Replacement primer feeder for shell reloading machines

In combination with a shotgun shell reloading machine that has a stationary base, a spent-shotgun-shell-holding turntable mounted on said base for sequential periodic rotations, and a superstructure above said base and turntable provided with a circular array of operating stations including a station for supplying replacement primers for spent primers removed from spent shotgun shells carried by said turntable, said turntable being raisable and lowerable relative to said superstructure and having a circular series of recesses for receiving and holding a corresponding series of spent shotgun shells and a series of recesses interposed between said shell receiving recesses for receiving replacement primers, the recesses of said series being in respective positions corresponding to the positions of said operating stations during periodic rests between said sequential periodic rotations, a multitube replacement primer feeder, comprising a center post having an end adapted for fastening to the shell reloading machine so as to stand substantially vertically thereon within an array of shell reloading stations that includes a replacement primer feed station having a primer receiving opening;

• carrier means slidably attached to said post for receiving and supporting, circularly around said post, a series of replacement primer supply and feeder tubes in positions such that their lower ends will sequentially register with the said primer receiving opening of the replacement primer feed station when said series of tubes are rotated;
• a series of replacement primer supply and feeder tubes received and supported by said carrier means;
• means whereby said carrier means and said series of tubes held thereby may be rotated, so as to periodically replace an empty tube with a full tube;
• means for raising and lowering said turntable relative to said superstructure;
• and removable and replaceable primer supporting means adjacent to the bottoms of the respective tubes.