Cartridge speed loader for use with a revolver cylinder barrel

A speed loader clip for supporting a plurality of cartridges in a cylindrical array prior to the cartridges being loaded into a plurality of individual chambers configured within an open rotated cylinder barrel of a revolver style firearm, said clip comprising:

• a body having an arcuate extending band of material with first and second opposing ends;
• individual pairs of inward and arcuate projecting grasping portions at circumferential locations along said arcuate band, said pairs of grasping portions each adapted for supporting one of the cartridges;
• support tabs extending from said band, each terminating at a location between a selected one of said pair of projecting portions for preventing slide-out of the cartridge both prior and during loading into the cylinder barrel;
• end clasp portions integrated into said opposing ends of said band to permit said clip to be carried in a closed position with the supported cartridges;
• one of said end clasp portions having a triangular shape with a pointed tip from which rearwardly diverges an angled or ramped surface and stepped back surface, the other of said end clasp portions having a triangular shaped configured recess including a ramped interior surface with triangular arrayed rearward facing surface and bottom facing surface;
• lateral abutment portions located proximate the clasp portions to assist locating and inter-engaging said clasp portions in the closed position, said abutment portions projecting from each of opposite sides of said arcuate band in proximity to said triangular shaped recess to prevent lateral relative displacement of said triangular shape end clasp in the closed and engaged position and
• upon adapting to pre-insert portions of each cartridge projecting from said band into the open cylinder barrel, a tab located in proximity to a selected one of said inter-engaged end clasp portions being manipulated to open said band and, upon laterally pulling the band away from the barrel, causing the cartridges to separate from said pairs of grasping portions and to drop into the individual cylinder chambers.