Magazine Entrance Guide for Pistol Frame
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing solutions for facilitating the insertion of a fresh magazine into a pistol magazine receiver opening are cumbersome and require specialized skills or tools, making them difficult for average users to install, remove, or interchange, especially in time-sensitive environments.
Innovation Solution
A magazine insertion guide that mates with opposing hand grips, featuring a flat upper surface and guide securing members, allowing for easy attachment and alignment with the handle frame member, enabling rapid and secure magazine insertion without the need for a gunsmith, and allowing for interchangeable magazine guides of different sizes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a wide-angled magazine entrance guide is used to facilitate magazine insertion, then magazine alignment is improved, but device complexity and installation difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The magazine guide is divided into separate components: a guide body and a grip assembly that can be attached or removed independently. This segmentation allows the guide to be easily installed and removed without complex procedures, resolving the contradiction between providing magazine alignment assistance and maintaining simple installation.
Solution Approach 2:
The guide assembly is designed to be universally compatible with multiple pistol models through standardized attachment mechanisms. The grip assembly can serve multiple functions including providing the wide-angled guide opening and serving as a removable attachment that doesn't require permanent modification to the pistol, thus reducing installation complexity while maintaining the alignment function.
2Ease of operation
If a permanent magazine guide extension is installed to improve magazine insertion, then alignment is improved, but ease of removal and interchangeability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The guide assembly transitions from a static permanent installation to a dynamic removable configuration. The grip assembly can be attached and detached as needed, allowing users to interchange guides or remove them entirely when not needed, thus maintaining adaptability while preserving the alignment function during use.
Solution Approach 2:
The guide assembly is pre-configured as a complete removable unit with the wide-angled opening already formed. Users can attach the pre-fabricated guide assembly without requiring on-site fabrication or complex assembly procedures, enabling easy interchangeability while maintaining the alignment function.
3Manufacturing precision
If specialized installation procedures are used to secure the magazine guide, then installation precision is improved, but ease of operation by average users deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The guide assembly incorporates self-aligning features and simple attachment mechanisms that allow average users to install and remove the guide without requiring specialized skills or tools. The removable grip assembly design enables users to perform the installation themselves, eliminating the need for gunsmith services while maintaining proper alignment through the built-in guide geometry.
Data Source
AI summary
An assembly for facilitating the insertion of a fresh magazine into a magazine receiver opening of a pistol having a handle frame member to which a pair of opposing hand grips are removably attachable. The magazine insertion guide is secured in position on the butt portion of the frame member by engagement of a plurality projecting securing members that are concealed by, and cooperatively engage interior elements of specially configured hand grips when the grips are attached to the frame member, the exterior surfaces of which mimic the original equipment grips.