Ordnance – Cartridge feeding – With magazine
Reexamination Certificate
2011-02-15
2011-12-27
Hayes, Bret (Department: 3641)
Ordnance
Cartridge feeding
With magazine
Reexamination Certificate
active
08082834
ABSTRACT:
An ammunition magazine box is provided for receiving a vertically serpentined length of belted ammunition for selective outfeed from the box to a machine gun. A specially designed support bracket structure, representatively of a length adjustable construction, is provided and suitably secured within the interior of the magazine box. At least a portion of the belted ammunition loops rest on a top side surface of the installed support bracket structure. The top support bracket structure side surface is (1) laterally sloped, in a direction transverse to the lengths of the belt loops, to inhibit a tilting-created intermeshing of vertically adjacent projectile ends of the ammunition rounds which could cause a feed jam, and/or (2) longitudinally sloped, in a direction parallel to the lengths of the belt loops, to desirably lessen the ammunition outfeed force that must be exerted by the machine gun.
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Gordon William F.
Hardin James A.
Ingersoll Michael F.
Rankin Caleb J.
Ussery David C.
Contract Fabrication and Design, LLC
Hayes Bret
Haynes and Boone LLP
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