Ammunition and explosive-charge making – Ammunition loading – Loading and shell closing
Patent
1990-11-30
1991-08-20
Kyle, Deborah L.
Ammunition and explosive-charge making
Ammunition loading
Loading and shell closing
86 28, 86 31, 86 33, F42B 3302
Patent
active
050404490
ABSTRACT:
In a shotgun shell reloader, a manually operated lever drives a carriage reciprocally on a central post for shotgun shells mounted to the carriage to engage with reloading tools arranged on a support which mounts to the upper end of the post. A circular shot plate mounts to the carriage and has a central bore for surrounding the post. An indexer member mounts in the bore of the shell plate and surrounds the post. The indexer has a helical groove in its bore which rides onto a pin extending radially from the post when the carriage is beginning to be raised so that the indexer, which is engaged with the shell plate at that time, turns the shell plate through one angular increment so that a shell on the plate will be presented to tools on the tools support successively to perform the reloading process. A powder bar and a shot bar are mounted to the top of the tool support for moving under a hopper which has chambers for powder and shot. These bars shuttle back and forth to obtain and unload charges of powder and shot into the shells. Disconnect devices are provided for prohibiting the bars from advancing to discharge powder or shot if there is no shell in the proper position on the shell plate to receive the charge. The reloader has a novel hopper valve which can shut off the flow of powder and shot to the bars.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4186646 (1980-02-01), Martin
patent: 4331063 (1982-05-01), Schaenzer
patent: 4418606 (1983-12-01), Lee
patent: 4515063 (1985-05-01), Lee
patent: 4841831 (1989-06-01), Bender et al.
Eldred J. Woodrow
Kyle Deborah L.
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