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OwnerChristopher V. Beckmaninventor
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The present invention involves techniques for rapid, flexible, partial and supplemental reloading of firearms using specialized actions, intermediate storage devices/feeds and multiple magazines, which may, in some embodiments, be simultaneously engaged with a firearm. The techniques disclosed include a feeding system, which may be a multiple-magazine feeding system, that allows a firearm to remain loaded and firing-ready with multiple loaded cartridges at all times, even during reloading operations. The invention also includes other techniques for flexible, non-wasteful, partially-empty reloading, to eliminate reloading paralysis, and allow the soldier or other user, not the size of a magazine, to determine when firing should continue and when and if it should pause.
A flexible loading ammunition system, comprising an intermediate ammunition cartridge storage device that is able to store and cause ammunition cartridges to move for placement in a firing mechanism and which is able to be manually coupled and decoupled with at least one ammunition-delivering magazine and, when so coupled, is able to receive from said at least one ammunition-delivering magazine the amount of ammunition necessary to complete loading said intermediate ammunition cartridge storage device if sufficient ammunition to do so is available in said at least one ammunition-delivering magazine.
A flexible loading ammunition system for a firearm, comprising multiple simultaneous ammunition-delivering magazine engagement capability, in which a user may select one ammunition-delivering magazine coupled with a firearm, causing said one ammunition-delivering magazine to deliver cartridges for the firearm, and further comprising a magazine-to-firing-mechanism feed device, which is able to be supplemented from said one ammunition-delivering magazine until said one ammunition-delivering magazine is depleted, and thereafter is supplemented from another ammunition-delivering magazine, if loaded with at least one cartridge and coupled with the firearm for delivery of at least one cartridge to the firearm.
A flexible loading ammunition system, comprising an intermediate storage device that is able to store and cause ammunition components to cycle for firing placement by a firearm action and which intermediate storage device is able to be manually coupled with at least one ammunition-delivering magazine and, when so coupled, is able to receive from said at least one ammunition-delivering magazine ammunition necessary to load said intermediate storage device, at a plurality of ammunition component loading positions of said intermediate storage device, if sufficient ammunition to do so is available in said at least one ammunition-delivering magazine.
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