Quick release carrier for ammunition magazines
OwnerAlan D. Pestanainventor
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Abstract
A carrier for spare ammunition magazines for rifles. The carrier includes a shell that receives the magazine, a latch mechanism that releasably retains the magazine in the shell, and a connector that attaches the carrier body to an article that is worn or that is carried by the user. The latch mechanism may engage an axial protrusion on an end of a rotary-type magazine or may engage a recess in a side of a box-type magazine. The latch mechanism may be spring biased so that when depressed by a finger the magazine drops out a bottom of the carrier. The connector may be, for example, a clip that attaches to a belt or other article that is worn by a user or a clamp that attaches to an accessory rail or other part of a firearm that is carried by a user.
Claims11
A carrier assembly for a box-type spare magazine for AR-style rifles, said carrier assembly comprising:
- a carrier body, said carrier body comprising:
- a shell having a bottom opening;
- an interior dimensioned to receive an upper end of an AR-style rifle magazine therein;
- a latching mechanism that releasably engages a catch recess formed in an outer side of said AR-style rifle magazine so as to retain said magazine in said shell of said carrier body, said latching mechanism comprising;
- an actuator member mounted for longitudinal movement between extended and depressed positions generally alongside said outer side of said magazine;
- a latch member mounted for lateral movement between inner and outer positions generally towards and away from said outer side of said magazine:
- said latch member comprising an inner end portion that is received in said catch recess in said magazine when said latch member is in said inner position, so as to retain said magazine in said shell of said carrier body, and that is withdrawn from said catch recess in said outer side of said magazine when said latch member is in said outer position, so as to release said magazine from said shell of said carrier body;
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- a sloped surface on said at least one of said actuator member and said latch member, that operatively engages a cooperating face on the other of said actuator member and said latch member to force said latch member laterally from said inner position to said outer position in response to said actuator member being pressed longitudinally from said extended position to said depressed position by a user, thereby freeing said magazine for removal from said shell of said carrier assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.