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US 2022/0065568 A1Published application
Electronic magazine loader
AssigneeVista Outdoor Operations LLC
InventorsPaul R. Fischer, William Hemeyer
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AssigneeVista Outdoor Operations LLC
InventorsPaul R. Fischer, William Hemeyer
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An electronic magazine loader for loading cartridges into a magazine includes a lifting wheel, a chute, and a magazine loading portion. The wheel receives an unordered batch of cartridges and singularly lifts and deposits the cartridges into the chute. The chute transfers the cartridges to the magazine loading portion where a setting mechanism inserts the cartridges into the magazine. A mechanism for directionally orienting the cartridges orients all cartridges to a proper directional orientation before reaching the magazine loading portion. The mechanism can be lifting wheel shelf structure or chute structure. The chute having a C-shaped portion above the magazine loading portion that precludes the cartridges from changing their proper directional orientation. The setting mechanism receives cartridges on a rotating wheel with rotating insertion lobes and cartridge receiving voids between adjacent lobes. The cartridges drop into a cartridge receiving void, and are urged into the magazine by a rotating lobe.
A magazine loader comprising:
The magazine loader of claim 8, wherein the deflector comprises an adjustable screw.
A magazine loader comprising:
The magazine loader of claim 12, wherein the directional member is disposed on the rotating lifting wheel, wherein lifting wheel structure is provided with pockets that lift cartridges that are positioned in the proper directional orientation to the discharge region.
The magazine loader of claim 14, wherein each pocket has a respective shelf that defines the pocket, and wherein each shelf is configured to retain each cartridge therein that is oriented in the proper directional orientation and to release each cartridge therein that is not oriented in the proper directional orientation
The magazine loader of claim 15, wherein each shelf is shaped such that each pocket conforms to the cartridge shape, whereby when a cartridge is lifted by a shelf and is in the proper directional orientation the cartridge fully seats in the pocket and wherein when a cartridge is lifted that is not in the proper directional orientation the cartridge does not seat in the pocket.
The magazine loader of claim 17, wherein lifting wheel structure is provided with pockets that lift cartridges, and wherein the deflector extends from the chassis into each pocket as the lifting wheel is rotated, and wherein when a cartridge is the proper cartridge directional orientation in a pocket passing by the deflector, the deflector passes by a projectile end of said cartridge without contacting the cartridge.
A magazine loader comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.