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US 4,331,063 AGranted
Cartridge reloading press
OwnerGordon N. Schaenzerinventor
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An apparatus for reloading spent ammunition shells includes a plurality of tools supported on a shaft above an elevatable carriage which define a plurality of reloading stations spaced circumferentially about the shaft, one of the stations having a priming tool and a power recharging tool, and a shell holder plate supported on the carriage for coincident vertical movement therewith and adapted for rotation about the shaft and to receive a plurality of separate spent ammunition shells and to position these shells simultaneously and sequentially in different reloading stations. The reloading apparatus also includes important new safety features which (1) prevent a freshly reprimed shell from being accidentally reprimed again and possible detonated; (2) isolate a new, live primer being inserted into a shell in the repriming operation from other live primers in an automatic primer feed mechanism; and (3) isolates the main source of powder from the delivery funnel in a powder feed mechanism during the powder recharging operation.
An apparatus for reloading spent ammunition shells having a base, a shaft mounted on said base which extends upwardly therefrom, a carriage supported on said shaft and movable up and down thereon, a means for moving said carriage up and down on said shaft relative to said base, a plurality of tools supported on said shaft defining a plurality of reloading stations spaced circumferentially about the shaft, one of said reloading stations being a repriming station having a priming tool, and a shell holder plate supported by the carriage for coincident vertical movement therewith and for manual rotation about the shaft, said plate adapted to receive a plurality of separate spent ammunition shells and to position such shells simultaneously and sequentially in different reloading stations.
An apparatus for reloading spent ammunition shells having a base, a shaft mounted on said base which extends upwardly therefrom, a carriage supported on said shaft and movable up and down thereon, a means for moving said carriage up and down on said shaft relative to said base, a plurality of tools supported on said shaft defining a plurality of reloading stations spaced circumferentially about the shaft, one of said reloading stations being a powder recharging station, having a powder recharging tool that includes a dispensing opening formed therein, a shell holder plate supported by the carriage for coincident vertical movement therewith and for rotation about the shaft, said plate adapted to receive a plurality of separate spent ammunition shells and to position such shells simultaneously and sequentially in different reloading stations, and a means for feeding powder to the powder recharging tool which includes a housing detachably mounted on said recharging tool, and a two-position toggle member having a powder-receiving chamber of predetermined volume pivotally mounted on said housing through a dead-center position on one side of which it snaps to a powder filling position for said chamber and on the other side of which it snaps to a powder dispensing position for said chamber which is isolated from a main source of powder and is in register with the dispensing opening of said recharging tool.
An apparatus for reloading spent ammunition shells having a base, a main shaft mounted on said base which extends upwardly therefrom, a carriage supported on said shaft and movable up and down thereon, a means for moving said carriage up and down on said shaft relative to said base, a plurality of tools supported on said shaft defining a plurality of reloading stations being a repriming station having a priming tool that includes a priming pin, shell holder plate supported by the carriage for coincident vertical movement therewith and for rotation about the shaft, said plate adapted to receive a plurality of separate spent ammunition shells and to position such shells simultaneously and sequentially in different reloading stations, and means for delivering a primer to said priming tool which includes a primer tray mounted on said carriage having a dispenser opening formed therein, a rotatable primer disc mounted on said carriage between said primer tray and said repriming station and having a primer-receiving opening formed in its periphery, and means for rotating said primer disc so that said opening receives a primer from said dispenser opening when said carriage is raised and rotates to position and isolate the primer at said repriming station when said carriage is lowered.
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