Patents by Inventor John Folke Eklund

John Folke Eklund 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).

  • Magazine for a mobile firearm
    Patent number: 4064787
    Abstract: A device for a magazine comprises a number of tubular containers which are arranged in an endless chain, intended to contain rounds, and provided with blocking members for fixing the respective rounds in the longitudinal direction in the containers, driving devices for driving the containers around in the magazine, and a releasing device which in a common feed-out position for the rounds in the magazine can coact with the blocking members of the containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1977
    Assignee: AB Bofors
    Inventors: John Folke Eklund, Sven-Hakan Svensson
  • Magazine specially intended for tank with large-calibre firearm
    Patent number: 4033227
    Abstract: A magazine, for use on a tank having a large calibre firearm thereon, takes the form of a magazine body which is separate from the tank chassis and which is freely suspended low on the tank on the outside of the tank chassis at the rear end of the tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1977
    Assignee: AB Bofors
    Inventors: John Folke Eklund, Sven-Hakan Svensson