Body-Contoured Magazine Dispenser for One-Step Reloading
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of modern sporting and military-style rifles face challenges in efficiently carrying and quickly reloading ammunition while maintaining focus on other tasks, as existing solutions require searching for and orienting magazines, which can be exposed to elements and debris.
Innovation Solution
A magazine dispenser that mounts on a user's clothing or equipment, featuring a biasing mechanism to advance magazines to a ready position, an attachment mechanism for secure and easy mounting, and a contoured design for quick one-step extraction, protecting the magazines from the environment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If magazines are carried in loose containers or pockets, then easy access is possible, but magazines are exposed to elements and debris and require searching and orienting
Solution Approach 1:
The magazine carrier is divided into multiple compartments, each dedicated to holding a specific magazine in a predetermined orientation. This segmentation allows magazines to be protected from elements while maintaining quick access without searching or orienting, as each compartment presents one magazine ready for extraction.
Solution Approach 2:
Magazines are pre-oriented and positioned in specific compartments before need arises. The carrier structure automatically maintains the correct orientation of each magazine, eliminating the need for the user to search or orient magazines during critical moments. This preliminary arrangement resolves the contradiction between protection and ease of access.
2Quantity of substance
If multiple magazines are carried together, then ammunition supply is increased, but extraction and orientation time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The carrier divides multiple magazines into separate, dedicated compartments rather than storing them together in a single space. This segmentation allows the user to carry multiple magazines (increasing quantity) while each magazine remains individually accessible and pre-oriented, eliminating the time loss associated with searching and orienting among multiple magazines.
Solution Approach 2:
The carrier structure itself performs the orientation function automatically through its compartment design. Each compartment is shaped and positioned to hold one magazine in the correct orientation without user intervention. This self-service orientation mechanism allows rapid extraction of multiple magazines without time loss.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If a cover is added to protect magazines, then protection from environment is improved, but extraction speed decreases due to opening/closing actions
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of a single cover that must be opened and closed, the carrier uses multiple separate compartments, each with its own minimal opening mechanism. This segmentation allows individual magazine access without disturbing or reopening other compartments, maintaining protection while enabling rapid extraction through localized access points.
4Ease of operation
If magazines are stored in fixed position, then organization is improved, but adaptability to different user preferences is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The carrier employs adjustable and reconfigurable compartments that can be moved or repositioned according to user preference. This dynamic design maintains organized storage while allowing users to customize the orientation, position, and accessibility of each magazine compartment, resolving the contradiction between fixed organization and adaptive versatility.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables efficient and quick reloading of ammunition, protecting it from elements and debris, while allowing for customizable orientation and storage, facilitating easy access and organization of multiple magazines.
Implementation Method 1
a biasing mechanism at one end such that the magazines are advanced within the dispenser to a ready position as magazines are extracted from the dispenser
Data Source
AI summary
A firearm magazine case that is sized to hold a stack of firearm magazines, which case includes a spring mechanism at one end such that the magazines are advanced within the case to a ready position as the magazines are extracted from the case and configured to be mounted on a person's front or side so that the magazines are reached with an easy and natural motion, whereby the case is contoured to a person's body and is configured such that magazines are able to be extracted in one step, yet are effectively protected from the environment, the case includes an attachment mechanism that allows the case to be mounted either horizontally or vertically, according to the user's preference, the case's attachment mechanism, which consists of an “x” shaped ridge or lip which coordinates to accept a triangular insert that is attached to a person's clothing, whereby sliding any side of the “x” down over the triangle attaches the case in a secure manner, yet allows the case to be quickly and easily detached and/or replaced with a new magazine dispenser, and the case is stackable (and perhaps joiningly stackable) with other cases.