Abstract: A method and apparatus for loading cartridges into a gun magazine clip from a tray. The cartridges are arranged in tray cavities that hold each cartridge so the clip can be manipulated with one hand to load each cartridge in succession.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for loading cartridges into a gun magazine clip from a tray. The cartridges are arranged in tray cavities that hold each cartridge so the clip can be manipulated with one hand to load each cartridge in succession.

Abstract: A cartridge clip receiving and loading apparatus includes a reservoir and a clip holder fixedly attached to an end of the reservoir. The reservoir has an upper holding chamber and a lower feed channel therebelow for receiving cartridges therefrom and arranging them side-by-side one another in a row and guiding sliding movement of cartridges in the row thereof toward a discharge opening of the lower feed channel at the one end of the reservoir for loading the cartridges one at a time into a clip fully inserted into a slot of the clip holder. The clip holder can be gripped by a user for shaking the clip holder and reservoir in order to cause arranging of the cartridges in the row thereof in the lower feed channel and sliding of the cartridges through the discharge opening and into the clip fully inserted in the clip holder.

Abstract: A device for loading cartridges into a magazine including a body with a U-shaped cross section adapted to slide up and down upon the exterior of a magazine. A lever projects rearwardly from the bottom of the body and a hook projects upwardly from the top of the body for grasping and manipulating cartridges. The hook has a shank as well as a catch that terminates at a concave free end for snugly engaging cartridges.

Abstract: In order to simplify manually loading cartridges into a magazine, a device is provided for use with a magazine that receives a plurality of cartridges in stacked relation through an opening against a force biasing the cartridges toward the opening. The device includes a band configured in size and shape for placement on a thumb of one hand for loading the magazine with the cartridges when the magazine is gripped by that one hand. The device also includes a projection integrally associated with the band and extending from an outer surface of the band for engagement of a top one of the cartridges previously loaded into the magazine. With this arrangement, the projection has a surface adapted to contact a surface of the cartridges in such manner as to engage the top one of the cartridges when the magazine is gripped for depressing the top one of the cartridges away from the opening against the biasing force in response to a bending/depressing thumb motion.

Abstract: A speedloader for a shotgun having a tubular magazine includes an integral pulley system to minimize handle travel in delivering a plurality of cartridges into the magazine. The speedloader comprises a frame with a channel therethrough dimensioned to receive a plurality of cartridges. The frame carries a handle on an exterior longitudinal track and, inside, a pusher that travels from the first end of the frame to the second end of the frame in response to movement of the handle, thereby expelling the cartridges from the speedloader and injecting them into the magazine. The pulley system translates movement of the handle to movement of the pusher and reduces the distance the handle needs to be moved to move the pusher the full distance to reload the shotgun.

Abstract: A BB holder for a gun comprises an elongated cylindrical body having a cylindrical side wall, a bottom wall, and an open top end and a cap having a cylindrical side wall which is ensleeved over the cylindrical side wall of the body. The holder has the shape and size of a shot gun shell and is stored in a chamber in the stock of a gun. If the gun has a BB reservoir, the BB reservoir can communicate with the chamber through a port opening which is closed when the holder is inserted into the chamber.

Abstract: A holder for feeding components, such as primers or bullets, into a reloading machine is disclosed. The component holder is an elongate strip having notched longitudinal margins for indexing the strip as it progresses through the reloading machine. The strip includes a plurality of receptacles for holding components. Each receptacle has an inner surface that is a combination of a cylindrical portion, a prismatical portion, and a transition portion which cooperate, to allow easy loading of the component into the strip and which firmly holds the component in place. The holder also includes an engagement portion so that successive holders may be ganged together to provide a continuous component holder for continuous reloading operations. A tape is applied to at least one side of the holder to cover the component held therein.

Abstract: A cartridge clip assembly includes an exterior housing having a cavity for storing a multiplicity of bullets. Inserted into the exterior housing is an interior housing. The interior housing has an interior cavity for receiving the bullets. There is a compression spring disposed in the interior housing for providing a compression spring force on the bullets when the interior housing is inserted into the exterior housing. There is a latching and releasing mechanism for securing the interior housing in the exterior housing and for releasing the interior housing from the exterior housing.

Abstract: This speedloader, which is usable to facilitate the loading of bullets into the magazine of an automatic rifle, comprises a casing that has a passage extending therethrough from its top to its bottom, the passage having an open top through which bullets may be fed and an open bottom into which the top of the magazine may be inserted. The speedloader also comprises means for fastening the magazine to the casing in a position within the passage that allows bullets to be fed through the top of the passage into the magazine. Atop the casing is an adapter for releasably attaching to the casing a stripper clip holding bullets. Means is provided for fastening the casing to the belt of a rifle-user so that the casing remains fixed to the belt, and hence to the waist of the rifle-user, as bullets are pushed downwardly off the stripper clip into the magazine.

Abstract: A device for loading and unloading cartridges into a magazine used in semi-automatic firearms. More particularly, the improved device can universally unload, easily and quickly, all currently manufactured foreign and domestic firearm magazines. The device also universally loads all currently manufactured foreign and domestic pistol magazines.

Abstract: A cartridge loader for a cartridge clip as disclosed. The loader includes a loader sleeve slidingly receivable on the magazine to compress the clip's spring in order to permit easy re-loading of the clip. A brake connected to the sleeve co-acts with the magazine's sidewall surface so as to impede the sleeve from disengagement with the magazine in the event the sleeve is inadvertently released by a user when the clip's spring is compressed and with no cartridges present in the clip. In preferred form, the brake is comprised of a brake arm that causes the sleeve to slide in a frictional braking relation with the clip's sidewall surface and that itself slides in a frictional braking relation with the clip's sidewall surface.

Abstract: A reloader for a cartridge clip that allows the reloader and clip, when assembled for reloading purposes, to be held and operated in one of a user's hands while cartridges are reloaded in the clip with the other of the user's hands. The reloader includes a sleeve adapted to receive the clip in seated relation during reloading, and a handle connected to the sleeve against which the clip lies when the clip is in operational relation with the reloader, thereby allowing the clip and reloader to be held in operational assembly with one of the user's hands. The reloader also includes a plunger that is manually reciprocable to depress a top cartridge already seated in the cartridge clip to accommodate receiving another cartridge as a successor top cartridge in the cartridge clip.

Abstract: An apparatus for assisting a human in loading ammunition into a clip which takes the form of an elongated housing upon which is mounted a manually pressable rod. The housing is to be mounted in a fixed position on the exterior wall of the clip. Manual pressing of an actuator mounted on the rod will cause the bullets contained within the clip to be moved in a downward direction away from the access opening of the clip so as to facilitate entry of another bullet into the access opening of the clip.

Abstract: A cartridge magazine for firearms comprises a key insertable through a slot in the end panel of the magazine for engaging the spring engaged elevator upon which the shells are supported. The slot includes a series of transverse or lateral branches spaced longitudinally on the panel for receiving the key and locking the elevator in position. The magazine thus may be loaded with cartridge shells in stages as defined by the lateral locking branches. After loading is completed, the key may be removed from the magazine and clip so that the latter may be inserted into the firearm with which it is used. In an alternatively preferred embodiment, optional marking means are positioned on top of the magazine for placing an identifying marking on each cartridge shell.

Abstract: This invention utilizes a conventional type cartridge orienting device for orienting cartridges with their longitudinal axes aligned generally parallel with one another. The present invention includes a hollow receptacle having a cartridge accepting device. This accepting device includes a stop wall to allow only one oriented cartridge to drop into the accepting device at a time. A rotatable cam is provided within the accepting device. Upon rotation of the rotatable cam, cartridges are grasped and moved away from the accepting device and transported by the rotatable cam upon further rotation thereof to the receiving end of a conventional magazine. The cartridge is then forced into the magazine when the rotatable cam is further rotated.

Abstract: A reloader for a cartridge clip that allows the reloader and clip, when assembled for reloading purposes, to be held and operated in one of a user's hands while cartridges are reloaded in the clip with the other of the user's hands. The reloader includes a sleeve adapted to receive the clip in seated relation during reloading, and a handle connected to the sleeve against which the clip lies when the clip is in operational relation with the reloader, thereby allowing the clip and reloader to be held in operational assembly with one of the user's hands. The reloader also includes a plunger that is manually reciprocable to depress a top cartridge already seated in the cartridge clip to accommodate receiving another cartridge as a successor top cartridge in the cartridge clip.

Abstract: There is disclosed a magazine for holding cartridges such as shot gun cartridges, the magazine having, in a preferred embodiment, two channels (6,7) which are separated by a partition (8) and each of which can hold two staggered columns of cartridges (9). The partition (8) has a widened portion (10) that causes each staggered column of cartridges (9) to form a single column thereof, so that pairs of cartridges can be removed, to be immediately replaced, under the effect of gravity, by a further pair thereof.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for storing and dispensing cartridges into the tubular magazine of a .22 caliber or other such rifle. The apparatus includes a central chamber section having a central passageway extending therethrough with a plurality of storage passageways radially spaced equidistant from the central passage and equidistant from each other. An upper cap and a lower cap are spring loaded against opposite ends of the chamber by way of a tension spring passing through the central chamber. The upper cap includes a dispensing opening radially aligned with the plurality of dispensing passages. The outer periphery of the dispensing chamber includes a plurality of semi-cylindrical grooves and the inner periphery of the cap includes two detent rib for positioning in the various semi-cylindrical grooves of the chamber.

Abstract: The current invention is a multi-channel apparatus for inspecting and packaging loose ammunition cartridges into containers such as boxes or trays. The operation of the apparatus is largely automatic so that a single operator can inspect for defects and load into containers up to 28,000 rounds of both rim or rimless cartridges as well as various sizes of ammunition per hour with little manual labor involved.The apparatus includes a frame having an upstanding portion and a horizontal table portion. A reservoir for holding the bulk ammunition in loose form is mounted on the top of the upstanding portion of the frame. The apparatus also includes a mechanism for sorting and feeding the ammunition into feed tubes which feeds the ammunition down onto a conveyor table. The conveyor table moves the ammunition in an ordered fashion through an inspection area to an orienting device where the cartridges are oriented nose downward and directed into a loading mechanism.

Abstract: A shotgun has a receiver with a trigger coupled to the receiver for firing the shotgun, and a barrel mounted on one end to the receiver for firing shells from the shotgun. A bolt is mounted to the receiver and located adjacent to the barrel for feeding shells into the barrel. An interchangeable magazine has a substantially cylindrical tubular portion dimensioned to receive shotgun shells in an end to end relationship therein. The magazine is removeably attachable to the shotgun for feeding the shells in the magazine into the barrel, and for subsequently removing the magazine from the shotgun. Therefore, when the magazine is emptied, it can be removed from the shotgun and replaced with another preloaded magazine.

Abstract: An apparatus for assisting a marksman in loading ammunition into a magazine or clip generally comprising a rectangular sleeve which is adapted with an interior plunging member and an exterior serrated gripping surface.

Abstract: An improved ammunition loading device designed for cartridges having radially extending rims, such as 0.22 calibre cartridges. The invention comprises a body having a spiral groove and a feed arrangement to drive the cartridges through the groove and into a magazine. A manual crank has an eccentric cam which operates two mechanisms alternately on each rotation of the crank. On half the rotation it operates a feed finger which inserts the next cartridge exiting the spiral groove into the magazine, and on the other half of that same rotation it advances the line of cartridges to present a fresh cartridge for insertion on the first half of the next rotation.

Abstract: An automatic device with interchangeable interface for the introduction of cartridges in the bifilar or monofilar magazines of automatic and semi-automatic arms, comprising a plate (1) with a cartridge-guide ledge (2), placed above a vertical track (3) for transferring said cartridges into a suitable seat (18) from which a piston (13) introduces the same, one by one, into an arm magazine by means for a movable pin (10) provided in such a way that it may bend at right angle.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for orienting and loading a plurality of unoriented rim-fire cartridge into a magazine are provided. An orienter apparatus employs gravity to orient rim-fire cartridges by hanging a plurality of cartridges from a number of parallel rails. The orienter is repositioned to a second or vertical configuration so that gravity can be used to feed the columns of oriented cartridges through a chute. In another embodiment, a collector apparatus is used to pick up a plurality of cartridges and hold the cartridges in a holding portion. The orienter or collector operatively engages with a loader which employs a camming mechanism to move cartridges one at a time into a magazine. The cartridges are placed in a first angular relationship with respect to the magazine opening and are moved through the opening while changing the angular relationship of the cartridge with the magazine opening.

Abstract: A loader particularly adapted for a cylindrical helical path feed ammunition magazine, the loader being able to accept cartridges as provided by the cartridge manufacturer in trays, whole trays at a time. The loader is made up of two hinged arms, with a platform on one of the arms to accept the tray of cartridges. After the tray is removed, the cartridges remain in the same array as they were in when in the tray, and then the arms are closed to create a dense mass of the large number of cartridges. The loader is then positioned vertically, a magazine inserted, and the cartridges quickly loaded into the magazine by turning a crank.

Abstract: A device for reloading a shotgun includes a support secured by a strap to the back of the user's hand, and the support along with an internal spring clip releasably holds a shotgun shell in an outwardly extending orientation with the flat, base end of the shell in abutting contact with a flat wall segment of the support. Once the nose of the shell is inserted into the shotgun barrel, the hand is tilted slightly to rock the support relative to the barrel and thereby release a rim of the shell from the spring clip so that the hand can be pulled away from the shotgun with the shell in place in the barrel. In preferred embodiments, the device includes structure for releasably holding two shotgun shells in parallel, side-by-side orientation, and the distance between the longitudinal axes of the shells is equal to the distance between the central axes of the barrels so that the shells may be simultaneously inserted into both barrels and immediately thereafter released at the same time from the device.

Abstract: A device which facilitates the speed loading of shells into a shotgun and which is accurately alignable with the magazine of the shotgun for readily repeatable operation. Such device comprises a mechanism for providing a location position relative to the magazine, and an elongated tube, adapted to contain a plurality of shells in end to end relation. The tube includes an opening defined in one end thereof through which such shells are inserted into and removed from said tube. At least one projection is provided in the tube for releaseably retaining such shells within said tube. Additionally, an external means is provided for engaging the location mechanism so as to accurately register the open end of the tube at the location position, and a plunger located within the tube rapidly expells such shells from the tube past the projection into the magazine when the tube is registered in its location position relative to the magazine.

Abstract: An ammunition carrier particuarly suited for storing cartridges and dispensing a selected quantity of the same into a tubular magazine, such as associated with .22-caliber rifles. The carrier includes an elongated flexible tube, such as transparent plastic, with a funnel at one end and a plug at the opposite end. Spring wire escapements are provided at spaced axial locations on the tube, each having a radial inwardly extending arm adapted to engage a cartridge for preventing cartridges from sliding out of the funnel until appropriately positioned. The escapements are separated axially an amount corresponding to the number of cartridges to be loaded in the rifle magazine. A hook and eyelet are provided to enable the tube to be formed into a loop and carried over a person's shoulder.

Abstract: A first embodiment of an ammunition clip reloading device comprises an L-shaped member attachable to the pin associated with the spring of a conventional clip. An outwardly extending portion of the member is designed to receive the thumb of a user so as to depress the clip spring to thus make the loading of ammunition substantially easier. A second embodiment of the invention comprises a thumb manipulated slide member positionable over a conventional ammunition clip. An adjustable guide extends above the body portion of the member and is operable to push a bullet into the clip in response to a downward pressure by the user's thumb.

Abstract: A box shaped slide for positioning about a bullet magazine with the slide having at least one appendage for finger actuation. An arm depends into the magazine upper end for downward displacement of an uppermost bullet to enable effortless insertion of a following bullet. A modified bullet loading aid utilizes finger pressure to depress a button on the magazine which in turn compresses a magazine follower and slide to permit bullet insertion.

Abstract: A shotgun speed loader for storing shotgun shells or cartridges and depositing same into a magazine in a shotgun. Improved efficiency and speed of loading shotgun shells is achieved by the loader which comprises a flexible tube wall with an elongated slot therein and which snugly holds the shells but which permits rapid discharge thereof upon movement of a plunger traveling within the slot.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for orienting and loading a plurality of unoriented rim-fire cartridges into a magazine are provided. An orienter apparatus employs gravity to orient rim-fire cartridges by hanging a plurality of cartridges from a number of parallel rails. The orienter is repositioned to a second or vertical configuration so that gravity can be used to feed the columns of oriented cartridges through a chute. The orienter operatively engages with a loader which employs a camming mechanism to move cartridges one at a time into a magazine. The cartridges are placed in a first angular relationship with respect to the magazine opening and are moved through the opening while changing the angular relationship of the cartridge with the magazine opening.

Abstract: A speed-loading device comprising a container having an interior chamber and a discharge opening leading from the chamber to the exterior of the container. The container has a storage section in the chamber for storing cartridges in side-by-side relationship and an orienting section in the chamber between the opening and the storage section. The container can be oriented so that the cartridges in the chamber can fall by gravity from the storage section through the orienting section and out through the discharge opening. A removable blocking member blocks the flow of cartridges out through the discharge opening. The orienting section rotates the cartridges as they fall through the orienting section toward the discharge opening so that the cartridges fall end first through the discharge opening.

Abstract: A charger for loading cartridges into a shotgun tubular magazine comprises:a housing that houses a column of cartridges;a keeper for releasably keeping the housed cartridges in the housing;a bias spring under an elevatable floor on which the housed cartridges can ride out;and an ejector 31 for ejecting from the housing successive cartridges into the housing.The ejecting cartridges thereby become oriented relative to the magazine. The charger can be adapted to be manually mounted or fixedly mounted to the shotgun.

Abstract: A magazine charger having a body with a spring and an open end for receiving a magazine to be charged with cartridges. The body has a closed end with a passage having outwardly flared walls. A plunger is in the passage. The plunger is adapted to move cartridges against the magazine spring. The charger also has a plunger spring which biases the plunger away from the open end of the charger. The plunger is operable to sequentially depress the uppermost cartridge, facilitating feeding of the cartridges to a magazine having two parallel rows of cartridges.

Abstract: A quick load magazine and loading process are described by which bulk cartridges can be transferred from a cartridge box to a magazine and from the cartridge magazine to the firing mechanism of a firearm in a quick and efficient manner. The magazine includes mechanisms facilitating a loading process by which the cartridge box is successively opened and cartridges are dropped gravitationally into the magazine as the box is opened. Guide mechanisms receive the cartridges within the magazine and align the cartridges into successive substantially parallel columns. Spring mechanisms bias the columns toward a magazine interface that is received by the magazine well of the associated firearm. Springs urge the columns upwardly such that one column of cartridges is fed through the interface to the firing mechanism of the weapon until depleted.

Abstract: An apparatus for the rapid loading of ammunition into a magazine including a housing having an open end to be received by the magazine. The housing has a receiving port into which the ammunition is disposed. There is preferably provided in combination with the apparatus a support pad for a plurality of rounds of ammunition with the support pad and ammunition being loaded into the receiving port of the housing. The housing has a means for limiting the position of the ammunition, typically a wall of the housing adapted to align the ammunition with the magazine. Means are provided supported at the housing remote from the open end thereof for contacting and driving the ammunition through the open end of the housing into the magazine.

Abstract: A magazine charger having a body with a spring and an open end for receiving a magazine to be charged with cartridges. The body of the charger also has a closed end opposite the open end. The charger is equipped with a plunger axially, slidably carried by the closed end of the body. The plunger is adapted to move cartridges against the magazine spring. The charger also has a plunger spring which biases the plunger away from the open end of the charger. The plunger is operable to sequentially depress the uppermost cartridge, facilitating feeding of the cartridges to the magazine.

Abstract: A loading device for double barreled firearms. The device comprises a universal ring member, shell holders and a stabilizer bar for the quick reloading of double barrel firearms.

Abstract: Firearm magazines and magazine loaders for firearm cartridges include a channel-shaped container having a bottom wall of a width of more than one and less than two cartridge diameters, and side walls corresponding in height to a cartridge shell, and having an elongate open top extending between the side walls opposite and parallel to the closed bottom wall for receiving the cartridges so that each circular bottom of each cartridge is located at the closed bottom wall, so that the shell of each cartridge extends parallel to and is retained between the side walls, and so that the bullets of the cartridges are located at the open top. A lid for closure of the open top above the bullet is provided for retention of the cartridges in the channel-shaped container preparatory to a transfer of such retained cartridges through an opening out of the channel-shaped container with the aid of an actuated or biased cartridge seater.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a signal pistol which is furnished with a magazine for storing blank cartridges, which magazine can be transported by means of a transport latch arrangement. There is also disclosed an insert for shooting or firing of the signal rockets, which insert is in the form of a magazine slide, associated with the magazine, and having several bores. Each one of the bores communicates via a pertaining flash hole with a pertaining blank cartridge arranged in the magazine. The longitudinal axes of the bores extend at least substantially vertically or vertically slightly inclined forwardly. There can be provided two or more rows of bores in the magazine slide.

Abstract: An apparatus for the rapid loading of ammunition into a magazine including a housing having open end to be received by the magazine. The housing has a receiving port into which the ammunition is disposed. There is preferably provided in combination with the apparatus a support pad for a plurality of rounds of ammunition with the support pad and ammunition being loaded into the receiving port of the housing. The housing has a means for limiting the position of the ammunition, typically a wall of the housing adapted to align the ammunition with the magazine. Means are provided supported at the housing remote from the open end thereof for contacting and driving the ammunition through the open end of the housing into the magazine.

Abstract: A rapid loader device for use with cartridge retaining magazines in automatic and semi-automatic firearms or the like. The rapid loader device engages each cartridge and forces the same into the magazine with an offset lever action.

Abstract: A magazine loader and a cartridge clip for rapidly and easily loading cartridges into a firearm magazine. The magazine loader comprises a cartridge-neck holder and a cartridge-base holder, both attached to a skirt. The base holder is adapted to receive cartridges held by a standard retainer strip or the novel cartridge clip.

Abstract: The shotgun speed loader relates to devices employed for storing shells and depositing same into a magazine. Improved efficiency and speed of loading shotgun shells is achieved by a loader (11) having a flexible tube wall (16), with slot (18), which snugly holds the shells but which rapidly discharges them upon movement of a plunger (14) having a handle (28) traveling within the slot to expand the tube wall.

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.

Abstract: A modular cartridge loading board system comprised of a series of individual cartridge storage blocks, the blocks being mountable on a backing board in any matrix configuration desired by the user. Each cartridge storage block is comprised of a base plate and a series of axially parallel cartridge tubes extending outwardly from one surface of the plate, the tubes being oriented on a locus of points and being equal in number to the locus and number of chambers in the cylinder of a user's hand gun. Each tube is provided with a dual seat configuration interiorly thereof so as to seat either a round nose cartridge or a flat nose cartridge in substantially non-jiggling fashion when the cartridge is positioned nose down within the tube. When a storage block is filled with either round nose or flat nose cartridges, the cartridges are easily transferred to a cartridge loader and, subsequently, from the cartridge loader to the cylinder's chambers of the user's hand gun.

Abstract: A device for facilitate insertion of cartridges into a magazine used in a firearm. The device is adapted to enter the feed mouth of a magazine and depress the topmost cartridge therein. The device also serves as a loading tray to guide the next incoming cartridge into the feed mouth.

Abstract: A guide to facilitate insertion of cartridges into a magazine used in a firearm. The guide is positioned adjacent to the feed mouth of a magazine to control a cartridge as it is inserted therein. The guide includes a seat and a buttress against both of which the incoming cartridge slides as it is pushed into the magazine.