489results about "Ammunition loading" patented technology

A pistol-to-rifle conversion kit includes a rifle body that includes a lower receiver, which includes a grip mounting portion, which is rearwardly adjacent to a trigger guard, which is rearwardly adjacent to a magazine well receiving portion, an auxiliary trigger sliding mounted in the rifle body and including an elongate member and a forward trigger interface member, which extends from a forward portion of the elongate member and which is configured to interface with a trigger of a pistol mounted in the rifle body, and a trigger member which extends from the elongate member for directly contacting a shooter's finger, and one or more of the following in any combination thereof: an ambidextrous rifle body quick-lock fastener, an ambidextrous magazine release button, an ambidextrous safety selector, and an assault-rifle-style charging handle.

Firearm assemblies having a receiver, a stock, and a bottom metal with integral sidewalls defining a cartridge receiving area are disclosed. The sidewalls of the bottom metal preferably extend vertically into a recess defined by the receiver. Spacers arranged to reduce a dimension of the cartridge receiving area of the bottom metal assembly, but not the number of receivable cartridges, are also disclosed.

A firearm comprises a frame which detachably receives a magazine, trigger, and a reciprocating slide moveable between a forward position and rearward removal position. A pivotable takedown lever is selectively engageable with the slide between blocking and non-blocking positions. A magazine disconnect member movably responsive to inserting the magazine into or removing the magazine from the firearm is alterable between a rearward locked position which prevents movement of the trigger to disable the firing mechanism, and a forward unlocked position which allows movement of the trigger and concurrently engages the takedown lever to prevent the takedown lever from leaving the blocking position associated with the ready-to-fire condition of the firearm. The slide is removable from the firearm when the takedown lever is in the non-blocking position. Engagement between the magazine disconnect member and takedown lever prevents full insertion of the magazine if the lever is left in the non-blocking position.

A firearm shell casing catching system for collecting casings ejected from a firearm includes a mounting assembly, casing deflector, and a hopper. A shim can be optionally attached to the mounting assembly thereby decreasing the inside dimension of the mounting assembly to allow for the firearm shell casing catching system to be attached to magwells of firearms having different sizes.

An accessory facilitates loading and unloading of cartridges into a firearm magazine and includes a main body having a top end with a top opening, a bottom end with a bottom opening, a wall portions extending between the top and bottom ends and defining therebetween a body cavity in communication with the top and lower openings and also defining a front opening in communication with the body cavity. A first portion of the body cavity can receive a cartridge from the front opening and a second portion of the body cavity can receive an open end of a portion of a firearm magazine from the bottom opening. A thruster is movably coupled to the main body and mounted to the main body above the top end, and includes a plunger which is movable into and out of the first portion of the body cavity through the top opening.

An ammunition magazine for a firearm includes a magazine body defining an interior space in which a plurality of cartridges is receivable, a follower in the interior space configured to bias the cartridges toward an upper end of the magazine body, and a catch on the magazine body configured to hold a topmost cartridge received in the interior space in a substantially horizontal position within the upper end of the magazine body until an advancing bolt of the firearm pushes the topmost cartridge toward a firing chamber of the firearm.

A spade grip attachment assembly for securing a spade grip to a minigun clutch includes a first adapter member and a second adapter member. The first adapter member is on the spade grip. The second adapter member is on the clutch. The first and second adapter members are configured such that one is receivable in the other. Each adapter member can define a pair of coaxially aligned pin holes that align to form a passage in which a fastener is receivable when one adapter member is received in the other. The fastener is receivable in the passage to releasably secure the first adapter member to the second adapter member.

Leaf springs for use in a firearm magazine are described. The leaf springs comprising an inner edge, an outer edge, and a channel, and configured to facilitate movement of cartridges within a feed tower of the firearm magazine. The leaf springs can be in a flexed or unflexed position, wherein downward movement of the cartridges in the feed tower outwardly flex the leaf springs into the flexed position to facilitate downward translation of the cartridges by forcing the inner edge of the leaf springs away from the cartridges, and in the unflexed position, the inner edge of the leaf springs is parallel or substantially parallel to an edge of the cartridges in the feed tower.

A planar ejector is disclosed, including an ejecting mechanism and a motor mounted on a side of an interior of the ejecting mechanism. A top of the ejector is provided with a compress mechanism, and a side of a bottom of the compress mechanism is provided with a support plate. The ejecting mechanism includes a first shell, a side of the first shell is clamping connected to a second shell, the first shell and the side of the first shell are opened with an ejecting slot, and the first shell and a side of a bottom of the first shell are fixedly mounted with a first handle. By setting the motor and increasing the utilization efficiency of the motor, the force area is also shared with the two eject gears, allowing the motor's power to be fully utilized and thus increasing the permissible capacity of the ejector.

A magazine spring includes intermediate coils each having a first end portion, a second end portion, and a waist portion between the first end portion and the second end portion. The waist portion has a width that is less than a width of at least one of the first end portion and the second end portion. A magazine tube is also disclosed. In one example, the magazine tube is made of sheet metal and includes grip indentations formed along forward corners of the magazine tube. The magazine tube may also define locating ribs for blank cartridges. A magazine spring having the narrow waist portion can be included in the magazine assembly so that the spring clears the locating ribs.

A pistol-to-rifle conversion kit includes a rifle body that includes a lower receiver, which includes a grip mounting portion, which is rearwardly adjacent to a trigger guard, which is rearwardly adjacent to a magazine well receiving portion, an auxiliary trigger sliding mounted in the rifle body and including an elongate member and a forward trigger interface member, which extends from a forward portion of the elongate member and which is configured to interface with a trigger of a pistol mounted in the rifle body, and a trigger member which extends from the elongate member for directly contacting a shooter's finger, and one or more of the following in any combination thereof: an ambidextrous rifle body quick-lock fastener, an ambidextrous magazine release button, an ambidextrous safety selector, and an assault-rifle-style charging handle.

The present disclosure provides a handgun magazine spring comprising a plurality of coils including a top coil, a bottom coil, and intermediate coils wherein the intermediate coils each include opposing curved segments and a straight segment and wherein transition segments extend between the curved segments of adjacent intermediate coils. The intermediate coils include small intermediate coils and large intermediate coils. The straight segments of the coils are parallel to each other. The transition segments between the intermediate coils, however, are oblique with other transition segments.

A belt-fed Gatling-style gun is provided. In some embodiments, the belt-feed system allows a plurality of individually separable belt links to be connected in series to feed cartridges to a belt-fed rotary gun. Each individual belt link may be removably connected to a series of belt links to facilitate ease of loading and making belts of ammunition of any length.

A box magazine fed firearm includes pinch tabs in the receiver of the firearm. In one embodiment, the pinch tabs are opposing pieces of spring steel extending upwardly and inwardly from opposing lateral sides of the receiver. In one embodiment, the pinch tabs are sections of flat spring steel bent into an arcuate shape and secured to the receiver by screws. In one embodiment, tension screws are used to adjust an inward bias of each of the pinch tabs.

A magazine capacity tracking and display system for a firearm is provided. The system includes a sensor within the magazine of the firearm to determine rounds remaining within the magazine. The system further includes a display unit connected to the firearm and separate from the magazine which displays a number identifying the number of rounds remaining in the magazine.

The invention relates to a rammer (1) for positioning an artillery shell, the rammer (1) comprising a stretcher (2) intended to receive the shell and guide it in translation, the rammer (1) being characterized in that it comprises a pusher (4) which can be driven in a reciprocating movement along the stretcher (2), reciprocating movement which is provided by a pair of closed flexible links (6) arranged on either side of the pusher (4), each link (6) connecting a drive wheel (6b) and a free wheel (6a), the pusher (4) having a bearing surface intended to correspond with a rear face of the shell in order to push it.

The present invention relates to a spring arrangement for use in a countermeasure magazine, said spring arrangement including a plurality of elements, wherein each one of said elements has a base portion and a plurality of spring portions extending from a first edge of said base portion, and wherein said spring portions of each element are distributed along a length of said base portion, and wherein said elements include mating connection means such that said elements may be connected to each other.

Modular ammunition launching system comprising a reloadable ammunition receiver in multiple positions. The modular launching system (1) comprises: a chassis (2) defining at least one housing (6), an ammunition receiver (4), said receiver (4) being movable relative to said chassis (2) between a functional position and a reloading position. Said modular launching system comprises a coupling plate (24) integral with the receiver (4) and mounted to slide on a rail (26, 28) integral with the chassis (2) so as to allow movement of the receiver (4) between the functional position and the reloading position, said coupling plate (24) being movable in rotation relative to the rail (26, 28) about a reloading rotation axis (R3) when the receiver (4) is in the reloading position. Figure for the abbreviation: 7

A magazine that includes a pre-pack and a gas regulator system, with the pre-pack including a gas canister and non-lethal projectiles in addition to a drive mechanism for introducing non-lethal projectiles into gun chamber.

A shell stub catching device (24) for an armament (6) of a vehicle (1), in particular a battle tank, with guide walls (25, 26, 27, 28) which are designed to guide shell stubs (14) striking the guide walls (25, 26, 27, 28) downwards along a direction of gravity (g), wherein the guide walls (25, 26, 27, 28) have quick-connecting elements (39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50) with the aid of which the guide walls (25, 26, 27, 28) can be connected to a holding structure (56, 60) without the use of tools and can be detached from the holding structure (56, 60) without the use of tools.

The modular launching system (1) comprises: - a chassis (2) defining at least one housing (6), - an ammunition receiving pod (4), said receiving pod (4) being movable relative to said chassis (2) between a functional position and a reloading position. Said modular launching system includes a coupling plate (24) integral with the receiving pod (4) and mounted to slide on a rail (26, 28) integral with the chassis (2) so as to allow movement of the receiving pod (4) between the functional position and the reloading position, said coupling plate (24) being movable in rotation relative to the rail (26, 28) around a reloading rotation axis (R3) when the receiving pod (4) is in the reloading position.

An ammunition cartridge casing has a casing base with a proximal end surface, a casing body defining an inside volume, and a distal end portion. The casing base defines a primer pocket in communication with the inside volume of the casing body, where the primer pocket is sized and configured such that when a primer is installed in the primer pocket, a proximal face of the primer is recessed into the base at least 0.010" with respect to the end surface. Blank ammunition made with the cartridge casing is configured for use with a rifle having a bolt with a boss on the breech face that corresponds to the recessed primer.

A pistol-to-rifle conversion kit includes a rifle body that includes a lower receiver, which includes a grip mounting portion, which is rearwardly adjacent to a trigger guard, which is rearwardly adjacent to a magazine well receiving portion, an auxiliary trigger sliding mounted in the rifle body and including an elongate member and a forward trigger interface member, which extends from a forward portion of the elongate member and which is configured to interface with a trigger of a pistol mounted in the rifle body, and a trigger member which extends from the elongate member for directly contacting a shooter's finger, and one or more of the following in any combination thereof: an ambidextrous rifle body quick-lock fastener, an ambidextrous magazine release button, an ambidextrous safety selector, and an assault-rifle-style charging handle.

A gravity-fed firearm magazine speed loader is disclosed, comprising a hopper that funnels loose rimmed cartridges into an elongate feeding channel through a constriction entrance which engages cartridge rims to achieve adjacent parallel alignment. The feeding channel narrows to tip the cartridges by their bullet ends into a longitudinal alignment and terminates in an outlet configured for attachment to a separable magazine adapter. The adapter defines a channel aligned with the outlet and includes a loading interface oriented at an angle toward a backstop adjacent a widened entrance. As cartridges exit the channel in longitudinal alignment, they contact the backstop, pivot, and fall under gravity into a spring-loaded containment channel of a magazine in adjacent parallel alignment. The system enables smooth, reliable transfer of rimmed cartridges while accommodating various magazine types via interchangeable adapters.

A method and apparatus for counting belted or bulk ammunition rounds. The modular ammunition counter includes a detachable electronics assembly, an ammunition guide for receiving the ammunition rounds, and a sensor module. The electronics assembly is configured to count the number of ammunition rounds that pass through the coupled ammunition guide. This method of ammunition round counting offers a significant improvement in speed and accuracy compared to manually counting the ammunition rounds by hand.

The present disclosure provides a firearm attachment device including an affixation unit configured for facilitating affixation of the firearm attachment device with a firearm and a housing unit configured for facilitating housing of an ammunition holder associated with the firearm. Further, the affixation may be in relation to a rear end of the firearm. Further, the ammunition holder may be configured to be positioned substantially parallel in relation to the longitudinal axis of the firearm. Further, the housing unit may be associated with a surface attribute corresponding to an attribute in relation to a surface of the housing unit. Further, the surface attribute may be configured to facilitate one or more of a discomfort and an instability in relation to a utilization of the firearm. Further, the housing unit may be operatively coupled to the affixation unit.

The invention relates to a device (1) for positioning a projectile in a chamber (101) of a weapon tube (100), comprising a thrust impeller (2) having a frame (20) and at least one projectile thrust member (24) along the axis (A1) of the frame to propel the projectile to its positioning location. The device (1) further comprises a support (3) for guiding the introduction of the projectile into the weapon chamber (100), the support (3) being rigid, integral with at least one thrust member (24), and configured to cantilever from the frame (20) in the final thrust position, thereby allowing the support (3), intended to penetrate at least partially into the tube (100) during thrusting, to limit the amplitude of any potential oscillation of the projectile (P) during its projection to its positioning location.

The invention discloses a lower ammunition feeding holder device and a robot, and relates to the technical field of ammunition feeding, the lower ammunition feeding holder device comprises a launching mechanism, a spring tube, a rotary support frame and a ball shifting assembly, a ball guide channel is arranged in the rotary support frame, the spring tube connects the launching mechanism with the ball guide channel, and the spring tube can be matched with the angle change of the launching mechanism to generate deformation; the two ends of the spring tube are fixed in the first fixing piece and the second fixing piece through the embedded hole positions, the upper protrusion and the lower protrusion of the first fixing piece and the tensioning piece are used for fixing and clamping the spring, the inner notch of the second fixing piece provides a transition space for deformation of the spring tube, and the inverted arc face prevents the spring from being squeezed to cause clamping and bouncing. A spiral guide rail of the ball shifting assembly and shifting teeth with columnar concave faces achieve single-grain and orderly supply of the projectiles, and the problems that in an existing projectile supply device, the center of gravity of a holder is high, the reaction speed is low, the structure is redundant, energy consumption is high, the launching precision is low, the launching angle range is small, and the projectiles are prone to being clamped are solved.

The embodiment of the utility model provides an automatic ammunition supply cartridge clip for a toy gun and the toy gun, the automatic ammunition supply cartridge clip comprises a cartridge clip body and an ammunition storage bin in the cartridge clip body, an ammunition supply mechanism is arranged at the top of the ammunition storage bin, the ammunition supply mechanism is connected with an ammunition guide groove, the cartridge clip body is provided with an ammunition supply outlet, and the ammunition guide groove is communicated with the ammunition supply outlet; a bullet supporting mechanism is arranged in the bullet storage bin and used for conveying bullets in the bullet storage bin to the bullet supply mechanism. A bullet supply inlet communicating with the top of the bullet storage bin is formed in the bottom of the bullet supply mechanism, the bullet supply mechanism is used for automatically conveying bullets entering the bullet supply inlet to an inlet of the bullet guide groove, and the bullet supply mechanism is further in transmission connection with an automatic bullet supply driving mechanism. According to the embodiment of the utility model, the bullet supply mechanism arranged at the top of the bullet storage bin and the bullet support mechanism are matched with each other to convey the bullets in the bullet storage bin to the toy gun body through the bullet guide groove, so that the bullets cannot be extruded and broken in the bullet supply process, and the user experience is improved.