Abstract: A motorized magazine loader for loading cartridges into a magazine includes a powered sorting and lifting wheel rotatable about a horizontal axis of rotation, a vertical gravity fed cartridge chute positioned laterally next to the sorting and lifting wheel, an accumulator portion at a lower end of the chute, and a loading portion comprising a receiver for magazines to be loaded and a pusher mechanism for inserting cartridges into the magazines, all supported and substantially contained by a housing. Control circuitry includes jam mediation system.

Abstract: A motorized magazine loader for loading cartridges into a magazine includes a powered sorting and lifting wheel rotatable about a horizontal axis of rotation, a vertical gravity fed cartridge chute positioned laterally next to the sorting and lifting wheel, an accumulator portion at a lower end of the chute, and a loading portion comprising a receiver for magazines to be loaded and a pusher mechanism for inserting cartridges into the magazines, all supported and substantially contained by a housing. Control circuitry includes jam mediation system.

Abstract: A motorized magazine loader for loading cartridges into a magazine includes a powered sorting and lifting wheel rotatable about a horizontal axis of rotation, a vertical gravity fed cartridge chute positioned laterally next to the sorting and lifting wheel, an accumulator portion at a lower end of the chute, and a loading portion comprising a receiver for magazines to be loaded and a pusher mechanism for inserting cartridges into the magazines, all supported and substantially contained by a housing. Control circuitry includes jam mediation system.

Abstract: A motorized magazine loader for loading cartridges into a magazine includes a powered sorting and lifting wheel rotatable about a horizontal axis of rotation, a vertical gravity fed cartridge chute positioned laterally next to the sorting and lifting wheel, an accumulator portion at a lower end of the chute, and a loading portion comprising a receiver for magazines to be loaded and a pusher mechanism for inserting cartridges into the magazines, all supported and substantially contained by a housing. Optimal and ergonomic arrangement of the components and housing configuration provides a minimal footprint, a reduced volumetric size, easy user access to controls, easy access for loading of cartridges, easy insertion and removal of magazines, high stability during operation, and easy transportability. Control circuitry includes jam mediation means.

Abstract: A motorized magazine loader for loading cartridges into a magazine includes a powered sorting and lifting wheel rotatable about a horizontal axis of rotation, a vertical gravity fed cartridge chute positioned laterally next to the sorting and lifting wheel, an accumulator portion at a lower end of the chute, and a loading portion comprising a receiver for magazines to be loaded and a pusher mechanism for inserting cartridges into the magazines, all supported and substantially contained by a housing. Control circuitry mediates jamming of cartridges within the loader.

Abstract: A motorized magazine loader for loading cartridges into a magazine includes a powered sorting and lifting wheel rotatable about a horizontal axis of rotation, a vertical gravity fed cartridge chute positioned laterally next to the sorting and lifting wheel, an accumulator portion at a lower end of the chute, and a loading portion comprising a receiver for magazines to be loaded and a pusher mechanism for inserting cartridges into the magazines, all supported and substantially contained by a housing. Optimal and ergonomic arrangement of the components and housing configuration provides a minimal footprint, a reduced volumetric size, easy user access to controls, easy access for loading of cartridges, easy insertion and removal of magazines, high stability during operation, and easy transportability. Control circuitry includes jam mediation means.

Abstract: A biometric locking system, including a biometric validation module for receiving a biometric profile and asserting a control signal responsive to a biometric evaluation of the biometric profile; an outer cylindrical housing; an inner housing, telescopingly coupled to the outer cylindrical housing, for operating in both an operational mode and a storage mode, the operational mode having the inner housing telescoped out from the outer cylindrical housing and the storage mode having the inner housing telescoped into the outer cylindrical housing wherein the operational mode reveals a biometric scanner coupled to the biometric validation module for creation of the biometric profile by a user and wherein the storage mode covers the biometric scanner.

Abstract: A padlock having a body and a shackle having two ends, one end of the shackle being rotatably secured within the body, the other end of the shackle being releasable from the body when the padlock is unlocked; the padlock comprising: a biometric interface disposed in a bottom wall defined in a base of the body, the interface including a fingerprint scanner and a user access interface; a biometric validation module disposed within the body and communicated to the biometric interface for processing a biometric profile from the fingerprint scanner and for indicating a status with the user access interface, the biometric validation module asserting a lock control signal responsive to processing of the biometric profile; and a mechanical interface, coupled to the biometric validation module and to a latch, for controlling a mode of the padlock responsive to a lock control signal from the biometric validation module, the mode including the unlocked mode in which the latch releases the shackle and the locked mode whe

Abstract: A headset, the headset including a communications module for receiving one or more electronic signals from an audio source, the one or more electronic signals representing an audio stream having a first element at a first audible frequency and a second element at a second audible frequency; a controller, communicated to the communications module, for generating a first element audiblizing signal from the first element and a second element audiblizing signal from the second element; and an equalizer, coupled to the controller, for modifying an output amplitude of the first audiblizing signal responsive to a user-modifiable equalizer data table without modifying an output amplitude of the second audiblizing signal.