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US 2018/0321004 A1Published application
Loading device for a magazine of a weapon
AssigneeMec-Gar S.R.L.
InventorsStefano Fausti, Eugenio Pini
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Abstract
A loading device for a magazine for a firearm includes a main body and an action element projecting into the main body. The width of the inner compartment between the rear shoulder and the front shoulder is such as to allow a rotation when the upper portion of the magazine is housed in the compartment. Moreover, an adapter may be applied to the main body, so that the device may be used for different magazines.
Claims10
A loading device for loading a magazine of a firearm comprising:
- a main body comprising a casing having an inner compartment, comprising a left side, a right side, a rear shoulder and a front shoulder, which together laterally delimit the compartment;
- an insertion opening at a lower end of the main body;
- a main opening lateral to the main body;
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- an action element projecting inside the main body from an upper end, opposite the lower end;
- wherein a width of the compartment between the rear shoulder and the front shoulder is adapted to allow a rotation when an upper portion of the magazine is housed in the compartment.
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A loading kit comprising
- a main body;
- a plurality of adapters, each adapter being applicable to a lower end of the main body and provided with facing guides between which a space is provided for laterally guiding a magazine.
A method of loading a magazine for a firearm, comprising the following steps:
- inserting a loading device on an upper portion of the magazine;
- exerting a lowering action on the loading device to lower a follower of the magazine and at the same time rotating the loading device to bring the loading device into a rear abutment position;
- inserting a cartridge between the follower and upper lips of a chamber of the magazine;
- releasing the lowering action, rotating the loading device to bring the loading device to a front abutment position on top of the cartridge and engaging the cartridge superficially with an action element of the loading device;
- exerting a new lowering action on the loading device and rotating the device towards a rear abutment position, so as to push the cartridge back towards a final position by the action element.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.