Electronic magazine loader

A magazine loader comprising:

• a chassis supporting a powered wheel with a plurality of circumferentially spaced singularizing pockets at a periphery of the wheel for receiving and lifting a plurality of cartridges serially from an unordered batch of cartridges placed in the interior of the wheel, the wheel singularizing the cartridges of the batch while raising the cartridges serially to a discharge region where the cartridges are transferred in a horizontal orientation serially through the discharge region;
• a chute defining a passageway positioned at the discharge region to serially receive in the passageway the cartridges, the chute having a C-shaped chute portion that serially transfers cartridges horizontally oriented to a magazine loading portion, the C-shaped portion configured to preclude rotation of the cartridges horizontally oriented to a non-horizontal orientation thereby preventing the cartridges from changing a directional orientation;
• a means for providing a cartridge directional orientation whereby all the cartridges are oriented in a proper direction when received by the magazine loading portion;
• the magazine loading portion comprising a magazine receiver and a powered setting tool for urging cartridges, one-by-one, into a magazine placed in the magazine receiver, the setting tool comprising a rotatable wheel with a central portion and two lobes disposed on opposite sides of the central portion, the setting tool defining two cartridge receiving voids disposed on opposite sides of the central portion, each cartridge receiving void being disposed between the lobes of the setting tool, the setting tool being positioned below chute for receiving the cartridges on a lobe, wherein when the setting tool rotates the cartridge on the lobe falls into a cartridge receiving void to be urged into the magazine by a rotating lobe.