Magazine Patents (Class 42/29)
  • Patent number: 8915003
    Abstract: An ammunition compartment is located in the grip of a firearm's handle. The handle has a hinged door that opens to the compartment. The ammunition is mounted on a strip clip which slides into grooves in the inner walls of the compartment. The strip clip has a tab which extends outside the compartment when the door is open so that the ammunition can be quickly pulled from the compartment to load the firearm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Inventors: Charles K. Heizer, Raymond B. Kohout
  • Patent number: 8234807
    Abstract: A high feed ramp for use in Colt 1911 style handguns including a feed ramp on the frame (receiver) for guiding bullets into the barrel of the gun; a boiler room (barrel breech) with a small chamfered around its entire inner circumference; and an integral relief rim extension on the upper edge of the feed ramp, such that the feed ramp is extended over the bottom edge of the chamfered boiler room; wherein when the handgun is fired the bullets easily enter into the barrel and do not jam or misfire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Inventors: Antonino LaTorre, Antonio Fugazzotto
  • Patent number: 6742298
    Abstract: A carrier lock for use in semi-automatic firearms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: RA Brands, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley Phillip Howard, Edward Donald Schoppman
  • Patent number: 6718680
    Abstract: A semiautomatic handgun having multiple safeties includes a body made in two halves and a slide which can move lengthwise on a pair of rails. The hammer is cocked by rearward movement of the slide. The trigger, which has purely translation motion, is blocked from behind except when the user is wearing a special magnetic ring on his trigger finger. A decocker mechanism pushes the firing pin forward and slides the sear back, and prevents release of the hammer until the firing pin is blocked. The firing pin is normally blocked by a cup, which prevents the firing pin from moving forward if the gun is dropped. The cup is moved to an inactive position by a release lever only when the trigger is pulled. A safety lock, which is preferably operated by a special tool, prevents the transfer bar from moving. The firing pin block lever is locked in a downward position when the safety is activated. A hammer block bar prevents the hammer from moving when the safety is on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Inventors: Albert Roca, Ray Wilson
  • Patent number: 6612062
    Abstract: A carrier lock for use in semi-automatic firearms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: R.A. Brands, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Bradley Phillip Howard, Edward Donald Schoppman
  • Patent number: 4109557
    Abstract: A gas rifle which utilizes at least one combustible gas to drive the bullet and which includes a barrel and an associated combustion chamber with two gas storage containers and valve means for feeding gas at a controlled rate from gas supply cylinders into the combustion chamber. The rifle is provided with a pivoting breechblock and a piezoelectric crystal firing mechanism which ignites the gas or gaseous mixture in the combustion chamber by means of an electric spark upon pressing the trigger. Bullets may be fed into the breechblock in manual, semi-automatic or automatic mode of operation by a bullet feed linkage system in cooperation with a clip. A suitable recoil means can be utilized to permit semi-automatic and automatic modes of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1978
    Inventor: Charles D. Zaucha