Firearms – Magazine chargers
Patent
1982-12-27
1985-03-05
Brown, David H.
Firearms
Magazine chargers
F42B 3906
Patent
active
045022399
ABSTRACT:
Method and apparatus for loading cartridges into a relatively large capacity firearm magazine of, for example, the rotating drum type is disclosed and includes structure defining a plurality of generally parallel extending slots for receiving cartridges in a horizontal attitude and arranged as a plurality of generally parallel, vertical columns of superposed cartridges lying in the slots. The structure also includes a sliding panel with a single cartridge-passing opening therein, which opening may be selectively aligned with any one of the cartridge columns. The cartridge-passing opening is then aligned with a magazine loading port and the cartridges transferred one at a time from the bottom of a column into the magazine. When a column is exhausted, the structure is shifted so as to align a different column with the aperture and loading port whereupon that column is transferred one at a time to the magazine. Typically, the transfer involves not only the appropriate alignment but also the rotating of the magazine in a sense opposite its normal direction of rotation during firearm operation. Refilling of the cartridge dispensing device may be facilitated by the provision of a second sliding panel so that the slot defining structure may have those slots exposed on two adjacent faces with one face juxtaposed with the panel containing the cartridge passing opening and the other face being selectively exposable for refilling the device.
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Brown David H.
Griffiths, Jr. John E.
Gust George A.
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