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Cartridge clip receiving and loading apparatus and method

  • US 20030046854A1
  • Filed: 09/10/2002
  • Published: 03/13/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2001
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A cartridge clip receiving and loading apparatus, comprising:

  • (a) an elongated reservoir including an upper holding chamber for receiving and holding therein a multiplicity of cartridges in bulk quantity and random orientations and a lower feed channel having an upstream portion disposed below and open to said upper holding chamber for receiving cartridges therefrom and arranging the cartridges side-by-side one another in a row and a downstream portion open to said upstream portion but not directly to said upper holding chamber for guiding sliding movement of the cartridges in the row thereof along said downstream portion toward a discharge opening of said lower feed channel defined at one end of said reservoir for discharging the cartridges one at a time from the row thereof from said lower feed channel; and

    (b) a clip holder fixedly attached to said one end of said reservoir and having opposite open ends and an elongated interior slot extending between said opposite open ends such that said clip holder is adapted to have a cartridge clip inserted into said slot through one of said opposite open ends of said clip holder, being disposed remote from said reservoir, to position an open end of the cartridge clip at the other of said opposite open ends of said clip holder, being disposed adjacent to said reservoir, in alignment with said discharge opening of said lower feed channel of said reservoir for transferring and thus loading the cartridges one at a time into the cartridge clip from said lower feed channel, said clip holder also adapted to be gripped by a user for shaking said clip holder and reservoir in order to cause arranging of cartridges in the row thereof in said upstream portion of said lower feed channel and for raising said clip holder and reservoir to an inclined position in which said reservoir is disposed higher than said clip holder to cause sliding of cartridges in the row thereof along said downstream portion of said lower feed channel through said discharge opening thereof and into the open end of the cartridge clip disposed in said clip holder.

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