Apparatus and method for loading a cartridge into a chamber of break-action firearm
AssigneeEuropean American Armory Corp.
InventorKeith Bernkrant
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Abstract
An apparatus that can be added to a conventional firearm magazine which safely stores an ammunition cartridge for loading into a break action type firearm. The loader is slidably, removably, or fixedly attached to a magazine so that the magazine can be released from the frame of the firearm and used as a grip for loading the round of ammunition into the chamber of a tip-up barrel, or any break action firearm. The loader stores an ammunition cartridge in the correct orientation for quickly loading the cartridge into the chamber of a tip-up pistol barrel, or any break-action firearm barrel.
Claims16
An apparatus for loading a cartridge into a chamber of a firearm barrel, comprising:
- a housing having a plunger cavity and a cartridge retaining cavity, the cartridge retaining cavity adapted to receive the chamber of a firearm barrel;
- a plunger at least partially disposed within the plunger cavity;
- a spring providing a force on a cavity front surface of the plunger;
- the plunger translatable attached to said housing, the plunger having a plunger front face adapted to be in contact with a rear surface of a cartridge to be loaded into a chamber of a firearm;
- the cartridge retaining cavity adapted to removably retain a cartridge via a slidable engagement;
- wherein, when said housing is motivated onto the chamber section of a firearm barrel, a cartridge retained in said cartridge retaining cavity is motivated into the chamber;
- and wherein when said housing is motivated in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the firearm chamber, a cartridge that is removably attached to said cartridge retaining cavity is removed from the cartridge retaining cavity, leaving the cartridge disposed in the chamber.
A method for loading a cartridge into a chamber of a firearm barrel, comprising:
- storing a cartridge removably attached in an apparatus comprising a housing having a cartridge retaining cavity, the cartridge retaining cavity adapted to receive the chamber of a firearm barrel;
- motivating a chamber of a firearm barrel into the cartridge retaining cavity, wherein the chamber receives the stored cartridge,
- motivating said housing in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the firearm chamber, wherein said cartridge that is removably attached to said cartridge retaining cavity is removed from the cartridge retaining cavity, leaving the cartridge disposed in the chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.