US 4,986,251 A · Airgun magazine

Abstract

A magazine for an air gun comprises an outer case, a circular pellet carrier rotatably mounted in the outer case, and a cover that is pivotally mounted on the outer case. A coil spring resiliently biases the pellet carrier towards an end position. To load the magazine, the cover is pivoted to cause the pellet carrier to rotate to another end position, and a soft lead airgun pellet is then dropped in through a hole in the outer cover into a pellet chamber in the pellet carrier. The outer cover is then rotated, allowing successive pellets to be dropped into successive pellet chambers within the pellet carrier. In use, a probe pushes the first pellet out of the magazine into the breech of an airgun, and following this, the magazine automatically indexes under spring pressure to present the next pellet ready for loading. The pellets themselves serve as part of the indexing mechanism. The transfer probe places the pellets accurately in position within the breech of the airgun.

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Dependent claims

An airgun magazine comprising:

a pellet carrier having a plurality of chambers each for receiving a respective airgun pellet;
a housing in which the pellet carrier is movably mounted;
a cover which co-operates with the pellet carrier and the housing to retain pellets in respective ones of the pellet chambers;
and
means for causing movement of the pellet carrier in the housing to present successive pellets in the pellet chambers to the breech of an airgun when the pellet carrier is fitted in the airgun:
wherein the magazine is adapted to be detachable as a complete exchangeable unit from an airgun in which the magazine may be used, the arrangement being such that, when the magazine is so removed, the pellet chambers may be loaded with pellets which are then retained in respective ones of the pellet chambers by co-operation between the pellet carrier, housing and cover.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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