Ordnance – Cartridge feeding – With magazine
Patent
1975-06-06
1977-07-12
Bentley, Stephen C.
Ordnance
Cartridge feeding
With magazine
42 49R, 42 87, F41C 2506
Patent
active
040346447
ABSTRACT:
A firearm comprises a stock having a barrel mounted thereon for the magazine chamber associated with the stock which has a passage for the cartridges extending between an interior chamber of the magazine and the cartridge chamber associated with the barrel. The magazine is constructed to contain a plurality of cartridges therein for example in an annular arrangement around a rotatable cartridge transport star. The cartridges are arranged in parallel relationship to the magazine chamber and they are moved by the transport mechanism during the firing operation successively into association with the cartridge chamber of the barrel. The magazine is also provided with an opening which provides means for mounting a cartridge clip or carrier so that cartridges may be loaded into the magazine through the opening which is communicable with the chamber in the magazine for the cartridges. In one embodiment, the communication is established by rotating an interior holder arranged within the magazine so as to shift a tangentially extending passage portion which extends from the cartridge chamber in the magazine to the cartridge chamber associated with the barrel into a position in which the passage is aligned with the loading opening rather than with the cartridge chamber of the barrel. In another embodiment, the loading opening communicates upon insertion of the clip directly with an annular cartridge space in the magazine on one side thereof after a cover closing the opening is positioned in a location to block the further upfeed of the cartridges into alignment with the barrel cartridge chamber.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1285263 (1918-11-01), Lohne
patent: 1342358 (1920-01-01), Storle
patent: 3088378 (1963-05-01), Boudreau
Hupp Gerhard
Mader Helmut
Bentley Stephen C.
Industriewerke Karlsruhe-Augsburg Aktiengesellschaft
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