Pistol grip magazine adaptor

• US 5,555,661 A
• Filed: 12/15/1994
• Issued: 09/17/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Edwin Yap
• Original Assignee: Edwin Yap
• Inventors: Yap, Edwin
• Primary Examiner(s): JOHNSON, STEPHEN
• Application Number:
  US08/356,704
• Time in Patent Office: 642 Days
• Field of Search: 89/34, 42/7, 42/50, 42/49.01, 42/49.02
• US Class Current: 42/49.02
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 9/71 Arrangements thereon for varying capacity; Adapters or inserts for changing cartridge size or type

Abstract

The pistol grip magazine adapter provides an insert for the magazine in the handles of hand guns. The insert is designed to fit snugly in the pistol magazine and is of a proper volume or density to reduce the space in the magazine such that only a single row ammunition clip will fit. The insert is attached to the inside walls of the magazine, is an element of the pistol grips or is attached to the bullet clip. With the space reduction, standard single row clips holding up to ten rounds of ammunition may be inserted. However, the higher capacity clips, such as twenty rounds, for which the gun was originally designed will no longer fit. The inserts are formed from one or two pieces of material depending on the particular hand gun requiring the insert.

Claims

1. A device for mounting in a hand gun handle magazine comprising:

a magazine clip adapter having a base pad with two clip adapter sides formed to fit against a magazine wall of the hand gun handle magazine;

the base pad having a clip screw to retain a bullet clip;

the magazine clip adapter having a volume to define a clip aperture therein into which said bullet clip may be loaded; and

the magazine clip adapter being held in the magazine by an attachment means.