Firearms – Breech loading – Magazines
Patent
1989-10-11
1990-11-20
Brown, David H.
Firearms
Breech loading
Magazines
89 34, F41C 2502
Patent
active
049708180
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a magazine for fire-arms, of the type comprising a substantially parallelepipedon housing, provided with a mouth for bullet entry at an end thereof, and a thrust element elastically urged inside the housing towards the bullet entry mouth, said mouth having a narrowing formed by two opposite magazine lips, and further comprising means for retaining the bullets inside the housing under the elastic thrust action applied by the thrust element, the bullets being positioned perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction of the housing.
Magazines of this type are generally known in the art, in U.S. Pat. No. 2,557,144, FIG. 10. In them the bullets, introduced through the mouth and positioned above each other inside the magazine, are then caused to leave the magazine after each other through a front opening provided in correspondence of the entry mouth, by sliding perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction of the magazine while guided by the Lip which define the two side walls of the entry mouth.
These magazines suffer from the main drawback that the loading of the bullets results quite difficult and requires a certain skill, in that the bullets cannot be directly introduced through the above-said two lips, which are too close to each other, in that they must retain the inserted bullets, but they have to be introduced through the front opening, and then orientated and pushed in the direction of their axis into the housing, the whole against the elastic action of the thrust element.
In order to obviate this drawback, devices have already been proposed, which are designed to make easier the introduction of the bullets into the magazine, at the same time securing that, once introduced inside the housing, they will be retained. One of such devices is known from GB No. 482,212.
These devices substantially comprise an elastically urged retainer element, which is arranged adjacent the magazine mouth and which enables the bullets to pass in one direction, and not pass in the reverse direction. However, installing this element requires that the magazine has a special structure, with said magazine having to be modified at its entry mouth, where it must receive the retainer element. As a consequence, not only the dimensions of said magazine have to be increased - with larger overall dimensions thereof - but, above all, the weapon can no longer house the magazine or has to be modified too. In other words, the magazines known from the prior art equipped with the retainer device are not any longer suitable for all weapon types, or, at least, for the main most widely diffused weapon types, but they are only suitable for weapons purposely adapted to them.
Some magazines of the prior art are then not even directly loadable, but they require the use of a purposely provided loading device, inside which a set of bullets is first loaded, the bullets are then introduced, together with said loading device, inside the magazine, and the device is finally extracted, without the bullets in, DE No. 48,108. One additional operation has therefore to be carried out, which renders rather impractical these magazines.
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a magazine of the initially indicated type, which makes it possible for the bullets to be easily introduced by means of one single movement in the longitudinal direction of the housing of the magazine, with the bullets being reliably retained, and which does not practically require any increases in the overall dimensions of the magazine, with no fitting of the weapon to the magazine being required.
A further purpose of the invention is to provide a magazine of the above mentioned type, which has such a structure, as to favour the bullets to be correctly expelled for shooting.
These and still further purposes, which will result more clearly from the following disclosure, are achieved by a magazine of the initially cited type, wherein said retaining means comprise at least one pawl hinged at said mouth on an axis substantially parallel to the longitudi
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patent: 2366689 (1945-01-01), Trotter
patent: 2557144 (1951-06-01), Schaich
patent: 3732643 (1973-05-01), Wells
patent: 4598490 (1986-07-01), Savioli
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