Ammunition storage and feeding system
AssigneesEliran Atias, Amos Mont, Nissum Majer
InventorEliran ATIAS
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Abstract
Ammunition storage and feeding system for light weapons that facilitates a continuous loading of the weapon, thereby relieving the user from multiple magazine replacements, and reducing potential weapon stoppages, thus providing more reliable and significantly uninterruptable use of the weapon with respect to operating the weapon with conventional magazines. According to an embodiment of the invention, the system is configured to automatically receive interlinked cartridges from a carrying device (e.g., a backpack or other convenient device harnessed to the user's body) through a flexible or semi-flexible leading means, to successively extract the cartridges from the linking arrangement and to successively feed each extracted cartridge into a dedicated magazine in a First In First Out (FIFO) manner.
Claims20
Ammunition storage and feeding system for light weapons, comprising:
- a) a plurality of inter-linked cartridges linked by a linking arrangement;
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- b) an extraction and feeding means configured to pull said plurality of inter-linked cartridges from a carrying device through a leading arrangement, wherein said extraction and feeding means is configured to successively extract each cartridge of said plurality of inter-linked cartridges from said linking arrangement and to feed to a dedicated magazine, from which the extracted cartridges are loaded to the weapon in a continuous First In First Out (FIFO) manner.
A tandem ammunition storage and feeding system, comprising:
- a) a plurality of serially-linked cartridges positioned one behind the other and pointing to the same direction, wherein said plurality of serially-linked cartridges are linked by a linking arrangement to form a serial ammunition belt;
- b) a feeding mechanism comprising a curved magazine and a cartridge receiving element that is adapted to receive the serial ammunition belt;
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- c) a lead tube adapted to connect said serial ammunition belt to said feeding mechanism.
A parallel ammunition storage and feeding system, comprising:
- a) a plurality of parallelly-linked cartridges linked by a linking arrangement to form a chain;
- b) an extraction module configured to pull said chain and to successively extract said plurality of parallelly-linked cartridges from linking arrangement thereof;
- c) a feeding mechanism configured to receive extracted cartridges from said extraction module, and to feed each individual extracted cartridge into a dedicated magazine that is configured to operate in a continuous First-In-First-Out (FIFO) manner, in which the dedicated magazine receives the cartridges via a first opening and outputs the cartridges via a second opening through which the cartridges are loaded to a corresponding barrel of a weapon;
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- d) a lead duct adapted to connect said chain of parallelly-linked cartridges to said extraction module.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.