HANDGUN MAGAZINE LOADER HAVING CARTRIDGE DRIVER
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Abstract
A loader for loading ammunition into a magazine for a handgun. The loader may be universal in that it is capable of loading various types of ammunition cartridges into various types of magazines. A cartridge driver of the loader drives the cartridges into the magazine.
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49 Claims
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25. A method of loading a cartridge into a handgun magazine using a handgun magazine loader, the cartridges each including a case and a bullet seated in the case, the handgun magazine including a housing having a distal end, a mouth end opposite the distal end, a pair of lips at least partially closing the mouth end, and a spring, the method comprising:
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inserting the handgun magazine at least partially into a magazine well of the handgun magazine loader, operating the handgun magazine loader to load a first cartridge in the magazine in a top cartridge location in which the first cartridge is in engagement with the lips and the spring urges the first cartridge toward the lips, positioning a second cartridge with respect to a cartridge driver of the handgun magazine loader for being driven into the magazine by the cartridge driver, actuating an actuator of the cartridge driver to move the actuator with respect to the magazine well to move a plunger of the cartridge driver with respect to the actuator to reciprocate the plunger by moving the plunger along a reciprocating path in a plunging stroke and back along the reciprocating path in a return stroke opposite the plunging stroke, wherein moving the plunger along the reciprocating path in the plunging stroke causes the plunger to push against the case of the second cartridge to drive the second cartridge against the first cartridge to move the first cartridge out of engagement with the lips from the top cartridge location and away from the lips further into the magazine while the plunger in the plunging stroke pushes the second cartridge partially into the mouth end of the magazine in a first direction with respect to the magazine well to introduce the second cartridge into the mouth end of the magazine, and after pressing the second cartridge against the first cartridge to move the first cartridge out of engagement with the lips from the top cartridge location, operating the cartridge driver to push the second cartridge in a second direction with respect to the magazine well nonparallel to the first direction to fully seat the second cartridge in the mouth end of the magazine between the spring and the lips of the magazine to take the top cartridge location. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
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45. A method of loading a cartridge into a handgun magazine using a handgun magazine loader, the handgun magazine including a housing having a distal end, a mouth end opposite the distal end, a pair of lips at least partially closing the mouth end, and a spring, the method comprising:
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inserting the handgun magazine at least partially into a magazine well of the loader, operating the handgun magazine loader to load a first cartridge in the magazine in a top cartridge location in which the first cartridge is in engagement with the lips and urged toward the lips by the spring, positioning a second cartridge with respect to a cartridge driver of the handgun magazine loader for being driven into the magazine by the cartridge driver, actuating an actuator of the cartridge driver to move a plunger of the cartridge driver with respect to the actuator and to move the actuator with respect to the magazine well in a reciprocating travel path in an actuating stroke in an actuating stroke from a home position to an actuated position and back along the reciprocating travel path in a return stroke back along the reciprocating travel path from the actuated position back to the home position, wherein, in the actuating stroke, the cartridge driver pushes the second cartridge to press the second cartridge against the first cartridge to move the first cartridge out of engagement with the lips from the top cartridge location and away from the lips farther into the magazine while the cartridge driver pushes the second cartridge partially into the mouth end of the magazine in a first direction with respect to the magazine well to introduce the second cartridge into the mouth end of the magazine, and wherein, in the actuating stroke after pressing the second cartridge against the first cartridge to move the first cartridge out of engagement with the lips from the top cartridge location, the cartridge driver pushes the second cartridge in a second direction with respect to the magazine well nonparallel to the first direction to fully seat the second cartridge in the mouth end of the magazine between the spring and lips of the magazine to take the top cartridge location. - View Dependent Claims (46)
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47. A method of loading a cartridge into a handgun magazine using a handgun magazine loader, the cartridges each including a case and a bullet seated in the case, the handgun magazine including a housing having a distal end, a mouth end opposite the distal end, a pair of lips at least partially closing the mouth end, and a spring, the method comprising:
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inserting the handgun magazine at least partially into a magazine well of the loader, operating the handgun magazine loader to load a first cartridge in the magazine in a top cartridge location in which the first cartridge is in engagement with the lips and urged toward the lips by the spring, positioning a second cartridge with respect to a cartridge driver of the loader for being driven into the magazine by the cartridge driver, actuating the cartridge driver to move the cartridge driver with respect to the magazine well and to push against a side of the case of the second cartridge to push the second cartridge linearly to press the second cartridge against the first cartridge to move the first cartridge out of engagement with the lips from the top cartridge location and away from the lips farther into the magazine while the cartridge driver pushes the second cartridge partially into the mouth end of the magazine to introduce the second cartridge into the mouth end of the magazine, and actuating the cartridge driver to, after pressing the second cartridge against the first cartridge to move the first cartridge out of engagement with the lips from the top cartridge location, push the cartridge driver against the bullet of the second cartridge to fully seat the second cartridge in the mouth end of the magazine between the spring and the lips of the magazine to take the top cartridge location. - View Dependent Claims (48, 49)
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