Abstract: An apparatus for orienting randomly arranged articles having an enlarged end, such as large caliber ammunition or the like, so that all of the articles are facing in the same direction. The apparatus senses the direction in which the articles are facing and passes all of the articles facing one direction, while inverting the articles facing in the opposite direction so that all of the articles discharged from the apparatus are facing in the same direction.

Abstract: A device for feeding primers to a cartridge reloading tool is disclosed. The invention comprises an upright frame having a primer holding tray at its upper end. The frame is hollow and defines a passageway for a chain. The lower end of the frame attaches to the primer inserting device on the reloading tool. Associated with the primer holding tray are two primer feed rolls which are spring loaded and actuated by the chain within the frame. The chain is operatively connected at its lower end to the handle of the reloading tool. As the operator actuates the handle to effect the loading sequence, the primer feed rolls rotate and progressively feed fresh primers into a chute attached to the frame and primer tray.

Abstract: This invention, relating to the art of resizing and decapping fired cartridge cases, comprises a novel method of and apparatus for automatically and safely resizing spent cartridge cases having primer caps, including means for automatically resizing the cases and clearing the case of the spent primer therein, in a highly efficient, automatic procedure, uniformly restoring cartridge cases for reuse. Pursuant to the invention means are provided which automatically orient the fired cases and feed them to a case receiving station from which they are sequentially advanced to a registration station, where swaging or sizing of the outside dimensions of the case to their original dimensions is effectuated and the case is decapped and reclaimed for reuse; the so resized and decapped case is displaced from the apparatus simultaneously automatically on positioning the next case at the registration station for repetition of the procedure.

Abstract: A casing feeder device which attaches to and is adapted for use with a shell reloading machine. A casing hopper is mounted on the top of an upright loading tube and has a discharge opening through which casings fall by gravity rim end downwardly to the receiver portion of the reloading machine. An adjustable tube support collar loosely surrounds and supports the loading tube in an upright position, and is attached to a reciprocating link on the reloading machine to provide agitation to the hopper as the link is moved, causing migration of casings within the hopper to the discharge opening.

Abstract: A primer tray is mounted on the tool carriage of a shotgun shell reloader and is tilted to urge the primers therein toward a dispenser opening in one corner of the tray. A dispenser arm moves one of the primers over the dispenser opening when the reloading tools on the tool carriage are moved to contact shotgun shells on the reloader's work table. A dispenser tube is attached to the bottom of the primer tray under the dispenser opening and guides the primer to a predetermined primer delivery point on the work table. In one embodiment, the primer dispenser tube is within the ram which seats the primer in the base of the shotgun shell. In another embodiment, the primer dispenser tube is adjacent to the primer seating ram.