Magazine for strip ammunition, with rectangular prismatic housing and sliding extraction detent
OwnerGiampiero Ferriinventor
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Abstract
The magazine is for use with strip ammunition capable of being fed by slide action into the firearm whenever the trigger is pulled; a housing accommodates a number of ammunition strips resting on top of one another, and a pressure device props the strips against a sliding surface with a discharge aperture for the strip in contact with the surface; an extraction device capable of sliding along an opening in the sliding surface is designed to push the strip in contact with the surface itself and to slide in the opposite direction without any drag effect.
Claims14
A magazine for strip ammunition for use with a toy firearm, said magazine comprising:
- a rectangularly shaped housing for containing a plurality of ammunition strips resting one on top of another,
- said plurality of strips characterized by a top portion and a bottom portion when loaded in the housing,
- said housing having a bottom sliding surface along which a strip ammunition is caused to slide during discharge,
- a discharge aperture located at the bottom of said housing and aligned with said sliding surface through which strip ammunition is slidingly discharged,
- pressure applying means located in said housing for applying pressure to the top portion of said plurality of strips to prop said strips against said sliding surface,
- said sliding surface having a slotted opening therealong extending to said aperture,
- and an extraction device cooperably and slidingly associated with said slotted opening along said sliding surface which when actuated to move from its home position toward said aperture along said opening will cause a strip to discharge through said aperture,
- said extraction device being characterized in that, when returned to home position in the opposite direction of discharge, it does not drag a strip along with it.
A toy firearm of the automatic type and a magazine therefor, said firearm being shaped for accommodating a stack of strip ammunition enclosed in said magazine, said magazine comprising:
- (a) a rectangularly shaped housing having a bottom sliding surface and apertures suitable for insertion and extraction of ammunition strips;
- (b) an externally maneuverable extraction device located at a home position in said firearm cooperating with said housing for sliding one strip at a time along the bottom sliding surface of the housing through a housing exit aperture onto a trigger-operated firing-pin;
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- (c) an internally located pressure applying member in said housing for propping the ammunition strips against the bottom sliding surface of the housing;
- the magazine providing the toy firearm with compact means for convenient loading, storing and discharging of strip ammunition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.