GUN MAGAZINE SPEED LOADER AND METHODS
First Claim
1. A gun magazine speed loader for loading of a plurality of rimmed cartridges into a firearm magazine, the firearm magazine having an external follower, said speed loader comprising:
- a) a loading channel defined by parallel inside sidewalls and bottom surface, said loading channel having a first end with cartridge receiving slot superiorly disposed thereon, a long-axis extending the length of said loading channel, and an open terminus at a second end, wherein said open terminus is adapted for communicating with a mouth of a magazine when engaged thereto;
b) contralateral rails formed on said inside side walls, wherein said rails are dimensioned for supporting a plurality of rimmed cartridges nosedown, slideably pendant in single file between said contralateral rails;
further characterized byc) a cartridge articulator disposed at said terminus of said loading channel, said cartridge articulator comprising a magazine receiving adaptor with bottom edge configured to align a magazine at an offset from said long axis of said loading channel, a cartridge discharge window defining feed lips on the superior aspect of said terminus, and a load ramp formed as an extension of said bottom surface on said long axis, said load ramp defining a stationary cam having a sloped face rising from the bottom surface of the long axis of the loading channel to abut the bottom edge of the magazine receiving adaptor, wherein said stationary cam is positioned so that a cartridge discharged from said terminus is angled rim-first and displaced up between said feed lips and said bottom edge into a magazine by the action of the nose of the cartridge striking against said stationary cam when passing through the cartridge discharge window under control of an external magazine follower.
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Abstract
A gun magazine speed loader that can load an entire magazine simply by pulling the magazines external follower in a downward motion. Rimmed cartridges are aligned nose down and side-by-side in a loading channel and the magazine and speed loader are then tipped up toward a vertical position with the magazine below the loader. By passing the stream of cartridges through an “articulator” that articulates the nose of the cartridge and feeds cartridges ‘rim-first’ and up through feed lips and into the magazine, the cartridges fill the magazine in a continuous stream, essentially at the speed of gravity-falling cartridges under control of the external follower. The articulator has no moving parts and operates with rimmed cartridges and with curved or low-rake angle magazines having an external follower.
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19 Claims
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1. A gun magazine speed loader for loading of a plurality of rimmed cartridges into a firearm magazine, the firearm magazine having an external follower, said speed loader comprising:
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a) a loading channel defined by parallel inside sidewalls and bottom surface, said loading channel having a first end with cartridge receiving slot superiorly disposed thereon, a long-axis extending the length of said loading channel, and an open terminus at a second end, wherein said open terminus is adapted for communicating with a mouth of a magazine when engaged thereto; b) contralateral rails formed on said inside side walls, wherein said rails are dimensioned for supporting a plurality of rimmed cartridges nosedown, slideably pendant in single file between said contralateral rails; further characterized by c) a cartridge articulator disposed at said terminus of said loading channel, said cartridge articulator comprising a magazine receiving adaptor with bottom edge configured to align a magazine at an offset from said long axis of said loading channel, a cartridge discharge window defining feed lips on the superior aspect of said terminus, and a load ramp formed as an extension of said bottom surface on said long axis, said load ramp defining a stationary cam having a sloped face rising from the bottom surface of the long axis of the loading channel to abut the bottom edge of the magazine receiving adaptor, wherein said stationary cam is positioned so that a cartridge discharged from said terminus is angled rim-first and displaced up between said feed lips and said bottom edge into a magazine by the action of the nose of the cartridge striking against said stationary cam when passing through the cartridge discharge window under control of an external magazine follower. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method for loading rimmed cartridges into a firearm magazine having an external follower, which comprises
(a) aligning cartridges in a row, side-by-side, nose down, in a channel defined by parallel inside sidewalls, said sidewalls having opposing lateral rails dimensioned for slideably supporting the rimmed cartridges nosedown and pendantly therebetween; - the channel having a first end with a cartridge receiving slot and a second end with a cartridge articulator;
(b) attaching an empty magazine to engage the cartridge articulator, the cartridge articulator comprising a magazine receiving adaptor disposed to align a magazine at a vertical offset from said loading channel, a cartridge discharge window defined by feed lips on the superior aspect of said terminus, wherein said cartridge discharge window is in communication with a mouth of a magazine, a load ramp formed by extending said bottom surface of said loading channel past said feed lips, said load ramp articulating upward according to said offset; (c) gravity-pouring the cartridges from the loading channel, through the cartridge articulator, and into the magazine while using the external follower to control the flow of cartridges, thereby loading the magazine; and
,(d) dismounting a loaded magazine from the magazine receiving adaptor. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
- the channel having a first end with a cartridge receiving slot and a second end with a cartridge articulator;
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