Cartridge feed device for a repeating firearm
AssigneeHeckler & Koch GmbH
InventorJohannes Murello
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Abstract
In an automatic firearm, a cartridge feed device is provided in order to convey the uppermost cartridge in a magazine into an intermediate station transverse to its extent. A lifting device is used to grasp the cartridge in the intermediate station and to move it vertically into a feed station in which it is aligned parallel to the axis of the barrel of the weapon. The lifting device is implemented as a feed fork having prongs which engage the cartridge in the intermediate station from the front and which then lift the cartridge into the feed station in a tilting movement.
Claims11
For use with a repeating firearm which is equipped with a barrel and a moveable breech, a cartridge feed device comprising:
- a) a magazine to feed a cartridge from below or from the side;
- b) a transfer device to release and convey the fed cartridge to an intermediate station;
- and,
- c) a lifting device to convey the cartridge from the intermediate station to a feed station, in which the cartridge is located behind a cartridge chamber of the barrel, wherein the lifting device is movable in the direction of the barrel axis and underpins the cartridge in the intermediate station, wherein only a single moving magazine lip is provided, and wherein a fixed magazine lip opposite the moving magazine lip is arched upwardly and is dimensioned complementary to an uppermost cartridge in the magazine to a height above the moving magazine lip.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.