared a year later, was a far more advanced weapon, the breech of which remained unchanged, but the design of the weapon had some very striking changes. So the flexible belt moved from right to left through the weapon housing, the feed cycles being controlled by the movements of the breech. The housing cover could be opened to reveal the feed mechanism. The ammunition belt was described as metallic, but it was not a decay belt. The ammunition box was on the floor. The machine gun was mounted on a three-legged construction made of metal tubes with the usual mechanisms for elevation and side adjustment.
literature
- Daniel Musgrave: German machine guns: development, technology, types , Motorbuch-Verlag, 1995, ISBN 978-3-613-01653-8 .