Magazine with linkless cartridge feed system
AssigneeHeckler & Koch GmbH
InventorsRudolf Brandl, Heinz Matt
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Abstract
A magazine includes a load opening and a linkless feed system which includes the following devices for manual loading with cartridges through the load opening, as well as for their automatic and sequential transport to a gun barrel. These devices include a cartridge receiving device movable manually in the load direction and automatically in the opposite, feed direction, a tensioning device engaging into the cartridge receiving device, pretensionable in the feed direction, and a device for automatic but releasable blocking of the feed system during the loading phase in the feed direction when the tensioning device is released, and/or in the loading direction when a cartridge gap appears in a cartridge receiving device behind the load opening.
Claims13
A magazine having a load opening and comprising:
- a linkless cartridge feed system provided with means for manual loading with cartridges through the load opening, and means for automatic and sequential feed of cartridges to a firearm barrel, said feed system including
- a cartridge receiving device movable manually in a loading direction and automatically in an opposite feed direction;
- a tensioning device engaged with said cartridge receiving device in said feed direction;
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- a blocking means comprising first means for an automatic blocking of the feed system in the feed direction, during a loading phase of operation, and second means operated independently from and nonsimultaneously with said first means for an automatic blocking of the feed system in the loading direction when a cartridge is missing in the cartridge receiving device.
Magazine according to claim, 1 wherein the second blocking means is operatively connected to the feed system so that the second blocking means can be brought to and maintained in an unlocked position when the feed system is moved in the feed direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.