Firearm fitted with a pivoting magazine
OwnerMaurice Ferrettiinventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an improvement to individual firearms; the technical field of the invention is that of manufacturing firearms. A firearm includes a pin extending crosswise into the magazine well, mounted at at least one of its two ends in a respective recess provided in the left or right side walls of the magazine well; said pin extends inside said magazine case, passes through at least one of the left or right side walls of said magazine in which an orifice is provided; said pin is situated in the immediate vicinity of a bottom abutment limiting the stroke of said cartridge lift, i.e. it is situated at a short distance from said abutment, as measured along the longitudinal axis ZZ in which the cartridges are stacked.
Claims24
An individual firearm comprising a magazine case pivotally mounted on a pin about a transverse axis XX, which firearm includes a breech casing having a magazine well whose general shape is substantially parallelepipedal and which is provided with an opening at its bottom end, which magazine case includes a magazine-forming top portion and includes, in its bottom portion, a spring acting against a cartridge lift, wherein said pin extends crosswise into said magazine well and is mounted via at least one of its two ends in a respective recess provided in the left or right side walls of said magazine well, and wherein said pin extends inside said magazine case, through at least one of the left or right side walls of said magazine in which an orifice is provided, the arrangement of said pin in said magazine well and in said magazine securing said magazine in said well and preventing separation of said magazine from said breech casing.
An individual firearm comprising a magazine case pivotally mounted on a pin about a transverse axis XX, which firearm includes a breech casing having a magazine well whose general shape is substantially parallelepipedal and which is provided with an opening at its bottom end, which magazine case includes a magazine-forming top portion end includes, in its bottom portion, a spring acting against a cartridge lift, wherein said pin extends crosswise into said magazine well and is mounted by its two ends in respective recesses provided in the left and right side walls of said magazine well, and wherein said pin extends inside said magazine case, through two aligned orifices in the left and right side walls of said magazine provided.
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