Magazine carrier
OwnerDouglas Ralphinventor
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Abstract
A munitions carrier. The carrier securely retains a magazine and provides for rapid deployment of the magazine. The carrier is box-like and has one or more open ends. Four faces are sized and shaped to engage the four longitudinal faces of a magazine. The carrier has inside contours which can engage a complementary area of the outfeed end of a magazine. The carrier made from a material is flexible and has memory for returning to a configuration for retaining a magazine. At least two faces are discontiguous with each other and can be separated from each other. A retained magazine can be disengaged from the carrier and rapidly deployed if a multi-vectored force is applied to the magazine.
Claims20
A munitions magazine carrier comprising:
- a first face;
- a second face substantially perpendicular to said first face;
- a third face substantially perpendicular to said second face;
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- a fourth face substantially perpendicular to said third face;
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- wherein at least one of said faces is contiguous with two other said faces;
- wherein two of said faces are contiguous with only one other face;
- wherein said faces form a rectangular structure having two faces which are separable;
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- wherein said faces cooperate to carry a munitions magazine.
A munitions magazine carrier for selectively retaining a magazine that has a recessed area, said carrier comprising:
- four sides shaped to substantially and closely surround a munitions magazine, wherein a perimeter defined by said four sides has a break point where said sides are discontiguous and separable;
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- a detent extending from one of said sides into the interior space of said carrier, said detent shaped to engage a magazine's recessed area;
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- wherein said sides and said detent are of a unibody construction and of a material that has shape memory and flex;
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- wherein said detent has a travel-path that is non-linear.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.