US 2015/0020425 A1 · SEPARABLE MAGAZINE FOLLOWER

Abstract

The present invention teaches about a separable magazine follower situated into a magazine body. The magazine follower includes a magazine follower body and exchangeable magazine follower plate. The upper surface of the plate tooth can engage a slide stop lever tooth after the last round is fired from the magazine, and moves a slide stop lever in position that holds a slide in the rear position. The magazine follower plate can be exchanged by the new one after being depleted. The magazine follower plate is not permanently secured to the magazine follower body, but it is nested into the magazine follower body and secured via a magazine spring. The magazine follower plate is formed from material of lower hardness than the material used for slide stop lever tooth in order to prevent its excessive wearing.

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Dependent claims

A separable magazine follower comprises:

a magazine follower body and
an exchangeable magazine follower plate, wherein:
said magazine follower body has at an upper portion thereof an orifice with edges, where said orifice is a part of a cavity formed in the magazine follower body in which formed ribs are provided for receiving and nesting of the magazine follower plate;
and
said magazine follower plate is positioned into the cavity of the magazine follower body in such a way that a plate tooth of said magazine follower plate protrudes from the cavity across the orifice and is relying on the horizontal edge with a bottom surface of said plate tooth, and where the magazine follower plate is secured to the ribs at an upper surface of the magazine follower plate by a force exerted via a magazine spring.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Separable magazine follower

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Separable magazine follower

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Abstract

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