Pistol grip magazine adaptor

• US 5,566,488 A
• Filed: 12/09/1994
• Issued: 10/22/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Edwin Y. Yap
• Original Assignee: Edwin Y. Yap
• Inventors: Yap, Edwin Y.
• Primary Examiner(s): JOHNSON, STEPHEN
• Application Number:
  US08/352,366
• Time in Patent Office: 683 Days
• Field of Search: 42/50, 42/49.02, 42/7, 42/18, 42/22
• 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 or is an element of the pistol grips. 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:

an insert having a front side, a rear side, a right side and a left side to fit against a magazine wall of the hand gun handle magazine;

wherein the rear side having a rectangular shaped opening defined therein with the front side having a clip holder slot defined therein;

the insert having a volume to define a clip space therein into which a clip may be loaded; and

the insert is retained in the magazine by a means for attachment to the magazine.

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

an insert having separate a right side insert and a left side insert wherein the right side insert and the left side insert have a tapered top and an end curved in an arch to fit against a magazine wall; and

the insert having a volume to define a clip space therein into which a clip may be loaded wherein the insert is retained in the magazine by a means for attachment to the magazine.

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

an insert having separate a right side insert and a left side insert wherein the right side insert and the left side insert are formed of sheet material with pedestals attached to fit against a magazine wall; and

the insert having a volume to define a clip space therein into which a clip may be loaded wherein the insert is retained in the magazine by a means for attachment to the magazine.

4. A pistol grip device for mounting on a hand gun handle magazine comprising two pistol grips each having a spacer pedestal which protrudes through a pistol magazine opening to define a clip space in said magazine when the two pistol grips are attached.