Patents by Inventor Pierre Jenzer

Pierre Jenzer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Automatic weapon equipped with at least two cartridge magazines
    Patent number: 4069740
    Abstract: An automatic weapon equipped with at least two cartridge magazines from which loose cartridges can be conveyed into a common discharge channel, and a device for switching the cartridge infeed from one cartridge magazine to the other. The switching device embodies mechanism which can be selectively adjusted into two positions independent of emptying of one of the cartridge magazines. By means of the mechanism the cartridges in each instance can be fed, in one position of the mechanism, from the one cartridge magazine into the discharge channel and at the same time are blocked in the other cartridge magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1978
    Assignee: Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon-Buhrle AG
    Inventors: Conrad Hottinger, Albert Wust, Pierre Jenzer