Magazine Patents (Class 42/33)
  • Ammunition compartment with strip clip
    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
  • System for evacuating cartridges
    Patent number: 8899140
    Abstract: A system is for evacuating cartridges, applied to a firearm 1. The firearm includes a breech 14, a firing chamber 12 in which the projectile that will come out through a barrel 13 is fired. The evacuation system includes an evacuation tray 2, adapted to receive the cartridge following deflagration of an ammunition, and a movement mechanism 3, adapted to move the tray 2. The movement mechanism 3 turns the evacuation tray 2 about an axis “X”, parallel to the axis of the barrel 13 of the firearm 1, in a preset and appropriately cadenced way, passing from a first position, where the cartridge is received, to a second position, where the cartridge is expelled by the expulsion mechanism 5, and vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: OTO Melara S.p.A.
    Inventors: Andrea Chiappini, Andrea Bruschi
  • Carrier locking device
    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
  • Carrier locking device
    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
  • Weapon housing system for an automatic loading firearm
    Patent number: 6487806
    Abstract: A lightweight weapon housing system is disclosed for a self-loading firearm. The weapon housing includes an outer and an inner housing. A wall structure in the weapon housing reinforces the magazine chamber and transmits the transverse forces arising in the magazine into an inner housing, which suffers any resulting deformation and which can be exchanged in a simple manner should deformation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: Heckler & Koch GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Murello, Wilhelm Fischbach
  • Cartridge loading and feeding arrangement for explosive charge operated device
    Patent number: 4686786
    Abstract: A cartridge feed arrangement for an apparatus operating by means of an explosive charge and a loader to feed the apparatus.The invention relates to a cartridge feed device for an apparatus operating by means of an explosive charge, of the type in which, after unlocking the breech (4), the barrel (2) can be pivoted with respect to the breech (4) around an axis parallel to that of the gun barrel so as to bring into alignment with the axis of the cartridge chamber (6) a passage (5) containing a line of cartridges (14).The cartridges (14) are arranged in parallel lines in an annular space (7) located on the periphery of the breech (4). One line of cartridges being in a position such that after unlocking the breech (4) and pivoting the barrel (2) with respect to it, said line is located in the axis of the cartridge chamber (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1987
    Inventor: Pierre Termet