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US 8,931,633 B2Granted
Ammunition carrier and loader
OwnerHaskell H. Martin, IIIinventor
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Abstract
A carrier and loader for cartridges with a base component hinged to a cover component. A clip portion with rib formations provides resilient clips for frictional engagement and holding the cartridges, which are pried from the channel of the clips for loading. With the carrier in an open position, cartridges are inserted one or two at a time directly into the swing-out cylinder of a revolver without handling the cartridges.
Claims5
A carrier for holding a multiplicity of elongated ammunition cartridge comprising:
- a base component having an exterior surface and an interior support surface;
- a closure component having an interior cover surface;
- a connecting hinge component along one side of said base and closure components;
- said base component having an upstanding clip portion and a lateral ridge formation attached to the interior support surface;
- said clip portion having a multiplicity of upstanding internal rib formations dividing said clip portion into a plurality of resilient cartridge receiving clips;
- said internal rib formations being in parallel spaced relationship to define a plurality of U-shaped parallel extending cartridge receiving clips which are connected together in the clip portion;
- each cartridge receiving clip having first and second rib formations defining a channel, each rib formation includes an inner face opposing the other, each inner face being tapered defining a resilient first opening on a first end of the channel with defined diameter less than a rim of said cartridge and at least as wide as the body of said cartridge and said channel providing frictional engagement with the body of said cartridge and a resilient second opening on a second end of the channel with defined diameter at least as wide as the cylinder of said cartridge whereby the clips retain said cartridge and releases said cartridge by exerting force prying the cartridge from the first opening;
- said closure component being pivotally connected by said hinge component between a closed position overlying said base component and an open position displaced therefrom;
- with said upstanding internal rib formations seating against said interior cover surface of said closure component in said close position of said carrier with said interior cover surface of the closure component overlying said internal rib formations;
- said lateral ridge formation is spaced from said second end of said channel of said cartridge receiving clips and extends laterally across the interior support surface of said base component;
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- said closure component having respective peripheral sidewall elements extending from opposing side edges.
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